Papa roach , skillet , trapt , my darkest days review
My Darkest Days awesome opening band just some straight up cock rock. Save Me Move Your Body Stutter Every Lie F*cked Up Situation Porn Star Dancing Trapt these guys suprised me really good lot's of energy. the new songs sounded the best.
Stand Up Still Frame Sound Off Who's Going Home With You Tonight Bleed Like Me Stranger In The Mirror Disconnected Head Strong
Skillet second time seeing them this year wow what a fucking band, so good live they have a chick drummer is sexy. she tore that kit up. if you haven't seen these guys before go see them. Hero Whispers in the Dark It's Not Me, It's You Comatose Awake and Alive The Last Night Savior Lucy Monster Sometimes Rebirthing
Papa roach one of my all time favortie bands. what a fucking set they know how to command a crowd the bass was awesome, and super loud. Kick in the Teeth Lifeline Blood Brothers Broken Home Hollywood Whore One Track Mind Scars Enemy Getting Away with Murder Born With Nothing, Die With Everything ...To Be Loved Forever Burn Dead Cell Last Resort Between Angels and Insects
Not gonna write a longer review like last time. Same place as yesterday, same time, yet smaller crowd. Black Dahlia Murder/Goatwhore/Arkaik
Trust Me I'm A Doctor - Only local band on the bill, sounded alright...really the only scenester band though if you ask me. They did a brvtal cover of Safety Dance which I absolutely adored.
Arkaik - Actually liked these guys, never heard them coming into the show.
Goatwhore - Not sure why I never really gave these guys much of a listen..They blew me away once they got onstage. Everything just sounded great and they were so involved with the crowd with the high fives and bro fists and stuff. Later bought Carving Out the Eyes of God and got it signed.
Black Dahlia Murder - Stage setup was incredibly fast, I had just bought the CD previously mentioned and was sitting outside for a minute when I heard they were taking the stage. Ran in and got my place up front before the crowd got really crazy. Big shocker, the set was almost exactly the same as last time, only difference being the order of the songs. Still great watching them play.
Statutory Ape Everything Went Black Closed Casket Requiem Necropolis Miasma Black Valor Christ Deformed Elder Misanthropy What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse Funeral Thirst A Vulgar Picture Denounced,Disgraced Deathmask Divine I Will Return
Only difference this time is that they cut out Unhallowed and I'm Charming.
Bring Me The Horizon - October 17th - Chicago, Illinois - House Of Blues
OK, so to start off, I had no intention of going to this show 'til right after Megadeth played last night, because Bring Me The Horizon was playing in the basement, and the entire time time I was tempted to just say "Fuck this." and go downstairs and see BMTH. So I've known about it for a while, and figured I was fucked since I've never done a back-to-back, and I figured there'd just be no way with my Mom, but it came to mind that I had an extra $20 and I could just take the train down to House Of Blues, so I texted my Mom and asked, and she surprisingly had no problem with it, so at that point I was just fucking stoked.
Well, as anyone on here who read my Facebook status today would know, I left early to get there early and get front and center on the rail.......however, I arrive and my day is fucking murdered.....tickets are sold out. So I'm sitting outside, pissed the fuck off, asking everyone and anyone if they had extra tickets to sell, and no dice. I asked This Is Hell's Drummer and Jona from BMTH if they could get me in, and neither could do it. So as I'm waiting outside, things get better. I see Oli fucking Sykes walking my way, and I'm just like ".....No fucking way." So I was the first one who noticed him, and I ran up to him, and shook his hand right away (Also asked him if he could help get me in, but yet again, no dice.) but he went in the venue, and as soon as he did, girls saw him and were shrieking, screaming, shaking, crying, breaking down, all this ridiculous bullshit, it was fucking insane. I was like, what is this, a fucking Bieber show? I mean it's not his fault, it's just girls being fucking morons, but Jesus fucking Christ. But yea I met him and got my picture with him, and as I said, I was shaking a bit and I was just nervous as all hell. I think part of it was due to the fact that he's literally the most famous person I've ever met, and just the fact that he walks into the room and has girls crying about him almost instantly (Even heard a girl scream "Ohhh he's so fucking beautiful".) It was retarded on the girls' parts, but still fucking insane that one dude could do that just by his presence. So after he left, I figured, game over. Might as well walk back to Union Station, at least I met Oli, right? So just as I'm about to leave, this dude asks me what happened, and I explained, and he felt bad for me, so he took me back to his car in the parking garage and gave me a few of his beers, and we chugged a few beers together and walked back to the venue afterwards. So I get back there, and not 2-3 minutes am I there, and these guys are in front of the venue, and I was like do you have extra tickets? And his response was: "Do you have money?" so I'm thinking FUCK YESSS. $10 dollars for a fucking ticket. So at this point I'm just jolly as a fucking kid in a candy store. Best 10 dollars I've EVER spent. So I get in, and I was still a bit early. BMTH was doing a signing, but I said fuck it. And thus starts the show.
