Hey everybody,

I'm french, currently live in France but I plan to stay in Mass. for 3 months at the beginning of next year (hopefully coming in January) and eventually live there (ideally in West Springfield or Springfield). So if anybody knows of a cool place to stay, would like to be a sort of "guide" when I'm there or anything, please let me know.
I have a band called Blended Sky (formerly stoner metal/now groove thrash metal), I sing, compose, play some guitar and drums. I also have some compositions that I could use for other projects, these range from doom to death and black metal. Other than that, I'm the writer of a surrealistic humorous book and screenplays. If you have any questions, go ahead.
Thanks in advance.

Jack/Julien

youll have much better luck in the boston area massachusetts being a metalhead, just a little tip there.

I was going to say that too blue. springfield is more metalcore/hardcore. worcester I moe big-name metal and boston has WAY more small shows.

I imagine there are some very very local things going on over there, but I have never heard of it. If you are determined on Western, Mass...you might have better luck looking into the Amherst/Northampton area.

Thanks for the tips, guys but I have a very good reason to go to West Springfield

uh oh...you'll be back in France six months from now...

What do you mean, Pires ?

paczki day?

he means you gonna get your heart BROKEN

No, paczki day is my second reason

Nah, nobody will break my metal heart

French whores and their crazy armpit hair.

That's a cliché, man, the only woman I ever saw with huge armpit hair was Julia Roberts. And that Kristina's certainly not french.

I know, i was lazy and grabbed the first bitch on google with the rat's under her arms.

I hear about a lot of western mass shows. they are all hardcore/metalcore based

Let's bring metal to Western Mass then

french whores are delicious.

I see french whores have an international reputation, do you have many there or do you take euro trips ?

not many bartenders seem to know how to make them.

Is it because you want your car to get stolen?

It's not that easy to graduate in french whores

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Is it because you want your car to get stolen?

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Who's stealing cars there, guys from Greenpeace ?

Clearly you've never been to Springfield, MA....

Have been there a few times recently. That area is down on its luck. The only things that are doing ok are abandoned buildings and liquor stores.

Liquor stores... That's a start.

ha!

That should be Rick Oz : living in Springfield.

Dude, bring your band here and have them play here!

thy french legions are gaining strength here... LES RESISTANCE!

Bring LLN or GTFO, Frenchy!

PS Nigger!!!!

WARNING FRENCHIE!

This board's sense of humor is pretty brutal, so take nothing 100% serious or personal.

Also Josh Staples will be your new friend. Whether you like it or not!

Il y a beaucoup de merde dans Springfield.

This chick's pussy must be lined with chocolate and fairy magic.

wrong, unlike girls, guys actually like the opposite sex's sexual organs and what comes from them. she probably just gives 2 handed blowjorbs and if you liked in france and had a chance to move to the usa, wouldn't you? get this man some freedom fries.

Thank Satan I have a solid sense of humor and unfortunately I expect anti-french comments, serious or not. Well, c'est la vie, isn't it. I'll come anyway, whether I bring the LLN or not.

you will hopefully end up at an obreins pub show. they are the best!

Ok. I always trust a reverend

Who's Josh Staples ?

Dude, don't move to Massachussetts unless you want to be the laughing stock of the rest of the U.S.

How come ?

He's just jealous that we run the country.

It's funny because in France, it's portuguese girls who have the reputation of being hairy. This one looks iberian. But whatever, I'm curious to hear the clichés about the French so bring it on.

Hoser lives in Maine so he has a government more taxing and more liberal than Mass, but they like to say they are not and that Mass is a shithole.
Mass income tax = 5%
Maine income tax = 8.5%
Mass sales tax = 5%
Maine sales tax = 5%

Oh, I see. Well, it's Stephen King's fault if Maine's that way.

northern maine has a lot of quebecois and acadian hockey frenchies

I don't play hockey but I can play soccer. I heard there was an indoor soccer team in West Springfield, anyone knows about it ?

soccer? who plays that?

Just a few millions of people. An urban legend says it's the most popular sport in the world.

