I thought I'd share because our site isn't full updated:

SICK AS SIN METAL FEST UPDATE!

The line-up for the Massachusetts fest, to take place in Lowell on Sun. March 21st, has finally been announced and inclues: Dying Fetus (Relapse Rec.), All That Remains (Prosthetic, feat. ex. Shadows Fall), Cannae (Prosthetic), Burnt By The Sun (Relapse), Sulaco (Relapse), Malignancy (United Gutteral), Beyond The Embrace (Metal Blade), Trauma Concept (indie, feat. ex. Goratory), Freya (Victory, feat. ex Earth Crisis members), On Broken Wings (Euology), Shattered Realm (Euology), Scar Culture (Century Media), & Remembering Never (Ferret). Even more great signed acts will be selected for pre-parties on March 19th & 20th. The fest is still accepting unsigned acts, as well as vendors. More info can be found at www.sinpromos.com

and yes i know it's not as interesting as the shaving your nuts post.... but i thought some might be interested

heh, nice one

SULACO ist sehr gut.

by the way, my other post about this fest was not me trying to talk shit, i just wanted to see if it was worth putting this much money into, seems like an awesome lineup and im looking forward to playing it. no hard feelings whatsoever.

Succubus - I've now made it my official resposibility to reply to you everytime.. so thank you hehe

George - don't worry about it man, no hard feelings whatsoever. There's so many people out there looking to scam bands that I can understand people's concerns when money is involved. Feel free to call me anytime if you have any questions. My # is on the site.

SinPromos said:

wooooot!!!!

and don't forget! i have a site too www.defyunlearn.com
and let me know if you want me to give any coverage to any of your bands or anything =)

hell yeah girl..us people without penises gotta stick together. ;) drop me an email - sinpromos@comcast.net

This fest looks pretty good..


but ugh, have you ever heard freya? did victory pay you to put them on? yeck.

JonahBloodbath said:

agreed, they are no earth crisis.

I am at a loss for words with that last picture...

And shut up all you haters!! I like Freya :-/

i want to know who this guy is with earth crisis on his face. i want to me him, becuase that is one of the most ballsiest things i have ever seen.

theundergroundscene said:

you also like sevendust, bitch!
maybe you and my dad can hang.

add an N

frenya

say it outloud

*giggles uncontrollably

anyone knows what that means?

yeah, I've heard de mom te.

hahahaha
i figured you would remember

complete gayness. please learn how to actually book a fest.
charge bands to play then force them to sell tickets. awesome.
your smart. get a clue. if you promoted right and could just put a band on and not make them PAY.

die.

One of my friends at school is good friends with Fetus, so I'll definitely and probably chill with the guys afterwards. It sounds like a sick line up so far.

won said:


I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. If it's not right for a band than they shouldn't take part, no hard feelings. A lot of bands have no problem with selling 30 tickets to a show like this, especially since we incorporate more than most fests do to help bands get extra promotion for themselves, other than just taking their money and giving them tickets and then running off. It should be easy for most bands to make $90-$180 in profit on tickets alone, not even counting merchandise sales, which we don't take a piece of, unlike other fests.. it's investing in your band rather than paying to play...if you know you can't at least break even it's probably not your type of deal. But don't knock the entire fest & the bands participating because it's not the right thing for you.

if your an unsigned band you should have to pay to play, or sell tix to play, becuase what if you totally suck and you bring absolutly nobody to the show for your band?the promoter could have easily have gotten a band that would make him or her money. You're probably pissed cuz you couldn't find anyone to get to buy the tickets to see youir shitty band. p.s. New Jersey metal fest makes you pay to play also, no one has said anything about that.

the OLD NJ fest did.. and that's why it sucked and I never went.
and then cosick got NJ bought out by massconcerts
hence, I went in nov.

the milwaukee metal fest still does it so all bands that are not requested to play have to pay $1000 for thier 20 minutes on whichever stage. All the shitty power metal bands that played SUCKED. milwaukee was basically a "my family collected $1000 so we are 45 years old and playing". Milwaukee was the worst turture ever.

so it can work both ways... shitty bands can raise the bread too. It's all about quality control.

bump

rev.- good point. Quality control is extremely important.. some fests just take the first bands who apply so they can get their money... we're definitely being as picky as possible.. we only have 20 spots for unsigned talent... 9 are filled already, and we've gotten about 30 press kits.. a lot are still being looked over by the panel, and we extended the deadline to allow some more bands to apply too. It's a long process filled with terrible demos and some really tight bands who aren't getting the recognition they deserve... we're trying to help out the latter.

so... bands pay $360 and get 30 tickets that they have to sell?

