place: Tinker Field

year: 2006

shirt worn: Evergreen Terrace

type of show: official

bands:

AS I LAY DYING

IN FLAMES

TRIVIUM

CANNIBAL CORPSE

GWAR

TERROR

TheBlacK DahLiaMurdeR

behemoth

THE CHARIOT

CONVERGE

Evergreen Terrace

HORSE the band

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD

went with: Brian Hessian

show was: very similar to last year's

entry:

It was during the first summer after twelfth grade. Time was closing in once again as me and Brian were struggeling to find a ride. Finally, a strange twist of fate took place in our favor......sort of. Brian's aunt had a stroke. So, his mom did need the van for a week cause she was in Gainesville. So, basically, Brian gets the van. So, on 7/19/2006, we board the mom-mobile and head to Orlando. I plug the iFinch in and it's all good for the rest of the way. We stopped at a rest stop and ate BURGER KING, just like last time. When we finally get to the Tinker Field, we go in. We run into Dan Asfor and Andrew. Then we run into Josh, Nicole, & Zakk. Then we run into Michelle Jordan and her boyfriend. We all watch THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD. They kicked ass. Not a bad way to start off the day with a battle field of dancing hardcore kids....during music that heavily resembles death metal. After that me and Brian watched HORSE the band. I love those guys. They are just as funny as i thought they'd be between songs. People would be cheering and the singer would be like "Shut up! I didn't come to listen to you guys, I came to play!" At another point he was like "This next song is called Reign In Blood" and everyone started cheering and he was like "I'm just kidding......it's called "Seasons of the Abyss" and everyone started cheering again and he was like "I'm kidding again." At another point their keyboardist was like "You guys are worst show so far on the tour. You have no muscle," and the singer was like "Eric, go stand out there. You know what, that means all of you get to fight him later. But, I'll  warn you. He'll lay every one of you out. Look at him. He's like the next Bruce Lee, except he's Czechoslovakian." For, the record, Eric looks just like Napolean Dynomite. So, Evergreen Terrace hit the stage next. They were fucking awesome. They didn't play any songs form LOOSING ALL HOPE WAS FREEDOM though. There was nice big pit for their whole set. Everyone was chanting during No, Donnie. That was cool. After they were through, I ran into Lance, one of the memebers of the new line up of the band I got kicked out of, which is now called Vanquish the Weak, which I am now going to manage. CONVERGE didn't play our date. bastards. So, I sat up in the stands with the whole band, minus their singer. I sat there with them during THE CHARIOT. I like them but they were boring as hell live. Next was one of my main reasons for coming......behemoth. So, I had to go back up to the stage in the crowd to watch the evil unfold. It's funny cause it was a Christian band followed by a Satanic one. behemoth was so fucking awesome. They tore that shit up. Nergal had a funny Polish accent when he talked between songs. They were all wearing ridiculous spiked armor and corpse paint. Oh God, they were so fucking awesome though. Followed by the Polish death metal act, was an American death metal act, TheBlacK DahLiaMurdeR. They were really bad ass. After that TERROR ripped that shit up. Their whole set was just nothing but tough guys and skin heads dancing and beating the shit out of each other in the pit. It was fucking awesome. So, me and the guys from Vanquish the Weak and their other friend Travis just chilled in the grass and watched the horrible band GWAR because their set is always entertaining. They had all the space dinosaur shit on stage again. They had all the guys in loin clothes on stage again. First a pig cop came out on stage and he was like "Alright, you guys can all go home now. SOUNDS of the UNDERGROUND has be terminated," and then GWAR came out in their cheesy alien monster costumes and shoved a spear up his ass. They had the guns that sprayed blue gew all over everyone. They had the Nazi Pope come out on stage and battle them and get chopped up have his blood spray over everyone. They had some guy come out on stage strapped to a board. The singer introduced this fake non-convincing person as the leader of the official Orlando GWAR fan club who has chosen to sacrifice his life for GWAR. So, they chop him up and rip him and his blood sprays all over the crowd and they grab his dick and sprays green gew fluid all over everyone. After that, the singer was like "It is a tradition that we always kill the fucking president." and then George Bush came out on stage and they chopped him up sprayed his blood on everyone. During their last song they had a giant T-Rex named Gor Gor come out stage and then battled it and blah blah blah. Next was another one of my main resons for showing up....CANNIBAL CORPSE. They were awesome. I was upset that no one was moving at all. This is like the most extreme band on the tour and no one is fucking movieng. So, finally when George Corpsegrinder says "This is our last song. I want this place to fucking open up and let's move. It's called HAMMER SMASH FACE!" and then the biggest most deadliest most necro pit I've seen all day opened up and all hell broke loose. It was so fucking amazing, and then he goes "When I said that was our last song, I FUCKING LIED! This one's STRIPPED RAPED AND STRANGLED!" and so the carnage continued. TRIVIUM got on next. It was very weird seeing them being one of the headliners of this not so underground tour, and remembering when they were a local band. I don't like how Matt Heffy changed his voice. Well, Orlando's finest home town heroes won the biggest circle pit of the day. One really cool thing is they covered METALLICA's MASTER OF PUPPETS. After they finished, IN FLAMES got on to rock this shit. They were really good. They had random colered lights behind them. I love them. Night didn't even fall till they finished. So, only one band gets to play at night. Now out of the four times I've seen AS I LAY DYING, this was most definitely the best. They did great, absolutely wonderful. One thing I've noticed is that they always mix around their set. It's always a way different order except for the fact that they always play Forever last. They had the singer of THE CHARIOT (and the old singer of Norma Jean to some of you) sing on stage with them during the next to last song. Don't quite remember what it was. On the way home, we stopped at Checkers. Of course I had to get a Mountain Dew on the way home too. Chris Golding called Brian's phone to tell me that he's getting flyers made for my birthday party. In case you don't know, My birthday is 8/8, but we're celebrating on 8/11 at Chris Golding's house, starting at seven at night, and ending whenever the next morning. You have to come dressed as a ninja or a pirate. Chris was also calling to tell me that Boredom Induced will be there. Um, so, yah. Be there, or be dead. And for the record, there never has and never will be anything underground about the SOUNDS of the UNDERGROUND tour.