Before I write about each individual band, I wanna say, A: I don't particularly like any of the 4 support bands, so it was somewhat of a waiting game for me. B: I. FUCKING. LOATHE. TEENAGE. SCENE. FAGGOT. CROWDS. Oh my fucking God I wanted to slaughter every fucking person there. Nearly ruined the night for me. This reassured me how much I hate Teens, and I fucking AM one. If this is seriously how my generation is, I'm beyond ashamed. EVERYONE there was kids, with the oldest people there probably being early 20s at the most. 75% Female too. Completely outnumbered the dudes. Now, neither of these things would be bad.........IF THEY KNEW HOW TO FUCKING ACT. I swear to God these motherfuckers must have never been to a Metal show at all. I don't know if it's 'cause they're kids, 'cause they're Scenies, or both, but these motherfuckers have NO respect, manners, or concert etiquette. Now I know it's a Metal show, it gets crazy, that's fine and dandy by me, but there's a line between crazy and borderline ignorant, rude, and obnoxious. Slayer last night was crazy, yet respectful. This shit was just a fucking free for all of tough guy kids. First off, you know how the crowd always pushes forward when the band starts...? Yea, that happened at this show....CONSTANTLY. Fucking faggots were pushing and fighting to get to the rail even when bands were setting up. Which caused a 10 or so person pile-up....including me. Yes it was strong enough to knock me down and a band wasn't even fucking playing. Despite this, I eventually got just one person behind the rail by fairly fighting for it throughout Emarosa and August Burns Red. Oh but wait, it wasn't game over once I was on the rail OHHH NOOO. To start, bitch behind got pissed because I was in front of her, and she wanted to be on the rail, and since she couldn't get past me, I was an asshole, and I wasn't "being fair". So throughout ABR and BMTH, this cunt is elbowing me in the ribs and kicking the back of my knees. Had it been a guy I would've fucking leveled him, but I tried my absolute fucking hardest to keep cool since it was a girl, and there was NO way I was gonna get kicked out. Then she starts calling the dude ON the rail an immature jackass because he wouldn't move for her and let her on the rail. Then, during BMTH, their ENTIRE FUCKING SET, this drunk bitch got pissed at me for windmilling and pumping my fist/horns, and kept yanking on my fucking hair and slapping the shit out of me and pulling my head back. Once again, I wanted to KNOCK. THIS. CUNT. THE. FUCK. OUT. But I was having way too much fucking absolute fun with BMTH to get TOO pissed, but fucking A. As I said, these kids have no idea how to act at a show, as if they've never been to one. I HATE OBNOXIOUS FUCKING KIDS. ESPECIALLY SCENE ONES.