see, that's just the sales spin. moving the "risk" and the "sales" from the box office/promotion company to the artist. Not my favorite thing to do. I guess if SimPromo was big (like massconcerts big) and could absorb losses and had the ticket sales infrastructure, that would be one thing. but I guess since you don't have that, you need to move the rick and sales to what I call the "cut-co" concept.
Were many sellers sell to their families.

if you ask me, this is a pretty sweet opportunity for any band. i most definetly did send in a press kit for this. i would pay 360 bucks to play with burnt by the sun or dying fetus any day, even if there were 10 people there to see us. id rather pay that than 1000 bucks to play milwaukee with 100 crappy power metal bands as rev said.

thanks blue.. your band kick ass too.. extra thanks for the buttons.. my pocket book needed a new button-boost bad. I'll give you a call tommorrow to chat, or feel free to call my cell too .. #'s on the site

Fuck paying to play a show. That is foolish. Unless someone else pays for us to play we will never lower ourselves to that. I don't care who is playing. By the way Burnt by the Sun sucks.

it's not paying to play if you have 30 fans... it's investing in having a good show..

I do not mean to sound high on myself, because that is not what I mean. I am just saying if we weren't invited to play, then maybe we shouldn't be there. That is not saying that we are not good enough, but Fuck paying to play.

MarkKevorkian said:


I don't know dude..that kind of sounds like you think you're better than every band who sent a kit in for submission into the show... It's totally cool if it's not the right thing for your band, that's very understandable for many bands out there, but no need to shit on the bands who are taking advantage of an opportunity, or a single person who's busting their ass to put something together for the metal community.

I think you are you are misreading me. I understand you have money put into this. I also understand that bands want a chance. Personally I would rather be invited, and until that point I will not pay. That is a goal on my part, not an insult on yours or anyone elses. I apologize if I came off in a bad light. I think that everyone that knows me and Kevorkian's Angels will tell you that that we are not the kind of people to be disrespectful, or put down the local scene.

I hear ya... honestly, I've never seen your band..but I've heard some tracks that Joe sent me over, and def. think you're good and be more than willing to have you play if you were ever interested, now or in the future events.. I only invited one band that I can think of to play, and they haven't accepted yet. But I've gotten to see them live many times and love em, I even offered them a deal of only paying half of the ticket money upfront because I know them well enough. It's hard because I don't want to ask anyone to do the ticket thing, I guess I hope that if people who know me want on they'll give me a ring or an email, because I hate pushing the ticket thing in all honesty. As fair as I think it is, and as much as we are trying to give bands in return, I know it's just not right for some bands and I would hate to feel like I pushed it on anyone.. so anyways.. enough with these politics..this is me.. if you see me at a show say hello:

you booked them at goodtimes Megan

RAISING KUBRICK is on that fest, everyone make sure to contact Blue about buying some tickets.

Us, the_network, is playing the sick as sin pre-party march 19th? I think we sent you something. I don't know how it worked out but we're really glad to play it and will probably be going to the actual fest too. There's some pissed off bands playing there.

BoomSHAKA-LAKA!

wow Joe I must be an airhead this week. I totally forgot about that show.

it's gonna be a sick fest! i'm going and taking pics!

I think The Network should be on the mainstage. I'm sorry, but I really like those guys. Ps. sorry guys I really wanted to go to that party, but the other guys wanted to go home, and I was outvoted.

it must be all that chocolate milk you keep drinking, it's affecting your memory

that's supposed to be a "bitch beer" ..lol So it must be all the alcohol I drink instead

In other news....

From A Second Story Window (Black Market Activities) added to fest today...

The Network is playing one of the official pre-parties with Death Before Dishonor, A Life Once Lost, Gut, & more...

sweet. i love fassw.

alol AND the network? im there too.

Gut is one of the greatest bands in new england

glad you guys are digging the pre-party line-up too. Should be sick. It's only $4 admission with your sick as sin ticket.. and all bands playing the fest get in for free by picking up their laminates from me.

nice. im extra there.

BUY METAL FEST TICKETS FROM RAISING KUBRICK!!!!!!! www.raisingkubrick.cjb.net

erm....or you could buy them from aganihm.

i dont like competing with other bands, thats kinda shitty.

George said:

That's exactly why I'm not too fond of the idea. We'd all be competing to sell to the same crowd and there's only so many people to go around.

DeOdiumMortis said:

That is gospel to me. Basically all the bands around here would be trying to sell to the same people, its almost like a contest.

Every band should know about 30 people that would buy tickets, true, but then again they are probably the same people another band knows as well.

hmm well i'm on the guest list for this..so i'm not buying any tickets..but maybe people should go to their friends and family first and then bands can help each other out? like 2 buy from band A 2 from band B..i dunno..i know though, easier said than done

that's a round robin approach....
make up teams like survivor.

The band who sells the most tickets gets a nice sloppy blowjob from Rip Taylor and Bruce Villanch at the same time!

I want to set up my distro! Info please?

I will check your site.