Haha, it's true. Portuguese women are so hairy. I should know; the female members of my family are all Portuguese. They have better facial hair than I ever will.

SkinSandwich is gonna ask you if you checked their armpits (if he doesn't go further than that)

Maine also has the Lewiston MAINEiacs of the QHMMJMLHJHL

No, I was going to thank you for the statue of liberty and all, but you can have it back. She really is an eyesore.

malcolm jamal warner?

Ok, I'll bring the statue of liberty back if you want, I'll sell it to the Chinese. Anything else you wanna get rid of ?

Well, if you are going to sell it to the Chinese you have to redo the eyes. You can take soon ex-president Bush with you. Show him the ways of the Frenchies.

Springfield, MA

I make fun of the USA just as much, so don't sweat it.

That necklace is a front. she wants to get rimmed awe day eerday.

Yeah, maybe you're not serious but some are. Making the french pussies since before Jesus because a french "government" saw an interest in letting the germans in in 1940 is ridiculous. France has won wars against about every country in Europe including Russia, Germany, England and not so long ago either, in terms of History.

HA! I knew it would not take long to get your goat.

Mission accomplished, SkinSandwich. A Bush would have let the germans in too.

not unless they were friends with his daddy.
I guess america forgets napoleon so quickly.

They were friends with grand-daddy. Some people seem to not even have heard of Napoleon or maybe they think he was some prehistoric dude who just killed a couple dinosaurs 6000 years ago.

I have no problem with France, only meat-head-my-dick-is-bigger American stereotypical morons do.

Sign me up for your excellent health care, clean cities, and yummy food any day.

Yeah, he was a little tea pot short and stout. He invaded Russia, and failed. Seems to happen to any nation that tries that.

Hitler didn't pay attention in history class.

There will always be people who have a problem with France or any other country even if they'd never be able to give you a good reason but what can you do.

And yes, Russia has the advantage of the weather. They could have lost againt Germany too if the German soldiers who stooped to take a crap didn't remain stuck frozen to the ground.

Ha, shitcicles. Hitler smelled like brauts and catfood.

They brought the leftovers back to Hitler in his bunker so he could enjoy his own happy meal : brauts, shitcicles and ass smoothies.

Amazing. Someone who lives in a non-English speaking country can speak English fluently and the Mexican guy I've been working with has lived in this country for the past couple years and even another 6 year stint before that and can barely string a sentence together in English.

I think French guy is going to fit in just fine around here.

They teach kids to be bilingual in France...you know, that education concept that makes people on this board shit their pants and start screaming about THIS IS AMURIKA, SPEAK AMURIKAN, TAKIN OUR JOBS, etc.

Yeah, no shit. I wish they did that here. Do you know how much easier it would be to teach people English if you could speak their language?

Although, I heard that french people are among the worse in Europe when it comes to speaking another language. They're working on that right now apparently. For example, instead of having movies in the original version and subtitled, most movies are dubbed and I don't see the point in that except for the few times it's so lame it's funny.
And we also, like you, have the people who come from other countries and who don't speak French after several years. The problem is that some won't even try and they don't give a shit.
As to me, I speak english on a regular basis so that helps.

That's what I think is the case with the guy I mentioned before.

And it's hard to be tolerant with such people. I really don't see myself coming to the US and not being able to string a sentence together. People would throw freedom fries at me and they'd be right.

That's comforting. I sucked at French hardcore. I don't even know how I passed.

Your English is already awesome, you have nothing to worry about dude.

You can be comforted about that, Pam, some french people are incredibly lame at english even after years of school. And personally, I think learning French is harder than learning English.
Thanks for your comment, Lamp, always nice to hear

Yes, they do. I remember when I was in high school, some foreign exchange students arrived from France, and they spoke fluent English while I was only in French II. When they told us that they started learning foreign languages in elementary school, everyone in my class wondered why they didn't do that in America.

Developmental psychologists discovered a long time ago that there is a critical period in brain development around adolescence where, after puberty, it's much harder to learn another language. Our schools are crappy.

