Yeah, i’ve been weak at the updates.
So, here goes. The last one was Halloween, right?
Since then, I’ll just go day by day…
Friday night, it was a concert again in milwaukee, I wrote something up in my weekly metal report email, so I’ll just paste it here, cuz, well, why write it up twice!? Here goes:
King Diamond / Entombed / Nocturne / Single Bullet Theory was on Halloween night. Who better to spend Halloween with than the King? Great show… And a few encores. Was just really cool. Also, a band played in the bar Under Threat… I believe they are on Conquest Records… From Columbia, but living in Wisconsin now. (!) They simply crushed and I would love to see them again, a great pleasant surprise for the night.
That was a fun night, and it all ended once again at the Pinecone in Johnson Creek with some greasy breakfast!
Saturday was decent, ended up bowling with a friend, and whoa, I got a whole 103 something average over 4 games. Then it was time for some rest to make up for the Thursday and Friday of concerts.
Sunday was veg day… Cleaned up my desk area, caught up on some other things, and watched the Packer game! YES!!!!! Of course, the Packers won, and it’s about time they won up in that wretched Dome of a stadium!
Monday, back to worky poo. Kept busy with getting some computers ordered and getting ready to install a new switch for the network. It’s quite the upgrade, and also, fun to get new stuff!
Later on, it was MoshPit time! Lots of tickets to give away for shows at the Rave in Milwaukee. It is a busy time for shows! I guess a lot of bands want to get a tour in before the end of the year. Which makes sense. New releases are very slow towards the end of the year. There have been a LOT of new albums over the last few months, so I’m guessing, well, a lot of them are touring now to support those albums.. Yeah, that’s it. Record labels and trade magazines pretty much shut down the last 3 weeks of the year, so they aren’t going to release anything close to that. Even now it’s pretty slow for new releases!
Okay, so Tuesday… fun time again, got to work late, left early, I suck! Left early to go to the Rave in Milwaukee once again… I asked Dave to come with this time… and he was up for some evil music goodness. This time for a death metal concert. Normally I wouldn’t go to a show like this because out of 4 bands, only one or two will be any good. This bill, all four I’ve either seen and liked, or I like their albums! So here it goes: opening the show was As I Lay Dying… kind of a hardcore/death extreme band. Good performance, even more entertaining was the pit, because hardcore band “mosh pits” are different! The Kids flail their arms and legs around VIOLENTLY. meaning, get the hell out of the way. It’s weird. What made matters worse though, is, as these hard core kids, well, they each step into the “pit” one at a time and do their thing, almost like a gymnastics performance… but when they get doing that, then some real metal mosher dood comes in… he slams into everyone like a REAL metal pit, well, let’s just say it’s not good for business. Whew…
Okay, yeah, that band was great, how about the next one… evil Extreme metal from Poland, Behemoth. Their newest album is just sickenly heavy. They came out with corpse paint on, and some big spikey things on their legs. But, yeah, they came out and just tore up the place, fast, heavy, aggressive, probably satanic. (not that you can understand them anyways). But the drummer, almost a constant thumpathumpa on the double bass drums. Very good, very impressive. Next up was Skinless. I caught these guys at Milwaukee Metalfest this summer. Normally a “cookie monster” death metal band will just stand there and growl/play. Not this band! Full on engergy. No angry faces and pissed off looks. These guys were HAPPY to be playing death metal! And it was awesome! Very entertaining.
Lastly… Six Feet Under… Not the heaviest, most aggressive, extreme band.. more of a groove in their songs with Chris Barnes as the lead throat. He can really give the coookie monster grow!! For those who have no idea… Chris Barnes used to be in Cannibal Corpse. Cannibal Corpse was the metal band in the movie Ace Ventura! So yeah, they belted through a lot of their classics. Pretty entertaining show all in all. Not too many people there, but that was just fine!
And that whiddles down to today. I got to work a little closer to on-time, and stayed late! I installed that new switch. It’s a Dell 48 port 3048 for those of you who care. The install went fine, had to disconnect all of the cables in the server closet. I patched everything back nice and neat this time! The only snag was getting the cover off to get all the dust bunnies out!
So that leaves me with tonight. I managed to find an early copy of an album that comes out on Tuesday! 
I’m weak… had to get it…. and it RULES!!
So, that’s it for now!
