Magic and Metal

For the record, magic is my general word for awesome. And there is nothing gay about it.

Last night I went to my first metal concert. I'm guessing it was more tame than usual, due to the tiny venue and all. I went to the Nile Theater in Mesa to see Protest the Hero, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, plus a few others that most people just groaned through. No they were actually pretty good.
I actually enjoyed the opening local band more than Tesseract, which followed them. The saddest part is I never even heard their name.
The theater was fairly empty when I first got there, I guess because most people didn't want to sit through the opening acts. By the time Maylene got on stage the crowd doubled in size. And once Protest went on, it was packed.

I was a semi-enthusiastic Maylene fan before I saw them live. Now I can watch their videos and recognize each one of them. I didn't officially "loose my shit" until Protest's frontman, Rody Walker, walked on stage. I was about a foot shorter than everyone there, and I had to ask a friend to lift me up so that I could scream my lungs out. I maintained a spot a couple feet from the stage throughout the show, and now I don't think I'll be able to see another band from any farther away.

A guy who was closer to the stage took a picture of the setlist that was taped below the mics. Luckily my favorite of their songs was included, "Limb From Limb", in fact each song included simply kicked ass.
My only complaint was that you pretty much couldn't hear Rody's voice due to how loud the instrument's were, but I watched him mouth the words from a few feet away, so it's okay.
Here's a video of them live so you can pretend you were there.



Some of my favorite shennanigans of the night:

• Rody's rant on how racist Anaheim is towards Canadians
• Tim came out on stage wearing obscenely short cut-off denim jeans. During one song someone cut off their pant-leg and threw it on stage, so Tim put it on one of his legs.
• Rody pretended to play a keyboard toward the end of Limb From Limb because they didn't have a keyboardist
• I actually hated this, but jackasses kept jumping on stage and getting pulled off by security.

I also got complimented on my tattoo. Shit was so cash. (lol yes I did just say that)
But anyway, more concerts are definitely in my future. In fact I actually hope that Protest does end up coming to Tucson so I can see them again soon.

I want more!