It's been 20 years since ashes of the wake?
Some days feel so long but time really does just zip by.
What bands did you see live recently / are waiting to see?
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It's been 20 years since ashes of the wake?
Some days feel so long but time really does just zip by.
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Crash Dandicoot
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I saw Pallbearer the other day. Fantastic show with some of the best tone I've heard live in a long time. I appreciate the doom guys bringing an obscene amount of wattage to the live game.
PuckishGuitar
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Saw the Mastodon / Lamb of God show last night. It was a cool idea to have both of these albums for this tour, which apparently were released on the same day back in 2004. Both bands were on top of their game, the complete album playthroughs was a lot of fun and love it when bands do something like that. Earlier I looked at photos I took back on the original tours, lots of memories there, and happy to see their successes. Mastodon especially was a big influence on me getting out of playing generic thrash riffs and into more creative song structures. I wish both bands had a bit more time to play other songs, they each only had about 3-4 songs after playing the albums, but it was a pretty packed setlist as it was. The visuals for Mastodon were on point for the theme of the album, lots of sea beasts and sailing into storms. Think my only complaint is the sound in the venue was a bit too bass heavy throughout, the thump on the kicks really overwhelmed a lot and heard a number of complaints about it after the show. Really great energy from all the bands and fun night to remember though.
Missed most of Malevolence's set unfortunately, not familiar with them but last couple of songs in the set sounded good. Kerry King's solo outfit is basically leftover Slayer, but glad it's an opportunity for the members to get a paycheck and have fun playing stuff live. Even threw in a couple of Slayer covers, lazy but it was great fan service for the crowd.
Mastodon on the original Leviathan tour in '04 a few blocks from where I lived - opened with Hearts Alive!
Missed most of Malevolence's set unfortunately, not familiar with them but last couple of songs in the set sounded good. Kerry King's solo outfit is basically leftover Slayer, but glad it's an opportunity for the members to get a paycheck and have fun playing stuff live. Even threw in a couple of Slayer covers, lazy but it was great fan service for the crowd.
Mastodon on the original Leviathan tour in '04 a few blocks from where I lived - opened with Hearts Alive!
MFB
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^ I'll be seeing that one in a couple weeks, wild to think I haven't seen Lamb of God besides the one time back in '07 when they toured Sacrament, but this will be my 5th or 6th Mastodon show since 2006 when I saw them for the first time with the Unholy Alliance tour
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Went to the local “big” venue last night to watch a friends band open up for Drowning Pool and a band called A killers confession, which from what I understand is fronted by a former member of mushroomhead but wouldn’t say the bands name nor what song of theirs he was covering. They didn’t sound awful but it was quite boring, and they all wore all white boiler suits and it seemed the singer was lip synching quite a bit as his chest never moved and he would be “singing” some notes that would require that. And he has his face plastered on his gear trailer, which apropos of everything is just weird to me. Drowning Pool was decent for being a nostalgia act. However my friends band surprised everyone being a death metal band about grilling meat opening for whatever you’d call drowning pool.
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Totally forgot until the last few days that my Lamb of God/Mastodon show is tomorrow; unfortunately that means suffering thru Kerry King too, but a small price to pay for those two.
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Unless it's one of their mid/slow tempo songs, I'm sure I'll be still entirely underwhelmed; Slayer has never done anything for me, and seem like someone kept making fun of metal but people bought into it more and more, and suddenly the escape button was gone.
p0ke
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Yeah, Kerry King's slower/mid tempo songs were definitely the best of part of the show. The faster songs just sounded sloppy, including Raining Blood which iirc was the only Slayer song they played at Tuska this summer.
All in all I'd say it was bearable but nothing I'd pay for on its own (I listened to most of it while queuing to the merch stand).
jco5055
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I just got King Diamond tickets for the Brooklyn show, but idk it seemed kinda expensive, like $77 dollars for the cheapest seats? But it's the day before Halloween, I gotta go
Rubbishplayer
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I'm kinda curious to see how "Beat", the new King Crimson spin-off pans out. The idea of Adrian Belew and Steve Vai fronting this band intrigues me.
Anyone in the USA seen them live yet?
Anyone in the USA seen them live yet?
p0ke
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Holy crap, me and two friends just bought tickets to Wacken 2025!
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I saw Symphony X last week, maybe going to see Faketushka on Thursday.
We just got back from seeing Metallica in Foxborough. These guys just get better with time imo, it's kinda weird. (Though Lars is still Lars.) It's my 3rd time catching them live, but the first time I've actually made an effort to be in the front. I don't think I have had this much fun at a show since I was a teenager. Not only is it always cool to see Metallica (formative band of mine that I still very much appreciate to this day), but it was the stereotypical metal show experience, but sanitized free of drugs. 
It made me feel like I was in my early 20s, despite the lack of alcohol and sore joints.
It had it all. Waiting under the sun and the rain for the gates to open, fighting for front row, (no Snakepit for us) fending off 5 Finger Dick Punch asshole fans out of the way, meeting and rocking out with dope people, getting sunburned on day one and then absolutely drenched in torrential rain on day 2, facing the uncertainty of day 2 potentially getting canceled due to lightning, (thankfully it did not) getting high fives from Zakk Wylde (Pantera opened on day 1), catching picks from Kirk, and finally losing our minds so hard in front row Papa Het himself came to give us high fives at the very end of the show.
It was just a great time.
It made me feel like I was in my early 20s, despite the lack of alcohol and sore joints.It had it all. Waiting under the sun and the rain for the gates to open, fighting for front row, (no Snakepit for us) fending off 5 Finger Dick Punch asshole fans out of the way, meeting and rocking out with dope people, getting sunburned on day one and then absolutely drenched in torrential rain on day 2, facing the uncertainty of day 2 potentially getting canceled due to lightning, (thankfully it did not) getting high fives from Zakk Wylde (Pantera opened on day 1), catching picks from Kirk, and finally losing our minds so hard in front row Papa Het himself came to give us high fives at the very end of the show.
It was just a great time.
Nice! That is 17-year old me's wet dream.
spawnofthesith
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See local shows almost every week
For touring acts I saw Caspian and And So I watch You from Afar a couple weeks ago. I fucking love ASIWYA so good
For touring acts I saw Caspian and And So I watch You from Afar a couple weeks ago. I fucking love ASIWYA so good
p0ke
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Yeah! I've been dreaming about it since I was 13, so 22 years now. And I'm just absolutely stoked that I have friends who share that same dream and will be going there with me.
