Death Metal... WTF?

I went to a metal concert at the request of Alix. Her friend, Melissa's boyfriend, Robbie is the keyboard player for one of the bands that was playing... I've heard Robbie play before, he's fairly awesome.

And I like me some metal sometimes:


But what I listened to last night could have been replaced with random noise and a drum machine. It was basically a constant deafening roar. Drop every "singer" out of each of those bands, turn the volume down to those perceivable by the human ear, turn down the bass, turn up the lead guitar and keyboard.. and maybe you'd find some music in there somewhere

But the worst part was the stupidest version of moshing I've ever seen. People flailing around their arms like windmills, kicking and punching each other, and stomping around like gorillas... which might have been scary if they weren't lanky emo teenagers. Fake anger is hysterical, but I didn't get a chance to lol because I was busy trying to make sure no one hit Alix. Did I mention they also served beer? Flailing like an idiot + beer bottles = broken bottles and bleeding morons.

I don't think I've ever seen such a quantity of unabashed human stupidity.

Alix: I'm sorry, you feel really uncomfortable here?
Me: And that's different from any other place on the planet?
Alix: ...no.

The evening started with a mentally retarded guy (i mean this in the literal sense) dressed up as Michael Jackson (a red suit with black ducktape on it and a white glove) attempting to dance to Thriller on the stage... Everything went downhill after that.


I'll leave you with this little gem.