I'm here. I missed one band called slayed innonce. I don't think devil in the kitchen is playing... not sure. band's sets seem a little longer than yesterday. today they are handing out meal tickets. it also seems like there are already more people here today.

wait, ditk is playing now.

I wish I could go today. I haven't quite infected the ENTIRE new england music scene just yet.

i haven't seen devil in the kitchen in a while. those guys are always fun to see.

meal ticket is a good idea..

get well soon pam! i need to see you play too!

oh and aaron i saw a commercial for the nikon d50..they are really pushing it...one of the electronic shops has it on black friday too..

I got meal tickets yesterday, it took two to get the grossest hot dog I've ever had, but it did the trick!

And yes, Carina, you do need to see us play!!! I got my meds, I'll be better in a day or two. Thanks pretty!

I want a d50. Someone buy me one. c'mon.

the hot shoe on my D100 is fucked up. I should probably take a look at it w/ a stereoscope or something. it's probably a simple fix and not worth $100+ to get nikon to fix it.
f the D50. I mean I wouldn't turn it down if I got a free one, but I want a D2X ($5K) and a D200 ($1.6k)!

*sigh* anyhow...

contagion: (main stage) ok, let's get the fact out of the way that this band was sweet 16. Yes, they were very young kids, but I think that people can't remeber 10+ years (or much much longer) back when they were 16 and that there were kids who were able to do this and didn't just sit at home, jerking off and playing video games. Ok, these kids were really good. It was like a little version of cannibal corpse. I'm pretty sure they grabbed a bunch of new fans today.

i wonder what aaron will get with his meal ticket? some bread? lol

I fed him pizza and broccoli and cheese bites for his drive to the show...wouldn't want him to endure another gross subway trip..

the d50 looks nice...compusa will have a sale on black friday:
Nikon D50 Digital SLR Camera w/ PictureMate Printer - $799.99

deep vox, or just shrill pre-pubes ones?

deep, but there were some gore gutterals that sound pitch shifted.

NeverSayNever: (second stage) so I was the one that opened the door and let all the people in. For some reason, there was a closed door at the bottom of the stairs. They played pretty good, but I was standing next to the PA and the vocals were ruff. The singer then appologizes for bad vocals. This set wasn't as good as the BS set, but I think that this is a band that thrives more on crowd response and well there still isn't that much of a crowd to respond to them at 1pm on a sunday.
PS: for a 70s pornstar, your drummer, john holmes, is pretty good.

within choking range: (main stage) I had never heard them that I remeber. They were really good. Tight playing. They were the first of the metalcore block on the mainstage. They sort of sounded like ATTWN, but without the melodic parts.

devil in the kitchen: (second stage) I had previously tought that they were playing, but I walked up in to some one with a prosthetic arm-type violin thing. This band is like a metal ho-down with alex TTOS on drums. And yes, if you are wondering, just like with TTOS, his eyes are always closed in my pictures.

shot down sun: (main stage) second in the line of metalcore bands. They actually had some melodic parts to their music. The singer looked a lot like doomkid (rowan from TTOS). I guess he msg me on aim one night and I couldn't talk cause my hands were too sticky.
It was from pamagranites, perverts. One thing about the metalcore genre I noticed is they all have nice heads/cabs that get out a really nice tone. Though I think all metalcore bands should buy the head that blue (raising kubrick) has with one of those metal mesa cabs.

3 headed monster: (second stage) all their songs sound like maiden covers. Well, except for the megadeth cover. Cechini guitar kept messing up. But the once he sprinkled fairy dust or whatever on it and turned it back down they were able to play 2 more jag panzer covers. I have a feeling that kessaris practices more alone than with the band. why do I saw that, cause when something breaks down the rest stops, but could keep on playing not listening to any other member of the band.

and then there were none: (main stage) these guys always put on an awesome show since I've seen them from a start up. They sound a lot like AILD and while I was walking around, someone even commented that they sort of look like AILD. I definitely think with the addition of dts's drummer they need to be tagging on the opener slot of bigger shows.