Second that and even now a days the school systems are shit and don't do anything to help, unless you find a good school system! Brought to you by a child of a college professor and special ed teacher! Wake up america..everyone else is smarter, but we have missiles!

is it trew that in france, if you lose a fight to a midget, you become one yourself.?

It is! Who the fuck has male and female words? Your language is a sexist jerk.

pam, don't worry, they lost world cup becaus theuy are no good at football and uA beat them twice.

Pam, that's only sexist if you wanna look at it that way. German is worse, having a third form for things and giving it to the word girl for example. How's that ?

Niccolai : Fight ? In France ? Never heard of fighting, sorry.

aren't all french guys queers

Only the gay ones are

I wish!

in school, I took 3 years of german and 9 years of spanish. can't speak a word of either until AFTER I walk away from someone that I could speak with.

I took 5 years of German and Ich spreche nicht Deutsch.

wouldn't that be kein?

Could very well be.

Qui parle français ici alors ?

sitzpinkel

Who's a sitzpinkler ?

Je parle francais. J'ai apprendu francais a l'ecole quand j'ai habite a Vermont. J'ai oublie tellement!

Oh, I understand that, we forget so much of what we "learn" at school. What's the most common second language to choose at school in the US ?

Probably Spanish... There are a lot of people who speak Spanish in this country.

I can still understand/speak French well enough to get by. If I lived in a French-speaking country, I would probably be fluent pretty quickly. My brain is good with languages. If I hear someone speaking French for a few minutes, I start thinking in French.

Where I grew up was about an hour south of the Canadian border, so we had TV stations in French. The town I lived in when I was a little kid was full of old French-Canadians who moved there to work in the mills in the 1920s. Quebecois French is different, though. If I talk to people from rural parts of Quebec, I have no idea what they're saying half the time.

Quebecois French can be weird even for a French hehe. In addition to their accent, they are really hardcore when it comes to the French language. They refuse anglicisms, they'd sometimes rather use a word they coined and that sounds stupid than an english word anybody would understand.

When you look into the abyss of the post, the abyss also looks into you.

Bonjour mon ami! J'ouer avec Neuraxis du Montreal. Je me appelle Josh Staples.
You are now a member of Les Resistance. C'est pour le sang francais. Other than Quebec, this is the best reason for an American Metalhead to honor our heritage. Je veux plus parle avec toi, mon francais mal.

Salut Josh, your name was mentioned in a previous post. Tu es de Montreal aussi ? On peut parler ensemble si tu veux, pas de problèmes. Tell me more about Les Resistance.

No members of the Church of the Subgenius on there ?

What part of France you from? North / northeast? One of my band's older release was out on a French label from Lille, France. Always wanted to check that place out

I'm from the center. What was the label, Listenable ? What was your band ?

Eisiger-Mond Productions. Smaller label, although I think it's growing. The release was for Infernecron.

http://www.eisigermond-productions.fr/

I have to say I had never heard of them before. How did it go with them ?

went well, although we were one of the first 'releases' on it. we've got decent underground exposure in france / belgium area because of it. I mean, it wasn't a real release.. just a demo. he offered to do it and I was completely satisfied with the outcome

Ever got gig offers from that area or Europe in general ?

that band doesn't do shows. just me and one other person.
It would be sweet if we could do live stuff though; maybe somepoint soon I will get some other people to fill in.

You're using a drum machine, right ? Where are you located ?

Springfield. No, just kidding.. actually I'm near Cape Cod.
For the demos yes. I think in 2009 I will be composing an actual release for it, but this time with real drums. I'm not too sure about pulling it off live just yet. I've got a live band right now.

There's a lot of kidding going on about Springfield.
Anyway, good luck on finding a drummer, it's never easy to find the right person.

I like that song from your website. You have a good production too, a real drum could really enhance the whole. Do you dig bands like Shining or Forgotten Tomb ?

yes, sir.

Are there some french bands you like ?

