Recent Shows

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Saturday at AS220, Providence RI:

Third Death (Prov skate thrash)
Signal Lost (Texas female fronted melodic hardcore)
Hammer (Japan hardcore thrash)

Awesome show. Locals kicked it off with an adrenaline-charged set of JFA/DRI worship. 20 minutes of songs that each clocked in at under a minute. Sample song titles: "Skate Crew", "Skate or Eat Pizza", etc.

Signal Lost were touring in support of thier debut lp on Prank Records and went over really well. Tight enjoyable set that they didn't try to stretch out too long.

Hammer was kind of an unknown quanitity going into the night. All most people really knew was that they were Japanese and had maybe heard a 7" or two. This was the first stop on their US tour so their wasn't a lot of buzz preceding them. The first note was struck and the place erupted like a keg of dynamite. Thank god for Providence crowds! I was awash in a flailing sea of leather and studs. Hammer fucking shredded. The band played on stage but the singer was down in the audience for all but the last song or two (after my foot got tangled in the mic cord and precipitated a 15-man pig pile, haha). Raging. See these guys if they're coming to your town.

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Friday at the Columbus Theater:

Tiny Hawks
White Mice
Metalux
Lightning Bolt

Saturday at undisclosed mill location:

Cousin Mosquito
The Nightmare Continues
Necronomitron
A Terrorist Is Born
White Mice
Suffering Bastard
Plate Techtonics

I blew off the Sunday night show when my friends decided sleep was more important than ROCKING.

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You know Scoots, I'm pretty sure I was standing right next to you at the Friday show during a couple of the sets. Why I didn't say anything, I have no idea.

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what do you look like? were you the loud mouth high school kid i almost bitch slapped like 5 times?

haha, just kidding

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I think I was, to tell you the truth.

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I was honestly getting girded for battle during LB... there was some drunk cunt trying do some gay drunken shove dance during their set. You know how tightly packed it was... my friend Brian get shoved right onto Chippendales drums. I was seriously thinking that guy was gonna catch a beating but he finally meandered off.

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Yeah, I saw that guy. He kept shoving one of my friends. I was hoping the crowd would be a little more active, but you take what you can get at 12:30 in the morning. Not to mention the last time I saw them, there was more space, more people, more volume, and an earlier time slot. I kept getting shoved into this guy who smelled like crap. One thing that was good was something I was hoping would happen during the White Mice set. One of the balloons was getting knocked around. I like knocking balloons around. But it was either that or some form of moshing, and I would have taken the moshing.

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Sc00ts said:

were you the loud mouth high school kid i almost bitch slapped like 5 times?

Ha ha ha ha!

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Let's put it this way:

I could recognize Scoots right away
He had no idea what I looked like
I felt too stupid to say something, so I tried to do something even stupider and divert attention to myself.
Had this circumstance not been there, I wouldn't have been talking this loud at a show.

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That's understandable, although you should have just said "fuck it" and slapped him in the back of his bald head. Then you could brag that he punches like a girl.

In all seriousness, though, it is awkward walking up to somebody and saying hello when you know who they are, but they have no clue who you are. It's easier just saying hello to a perfect stranger.

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For all I know he could have had that butcher knife in his pocket.

For future reference, this is the only picture I have of myself. Soak in it.

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Oddly enough, you kind of look like this kid I used to know in high school that just didn't give a fuck about anything except metal and hockey. He was a funny bastard that would pick on assholes relentlessly, and was just an all around good guy.

What do you think, Uncle Meat? Does Lamp look like a slimmer version of Scott Minor or what?

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You actually have kids in New Hampshire that like metal? There's tons of fagmos in my school that listen to Slipknot and whatnot, but hardly anyone who listens to anything good. The classifications:

-A few hardcore kids scattered about. I know most of them, but one day I saw a kid I did not know wearing a Converge shirt. I've also seen him wearing Bane and Senses Fail hoodies.
-I see a kid walking around with shirts that have bands like Black Label Society, Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth, etc...all the time. Looks like an angry lummox.
-A kid I know with a hoodie splattered with bands both big name and local such as Defiance, Discharge, A Global Threat, Toxic Narcotic, Get Killed, All Those Opposed, etc. There used to be a few more of these people. There's a kid in one of my classes who wears a Conflict hoodie all the time.
-Another big time political kid(once again I know him) who's big on bands like Propagandhi, the Toasters, Dillinger Four, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, etc. For some reason I cannot comprehend, he likes Dimmu Borgir.
-As far as I know, I'm the only kid in the school into any grind/crust. I'm not sure if anyone else listens to psychobilly either.

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The majority of the kids are always going to be into whatever is popular and easy to dance to. When I went to public school, 98% of the kids were into rap. When I switched to private school, there was a huge mix of musical tastes. I'm pretty sure that myself, Uncle Meat, and some other dork were the only guys in our class that were into death metal, though.

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You know that kid theshaz that used to post at the Dead Milkmen board? The kid I'm friends with in real life? He's gotten into some death metal lately. He likes Opeth and Children of Bodom and other stuff. He also showed me Cryptopsy.

It's not really my bag of tea though.

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hmm... ok i think i remember seeing you, though that pic is a little hard to tell by...


you shoulda just said hi, i'm totally harmless.

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Here's something you should definetely recognize me by: I was the kid who was noting out loud that Daylight Savings Time doesn't end until two in the morning. I was wearing the A Life Once Lost shirt, talking to my two friends the whole time...one with the Tool hoodie, the other with the bright yellow sweatshirt...etc. The first kid I mentioned was saying he should have bought a White Mice CD and that their set was awesome(which I would agree with). The second kid was standing on the stairs during the Lightning Bolt set and had a perfect view. He's also in my band, and he's trying to submit us to a statewide Battle of the Bands as we speak. We're trying to decide on a name. I give him gold like "Uberdagger". Then he gives me generic names like "Flat Out Fucked" and "At The Stake". Weak.

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Lamp said:

Then he gives me generic names like "Flat Out Fucked" and "At The Stake". Weak.

Yuck! Those names are terrible! "Uberdagger" is pretty cool. "At The Stake" sounds way too much like "At The Gates", and bands that insist on using profanity in their name usually suck with the exception of "Anal Cunt" and "Fuck...I'm Dead".

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Lamp said:

He's gotten into some death metal lately. He likes Opeth and Children of Bodom and other stuff. He also showed me Cryptopsy.

It's not really my bag of tea though.

I wouldn't really call Opeth death metal, and Children Of Bodom is basically power metal with black metal vocals. Even though Crytopsy are technically great musicians and have a huge following, they never did much for me. Hop on Soulseek and check out some Gorgasm, Dismember and Bolt Thrower.

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Sc00ts said:

You're a messy eater.