Now, let's move onto to the individual bands, shall we? -_-
This Is Hell: Never heard them prior to the show, never even heard OF them, so I didn't know what to expect, but they were pretty fucking badass. The SECOND they started, Vocalist fucking jumps into the crowd lol. And for an opening band, they got the pits going pretty intense. Real pits too. Which surprised me. No ninjas. They were straight up Hardcore though. I'd describe them as Terror, but with Guitar solos ala Slayer. 7.5/10
Polar Bear Club: Once again, never even heard of them, but they're like an Indie band, so nothing too heavy, but they reminded me a lot of Rise Against. Really liked what I heard. I'll have to check them out. 7.5/10
Emarosa: This is when the crowd was being the most downright obnoxious, so it killed it for me, but whatever. Let me start by saying, Jonny Craig has the voice of a fucking God, probably the best Male singer I've ever heard, and I love his solo shit, however I don't like Emarosa all that much. Jonny however, is like Oli, in the fact that he has nothing but horny bitches obsessed with him. The entire set all I heard was "I love you Jonny! Fuck me Jonny!" it got old REALLLL fast. Emarosa is Post Hardcore and very reminiscent of A Day To Remember, which isn't bad, but I just never really got into Emarosa. However, just seeing Jonny sing live made it amazing for me. He's a perfect singer if there ever was one. He sings with so much soul and power to his voice. I thought only Black dudes could sing like he does lol. But yea, just seeing him sing live makes their score higher than it would have been. 8/10
August Burns Red: Second time seeing them. First time at Summerfest. And just like the first time, nothing special. Generic Metalcore at it's finest. Not horrible or bad, but not amazing. It's neutral for me. I don't know why they have such a huge fanbase saying they're so amazing. *Shrugs* 7/10
Bring Me The Horizon: ................I'm still not sure what to say. Right as ABR was ending, I was really feeling the pain and soreness from yesterday's show, and was wondering if I'd even have it in me to go all out for BMTH, but as soon as they fucking hit the stage, that went right out of the fucking window. They opened just like I thought they would, the ending of Anthem leading into It Never Ends (The spoken part that says "....I feel.....like my heart, has been touched by Christ...") and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST it was relentless. I thrashed like a madman the minute that riff came in. I just lost control. Screamed every last fucking word, and it felt goddamn amazing. Repeated that for pretty much every song, and my voice is absolutely fucked right now. Screaming "I'VE SAID IT ONCE! I'VE SAID IT TWICE! I'VE SAID IT A THOUSAND FUCKING TIMES! THAT I'M OKAY! THAT I'M FINE! THAT IT'S ALL JUST IN MY MIND!" was just as rewarding in a live setting as I imagined it would be. Let me say right now, and I don't care how much it gets me bashed. Oli is THEE best fucking frontman that there is. Period. Right off the bat, he climbed onto the P.A. to my right, and was literally ABOVE me looking down at me screaming It Never Ends. That gave me chills, it was so fucking epic. He jumped in the crowd 3 times throughout the night. The first time was just ridiculous though. -_- Jumped in, and OF COURSE, the girls ripped his shirt off, and when he got out of the crowd, the shirt was still around his waist, and the girls were fighting for it to try and keep it, and it was pulling him back, so him and security had to fight them for it for a few minutes for him to even get back up on stage. -_- Stupid fucking bitches. But anyways, yea, jumped in the crowd 3 fucking times. And THEN, this maniacal ass motherfucker, climbs up on the fucking BALCONY during Pray For Plagues. I thought he was gonna jump, but sadly he didn't. But it was just insane, never seen that and it was just unexpected. He was quite literally ALL OVER the place. I love how much he gets the crowd involved. Fucking threw the mic into the crowd a few times and let them sing for a good 30 seconds or so. I've never seen someone make an entire crowd their little bitch like that, but he fucking commanded it. He's fucking psycho. Best frontman I've ever seen in my life. Got 4 walls of death successfully started throughout the night, and GOOD ones too. Not small either. Very fucking violent like they should be. After he got back on stage during The Comedown, he mooned the crowd, and what followed was the most ear shattering high pitched obnoxious Female screams I've ever heard in my life. -_- Same thing happened when he announced Fuck, it was something I found lulzy, but the girls found jizz-in-my-pants-worthy apparently, he said "This song.....is about uh......sexual intercourse.......". Anyways, it was only