RA vs. paone tonight if no one else realized that.

misled to ruins: (second stage) metalcoreish. Before they got on stage, I saw the long haired bass and was hoping for a straight metal band, but when the singer came out, I knew they wouldn't be. Btw, the singer's hoodie was on of the coolest thing evah. I personally saw mr jay fest dancing to them.

hand choke neck: (main stage) I ran down to catch the first song of theirs. From the stage it sounded pretty sick. Once I stepped to the way back, the guitars mixed better together and it sounded awsome. Kok and hoser lay down a thick layer of guitar workmanship. It was all fun and games til someone pooh'd their pants.

the_reverend said:

i knew that
hahaha

the singer and the guitar players are actually in some of the into the moat pics from the palladium i believe

throwing shrapnel: (second stage) I was told their hygeine increased, but they lied. I thought that W3 went and got a sunO))) cab. He must not have brought it here. I guess they actually like pause? And stuff like that between songs. I didn't hear any of the doomyer parts. Keith was also sick and looked like he was dying the whole time. It only seemed to affect the sound of his vocals at the begining of their set.

bad karma: (main stage) yeah, I have though that I missed these guys. They rule. I'm pretty sure that the singer was in the band meliah rage a long time ago. "Who cares?" all the n00bs are probably asking. Well, imagine a super sick modern guitarist like... Um.. Chris arpman. You all probably seen psyopus and have had you mind blown. Now picture chris doing it with only one arm. Yeah, he plays better than you and he's only got one real arm. The music is a mixture of old school loud rock, thrash, and techy metal.

guitar player from shot down sun

bad karma sounds cool, I will have to check them out

the_reverend said:



yeah yeah

i think people are waiting until AFTER the show to read posts..like last time they played together

lunica arma: (second stage) naming you band after a font? Oh, that ludica. These guys were on the hardcore side of metalcore. They played really well and even took jason (SOE) abused from the crowd. they did look a little uncomfortable just playing there. Looked like they aren't used to playing club shows yet.

sinaria: (main stage) what was that about no girl noodlers? This band had 1 guitarist who was female and, though she wsnt actually a noodler, played awsome especially cause she looks just like my cousin ashely (who I think is a cop). I didn't like the vocals. blue and I discussed it and they are sort of like someone trying to do the new lamb of goat..er... god vocals, but missing something.

anamalech: (second stage) another band that I thought I missed cause of no show. They reminded me of scar culture with some of the clitorture talent. The last song especially reminded me of clitorture

thumbs down to girls who douche with perfume. I must be 30' from any one except jeremy from oak knoll and its raping my head. I actually would rather smell his catfood from the chinese place rather than this perfume.
lame.

REv, we didn't play any jag panzer covers, I just started playing the last track on the Thane to the Thrown CD 'cause when me and Chief lived together over the summer we'd rock out to that and a few beers on our porch around noon to 7pm.

We're power metal, we're supposed to sound Maidenesque. Everything sounds like something....


...thanks for being a good sport during our set, I was about to introduce you but I turned around and you were gone.

and I have to practice alone, the rest of the band is in MA while I'm stuck in western NH by myself.

i got a kick out of it when some band played the T2 theme song. haha

I'm like a cat. just ask carina, I bath myself and her with my tongue.

I was only kidding about jag panzer cause of was you said. I like making fun with you guys not at you guys.

and i had my sunn0))) cab with me it was beside the marshall.

thanks to everyone who actually came up stairs and watched us, ha i gave tom cooch a hug lastnight !

Jesus Knevil: (main stage) not really my thing. They were old school metal. I think I needed coffee then.

acariya: (second stage) where's woodo..um..wood? you remeber him from that local band that never played shows around here, command presense. Well, he no longer posts here, but he's back with a new band. No, not something about robots. This is a more hardcore aimed band. They were really good. The crowd was also the largest crowd thus far at the show.

crotalus: (main stage) they ruled. I must saythat I like them better that blisted earth (this band is 75% be members). Jmho. They brought out the singer for Saints in Hell who sung painkiller.