I think the question should be are there any French bands I DON'T like. I think France has one of the best scenes in Europe. I like everything from the les legions noires (black legion) bands to Alcest, to Gojira, Ad Hominem and beyond. I know there's people on this board that would agree with me

Oh, that's great to hear because in France, we have a tendency to think that Gojira is about the only french band that's somewhat successful in the US.
There is one band that I strongly recommend, it's SUP (though their 2 most recent albums are less inspired that in the past imo), it's really unique. Do you know them ?
Other than that, Seth, Belenos, Mystic Forest, Carnival in Coal, Ellipsis...

Actually haven't checked out SUP.
Seth and Mystic Forest are awesome too. Haven't heard Carnival in Coal?

Another one I like is Celestia. They were apparently looking to play a show over here but I think it fell through.

http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/108720
This is a whole album by Supuration (the alter ego of Sup), their first name when they started as a death metal act before evolving to a more personal cold music. The other album on this site (9092) is a compilation of their first demos.
So you can try both and you'll see the difference. I recommend this band to anyone who wants to hear something really original.

If you and other people keep taking an interest in the French scene, maybe more bands will come to play there. Gojira's tours might help.
http://www.deezer.com/#music/album/46802
Here's a link to a Carnival in Coal album, original too but way crazier (a look at the name of the tracks might be a clue)

LES RESISTANCE exists whenever anyone who is at least 25% French hangs out with another fellow French. We serve no purpose other than just being awesome, beautiful, and better than just about everyone who's in the same room as us. We casually speak random french (to the best of our ability) and usually just talk about how awesome it is to be French. We are French Pride in America!

Come guys you're forgetting the important ones!

ANTAEUS
MUTIILATION
PESTE NOIR
SEVISS
SEIGNEUR VOLAND
POGROM
MASSACRA
MALICIOUS SECRETS
DARVULIA
AMESOEURS
VLAD TEPES

awesome, thanks.
I would love to see more French/Euro bands coming here to play smaller-medium shows.

aw come on, BSV, I mentioned les legiones noires bands! Good ones in your list, though.

Specifics!!!

Are there many of you awesome RESISTANTS out there ?
Arilius cited les légions noires, I thought about Amesoeurs, a shame they split after just one mcd. Massacra's very good too, I see you're very much into the extreme metal scene, BSV.
@Arilius : I think it's doable with some contacts. I'd like to be a link once I get to Mass.

Unless you are Anne, stay home. Frogs Raus!!!
Shouldn't you be surrendering to someone right now?

You don't mess with LES RESISTANCE

Anne who ?
If you use your brain instead of letting it be zombified by propaganda, you know WWII is not representative of French history and there was something called the Resistance.

anne was a french metal head that lived in providence and ran the armegeddon shop. she put on a lot of shows there too. then she moved to finland or sweden or something and nobody has her from her since. wellexcept some baby pictures.

So she was ok cause she had a pussy, that's it ?

I must say that one of my favorite French (non-metal) musicians is Jean-Luc Ponty. Not sure if you know him or not.

Anne was from Thionville, after Providence she moved to Montreal-fell in love and now lives in Norway, she rules.

Amesoeurs is a must for anybody remotely interested in Alcest.

Favorite non metal Francais,
Vannessa Paradis
Edith Piaf
Pink Martini
Jacques Brel
Juliette Greco
Carla Bruni
Allain Leprest

About a dozen I see regularly. More than a few are total babes : )

I'm not familiar with Jean-Luc Ponty, have to check that out.
BSV : Yes, I prefer Amesoeurs to the first lady of France hehe.
Now, I'm curious about one thing, please enlighten me : have the French always been synonymous with surrendering ? Because I have the impression it really started after a french guy dared to say there were no evidence of WMD in Iraq (what cockyness)

I have my own babe, BSV, thanks. That makes more for you, petit coquin ;)

Wrong. WW1. WW2.

France has not lost WWI. France has not surrendered in WWII, they lost after several months of battle and then some collaborated (btw, Roosevelt supported those at first) and some resisted. In the meantime, every country around Germany was thrashed in just days but no one is making fun of them. England was hiding on their island and Russia was saved by their weather.