an 8 song set, but it was the best 8 songs I've ever had the pleasure to see live. Every song was absolute fucking madness, although I'm disappointed that it didn't last longer. It was a shame that more of the songs from TIAHBISITIAHLKIAS weren't played. I actually fucking wish they played the album in it's entirety. This show could never be beat for me if they did. But nonetheless, Crucify Me was absolutely fucking mindblowing live. Just a bit disappointing that the choir part and part sung by Lights were just the studio versions of the song being played on the P.A., but then again there's no other way they could do it unless they literally had a fucking choir and Lights with them. Fuck was insane as well. Fuck, every song was. Chanting Diamonds Aren't Forever live with 1,000 other people screaming it with you....indescribable. Gave me goosebumps. Every breakdown was insane throughout their set, because everyone jumped in sync, and the fucking floor was dipping since it's upstairs. Felt like we were all gonna fall through and die. Fucking epic way to go out I say. They ended it in the most epic of ways. They extended the end of Chelsea Smile, and Oli called for the last wall of death of the night, and then him and Matt, their Bassist, both climbed up these 8 foot or so tall speakers, and there was one on each side, after Oli was up there, Oli said the line of the night, and quite possibly the most epic line I've ever heard at a live show before a wall of death or pit....: "LET'S GET READYYY TOOOO RUMBLLLLEEEEE!!!!!". And then he counted off the wall of death, and him and fucking Matt jumped off the speakers simultaneously and stomped the fucking ground. Most epic shit I've ever seen. Unearth did something similar, but it was a very short jump, not so high up. After that they finished up the crushing fucking ending to Chelsea Smile, and I was left blown away with a smile on my face and an absolutely sore body. But goddamnit it hurt so good. Arguably the best show I've ever seen JUST because of BMTH's beyond perfect performance. It's neck and neck with Behemoth back in January. Definitely blew American Carnage from last night away by a loooonnnngg shot though, and I HATE to say that, but oh well. Yes, it gets the infamous score. 11/10
Wow.....you've got to be kidding me with that review. Not to mention I find it funny that some random dude let a 14 year old into his car to "throw back some brewskies".
I'm still so happy I skipped BMTH at Warped Tour to see The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band instead.
the fact that he walks into the room and has girls crying about him almost instantly (Even heard a girl scream "Ohhh he's so fucking beautiful".) It was retarded on the girls' parts, but still fucking insane that one dude could do that just by his presence.
Whoa! You've discovered a new phenomenon! But seriously, it's nothing new. It happens at nearly every music show that the artist is somewhat know. Hell, I'll admit it. It even happens to little ol' me. Get me in the same room with Kristian Ranta....all bets are off.
Friday October 15, Jaxx, Springfield VA Nevermore/Warbringer/Blackguard/Hatesphere/Apothys/Cab Ride Home
Cab Ride Home-Last time I saw them was with Death Angel and Soilwork. Honestly I don't know what people like about them. I can't get into them. Moshed around some but that's about it. 5/10
Apothys-These guys are definitely my favorite local band. They have this really evil sound about them that just gets to me. Sounds great. No one else was really getting into them I guess because they're the local band but they sounded great to me. One of the guitarists had the same guitar as me. I'm willing to bet his was the better model but it was the same model nonetheless. 7/10
Hatesphere-Setting up, the Blackguard drummer sat down so I thought they were going out of order but the Hatesphere drummer ended up coming up and setting the drums up for him. These guys were pretty good. The singer kept making weird, crazy faces whenever he wasn't singing. 7/10
Blackguard-First time seeing these guys and I have to say they did great. The singer had so much energy. Climbing up on the PA system and all. A few guys and myself were yelling for a wall of death but the singer never called for one so we just did one ourselves. Everyone separated but just me and like two other people ran for it. Until the whole thing got started, people joined in. Lame fail of a wall of death. Whatever though, Blackguard was great. I talked to the lead guitarist before the show and bought a beanie off them for $10. I only had $10 on me when I went to get it and the guy said it was $15, as I was about to leave, I said sorry I only have $10, and he said $10? Ok. And gave me the hat for $10 which was awesome. Also my friend caught one of their picks. 9/10
