The following blog is copied from my Myspace, about a show I went to on Dec. 28th: --------------------- And now, typed on my shiny new laptop while trying to think of a way to
not be sore tomorrow morning, comes my latest little concert blog. This
time around, it's Shadows Fall, A Life Once Lost, Skeletonwitch,
Defiler, and Badmagick.
I've been told by Brett that Shadows
Fall are really good live. They didn't disappoint, although the show
was kinda stolen by Skeletonwitch, who I blew all of my money on for a
T-shirt and CD (hey, the CD was cheaper than it would be at the mall or
something, and it's not like they sell Skeletonwitch shirts anywhere
around here anyway). The show confirmed three things I already knew: 1)
metal shows are the best kind of shows, 2) mosh pits are hella fun, and
3) Double Stackers taste great with heavy music.
Badmagick, a
hard rock band that sounded almost exactly like older Godsmack, played
first, followed by Defiler, who were a thrash/death metal act from
Southampton. Despite being pretty clearly metal, there was still a
bunch of idiot hardcore kids pretending to be Power Rangers during
their set.
Fortunately, they mostly disappeared in when
Skeletonwitch played, leaving real metalheads (myself included) in mosh
pit paradise. The crowd tried to start a pit during their first song,
but it ended right as people started bashing into each other. It was
hilarious to watch; a bunch of kids run in and start pushing each
other, and the song stops two seconds later and the kids are like
"WTF?!" Plus, they new how to get the crowd on their side; all you have
to do is yell things like "Smoke weed!" and "Eat pussy!" at the end of
your songs to get the audience to like you.
Tonight was the last
show for the bassist from A Life Once Lost, so they made it special by
playing The Wanderer and by starting a Wall of Death. I wasn't about to
miss out on the Wall, and on the way back from the pit, I was knocked
over. As I was falling, my left shoe flew off of my foot and into
God-knows-where. Ben and I spent the rest of their set looking for it;
Ben found it next to some drunk lady, who didn't know it was a shoe.
I
thought about jumping back into the pit for Shadows Fall's set, but by
that point I was beat, so I settled for staying on the side and
headbanging like crazy. They had everything you would expect from a
metal band-circle pits, windmills with the microphone, a drum solo,
crowd surfers falling onto the stage, etc. Paul got up to the front row
and got to touch one of Brian Fair's legendary dreads.
Grandpa
was nice enough to take us to Burger King on the way home. Burgers with
bacon + metal shows = awesome day. And now, back to trying to fix my
soreness.
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