^Same (was intended when Britt first spoke of Duff). I missed part of Hurt's set just to see if they were good.
Anyway I posted my review in the Mushroomhead thread. Rhyme. I doubt anybody wants me to post the whole gigantic thing in here. So I'll say it was great, I was at a rave with people glowing and raining glowsticks along with catching money. After that Mushroomhead came up and an old friend of mine became a cage dancer. Set was amazing. I made friends with a security guard, he was funny.
^ Over the Limit. The doors opened at 1 and the jaxx site didn't mention any locals. I had to suffer through 5 hours and 10 mosly shitty locals to get to the good stuff. Most ranged from loud and bad pig squeel deathcore and or attack attack wannabe screamo bands, complete with most being bare foot, and doing the retarted looking 2 step dance. Burning the Masses is about to start.
In what could be called bull shit of the highest order. As Blood Runs Black was forced to cut their set early before doin My Fears Bwcome Phobias. They were great otherwise. I'll do a ful review when I get home
sorry if this sounds more like a rant then a review ( i did get some sets down) But whoever booked this event should be fired. As many of you who have gone to Jaxx in the past know that they love to put local bands on shows with national touring acts which is fine. Now for this tour, on the website and all, there was no mention of any locals at all, with a 1pm doors, which i thought sweet, each of the 9 bands will get plenty of time and we'll be out of there by 9pm. Well as it turns out (i didnt find out exactly til i checked the jaxx twitter page about 2 locals in) that indeed 10 local bands got booked in addition to the 9 main touring bands, so thats 19 bands in a 10 hour span of time. And boy did most of the locals suck. It was either one of the two (or a combination) Bands that must of watched the "stick stickly" attack attack video on a loop and studied it, as almost all of the bands did the same retarted looking 2 step walking in place dance, and looking very scene (and sounding horrible) or the broootal deathcore complete with 90% pig squeels. And depending on the band, some got little to no reaction (mainly a golf clap if that after songs) or a big one from the hxc crowd.
Finally at a few minutes before 6:00pm the first schedueld band started This Or the Appocalypse. they really woke the crowd up and really got the pits going. Also the lead singer dove into the crowd a few times (which is kind of hard at jaxx, as the stage is maybe 2 feet off the ground and the only "rail" is this long metal rail about 4 feet off the ground). 7/10 Blind Witness. Def wanted to check them out as they were one of the reasons i came early (or so i thought) and they didn't disapoint. Lots of energy from the band, and they played my fave song by them "baby one more non" last 8.5/10 (would of been higher but they only got 20 min) circle of contempt. pretty generic deathcore band to me, but the lead guitarist def had some skill as he could def. legit solo (and not the simple "sweep suicide silence type solo) Burning the Masses. Man they were awesome. got the crowd back in it, and their newer stuff is def very technical and not just breakdown heavy deathcore. Also the girl next to me was screaming every line. I also got a drumstick from them as well 9/10 (again would be higher but they only got a 20 min slot) Thick as Blood. Crowd was dead again for them. Kind of sounded like hatebreed or the other similar sounding bands with a little metal influence 4/10 The Tony Tap Dance Extravaganza. Awesome band. Their guitarist can def shred with the best of em and he played an 8 string guitar too. Played about 25 min. Would of def prefered a longer set 9.5/10 Yippie Kay yay Mother Fucker I am Sammy Jenkins Deep on Charlie ???? (sounded like something cowboy) Pardon Me, But I Am The Ocean The Union Arsonists Get All The Girls. they had technical problems to start, but i guess it all worked out. The Guitars were mixed way too loud and the vocals weren't mixed loud enough (as well as the keyboard). so this is a best guess at the setlist (not in order) Mantipede Violence In Ruin 42nd Ego Shoeshine For Neptune My Cup is Half Empty Robando De Los Muertos So You Think You Know About the Game of Life (at the end everyone switched instruments and they finished the song that way which was cool As Blood Runs Black. Now here's where the rant prob will come in. Arstonists took longer then expected to set up, and was given the go ahead to do a 25-30 min set (the set times said they only were supposed to play 20 min) anyways here is the ABRB set (i think) Intro brigther side of suffering stirfil (chug chug) new song ???? In dying days ???? and that was it. After the final song they said good night, stick around for oceano, and the house lights came on. People were pissed, and some chanted one more song (cause they didn't play My Fear, which is their most popular song), but they said they didn't have time, as they had to be off stage by 10:45. Now i don't know anything about concert promoting or how that shit works, but would it have really killed anyone to let them have 4 more min. As Oceano was set to only have a 35 min set and they would be done by 11:35. Or did they wanna be extra strict with the set times (i got out of there prob around 10:55 or 11 and there was no way in hell Oceano was gonna start at 11.
warped tour chicago This was a great show minus the shitty bands haha
Parkway drive i love this band Awesome show the new songs are fuckin sweet love.
emmure you can hate this band but fuck They ripped shit up i got fuckin crushed. I got a shirt from them that says ask your girlfriend how my dick Tastes haha.
Etid wow man great set lots of energy Need to see them headline.
Dillenger escape plan were next Best live band fucking ever they just destroyed the stage Perfect set . They run all over that stage
Andrew wk awesome live party music ftw. i saw some of the casulites they were cool.
Saw the end of sucide silence love them.
I saw attack attack next wow they were awesome They can get a crowd going. Good set Best song is that song on the second album with rap in itt.