Dour Cursiva: (second stage) I walked in and was like "who the hell.. Oh brian, got it". I like the two singers more than one. They played really good and more importantly made that room sound awesome.
ps: I got pictures of brian's face proving that he does in fact have one.

saints in hell: (main stage) a tribute priest band. The singer sounded more convince with his hi's that the normal vox. I thought that sounded nothing like JP. Fun stuff. the bassplayer from distrust/csdo was in them.

I missed a Priest cover band! Dammit! I'd have dusted off the aviators for that shit.

Sorry I didn't stay for porphyria...I just wasn't feeling great and wanted to lie down in bed...which is what I'm doing now...and orchestrating...and watching a bad TV show

ur lact8ing?

inner self lost: (second stage) the singer had an awesome sceam and a lot of the singing reminde me of commit suicide, but then the other parts were two nu-metaly/panteraish for me.

red right hand: (main stage) I was on the side when they started playing to basically no one. After a few songs, people started coming up to the stage. They started to play a cover of black magic by slayer but things broke down and they had to start over. Oh wait, I wasn't suppose to mention that, oopies.

I can feel the sniffles starting to come. fuck all of you. I've been cold free for over 3 months to be felled this weekend! and I have the week of. sick on my week off? megamega lame!

a terrible night for a curse: (second stage) there was a part where craig asked people to say it sucked.. Well at that point, it did. There was something off. The entire beginning, the sound dude was running around them fixing thing. Finally he did for the last two songs and it sounded really good. Maybe next time they should suggest to the sound guy to do sound checking BEFORE the band plays.

candy striper death orgy: (main stage) with mike behind that kid, their music is so tight. His kit and playing is so different. His blasts are so fast. a typical set from them otherwise. Old school thrash and nuclearwar.

departed, the: (second stage) good set, lots of head banging and spanglish. these guys head bang constantly. Also, the singers has turned and actually sort of faces the crowd now.

that sound guy was kind of a jerk.

sniffles? uh oh!!

seriously though EVERYONE is sick right now. that fest was a fucking petri dish.

aaron..either you or me is sleeping on the sofa!

though i have a nice buzz from that vanilla whiskey..
yum

ohh my point was that whiskey=good for a cold...

yea my eyes are always close in every picture regardless if im playing drums or not... :( i hate being photographed even tho its nice to see i was there

im not sick btw :P

HAH
Rev scared me with his flash, and I shit pant.
You were ninja with that shit....poof hes gone.....Kyser Soze or the devil.
You decide.

Good time, had a decent set, missed TS by about 6 seconds, went home and had Bday cake with the kids.
Im fucking old. YAYZ0RZ!

I'm home, working on pictures.
time for mead, pamagranites, and oranges.
holy crap did I take a lot of pictures...
still working on it.

thanks for the kind words rev. hopefully next time youll recognize us off the bat. i know you see a lot of bands though. im a sound quality nazi so hearing that our sound was good makes me smile.

hey rev, thanks for checking us out again.
it was such a relentless drive on the way home.
495 is a cruel bitch

pictures are uploading.

the_reverend said:

noooooooo!!! I'm discovered.



thanks for coming out, rev.

i look at these pics and remember how i wanted to die all over again for that 30 mins.

cecchini, kessaris...I am pissed that I missed your set. We got there at about 4 because of traffic.

I need to see the monster...power metal is fantastic.



also sorry we had to leave before porphyria, they sounded damn good last night. hope people got to hear them.

brian_dc said:



during our set, i was marred with guitar problems and sound guy deuche bag (or I blame him anyway, someone could try to tell me other wise but they can die) and i dont have much patience in those kinda situations... soooo... i'm glad you'll see us at another show where we/i can make a good first impression haha.

no worries, the monster is forever

ah...sorry to hear it...yeah, sound douche was all whiney at night...but our drummer is inconsiderate so he pounded his head with drums while the sound guy was setting up mics.

so that's fun


there's a myspace group dedicated to hating our drummer..."Murph Haterz"...Sly of ATNFAC fame is inducted today for pantsing him in the parking lot....then Craig peed on Murph's shoe...god, i hate murph
haha

nice!

I love the fact that I went to myspace shot down sun and within choking range and they already had the pictures there.
ha!

CAPTION:
Dear god, why the fuck did I go to bed so late last night. If you get me through this, I'll never use another cuss word ever again!

how was porphyria last night?