Warbringer-Second time seeing them. Bought their "Shoot to Kill" Shirt from Kevill and just realized when I was walking away who I bought it from. This was definitely better than last time seeing them. Last time everything was great but the energy seemed a lot higher than last show. The best part of their set was when Kevill came over and was yelling the chorus to Prey for Death right at me. Literally came half a foot away from my face and he and I were yelling the chorus right at each other. I knew he was yelling it towards me because when the chorus was over I put the horns up towards him and as he was leaving he pointed his horns directly at my face. That was just freaking awesome. The most any artist has done on stage towards me was a fist bump but this was just really cool. I yelled later for the bassist to hand me his pick but he said he only has one so I just shook my head and let it be. As usual Kevill went around and slapped everyone's hands. Didn't crowd surf this time though. Oh, almost forgot, the next best part of their set was the enormous circle pit they had going during their last song. My friend and I both got in it and when I went around the back railing some douche tried to trip me. I looked directly over at him when it was all over and I quickly picked out who it was because he was just looking over with this dumbass look on his face. Didn't fall but I still wanted to deck the kid. Also, right before Combat Shock, we all screamed wall of death again and Kevill said, We've never done this to this song before but we'll try it anyway. So I want everyone front to back to split down the middle. Once the song got started, so did the chaos. I didn't get in it because I wanted to get a good video of it but alas the video didn't come out well. I ended up getting in once the whole mess turned into a regular pit. 10/10 Best band of the night
Nevermore-Disappointing. Very very disappointing. The singer could barely sing. Couldn't hit any of the notes in the first line of the chorus to Emptiness Unobstructed. The instrumentals, like on album, were great. I'm not a big fan of the singer but to hear his voice cracking all over the place was like listening to a 14 year old boy going through big time puberty. There was this one really really drunk dude that was thrashing all over the place. Mexican guy who was built really tough. He kept swaying around and then all of a sudden he would jump forward and attack the people in front of him. The one thing about this guy was, you barely had to push him and he would fall, literally, on his face. Any time he head banged he had to grab the floor so he wouldn't fall over. Then during one of the slow intros he was just standing there grabbing his nuts.....Another guy who was either extremely drunk or on something very very hard, went into the pit and was spinning around in circles while doing crazy hand motions. It looked like a walking exorcism. It was so hilarious I could not stop laughing any time I looked at the dude. So I'll break Nevermore's set into two parts Vocals-0/10, Drunks/instrumentals-10/10
Blackguard beanie-$10 Warbringer "Shoot to Kill" shirt-$20
Wow that BMTH show sounds disappointing. They sound really tame now when it comes to "going crazy". Before they use to be 10x more energetic and "insane" live.
I will have to find out myself then on the 5th <_>
Comments
Ughhh I friggin hate that!!
My Darkest Days
awesome opening band just some straight up cock rock.
Save Me
Move Your Body
Stutter
Every Lie
F*cked Up Situation
Porn Star Dancing
Trapt
these guys suprised me really good lot's of energy. the new songs sounded the best.
Stand Up
Still Frame
Sound Off
Who's Going Home With You Tonight
Bleed Like Me
Stranger In The Mirror
Disconnected
Head Strong
Skillet
second time seeing them this year wow what a fucking band, so good live they have
a chick drummer is sexy. she tore that kit up. if you haven't seen these guys before go see them.
Hero
Whispers in the Dark
It's Not Me, It's You
Comatose
Awake and Alive
The Last Night
Savior
Lucy
Monster
Sometimes
Rebirthing
Papa roach
one of my all time favortie bands. what a fucking set they know how to command a crowd
the bass was awesome, and super loud.
Kick in the Teeth
Lifeline
Blood Brothers
Broken Home
Hollywood Whore
One Track Mind
Scars
Enemy
Getting Away with Murder
Born With Nothing, Die With Everything
...To Be Loved
Forever
Burn
Dead Cell
Last Resort
Between Angels and Insects
now on to the pictures.
My darkest days
Trapt
Skillet
Papa Roach
Not gonna write a longer review like last time. Same place as yesterday, same time, yet smaller crowd. Black Dahlia Murder/Goatwhore/Arkaik
Trust Me I'm A Doctor - Only local band on the bill, sounded alright...really the only scenester band though if you ask me. They did a brvtal cover of Safety Dance which I absolutely adored.
