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Recap by Metal Wulf; Things felt just a little strange, especially in the early portion of the evening. Something was missing... Oh yeah, it was Josh! Yup, seems Josh is getting some things out of the way as he prepares for his departure to grad school this fall. He'll be absent on the next show as well, it seems.

Now, keeping this in mind, an early discussion centered on who was going to replace Josh and how we should go about finding this person. Joe had suggested a dunking booth with Josh as the dunkee, with the person sinking Josh being a probable replacement. Of course, being a metal show, we'd have to come up with something suitable. I suggested a SPIKED dunking booth, although I think Joe had a different kind of spiked in mind. He was thinking alcohol and I was thinking, literally, of spikes! They wouldn't have to be terribly long spikes, just enough to break a little bit of skin, and with alcohol in place of water, well, just imagine the fun sounds that Josh would make within seconds of plunging into the tank! Then, of course, the dunking tank would be filled with a combination of alcohol and Josh's blood!
Hmmmm, I could run even further with this! The person who succeeded in dunking Josh could then be thrown into the tank as his initiation into the Onslaught ranks, where he could be bathed in the unholy mixture of alcohol and Josh blood!
Any takers?
Oh, we'd also mentioned including Foul Mouth Girl in some capacity. I mean, it sounded like a good idea at first: A dunking tank, FMG in a bikini perhaps...
Then, of course, we realized that FMG would probably destroy us all for even thinking of it, so yeah, the idea kinda got scrapped...

Another topic of discussion centered on the lack of good major rock shows coming to the area as the season begins to shape up. Seriously, after that amazing show that Judas Priest and Whitesnake put on in Canandaigua last year, you'd think someone would be looking to book at least one hard rock/ heavy metal show! I think we all agreed that we'd love to see Scorpions come through, as their upcoming world tour is going to be their last before going into retirement.
C'mon promoters, Central New York needs their metal!

No sign of Jeffie on this particular night. Seems he was down with another dose of the plague...
So, no Jeffie, no Josh, and no guests scheduled to appear...Perfect chance to further focus on music, which we did! I'd have to say the most memorable tracks I heard from this show were from Triptykon's upcoming release, "Eparistera Daimones". Triptykon is the latest offering from Celtic Frost's Tom G. Warrior, and I've gotta say that this is some of the heaviest, doom-laden music I've heard in a long frickin' time. Sincerely, this stuff will rattle your bones, and I have a feeling it's going to find it's way among my personal top 10 for the year.

Surprisingly, we did have a guest drop in unexpectedly. Jay Flyer dropped by to talk about his success in gaining UWF Tag Team gold with his partner David Evans at the last event in Phelps. He also discussed the next event in Phelps, which is on March 27. He and Dave will be defending their new belts against previous champions I.B. Greene and Kage, collectively known as Degenerates Of Society, or DOS for short. Gonna be a good time!

Not much else to say about this particular night, outside of the fact that from time to time little snippets of the "Hamster Dance" would play at random moments, confusing the hell out of Joe and Rick. Wonder who was responsible for that? Heh, heh, heh...

Seriously, it's amazing what you can find just wandering around Wal-Mart...