Review Of Earthday Birthday 19

Needless to say, EDBD 19 was amazing.  I had shitloads of fun for 14 straight hours with no breaks.  Nothing better than wandering and seeing naked females with nothing but body paint on walking around.  The set up was pretty dope.  There were 3 different stages, The "big stage", the second stage, and the acoustic stage.  Amazing musicianship was all around this past Saturday man.  Bands such as Trivium, Halestorm, Evans Blue, INC, Soil, Theory Of A Dead Man, and many others were there.  Of course Chevelle, Staind, and Godsmack performed as well ;).  For those who were dying to see Godsmack go on, like me, pretty much waited all day and night, since they were the last performance.  I got a little buzz on, on some jager bombs and what not, and even crowd surfed during their performance.  Sully's drum duo with Joe is always amazing.  Even my buddies/recruiters of the United States Marine Corps were there as well.  Events like these should happen every damn weekend!

Helvetios

I finally was able to listen to Eluveitie's new album Helvetios that came out back in February, and I love it!  It's pretty much what I expected as well, a kick ass album.  I have never known Eluveitie to release garbage, and they have NOT started now.  For those that never have heard of them, Eluveitie (pronounced el-vey-ti) is a folk metal band from Switzerland.  Their sound can be described as Celtic Folk Metal with Melodic Death Metal influences.  The band formed in 2002 and their first EP, Vên came out in 2003.

One of Eluveitie's two largest draws is their liberal, virtuosic use of traditional instruments amidst guitars and Chrigel's wide ranging, emotional screams.  The other is their lyrics; instead of any of the languages currently spoken in their home country, the screams, clean vocals, and occasional spoken word parts are often in the extinct language Gaulish.  Eluveitie is Etruscan for "the Helvetian", referring to an inscription dating to the earliest record of the Celtic Helvetii tribe from what is now Switzerland.

Here's one track that automatically loved from their new album entitled "A Rose For Epona"..  And yes, there are females in this band.

Again, for those who have never heard of Eluveitie until now, here's some of their other kick ass songs.

A Fucking Steal!

So, realizing that I never found my Cowboys From Hell CD, I recently bought myself another copy off of eBay for $1.37, along with Machine Head's Unto the Locust album for free.  That is a goddamn steal!!  Now, I haven't been this excited in quite some time, because these are 2 kick ass albums, especially when one of them is from Pantera.  Cowboys From Hell is one my favorite albums of all time, and tracks like "Cemetery Gates", "Message In Blood" the song "Cowboys From Hell", and most importantly, this one.. are the reason why.

"Domination" just gets me fucking amp'd.  From Vinnie Paul's double kick, to Dimebag's solo, and Phil's brutal vocals, I can picture my self kickin' somebody's teeth in while this song is in play.  All in all, amazing song, amazing album.

Tomorrow's Worldwide Events

Happy Opening Day for all the MLB fans out there!  My goddamn Red Sox lost to Detroit 3-2, so I'm kind of pissed.  Anyway, check out the list below of tomorrow's worldwide events!

Scorpions do work in Rennes, France at the Le MusikHal. 

Accept will be rockin' in Paris, France at Bataclan.

Mastodon is gonna fuck shit up in Montreal, Canada at the Metropolis.

Gwar is gonna jam in San Francisco, California at The Regency Ballroom.

I would love to attend all these shows, especially the Scorpions and Mastodon events, but unfortunately, it just won't be possible.  For all those that will be attendance, fuggin' enjoy it man!  Last time I found out about a Mastodon event I used this link http://www.livestream.com/mastodonn to view a live stream of their show.  Hopefully it still works, because I definitely will be part of the live streaming audience. 

Does anyone remember this?  This is the first song I ever heard by Gwar.  They must have a great live show.  This shit's entertaining son.

Earthday Birthday 2012 Orlando, FL

For all the Metal heads and Hard Rock fiends in the Central Florida area(hell, anywhere really!),  if you are still completely unaware, Godsmack, Staind, Chevelle, and much more will be jammin' at Tinker Field in downtown Orlando on the 14th of April.  I got my tickets back in February, so I'm set, but if you don't have your goddamn tickets yet, then you need to get your act together!  Don't miss an exciting lineup of bands at this year's Earthday Birthday! You will be rockin' out during the entire event, so make sure to tell your friends and family members to look on StubHub or Ticket Master and get those tickets before it's too late!


Let's take a quick flashback into last year's event..

A Quite Vulgar Display Of Power

Ay! I'm ready to kick your ass!  You ready to kick mine?!?!..  I fucking thought so.  Ok, well I set up this little blog here, it's kind of shitty looking, but with time, it'll progress.  So, as you, the viewer, may have already observed, the main topic and inspiration for this blog are the amazing music genres of Metal & Hard Rock.  Everything else in between are also included, free of charge.

It's a known fact that this little laughable blog I got here, is not the first to be based upon the incredible culture of Metal & Hard Rock.  There must be thousands of blogs and sites that are doing the same goddamn thing, so I'm not going to preach about how this will be "different".  Hell, we've even got "That Metal Show" on Vh1 Classic to give us that visual experience of what a blog basically is, and even they have their own website blog.  So why make a blog then?  Because.  I am such a huge music fanatic that I almost felt compelled to make such a career move.  So, in the words of a 1983 James Hetfield, "METAL UP YOUR ASS!!"