Arkaik - Actually liked these guys, never heard them coming into the show.
Goatwhore - Not sure why I never really gave these guys much of a listen..They blew me away once they got onstage. Everything just sounded great and they were so involved with the crowd with the high fives and bro fists and stuff. Later bought Carving Out the Eyes of God and got it signed.
Black Dahlia Murder - Stage setup was incredibly fast, I had just bought the CD previously mentioned and was sitting outside for a minute when I heard they were taking the stage. Ran in and got my place up front before the crowd got really crazy. Big shocker, the set was almost exactly the same as last time, only difference being the order of the songs. Still great watching them play.
Statutory Ape
Everything Went Black
Closed Casket Requiem
Necropolis
Miasma
Black Valor
Christ Deformed
Elder Misanthropy
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Funeral Thirst
A Vulgar Picture
Denounced,Disgraced
Deathmask Divine
I Will Return
Only difference this time is that they cut out Unhallowed and I'm Charming.
OK, so to start off, I had no intention of going to this show 'til right after Megadeth played last night, because Bring Me The Horizon was playing in the basement, and the entire time time I was tempted to just say "Fuck this." and go downstairs and see BMTH. So I've known about it for a while, and figured I was fucked since I've never done a back-to-back, and I figured there'd just be no way with my Mom, but it came to mind that I had an extra $20 and I could just take the train down to House Of Blues, so I texted my Mom and asked, and she surprisingly had no problem with it, so at that point I was just fucking stoked.
Well, as anyone on here who read my Facebook status today would know, I left early to get there early and get front and center on the rail.......however, I arrive and my day is fucking murdered.....tickets are sold out. So I'm sitting outside, pissed the fuck off, asking everyone and anyone if they had extra tickets to sell, and no dice. I asked This Is Hell's Drummer and Jona from BMTH if they could get me in, and neither could do it. So as I'm waiting outside, things get better. I see Oli fucking Sykes walking my way, and I'm just like ".....No fucking way." So I was the first one who noticed him, and I ran up to him, and shook his hand right away (Also asked him if he could help get me in, but yet again, no dice.) but he went in the venue, and as soon as he did, girls saw him and were shrieking, screaming, shaking, crying, breaking down, all this ridiculous bullshit, it was fucking insane. I was like, what is this, a fucking Bieber show? I mean it's not his fault, it's just girls being fucking morons, but Jesus fucking Christ. But yea I met him and got my picture with him, and as I said, I was shaking a bit and I was just nervous as all hell. I think part of it was due to the fact that he's literally the most famous person I've ever met, and just the fact that he walks into the room and has girls crying about him almost instantly (Even heard a girl scream "Ohhh he's so fucking beautiful".) It was retarded on the girls' parts, but still fucking insane that one dude could do that just by his presence. So after he left, I figured, game over. Might as well walk back to Union Station, at least I met Oli, right? So just as I'm about to leave, this dude asks me what happened, and I explained, and he felt bad for me, so he took me back to his car in the parking garage and gave me a few of his beers, and we chugged a few beers together and walked back to the venue afterwards. So I get back there, and not 2-3 minutes am I there, and these guys are in front of the venue, and I was like do you have extra tickets? And his response was: "Do you have money?" so I'm thinking FUCK YESSS. $10 dollars for a fucking ticket. So at this point I'm just jolly as a fucking kid in a candy store. Best 10 dollars I've EVER spent. So I get in, and I was still a bit early. BMTH was doing a signing, but I said fuck it. And thus starts the show.
