Anybody following this hilarious Summer Slaughter story?
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Carrion Rocket
Banned
Special guest: MGK
KnightBrolaire
SSO's unofficial pickup tester
Man I remember when Summer Slaughter Tour had actually killer lineups (like back in 2008/9) when I saw Dying Fetus, Necrophagist, After the Burial, Born of Osiris and a shitload of other bands at 1st Avenue in Minneapolis. It's hard to describe how sick it was seeing those bands in such a small venue. Necrophagist and Dying Fetus were insanely clean and tight live.
That was like the pinnacle imo.
This new tour there's like 2 bands I recognize ( Veil of Maya/Brand of Sacrifice). Plus they're not coming anywhere near MN so I have no interest.
That was like the pinnacle imo.
This new tour there's like 2 bands I recognize ( Veil of Maya/Brand of Sacrifice). Plus they're not coming anywhere near MN so I have no interest.
BusinessMan
Well-Known Member
It’s hilarious because all the hate is deserved. It’s not even a remotely desirable lineup to see.
HeHasTheJazzHands
Well-Known Member
The Summer Insurrection Tour
It's a lineup full of openers IMO, but I'm sure they'll all do a great job regardless. I don't get why folks are upset about it. If you don't like the lineup save your money and stay home.
I know I'm not going since Maiden isn't gonna be there. Don't see me cryin.
I know I'm not going since Maiden isn't gonna be there. Don't see me cryin.
You are being willfully ignorant because most of the dragging in this thread has to do with Ash and secondly with his lineup of nobodies.
Carrion Rocket
Banned
Naturally apathetic. I don't care what Ash does with his label or press. I don't understand why anyone does.
I think folks are just having some fun with the absolute Streisand effect of that cringey response to an article posted by Metal Sucks of all places.
Kaura
Je suis ketchup
Low-key glad for VoM for headlining but I don't think with their current music (that I like more than their early stuff) they really fit the bill. 
RevDrucifer
Well-Known Member
I’d rather a tour has ALL shitty bands or ALL great bands, especially when it’s a big lineup where you’ll be there a few hours or even days. Rockville next month isn’t doing it for me at all and I’m not even bummed to NOT go because there’s barely a single band I want to see across 4 days. If they put like 2 awesome headliners in and a few bands I’d love to see, I’d be debating blowing a grand for 4 days to see 50% of bands I don’t want to see.
Emperor Guillotine
The Almighty Ruler
Ash's father? Yeah, sure, maybe.
Ash himself? Nope.
Look up some of the stuff that Ash wrote and directed when he was going through his film-maker phase. His whole film-maker phase was around the time that Sumerian Records started tanking as a label. Probably because he was funneling finances from the label into funding his little "passion projects" as an "aspiring film auteur" to be like his daddy.
The absolute sole selling point to the two productions that he put out under the company brand "Sumerian Films" was that the casts of American Satan and Paradise City were comprised of somewhat trending musicians from the rock and metal scenes at the time (which immediately dates the content). Other than that, it was downright terrible stuff and tanked in terms of both reception and return as you can well imagine.
Record labels (especially "metal music only" labels) already have pretty scrimped margins nowadays amidst the constantly shifting landscape of the current music industry and labels becoming irrelevant. So, to have a label head diverting the label's finances into self-funding his little film projects for shits and giggles...well...it's just not smart business. And thus, it's easy to see how Sumerian Records has pretty much vanished as a label in recent years.
Yeah, even if Ash had not responded in such a ridiculous manner, the announcement of the 2024 lineup would have elicited quite the backlash anyways because it's just a laughably bad lineup filled with nothing but 2 or 3 recognizable names with the rest of the lineup being opener bands who will forever be caught in the trap of just being permanent openers and nothing else until they inevitably call it quits.
Let's take a moment in this thread to remember back to when times were better and we actually had good things in this world...
Aside from that, I still personally think that 2010 was a peak year for The Summer Slaughter Tour in terms of lineup. And I'm pretty sure that it was a memorable year for quite a few other members on this forum as well.
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AChRush1349
Causal Anomalie
Oh, you mean the Summers Laughter tour?
nightsprinter
resident pat metheny fanatic
Ash's father? Yeah, sure, maybe.
Ash himself? Nope.
Look up some of the stuff that Ash wrote and directed when he was going through his film-maker phase. His whole film-maker phase was around the time that Sumerian Records started tanking as a label. Probably because he was funneling finances from the label into funding his little "passion projects" as an "aspiring film auteur" to be like his daddy.
The absolute sole selling point to the two productions that he put out under the company brand "Sumerian Films" was that the casts of American Satan and Paradise City were comprised of somewhat trending musicians from the rock and metal scenes at the time (which immediately dates the content). Other than that, it was downright terrible stuff and tanked in terms of both reception and return as you can well imagine.
Record labels (especially "metal music only" labels) already have pretty scrimped margins nowadays amidst the constantly shifting landscape of the current music industry and labels becoming irrelevant. So, to have a label head diverting the label's finances into self-funding his little film projects for shits and giggles...well...it's just not smart business. And thus, it's easy to see how Sumerian Records has pretty much vanished as a label in recent years.
Yeah, even if Ash had not responded in such a ridiculous manner, the announcement of the 2024 lineup would have elicited quite the backlash anyways because it's just a laughably bad lineup filled with nothing but 2 or 3 recognizable names with the rest of the lineup being opener bands who will forever be caught in the trap of just being permanent openers and nothing else until they inevitably call it quits.
Let's take a moment in this thread to remember back to when times were better and we actually had good things in this world...
Aside from that, I still personally think that 2010 was a peak year for The Summer Slaughter Tour in terms of lineup. And I'm pretty sure that it was a memorable year for quite a few other members on this forum as well.
Yeah, I was referring to his dad's career. I haven't seen any of the celluloid his kid has made.
