Went to Cannibal Corpse on monday night. Was pretty bad ass.

Bought an Evisceration Plague album cover shirt, with some zombies on the front, yknow, for the ladies. I wore my Dethklok shirt there and low and behold it was the exact same shirt the lead singer was wearing!!! Apparently he did a couple of voices for Metalocalypse and rumoured to be who Nathan Explosion is based on. Half way throught the show he says in a low growl “Would anyone like some coffee!?” – to which everyone started cheering but they didn’t play it Also Some drunk guy at the bar was like “WILLIAM MURDERFACE MURDERFACE MURDERFACE MURDERFACE!!” and shook my hand vigourisly lol.

They played quite a few songs that I knew the titles of, but didn’t know the actual song, but moshed anyway. Got pretty drunk, got pretty fucked, fell over once. When they played Hammer Smashed Face (second to last) the shit went crazy, everyone in the fucking mosh pit. Was awesome!!! Fucking love that song. Then they played Stripped, Raped and Beaten straight after it! Which was fucking even better!!! Great end to the concert, really good show. The singer looks like he’s got no neck though… I kept wanting to yell out “WHERE’S YOUR NECK!”

They also played other family favourites such as “Fucked With a Knife” (for the ladies), “I Cum Blood” (for the ladies), “Perverse Suffering” (…for the ladies) and “Shatter Their Bones” (for the zombies).

Here’s their title track from the new album:

I wish they played this one though:

A++ Recommended would mosh again

Summer Slaughter was last night and it was fucking awesome. Nothing short of amazing as bogans flooded the Transmission room and the raw, unbridled power of brutal death metal pierced ear drums.

Got me a Necrophagist Tshirt and a Fetus hoodie. They aren’t that great, apparently they all sold out in Oz and they didn’t bring enough for us (thanks guys). But I’m happy to support them since I haven’t bought any of their albums and buying merchandise doesn’t give any cash to the record companies.

There were six bands, Ulcerate was first, they were OK (3 of them are 8 ft Sativa dudes so I’m told). Then Dawn of Azazel, with the Cop lead singer who they tried to kick off the force. They played real well this time. Got some hair thrashing to them.

Then the ones I’d never heard before, Faceless and Aborted played. They were actually pretty good! Aborted played for ages, and started a wall of death (Which if you didn’t know is where the crowd splits in two and runs at each other at the next breakdown)! I thought they were banned cos people die in them but my brother grabbed me and yelled “Mmmf gmph Mfft!!!” and ran off to the right of me. I was like “what the fuck did he say?” and then realised I was almost the only person left in the middle… fuck! The guitars dropped and everyone ran and smashed into each other people went flying, Mope lost his shoe then found it again. No one died. Was pretty cool, first one I’ve been in.

Next time I think I’ll pay more attention and instead stand in the middle with my devil horns outstretched and then tuck up just before each side meets me in the middle. That would be cool to do.

Shelley turned up before Dying Fetus came on. Gave me a chance to get out of the stifling heat down there to go meet her. I didn’t know but The bassist guy also does vocals. The guitaring was awesome, the bassist goes from like the top frets to the bottom frets then back again so quick it’s hard to follow, same with the lead guitar. His guitar was for sale that night too, $2000. It was a black Dimebag style one, can’t remember if it was ESP or LTD though… Fucking amazing. First song they played was… I can’t remember… but mope ran into the mosh pit so I followed him leaving Shelley (who wasn’t feeling so extreme that night: tsk tsk Shelley) with her mate from work Will, who plays in Skulldom. Hopefully going to see them next month.

Mosh pit was pretty fucking nuts, got kicked in the face by the Dawn of Azazel lead singer as he was crowd surfing which was pretty funny cos I just managed to miss his foot in the Amon Amarth mosh pit lol. It wasn’t as packed as Children of Bodom so there was more room to move around which meant cunts were getting taken OUT lol cos you could get a run up in the pit. Two dudes even dancing Ballroom styles in there smashing around and getting taken down, classic shit, was crackup.

I got out of there to get a drink, I was pretty much fucked by the end of Aborted but this was like the first and last time Dying Fetus will ever come here. Went back in for Grotesque Impalement – love that song. They played Pissing in the Mainstream, Kill Your Mother/Rape your dog, Raped on the Altar, One Shot One Kill and… I don’t remember the other ones they played. I was holding for Tearing Inside the Womb, but it wasn’t to be

Went outside to cool down before Necrophagist. They were the shit. They took a while to come on though and in that time I kinda seized up – getting too old for this shit obviously, or perhaps not drinking enough. They jumped straight into Stabwound, and also did Advanced Corpse Tumor and Fermented Offal Discharge. Watching them play is absolutely amazing. Dudes must have cut off their hands, fused huge spiders to their wrists, lopped off 3 legs, and hooked up its nervous system straight to their brains. Thats what it looked like anyway. Fingers moving so fucking fast and with such precision. Plus one of the guitarists does vocals as well. Fucking nuts!!! The lead dude playing a white flying V was looking everywhere but his guitar.

Pure.

Fucking.

Win.

(Ow my fucking neck hurts from headbanging so hard – so worth it)

Joes band A Beautiful Chaos was one of the runners up to front for the Iron Maiden concert. Apparently Chuggernaut won it. But they had a concert for all the runners up at the Kings Arms on Thursday which me and Becky and Mope went to. Becky’s friends play in Sonic Altar which were also runners up.

Was pretty mean, a band called The Jealous Itch started then it was A Beautiful Chaos then it was Sonic Altar and we left after that.