Before I write about each individual band, I wanna say, A: I don't particularly like any of the 4 support bands, so it was somewhat of a waiting game for me. B: I. FUCKING. LOATHE. TEENAGE. SCENE. FAGGOT. CROWDS. Oh my fucking God I wanted to slaughter every fucking person there. Nearly ruined the night for me. This reassured me how much I hate Teens, and I fucking AM one. If this is seriously how my generation is, I'm beyond ashamed. EVERYONE there was kids, with the oldest people there probably being early 20s at the most. 75% Female too. Completely outnumbered the dudes. Now, neither of these things would be bad.........IF THEY KNEW HOW TO FUCKING ACT. I swear to God these motherfuckers must have never been to a Metal show at all. I don't know if it's 'cause they're kids, 'cause they're Scenies, or both, but these motherfuckers have NO respect, manners, or concert etiquette. Now I know it's a Metal show, it gets crazy, that's fine and dandy by me, but there's a line between crazy and borderline ignorant, rude, and obnoxious. Slayer last night was crazy, yet respectful. This shit was just a fucking free for all of tough guy kids. First off, you know how the crowd always pushes forward when the band starts...? Yea, that happened at this show....CONSTANTLY. Fucking faggots were pushing and fighting to get to the rail even when bands were setting up. Which caused a 10 or so person pile-up....including me. Yes it was strong enough to knock me down and a band wasn't even fucking playing. Despite this, I eventually got just one person behind the rail by fairly fighting for it throughout Emarosa and August Burns Red. Oh but wait, it wasn't game over once I was on the rail OHHH NOOO. To start, bitch behind got pissed because I was in front of her, and she wanted to be on the rail, and since she couldn't get past me, I was an asshole, and I wasn't "being fair". So throughout ABR and BMTH, this cunt is elbowing me in the ribs and kicking the back of my knees. Had it been a guy I would've fucking leveled him, but I tried my absolute fucking hardest to keep cool since it was a girl, and there was NO way I was gonna get kicked out. Then she starts calling the dude ON the rail an immature jackass because he wouldn't move for her and let her on the rail. Then, during BMTH, their ENTIRE FUCKING SET, this drunk bitch got pissed at me for windmilling and pumping my fist/horns, and kept yanking on my fucking hair and slapping the shit out of me and pulling my head back. Once again, I wanted to KNOCK. THIS. CUNT. THE. FUCK. OUT. But I was having way too much fucking absolute fun with BMTH to get TOO pissed, but fucking A. As I said, these kids have no idea how to act at a show, as if they've never been to one. I HATE OBNOXIOUS FUCKING KIDS. ESPECIALLY SCENE ONES.
Now, let's move onto to the individual bands, shall we? -_-
This Is Hell: Never heard them prior to the show, never even heard OF them, so I didn't know what to expect, but they were pretty fucking badass. The SECOND they started, Vocalist fucking jumps into the crowd lol. And for an opening band, they got the pits going pretty intense. Real pits too. Which surprised me. No ninjas. They were straight up Hardcore though. I'd describe them as Terror, but with Guitar solos ala Slayer. 7.5/10
Polar Bear Club: Once again, never even heard of them, but they're like an Indie band, so nothing too heavy, but they reminded me a lot of Rise Against. Really liked what I heard. I'll have to check them out. 7.5/10
Emarosa: This is when the crowd was being the most downright obnoxious, so it killed it for me, but whatever. Let me start by saying, Jonny Craig has the voice of a fucking God, probably the best Male singer I've ever heard, and I love his solo shit, however I don't like Emarosa all that much. Jonny however, is like Oli, in the fact that he has nothing but horny bitches obsessed with him. The entire set all I heard was "I love you Jonny! Fuck me Jonny!" it got old REALLLL fast. Emarosa is Post Hardcore and very reminiscent of A Day To Remember, which isn't bad, but I just never really got into Emarosa. However, just seeing Jonny sing live made it amazing for me. He's a perfect singer if there ever was one. He sings with so much soul and power to his voice. I thought only Black dudes could sing like he does lol. But yea, just seeing him sing live makes their score higher than it would have been. 8/10
August Burns Red: Second time seeing them. First time at Summerfest. And just like the first time, nothing special. Generic Metalcore at it's finest. Not horrible or bad, but not amazing. It's neutral for me. I don't know why they have such a huge fanbase saying they're so amazing. *Shrugs* 7/10
..then you go and do this...
damn...Teens are lame now-a-days
might have to listen to that soon.
I'm still so happy I skipped BMTH at Warped Tour to see The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band instead.
