Posts tagged metal

Day: 665

Shirt: Testament - Practice What You Preach

Color: Black

Brand: no tag

Source: Testament is a funny find for me.  I think someone left a tablature book at my house once.  I looked at it and just thought fuck this…who the hell plays like this?  So then I went and picked up a copy of the cassette and started listening to it.  I really got into it surprisingly especially since most of the music I listened to was punk.  Maybe Pennywise was the fastest at the time.  Well I guess Metallica was…And Slayer.  Ok, its clear I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about, cause that was 20 years ago.  But for some reason in my mind this was some of the fastest music I had.  And it sticks out in my head very vividly as such. 

Maybe I bought an album or two after this record but for the most part I kinda fell off.  Until a few years ago when the singer somehow beat cancer and put out this record called “the Formation of Damnation.”  For some reason this record stuck to me like glue and I listened to it over and over.  I mean I know why It stuck to me, cause it was a fuckin’ great record that was recorded really well and sounded amazing.  I saw them live on that tour for the first time ever opening up for Megadeath on one of the tours where they played a record in full, but Testament blew them away I think. 

Anyways this shirt was up on eBay and this album always gave me a great memory of that tablature book and how you can really discover music anywhere at anytime.  So I will continue to wear the shit out of it for the next 20 years and who knows.  Maybe some day some kid will stare at it and think why is that old guy rocking an even older Testament shirt and go listen for himself. 

Day: 662

Shirt: Slayer - Root Of All Evil  

Color: black

Brand: gilden

Source: this was supposed to be my shirt for day #666. 

Unorturnaltly the Beast came and took Jeff too early.  you will be very missed and always remembered.  Rest In Peace good sir.

Photos below of my Day / Show i did with Slayer.  it was an epic day.  speaking of Day all photos by ©Day19 Jeremy Weiss  go follow him on tumblr

Day: 645

Shirt: Ghost - Year Zero / Haze Over North American Tour 2013

Color: Black

Brand: Hanes

Source: Today marks the date of Ghost’s 2nd album Infestissumam!  If you wanna buy it, but it directly from the band here and get some good packages.  I superb follow up to 2010’s Opus Eponymous.  I can’t say enough about this band in a world where there ate 10 billion new records every year.  every band looks and sounds the same and are’t very derivative of each other.  

Ghost makes it presence known adds some Entertainment  to the already entertaining show.  putting forth the effort that i think gets lost along the way when people are making record in their house.  the idea of Rock and Roll Legendry that seems to be the way of the past.  Some haters will call it a shtick others will call it some next level shit.  give me something to look at, watch, think about and daydream about.  i love the mystery.  look at Daft Punk.  15 years later no one still knows them and what they look like. no one thinks twice about them being in robot costumes.  

And It Is not like the music is sub par either, its great…its dramatic, operatic , its like watching a soundtrack or a score with lyrics. with all the garbage in the world  that gets made into a broadway play, this is the only one i would go to.  a real dark metal play.  i would fucking eat that up with a knife and fork.  think about it.  smoke, giant set. shit flying across the sky.  i mean for all intents and purposes we are watching that now but on a smaller scale.  i feel like I’m on to something.  GHOST contact me and ill put this together :).  

Anyways… crazy ranting aside from me you still have one more chance to see them at Coachell anext weekend..but why?  they have them play at 1PM in the sun. Fuck that whats the point.  this show should never see the light of day.

My suggestion is go see them at one of their club dates that will come to one of these cities soon.  buy tickets now before they sell out, see for yourself.  and don’t blow the opportunity to see them in some reasonable venue before they are doing what ever giant arena venue you know they will end up doing in 2-3 years.  Im looking at you guys in Denver, SF, Portland, Seattle, New York..

Day: 636

Shirt: Ghost - Secular Haze

Color: Black

Brand: Fruit Of The Loom Classic Valueweight

Source: In some small miracle, perhaps a dark one, Ghost made it all the way up until today without leaking.  yeah it comes out in 2 days…but nowadays that next to impossible. however they did it is amazing.  perhaps it is a testament to the Metal community.  maybe no one cared except me?  who knows.  its out.  thats all that matters.  Tues you can buy the album, then enxt monday i get to see them at the El Rey in Los Angeles.   If you are going to either Coachella’s you can witness them there too but i cant imagine it will be nearly as good. especially if they have to play during the day.  

I hope you are not sick of Ghost shirts cause after my Pre-Order comes and they play there will be many more.  

Day: 625

Shirt: Mercyful Fate - Don’t Break The Oath

Color: Yellow

Brand: Gilden

Source: It must be the skateboarder in me.  Something that i just cant get over how much i enjoy falsetto metal and guitar riffs.  it really is music to my ears.  My only regret is not being cool enough at age 10 to go see Mercyful fate on this tour.  Regrets yes i know we have all had a few, but this is on the top. 

Now I have Ghost…or Ghost B.C. but i pledge to go see them  every time i can humanly possibly make it.  why?  so when my punk ass kid is listening to Ghost and telling me he wishes he could have seen this show when he was 10 i will say, Bitch! i did.  10 times.  and it ruled every time.  now go out side and go play on your hover board and robotic dog!  i’m going to turn out the lights and burn some sage and get in the ZONE.  Don’t Break the oath…then Opus Eponymous.

Learn IT.  Live It.  

PS: no this isn’t an OG shirt.  it was a later reprint..  But Even a reprint of a Mercyful Fate shirt is still better than any vintage shirt, with the exception of a vintage Mercyful Fate shirt, but that goes without saying.

Day: 621 B

Shirt: Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Color: Black

Brand: Hanes

Source: that Yuck shirt i was wearing yesterday sharnk up and it was driving me crazy.  it felt like a half shirt.  so i changed mid day.  forgot to post this.  

Day: 598

Shirt: Danzig - Il Demonio Nera / Blackest Of the Black Tour 2005

Color: Black

Brand: [torn out]

Source: If there is one thing in this world you can count on..its not counting on people.  

Danzig would be highest on my list of things never to count on.  right up there with counting on Morrissey to play Kimmel.  

Danzig on this “Blackest of Black” tour brought back Doyle to play with him and some sort of Misfits type reunion, but not really.  i went to this show out of curiosity..got there bout a shirt then when in to see the show and for some reason it just seemed to fall flat.  maybe it was the too big of venue, or the crowd that attends the show.  i know for certain part of it was a horrible sounding soundsystem/soundguy it hit me like a ton a bricks..

I honestly dont know what i am complaining about here to be honest the show wasn’t that bad, i think i just had higher expectations for it than perhaps Danzig did at the time.  this era seemed to be a lower point for him in some ways.  records were not selling tours not doing so good, and frankly his music was not the caliber that it can be.  it really wasn’t until round 2010 where he kicked it back into gear and started making really good songs again.