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:	post by BogusRendition at 2005-06-26 12:41:16

Here is my long and boring review of the entire show:

I have bad memories of dealing with the assholes of SMG security at this place, and I was not suprised to see quite a few incidents throughout the day of them being nothing but bullies who probebly got beat up in high school to much and now use the oppertunity of the power trip their job seems to give them to feel good about themselves, given how miserable their lives probebly are. What else do they have to look forward to other then going home, getting drunk and watching TV? Maybe if they are lucky their wifes will give em head one of these days, thats assuming they don't go home and rape them every night already. And I feel bad catagorizing those guys as a whole cause some of them seemed like perfectly decent dudes, but holy shit, they've got some assholes working there. Anyways...

I got there during Throwdown's cover of "Roots Bloody Roots," which I thought was kinda week. Actually, this show as a whole was pretty weak. And what a cluster fuck it was. The crowd was so young. It was really weird to see what that bunch of bands that sorta got Metal Fest going have been brought into. I've got plenty of mixed feelings about the fame and success and the concept of "staying underground," which this tour clearly was NOT a representation of the sounds that are underground. Perhaps it would have been four years ago, fuck even two years ago would have given the tittle a bit more authenticity. Whatever.

I guess the Red Chord went on really early and I missed them, but how many times have I seen them? Norma Jean is a band that I've never had a shred of interest in, but they put on a fairly good show. Every Time I Die blew, although I have a biased opinion cause I think that blow anyways. Tonight they sounded like Converge for some reason, but they still blew.

I missed Strapping Young Lad while I was outside chillin with old Randy grabbing the free cookies from the buffet. Then we went inside to watch a bit of Gwar. THose guys rule, and since they were all covered in blood themselves, they were dripping the shit all over the place back stage and all of a sudden one of the EMT's started freaking out cause it looked like someone was bleeding and they didn't realize that it was a prop. Then Randy and I made our way up stairs to the Jager tent where we were supposed to meet up with the rest of the dudes from LOG and they were gonna do another signing. But the rest of the band was missing, so it was just a session of "Meet Randy," during which I talked to some dude who was working for Jager and who used to work for Slayer. We were talking about how everyone back stage had thought the Gwar blood was real and he was saying how this time last year when Slayer started doing the actual physical raining of blood thing, there was this time when the machine didn’t work right and all the blood eventually drained out into the street and of course people thought it was real and a bio-hazard team in those big plastic suits came in and “cleared the premises before realizing that the shit wasn’t even real blood.

Then I went down stairs to go watch what I expected to be a one and a half song set of Opeth, but hot damn, it turned out to be 3! Yeah, I don’t know why they didn’t headline this show. Oh wait! Yes I do. MONEY! Anyways, of course they should have played longer, but, yeah… money. They were awesome as always though, and I think they had the best sound of the entire show.
“So we’ve got a new record coming out in September on Roadrunner Records… which of course means it’s going to be a record of strictly nu metal…” “So this will be our last song, but of course we will be coming back at least 15 million times this year, so, not to worry. We always tend to close with this particular track and I think you all know what it is…”
“DEMON OF THE FALL!!!”
“You’re God Damn RIGHT…”
Yeah, Opeth rules. Anyways, at least whoever booked the Canadian show has their head screwed on right, given the Opeth will be headlining up there.

Chimaira was okay, but they are a fake band in my mind. Maybe if I didn’t know that they were fake I’d feel different. I know they worked their asses off before Roadrunner picked them up but they come off as a nu metal band trying to sound old school to me. Whatever. I couldn’t give two shits about Poison the Well and I could care even less about From Autem to Ashes, but they were indeed able to put on a pretty good show. I guess we can all officially label Matt of Dance Floor Justice a “fag” now given that he now has FATA shoelaces, but I guess I can be equally labeled as a “fag” given that I was the one who paid the dollar for them. Clutch was cool, but if this tour wasn’t already a joke, I’d have been seriously contemplating what they were doing on it. It was cool to see old Andre (the huge dude who some may remember from the Asylum and the occasional Slayer show). Clutch to my knowledge is his favorite band in the whole world, and the guy was having a blast. He even gave some little kid a piggy back ride and strutted around the pit for a bit. The only band that impressed me the most before LOG went on was Unearth, and I guess the only reason was that of the million times I’ve seen them, this was one of the best. They kicked ass on stage, but the amount of crowd surfing they were able to instigate was the coolest part. Tons of kids coming over the barrier all at once in such a huge place was indeed an impressive display of the laws of physics in action.
It’s really amazes me how popular Lamb of God became in such a short time frame. Granted, they are good… damn good. I personally don’t care for their “Ashes of the Wake” album, but live the songs rip, plus their older shit is awesome anywaays. I think if I’d been in their shoes, I’d have had a very hard time balancing the good feelings of success with the bad ones of attention overload. Kids seem look up at them as if they are in-touchable rock star gods now, and as cool as that can be, it’s really weird. At the same time, here they are, able to do what they love for a living, at least while it lasts and that’s fucking awesome. Anyways, despite the awful sound, they were able to put on a great show as always, hitting six new songs, four from “Palaces…” two from “Gospel,” and instead on playing “Bloodletting” from the Burn the Priest CD, they play “Suffering Bastard.” That was pretty cool. “We haven’t played this song in six years so here it is…” Anyway…

I could go on and on about how it sucks when media corporations see artists sitting on what could potentially be a money pit and exploit it. But I guess at least this time it wasn’t something as lame as nu-metal.

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