Nevermore/Warbringer/Blackguard/Hatesphere/Apothys/Cab Ride Home
Cab Ride Home-Last time I saw them was with Death Angel and Soilwork. Honestly I don't know what people like about them. I can't get into them. Moshed around some but that's about it. 5/10
Apothys-These guys are definitely my favorite local band. They have this really evil sound about them that just gets to me. Sounds great. No one else was really getting into them I guess because they're the local band but they sounded great to me. One of the guitarists had the same guitar as me. I'm willing to bet his was the better model but it was the same model nonetheless. 7/10
Hatesphere-Setting up, the Blackguard drummer sat down so I thought they were going out of order but the Hatesphere drummer ended up coming up and setting the drums up for him. These guys were pretty good. The singer kept making weird, crazy faces whenever he wasn't singing. 7/10
Blackguard-First time seeing these guys and I have to say they did great. The singer had so much energy. Climbing up on the PA system and all. A few guys and myself were yelling for a wall of death but the singer never called for one so we just did one ourselves. Everyone separated but just me and like two other people ran for it. Until the whole thing got started, people joined in. Lame fail of a wall of death. Whatever though, Blackguard was great. I talked to the lead guitarist before the show and bought a beanie off them for $10. I only had $10 on me when I went to get it and the guy said it was $15, as I was about to leave, I said sorry I only have $10, and he said $10? Ok. And gave me the hat for $10 which was awesome. Also my friend caught one of their picks. 9/10
Warbringer-Second time seeing them. Bought their "Shoot to Kill" Shirt from Kevill and just realized when I was walking away who I bought it from. This was definitely better than last time seeing them. Last time everything was great but the energy seemed a lot higher than last show. The best part of their set was when Kevill came over and was yelling the chorus to Prey for Death right at me. Literally came half a foot away from my face and he and I were yelling the chorus right at each other. I knew he was yelling it towards me because when the chorus was over I put the horns up towards him and as he was leaving he pointed his horns directly at my face. That was just freaking awesome. The most any artist has done on stage towards me was a fist bump but this was just really cool. I yelled later for the bassist to hand me his pick but he said he only has one so I just shook my head and let it be. As usual Kevill went around and slapped everyone's hands. Didn't crowd surf this time though. Oh, almost forgot, the next best part of their set was the enormous circle pit they had going during their last song. My friend and I both got in it and when I went around the back railing some douche tried to trip me. I looked directly over at him when it was all over and I quickly picked out who it was because he was just looking over with this dumbass look on his face. Didn't fall but I still wanted to deck the kid. Also, right before Combat Shock, we all screamed wall of death again and Kevill said, We've never done this to this song before but we'll try it anyway. So I want everyone front to back to split down the middle. Once the song got started, so did the chaos. I didn't get in it because I wanted to get a good video of it but alas the video didn't come out well. I ended up getting in once the whole mess turned into a regular pit. 10/10 Best band of the night
Nevermore-Disappointing. Very very disappointing. The singer could barely sing. Couldn't hit any of the notes in the first line of the chorus to Emptiness Unobstructed. The instrumentals, like on album, were great. I'm not a big fan of the singer but to hear his voice cracking all over the place was like listening to a 14 year old boy going through big time puberty. There was this one really really drunk dude that was thrashing all over the place. Mexican guy who was built really tough. He kept swaying around and then all of a sudden he would jump forward and attack the people in front of him. The one thing about this guy was, you barely had to push him and he would fall, literally, on his face. Any time he head banged he had to grab the floor so he wouldn't fall over. Then during one of the slow intros he was just standing there grabbing his nuts.....Another guy who was either extremely drunk or on something very very hard, went into the pit and was spinning around in circles while doing crazy hand motions. It looked like a walking exorcism. It was so hilarious I could not stop laughing any time I looked at the dude.
So I'll break Nevermore's set into two parts Vocals-0/10, Drunks/instrumentals-10/10
Blackguard beanie-$10
Warbringer "Shoot to Kill" shirt-$20
I will have to find out myself then on the 5th <_>
Probably because they had to actually play their instruments.