Anyway the lead guitarist of Joe’s band left so finally he’s able to play some lead. Previously he was doing rhythym in the back, but now he’s mixing the two up. Which is great for him because he’s a wicked guitarist and I think he was a little bit wasted being in the back there. He can do some mean technical riffs of which I shall insert some videos here soon. I thought I had them on here already but apparently not .

But yeah, real good to see him up front, and it was his first time playing lead for the band live, and he fucking rocked it so I’m real stoked for him.

Caught up with him a bit after the concert which was mean cos I haven’t seen him in ages, but had to leave early (1am) cos I was riding with Shelley and Tesh early the next morning.

But yeah, mean shit.

Man, lots to do this weekend.

Finish at 7am this Sat morning, I’ve gotta get some sleep, then get up, install my front speakers in my van, change the oil, hook up the drivers door central locking, and tune the amp for all the speakers.

Then going to the Psycroptic concert with Joe, Nick, Shelley and her friend Ella, get drunk off my nut, and mosh the fuck out. Should be mean. Gotta buy a Psycroptic Tshirt too. My brother wants to come but he is not 18 for another 15 days. Shame.

Then on Sunday (hopefully not hungover) road trip it down to Tauranga to pick up my gat and amp and hang around Tauranga if its nice weather.

Then on Monday I can install and play Far Cry 2!! Dave bought it in for me tonight, going to be SO mean! Thats another one I can scratch off my list Plus COD5 came out yesterday so hopefully I’ll get my hands on a copy of that soon.

Shit just remembered its my dads birthday on monday too… what am I going to get him… also skinny leaves for Wellington…

Holy fucking shit, thats all I have to say.

That concert was fucking mean. Subtract and Dawn of Azazel ^wiki opened for them, pretty mean.

It was me, Joe, my brother, Nick, Shelley and Becky who went.

The lead singer of Dawn of Azazel has a massive tribal goat head (symbol of rebellion) tattoo on his chest and he is a constable in the NZ Police. They tried to kick him out of the force for being in this band just because it has satanic lyrical content and talks about killing the weak. People in this country are wooses. He also said that Children of Bodom were from Sweden, but they’re from Finland. I’ve seen him before moshing at Amon Amarth, and at Oblivion a few times.

Pretty small venue, the Transmission Room. Like 150 (??) people crammed into this tiny room. The mosh pit was crazy. And then Children of Bodom came on. The only songs I can remember them playing was Needled 24/7, Hatecrew Deathroll, and Mask of Sanity (/fav). All of which went crazy. Little circle pits opening up now and then. I’ve never been so squished in my entire life.

And poor Becky, the look on her face. I’m sure she’d never seen anything like that before. But she was still getting in there and moshing with everyone. Was a little bit embarassing when my hand was squished against her boob by a wave of people hahaha. She was cool about it tho. Afterwards when we were all sitting in BK she was like “holy fuck you’re all a bunch of freaks, never again” rofl.

And there was some guy behind us who kept chanting “Tits, out, for the boys, Tits out for the boys”, so annoying, I so wanted to turn around and punch him in the face… but he was kinda big. Jerk.

Every time a song started you’d just get pushed and thrown from one side of the pit to the other, coming across your mates every now and then. Shelley was loving it getting in there and shoving people (what she does best lol). Hardly even saw my brother, Joe was standing off to the side cos he was a bit sick from the mould in his room at home . So most the time it was just me and Nick, and then it occasionally Shelley and Becky would turn up.

By the end of it I thought I was going to vomit from exhaustion (and the only thing I’d had to eat was a Red Bull). Everyone was just soaked in sweat. You could even see sweat and vapour dripping down the walls, and probably off the roof too. Was siiiick. I wonder if they even had the Aircon turned on.

Then as everyone left the streets of Auckland become over run by bogans and metal heads. Everyone else is like what the fuck as these rowdy cunts cruise down the footpaths, stopping occasionally to thrash out a drunken or stoned metal riff on their air guitar. In the middle of the road.

So just had some BK and then went home. Fucking mean night.

Also, Judas Priest are coming in September with Cavalera Conspiracy!!!

But tickets are $150!!!

It could be my first and last time to see Max and Igor Cavalera (Soulfly and Sepultura) playing, and would be so fucking mean!!!

But $150 is just too much, Judas Preist aren’t that great, and its at the Vector Arena which is kind of shit. Jason at work paid $150 for First Class I-can-taste-their-sweat tickets to Iron Maiden so… yeah.

Think I’ll have to give it a miss eh…

Wow, so just found a place that was selling COB tickets for $62 each! Normally they are $80! So I bought 8 of them

Hopefully my friends actually come so I can sell them to them haha… got rid of 6 already.

Should be mean!

Edit: I should have bought another 4

So we went to the Lamb of God concert here… kicks ass! It was held at The Powerstation in Mt Eden. Kicked ass, those dudes are so awesome. But holy fuck it was loud, still deaf… Lots of hot goth chicks there too… especially one (two actually but the tall one was really cute), that was dancing near where me and Troy were standing. She was gorgeous… I should have talked to her when she sat next to me, but I froze up.. oh and I have Girlfriend already.

And if you thought death metal concerts were all you get smashed if you fall over… some guy bailed out of his wheelchair and down a few steps, and instantly there were like 5 people helping him back into it. I don’t know where he was when the circle pit opened up though lol.

Got me a shirt too, mean one.. heres a pic:

They only had XL when I got there and it was $40.. worth it though. I wanted a hoodie but they were $70…