Saw whitechapel next I loved seeing these guys again.
emmure you can hate this band but fuck They ripped shit up i got fuckin crushed. I got a shirt from them that says ask your girlfriend how my dick Tastes haha.
sigh,
anyways here is carnival of madness 10 years: dont like them but sounded live like they do on cd so if you do like them then youll enjoy there set. 5/10 sevendust: i really enjoy watching this band live, there cool guys with lots of energy 9/10 puddle of mudd: Wes is a funny dude, not to shabby 8/10 chevelle:better than the first time i saw them, pretty heavy for a three piece band. 9/10 shinedown:as much as i dont care for there boring radio rock songs that all sound the same, they did a decent job. the lead singer and guitarist are kind of gay for each other lol . i hate bands that think there to cool for you and shinedown was not one of them, they seemed very humble and what not 8/10
hate watching concerts from a seat but oh well still was worth the money in the end, had a good time. looking forwar to ozzfest next!
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Anyway I posted my review in the Mushroomhead thread. Rhyme. I doubt anybody wants me to post the whole gigantic thing in here. So I'll say it was great, I was at a rave with people glowing and raining glowsticks along with catching money. After that Mushroomhead came up and an old friend of mine became a cage dancer. Set was amazing. I made friends with a security guard, he was funny.
Here's a couple pics
Finally at a few minutes before 6:00pm the first schedueld band started
This Or the Appocalypse. they really woke the crowd up and really got the pits going. Also the lead singer dove into the crowd a few times (which is kind of hard at jaxx, as the stage is maybe 2 feet off the ground and the only "rail" is this long metal rail about 4 feet off the ground). 7/10
Blind Witness. Def wanted to check them out as they were one of the reasons i came early (or so i thought) and they didn't disapoint. Lots of energy from the band, and they played my fave song by them "baby one more non" last 8.5/10 (would of been higher but they only got 20 min)
circle of contempt. pretty generic deathcore band to me, but the lead guitarist def had some skill as he could def. legit solo (and not the simple "sweep suicide silence type solo)
Burning the Masses. Man they were awesome. got the crowd back in it, and their newer stuff is def very technical and not just breakdown heavy deathcore. Also the girl next to me was screaming every line. I also got a drumstick from them as well 9/10 (again would be higher but they only got a 20 min slot)
Thick as Blood. Crowd was dead again for them. Kind of sounded like hatebreed or the other similar sounding bands with a little metal influence 4/10
The Tony Tap Dance Extravaganza. Awesome band. Their guitarist can def shred with the best of em and he played an 8 string guitar too. Played about 25 min. Would of def prefered a longer set 9.5/10
Yippie Kay yay Mother Fucker
I am Sammy Jenkins
Deep on Charlie
???? (sounded like something cowboy)
Pardon Me, But I Am The Ocean
The Union
Arsonists Get All The Girls. they had technical problems to start, but i guess it all worked out. The Guitars were mixed way too loud and the vocals weren't mixed loud enough (as well as the keyboard). so this is a best guess at the setlist (not in order)
Mantipede
Violence In Ruin
42nd Ego
Shoeshine For Neptune
My Cup is Half Empty
Robando De Los Muertos
So You Think You Know About the Game of Life (at the end everyone switched instruments and they finished the song that way which was cool
As Blood Runs Black. Now here's where the rant prob will come in. Arstonists took longer then expected to set up, and was given the go ahead to do a 25-30 min set (the set times said they only were supposed to play 20 min)
anyways here is the ABRB set (i think)
Intro
brigther side of suffering
stirfil (chug chug)
new song
????
In dying days
????
and that was it. After the final song they said good night, stick around for oceano, and the house lights came on. People were pissed, and some chanted one more song (cause they didn't play My Fear, which is their most popular song), but they said they didn't have time, as they had to be off stage by 10:45. Now i don't know anything about concert promoting or how that shit works, but would it have really killed anyone to let them have 4 more min. As Oceano was set to only have a 35 min set and they would be done by 11:35. Or did they wanna be extra strict with the set times (i got out of there prob around 10:55 or 11 and there was no way in hell Oceano was gonna start at 11.
This was a great show minus the shitty bands haha
Parkway drive i love this band
Awesome show the new songs are fuckin sweet love.
emmure you can hate this band but fuck
They ripped shit up i got fuckin crushed.
I got a shirt from them that says ask your girlfriend how my dick
Tastes haha.
Etid wow man great set lots of energy
Need to see them headline.
Dillenger escape plan were next
Best live band fucking ever they just destroyed the stage
Perfect set . They run all over that stage
Andrew wk awesome live party music ftw.
i saw some of the casulites they were cool.
Saw the end of sucide silence love them.
I saw attack attack next wow they were awesome
They can get a crowd going. Good set
Best song is that song on the second album with rap in itt.
Saw whitechapel next
I loved seeing these guys again.
And good review Chew, sucks hearing that all the bands got so little time, hopefully that isn't the case for all their other dates.
Also does ABRB have a friggin date set for their next album to release??? It's been over 4 damn years, lol.
And the bands on the mainstage besides iwabo .
They ripped shit up i got fuckin crushed.
I got a shirt from them that says ask your girlfriend how my dick
Tastes haha.
sigh,
anyways here is carnival of madness
10 years: dont like them but sounded live like they do on cd so if you do like them then youll enjoy there set. 5/10
sevendust: i really enjoy watching this band live, there cool guys with lots of energy 9/10
puddle of mudd: Wes is a funny dude, not to shabby 8/10
chevelle:better than the first time i saw them, pretty heavy for a three piece band. 9/10
shinedown:as much as i dont care for there boring radio rock songs that all sound the same, they did a decent job. the lead singer and guitarist are kind of gay for each other lol . i hate bands that think there to cool for you and shinedown was not one of them, they seemed very humble and what not 8/10
hate watching concerts from a seat but oh well still was worth the money in the end, had a good time. looking forwar to ozzfest next!