CAPTION:
OMG GUYS, LOOK! IT'S MIKE FROM UNEARTH!!!111 LOLz!

RustedAngel said:


Who in God's name is that fag standing in the back that had the spiked up hair and the girl pants with the tucked in T-shirt???? That guy was wandering around all night looking gayer than Aids. It looks like he actually dressed up to go to the show.

the_reverend said:

Yeah, I had to disappear for awhile. I was too addicted to the never ending thread of death.

Hoser said:

I dunno, I saw him though and for some reason I thought the kid was Rowan's (TTOS) little brother or something. hahah. Clearly, he likes Unearth.

RustedAngel said:


That's Rowan's dad.

pam nli said:


Did you get some quality sleeping time in? You were missed on day 2. I think I avoided your plauge, though.

Acariya is my new favorite band. They rock. I had a lot of fun at this shindig.

im feeling like death now.

the_reverend said:

:( that sure sucks.

get some vitamin water, and curl up with a good bottle of nyquil

vitamin water does nothing! eat oranges non-stop

It's all about contagion...they stole the show from everyone

the_reverend said:

I was psyched at first when I saw a girl guitarist, but the vocalist ruined the entire band. I thought the music was okay, but definitely too lamb of god-ish.

sweet pic aaron!

that guitar is amazing...i wish we could've seen you guys but we were too busy playing to nobody...HA!

RustedAngel said:

I also don't understand this which is from an even invite from them over myspace (http://www.myspace.com/sinaria):


All this sounding like Lamb of God talk, I thought this was kinda funny... (notice the shirt)


whaddya know, a picture of Randy Lamb of God with the singer of Sinaria:

wow, Scott Lee could sue them for that!

nice pics rev!!
Rev is a fuckin trooper, he climbed more stairs yesterday, than I have in a 2 month period.
Pure
Ninja.

it's even worse on crutches!!!

speaking of crutches.....

This guy has one hand, and fuckin shredded.....he played some amazing shit for having one playing hand....wowz0rz indeed.
Music wasnt my thing, but damn.

Hoser said:
thats the singer of shot down sun..... and mike label

Oh ya, and I met Paone yesterday, he seemed like a cool dood....made conversation, jokes, seemed like a decent mofo.

After yesterday......I think we should definitley coin the term

'ArmsXCrossedXCore'

now if we can somewhere work out playing an instrument, with arms crossed, we could start a whole new sub sub sub genre.

the new dragonforce is awesome...they shoulda played that inbetween our songs

they played the opneing beat to chappelle's show in between two of misled to ruin's songs...i thought that was rather hilarious

it's still all about contagion... http://www.myspace.com/contagionma

great show, great pics, with there was a free beer though...heh

yeah...but there was a liquor store in that plaza with booze that was cheaper than the club's...which turned out to be a great investment

yeah, we brought our own, but the keyword there was FREE beer heh

yeah...jay promises next year will return to its old glory though...back at the sportsmans club and no permit bullshit or people fucking everyone over

that will be great, this year had a better lineup, but last year was just a cooler enviornment. both were fun

i think i caught aids again from being in the building for too long.

now im waiting to wake up in girls pans and a castro hat.

My friend Eric's "entourage" left early which really sucked.If u didnt notice the hot chicks dressed like hookers sitting at the bar in the downstairs room, that was them.I guess one of them has kidney stones so they had to bail.Not a bad night.Better than the first night of bands.CSDO,Saints in Hell and Crotalus were the high points.Sacreligion were decent. I couldnt understand why the guitarist had to sit down in a chair.

rev, i think i posted pics from this show on our myspace about 10 minutes after you put them up last night. haha. i hope i beat those other bands.
you had some really good shots of us, especially of brian...thanks again.

williams was rockin out there
he doesnt fuck around

we're gonna slip him a mickey and see what happens

i think he had a broken leg, when we played with them at the compound he was on crutches.

indeed...how could you miss the large bald dude on crutches that was there the whole day? haha

kellthevalkyrie said:


oh man I surfed the sheets allllll day yesterday. I'm still hurting too, these fucking pills aren't doing shit. It sucks cause I would have had a fucking blast if I wasn't battling impending death all day.

also that homo with the stupid hair was the subject of my mockery allllll day on Saturday. what a turd.

