and why are they and lacuna coil headlining over necrophagist, arsis, and alarum at the ne metalfest?

totally FAGGY.

save some cash and get a train ticket to NY if you dont want to see them play for 15 minutes and then get booted for some cockhuffing metalcore bands.

ill bump this even tho its ontop

they're a very gay band for gays to gay out to.

i was focusing more on the last line of the post

They are on the CHILDREN OF BODOM tour with CHIMERA too.

They suck massive hairy baaaaalls. I heard them once on the metal station on on demand. They suck, bad.

i'm seeing ads for them in all sorts of mags..the last one being the latest decibel that aaron got in the mail

They are super huge, have a song on Madden 2006, from England...

I have no idea about Bullet for my valentine,But I can tell ya that Lacuna Coil is headlining cause NEHMF is fucking gay and they know that more people will be there to see them than those 3 other bands combined

I'm going to NY.

why bother asking this? do you really not know the answer? necrophagist, arsis, and alarum are not nearly as accessible as bullet for my valentine and lacuna coil...they are part of a successful market right now so more people want to see them than the bands youve previously mentioned.

would you really want to see necrophagist, arsis, and alarum headlining downstairs with a thousand people watching? then youd be complaining that too many trendy kids were into them.

haha yea

People that complain about this shit will complain no matter what. That's just who they are, they love to bitch about this shit.

their name alone invokes images of violence from me to them

anonymous said:

no, anonymous toughguy, id actually love to see those bands headline and have a thousand "trandy kids" see them. why? because these kids do have brains you know, even though they dont have leather jackets and long hair.

i know a ton of "metalcore" kids who have been exposed to that kind of stuff and once they realise it exists, they want to hear more and more of it. they move on from caliban and it dies today to necrophagist, cryptopsy, beneath the massacre.

given the choice between generic metalcore #58953 and truly technical, progressive metal, 95% of the kids will go with the real stuff any day of the week.

I don't agree with 95% but yeah alot of people "trade up" to more integrity-based bands once exposed. a lot are just trend-hopping douches, though.

I've heard about this band, and based on the name alone, I don't fucking care who they are.

they've actually got a few decent maiden style riffs. but i dont agree with them headlining over necrophagist

Trendy bands like to rip off Maiden. No surprise there.

I love Necrophagist, but I have to admit that I don't know if they can headline a fest like this in the US. Or at least a fest that isn't totally marketed to death metal or technical music. I feel like word of them is still seeping out. Since headlining has to do with promotion and popularity more than how great the music is, this does not surprise me at all.

I personally love when a shitty band headlines a fest because it means I can leave before the cattle procession AND the traffic.

downside is shorter set for sweet bands....but yeah

brian_dc said:


true, but that's the downside of fests in general.

I wish Arsis would become popular enough to play to 1000s of people a night.

ugh. we'll wait and see the daily schedules then. if arsis necrophagist and alarum arent playing all on the same day, im just gonna go to the bb king's show up in NYC. itll be more expensive, but id rather see a good 40-60 minute set from those bands...i mean, how many times do you think necrophagist and alarum are gonna come to the us?

ps Joe - i hear that when arsis played for the Ballet Deviare, it was sold out, so...maybe its just a matter of time.

usually bands on tour together do play the same day....but I've learned to never be shocked by stupid shit.

I heard there might be three stages this year...

JayTUS nli said:

excellent!! pay for 30 bands, and get to realistically see 10 of them!!!