Life is grand. Sometimes I just can’t be unhappy, and last night was one of those evenings. Fortunately, I’m still basking in the afterglow of it. Last night was Paganfest, easily the best metal festival I’ve ever attended (which, to be honest, isn’t saying very much, as the U.S. isn’t exactly big on festivals). It … Continue reading →
Was scoping out my Last.fm page this afternoon, and noticed in my events sidebar that there was a show at Backstage tonight. And of course I’m flat broke, so I won’t be going. I’m rather pleased, though, as I have been to a ton of concerts already this fall, so missing this one doesn’t burn … Continue reading →
I never did end up making a pre-concert post this time around, as I usually do, but tonight I visited a concert for Insomnium. It was, as expected, totally unreal. I have been listening to these guys since 2002, when their first CD came out. They’re now still touring for their third, which came out … Continue reading →
OK, last week I went to see Amon Amarth and Dimmu Borgir. Playing together. Live. Amon and Dimmu. It was incredible. The venue was a different one than I usually go to, and substantially larger, though still no seats or anything. (It’s called Georg Else Halle instead of Backstage, and is near the “other” very … Continue reading →
Last week I had the fortuity to catch Deadlock live, playing with another German band called Neaera. All the bands I’ve seen here thus far have been major international metal bands hailing from elsewhere in the world (wait, a single exception: Caliban). The types of metal I listen to aren’t very well represented in Germany, … Continue reading →
I’m at home now, before stepping out to the concert, and I thought I’d do a little feed reading. Wasn’t too successful. Well, isn’t that depressing? I’m off to pick up some drinks before the cornerstore closes, then it’s off to German Melodic Death Metal land, with long streaming blonde hair galore, chesty double bass … Continue reading →
Last.fm doesn’t seem to know who they are. Well, there’s an entry for a band called “Naera,” but they only have 463 plays scrobbled, so I think the existence of that page can be chalked up to monkeys breaking into people’s houses, fucking with their ID3 tags, and then scrobbling tracks. Check out track 11 … Continue reading →
Last night’s concert was probably the best I’ve ever been to in my life. I’d assumed doors were at 7pm and the show started at 8pm, but as I approached the venue around 7:30pm, I could hear there was a band on already. And it was very obviously Sonic Syndicate, as from a block away … Continue reading →
OK, so I’ve finally wrangled up enough bandwidth that I could toss some pics up. I’ve also begun my transition away from PicasaWeb in favor of Flickr for photosharing. There are a thousand reasons for this, but that’s the subject of another post. Turisas were pretty intense. They came out on stage in full Viking … Continue reading →