I found a match, haha.

thedeparted said:

just above your post there is a picture of my crotch...note not much going on there...if you slipped me a mickey I'd just get depressed at my lack of potency

HAH

the_reverend said:

hey im in this band. thanks for the kind words. but what the fuck does pitch shifted mean? whether its a compliment or insult i dont really care, that show was fun as fuck. thanks for takin pics.

its means your pitch shifted...

i went late(cause i was way hung over) missed hcn and was very pissed
saw some cool stuff, had fun and had to leave at 10:00 cause i had to work. i really wanted to see porphyria and the departed but i was just so fucking beat at that point, sorry guys.

all in all not a bad weekend in haverhill, it was good seeing everyone!

\m/

Just checking e-mails and shit like that, after a well deserved hibernation. I got to read some of the threads... pure silliness. I would like to thank all that participated in this weekends events and everyone who got off their asses to come down and check it out. I will be taking a break for a few while recovering from the craziness over the past 6 months. I will have a few posts on the website on my thoughts of the whole weekend, I have a lot say and will repost here. Rev, thanks for the awesome pics and being a trooper, you were the person that probaly ran those stairs the most besides myself.

thanks for having us Jay. Now shut the computer off and curl up in a ball. lol

guitarist from porphyria = dreamy. oh man. I've been checkin you out boy for a long time.
ya that sounded ghetto as hell

that guitarist from porphyria=dreamy. oh man I have been at a bunch of your shows and had my eyes on you for a while.

yup.

No comments on the hotties there Sunday yet? I wonder how many total people showed up for both nights? Im gonna guess no more than 200.

anonymous said:

ha, tom has a stalker.

you frickin dick
you WEREN'T supposed to mention it

DOOM ON YOU!!!!

Not much about Anamalech.. the guitarist for my ex-band was on board with them for a while, and they tore shit up. I watched them practice a whole bunch, and played our few shows with them in Wooni. Their bassist Loopy is a madman. Anyone catch them?

HUH?

ya i saw anamalech, they were pretty good. the bassist was really good.

powerkok said:

Gayfest?

what band is that?

that really isn't a good image.

hahahahahaahah no shit....that freaked me out, and then I showed my wife, and she agreed that it is 'creepy'.
The band is Within Choking Range.
Chicken choking range indeed.

It's cool when steve vai, tony macalpine, billy sheehan do that kinda shit together but those dudes doing it just looks non-hetro. haaha...oh well!

hahaha, that's gay as hell.

hah

nice shirt! Man brian wasn't kidding about needing a shirt or he wouldn't have any clean clothes left!

haha...I shitted you not, one might say

I laughed my ass off from all the comments about alex (shot down sun's vocalist).

great weekend though, went to both shows and sunday definatly seemed....better. Thanks to Jay for putting it up.

and thanks for the great live shots bro.

dwellingsickness said:


That's gotta be photoshopped...I don't believe it.

ahhaah i was there i saw that i was like right behind the camera

perfect.

had to be done

that hair is pretty silly

look at how mike looks right at the camera and strikes a pose

well thats Mike Labell for ya.

this was....i think 3 min before my wireless gave out on me

thats definetlly me in the beanie.

and mike labelle sucks.

Whos the fag who cares how someone tucks in their shirt and spikes their hair ?

i didn't know tucking your shirt in was gay. i had my shirt tucked in for CT metalfest. i'm going to go reevaluate my sexuality.

i think its funny how my shirt wasn't tucked in at all haha

and as for my hair, i like it so whatever

my friends ex-girlfriend had that same haircut.
just not sure why people think those haircuts look good.

i guess it is like the modern day mullet.

the flock of seagulls hair is THIS gay http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/1160/watermelon7so.gif

man, I wantwatermelon now.

haha

mmmmm

haha thats a funny picture


but im not gay so whatever

yeah, but like the rest of us, including hilter, you love you some watermelon.

hah
watermelon and a good bottle of gel

the_reverend said:

Brilliant!