I’m sitting here watching the clock tick tock tick tock, excited like a little girl waiting for her birthday party… I love holiday weekends. I, myself, am headed up north a couple of hours as soon as my workday is through to spend the weekend with great friends and all our dogs haha… eating ridiculously yummy bbq and watching the boys blow stuff up. I’m building my roadtrip playlist which includes music from all of the following bands listed… mostly to get my enthusiasm up to epic levels for all the new records and shows that are hitting us this summer:
**Summer Slaughter with Cephalic Carnage, The Red Chord, Decrepit Birth, Decapitated and the Faceless www.myspace.com/summerslaughter
**Warped Tour with Whitechapel www.myspace.com/whitechapel
**Mayhem Fest with Lamb of God www.lamb-of-god.com
**The Cool Tour with As I Lay Dying, BTBAM and the Acacia Strain (see below….) www.cooltour10.com
**Ozzfest….. maybe? Goatwhore, Kingdom of Sorrow and Skeletonwitch will be there… www.ozzfest.com
**The new Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza record Danza III: A Series of Unfortunate Events drops Tuesday, July 6th and track 2 from that album is the title of this edition of WhatTheFuckIsKatieBrutalUpTo - definitely pick it up, it’s pure Danza and fun as shit, I’ve been crankin it for over a month now… www.myspace.com/tonydanzatapdanceextravaganza
**Check out Super Black Object for something completely different… they remind me a bit of Mexico’s Hacavitz… dark and raw and creepy… www.myspace.com/superblackobject
**Scott Hull’s (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed) This Comp Kills Fascists II also slays…. www.myspace.com/thiscompkillsfascists
**I also pulled out The Abominable Iron Sloth again after a recent conversation… so easy to get into The Id Will Overcome… www.myspace.com/theironsloth
Plus, I just got three new tracks from the Acacia Strain (Wormwood out 7/20) which I’m currently allowing to deafen me, and I’m seeing Faith No More for the first time ever on Monday in Brooklyn at the Williamsburg Waterfront www.freewilliamsburg.com
So while I think it’s awesome that we’re observing the birthday of our country this weekend, I think it’s also worth noting that metal is still fucking kickin it too. Do yourself a favor and hit a show, buy a t-shirt, pick up an album… it’s summer. Let’s celebrate.
Yippee-Kay-Yay, motherfuckers. 