Happy Fuckin' Easter

Once again, it's been a loooooooooong time since I last posted out here. Sorry about that folks! (As if anyone even reads this. Haha) Anyway, I had to make this post because I'm back from my li'l hiatus from metal again :-)

On April 16th 2009, I went for a concert. A 5-hour, 5-band metal concert! Fuck yea! The concert was part of Lamb of God's No Fear Music Tour. The featured bands were:

1. Lamb of God (obviously!)
2. Children of Bodom
3. As I Lay Dying
4. Municipal Waste
5. God Forbid

I had floor tickets for the concert. This means that I could be right under the bands' noses (and I practically was). Personally, I believe it's no use going to a metal concert if you have to stand in the "seating area". It just doesn't feel right!!

Anyway, since I had work till 5pm on that day and the doors were gonna open at 6pm, I managed to reach the concert only by 6:30pm, and so I missed God Forbid :-( But, I was right in front of the stage!! I was soooooo happy!! I stood right below the MASSIVE speakers! :-D Municipal Waste lived upto their name i.e. they sucked!! But As I Lay Dying was pretty AWESOME!! When Children of Bodom got on stage, I was just 10 feet away from Alexi Liaho at times. It was so fuckin' good!! You know the music is real fuckin' loud when the guitars for a song start feeling like they're coming from your head instead of the speakers!! When Lamb of God got on stage, you won't believe how the place erupted!! Every song was fuckin' AWESOME! It felt soooo good!! I had a silly smile on my face :-) I felt like this was it. The best day I've had yet.

Since I landed in Toronto, these are the artists I've seen live:

1. Eddie Vedder
2. Bryan Adams
3. In Flames, All that Remains, Gojira, 36 CrazyFists
4. The Australian Pink Floyd Show
   
5. Cradle of Filth, SepticFlesh, Satyricon
6. The Prodigy
7. Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, As I Lay Dying, Municipal Waste, God Forbid

Out of all these concerts, I thought Prodigy was the loudest as I was in The Pit for that. But the Lamb of God concert just raped The Prodigy repeatedly, killed it and then raped it again! It was soo fuckin' loud!! I could hear the Double Bass drum pound in my chest like it was gonna rip my heart out. I could feel the guitars in my head. I could hear the lead singer scream right in my face. It was insane! When I got outta the concert, my right ear was totally blown coz I was standing next to the speakers and looking left to see the stage i.e. my right ear was facing the speakers throughout. When I put my iPod in my ears and tried listening to Cradle of Filth on full volume, it felt like it was on 30% volume or something. I got home and tried talking to the building concierge and I felt like he was talking to me from across the lobby or something. I got home and went to sleep, texting a friend about how much louder this concert was compared to The Prodigy concer we went to and how great it made me feel. When she sent me a reply, I had the fone next to my right ear and felt like my fone was kept 20 feet away from me. I woke up in the morning, with the alarm on my cellfone sounding like it was still 20 feet away from me. On my way to work, I couldn't hear most of the people talking around me. It got worse at work coz I couldn't hear a thing all day. Only in the evening did I manage to start hearing better. I'm ok now. Though the whole concert gave me such a bad ear problem, I loved every bit of it. :-) It made me feel good, it made me feel alive, it made me feel invincible!!

During the concert (and like all other metal concerts I've been to), I realized once again that metal really is my religion. As a matter of fact, metal is my REAL fuckin' religion!! And this concert was my way of celebrating Easter. Just like Easter is celebrated to acknowledge the resurrection of Jesus, this was my way of celebrating the resurrection of metal. One of the things that the LoG lead singer talked about was how there was a time when Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax had played in the 80s or 90s once and sadly said "Metal is dead now". Then the LoG singer said, "Toronto! You prove to the world that metal is not dead yet. It's coming back! Thank you!" And I believe he was quite right! Metal IS making a comeback. (How else do you explain LoG's latest album debuting at No. 2 in US Billboard and No. 1 in Canada?)

So yea, Fuck you hip-hoppers and rappers! Time to pull up your underwears as high as you can, coz metal is coming back like fuckin' hell and it's gonna make you shit your pants pretty soon!

Fuck yea!! Metal forever!! \m/