Metallic Onslaught Show Archive

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Recap by The Metal Wulf;
We were all still a little nervous at the very beginning of the evening, as Joe had STILL been MIA. The worry was short-lived, though, as Joe walked into the Stupid Room carrying a rolled-up newspaper, which he promptly used to beat me with, calling me bad Wulfie, and I think even at one point referring to me as a bad hoax!
Actually, I thought I'd made a pretty damned good hoax, considering how long we'd been able to keep Jeffie fooled. Oh well...
Yep, Joe had returned and WOW, was he pissed? Holy shit, I'd never seen his so furious! Not only about the circumstances that led him to depart the show for two weeks, but he wasn't too thrilled about me taking his car again in order to look for him.
Now, I could have sworn I'd left his car right in his driveway, but he said it wasn't there, and that it was my fault that he'd missed out on the Death Angel show!
Okay, I guess I'd have been bummed too if I'd missed that show, 'cuz it KICKED ASS!
More on that in a bit, though...
Anyway, Joe left the newspaper with Josh, in the interest of keeping me in line. Thankfully we were able to move on from my beatings long enough to pay tribute to departed guitar legend Gary Moore, focusing on his classic material from the 80's as well as a bit of his work with Thin Lizzy. Another sad loss, let's hope it's the last one for awhile.

So, Death Angel were AMAZING, I've gotta tell ya. It was more than worth taking our lives in our hands to attend the show, which was at Rochester's Montage Music Hall. Yeah, to say the weather absolutely SUCKED that night would be an understatement, and I think the fact that we even set foot out the door can stand as a testament to just how much we love this music. I shit you not, we risked our lives for that show!
Death Angel are one of those bands that I used to hear about back in the 80's and never really got around to embracing, although I always heard some pretty high praise for them.
Okay, I confess, I had my head up the ass of mainstream hard rock and metal for way too long back in the day, and I missed out on a LOT of great underground music. Can't dwell on what ya can't change...
Anyhoo, I left that show more or less kicking myself in the ass for not delving into their material more deeply. Their new disc is damned solid, and the new material holds up very nicely with the old, making for a very intense set list! Of course, it didn't hurt the evening at all that both Bonded By Blood and Lazarus A.D. both kicked ass. Definitely a great evening of metal, I strongly recommend ANY of these bands if they roll into your town!

Let's see, another point of interest...
 It seems that Will Polson wants to introduce us to some dude who calls himself "Shades"... Now, the only shades I know about are the ones I wear on sunny days, so I've got no bloomin' clue as to what the hell he's blabbering about, but we could be finding out pretty damned soon, from the sounds of it.
Aww, Hell, bring him on, the more the merrier, I say!

And finally, my evening on the show ended rather...ummmm...abruptly...
Azkath mentioned that maybe it wasn't a good idea to mention that he had...
Owwww...
Something about owls...
Grrrrrr...
My head hurts just thinkin' about it...
Anyhoo, apparently I started to lose it again, and of course I don't remember anything. And apparently it was left to poor Bill to get me out of the studio and deal with the situation...
Apparently he had to hit me with a tire iron just to get me calmed down...
Sigh...
Damned Azkath...