PS : Almost nobody here eats frogs or wear berets. But you seem happy wallowing in the clichés so have fun.

Extremely.

Also, Viet Nam

oh man that Frog picture fucking rules!

So what happened with you in Vietnam ? Did you win there ?

The picture's fun, not so sure about the guy who posted it.

I'd go back even further in history. The Franks were a very respectable tribe / culture. If only Clovis didn't convert to Christianity..

Oh man, you're going too far for Josh. He doesn't know about anything prior to the 20th century. He hasn't heard about the French helping the US get their independence. About French kings ruling England, etc.
If only nobody converted to Christianity or any other religion.

Actually, Jack(?), I hope you're not surprised when you find a lot of people here that loathe the French. It is New England after all; a lot of people here (at least I know a few) don't really like the French. It's not anything that will threaten you while you're out here - just be aware.
Most people could care less.

(Jack Grants is the name I use in my band and book) So you'd say it's an English heritage, to loathe the French ? As for anything else, if someone's gonna hate me, I'd like to know why. Being French doesn't seem a good reason to me.
And saying shit like the French are always surrendering is ridiculous, especially when your only argument is a picture found on the internet. When you don't know History or any othert subject, you don't talk about it as if you were an expert.
Unfortunately, I know I'm gonna face that but it won't stop me from coming.

The U.S. wouldn't have won the revolutionary war without help from the French. Apparently, I have some distant relation to Marquis De LaFayette. I don't know how, but in any case, that guy was a hero during the revolution.

It's nice to see some people acknowledge that. There was a pro-French sentiment at the time, we can see it notably with the suffix -ville that was added to many towns. But all that's almost forgotten, those who hate the French don't give a shit, they don't need a reason.
Anyway, good for you, Samantha, a relation to the Marquis de Sade would have been cool too hehe

DEMOCRACY
EXISTENTIALISM
THE BLOW JOB

Cinema, mayonnaise, guillotine, photography, bikini, the metric system...

and Year Of No Light, ftw

It's retarded that nobody's mentioned Simone de Beauvior, Deathspell Omega or Merrimack in this thread.

And let's not forget conducting above ground nuclear weapons testing well after the rest of the world realized that it was batshit insane; eat a dick French Polynesians, enjoy your cancer.

Patrick Roy's still a faggot.

There would be a lot to mention, good and bad like for any other country.
Nuclear testing is crap but we shouldn't condemn people for what their governments do, it's insane to have nuclear weapons in the first place. Jacques Chirac is a dick, Sarkozy's a dick like most world leaders are. Unfortunately, the whole world doesn't need these testings to enjoy the cancers some are trying to sell us.
As to Patrick Roy, I'm gonna have to take your word for it but he's canadian.

I was actually giving France credit for nuclear testing because it's fucking awesome and Pacific Islanders are subhuman mutants to begin with.

Oh I see, my mistake, I'm already used to the negative comments going to the whole French nation without exceptions. It doesn't change my opinion on nuclear shit though.
But if you want to shoot a cheap Troma movie in those cute radioactive islands, go ahead.

and unless i missed it, no Blut Aus Nord either.

You're absolutely right, Yeti, Blut Aus Nord deserves to be cited. Also, Vindsval, the main guy in BAN, released an awesome (and very rare) cd called Supremacy under the moniker The Eye, check it out if you can.

Bis repetita

Are there some good metal shops in Mass ?

it actually has alot more new brunswick influence than quebec. i would know this.

What are the influences ?

Armageddon Shop in Providence RI is probably the est underground shop in the area. The local chain Newbury Comics is pretty damn sharp with metal though. Some locations better then others, but you can find some gems.

Sounds good, anything around Springfield ?

Music Outlet in Enfield is awesome. Only a few minutes from Springfield.

French people

You're talking about the influences ?

Hell yeah. I'd add Arkhon Infaustus, SCD, and Alcest to that list, as well.

I heard SCD toured in the US, ever got to see them ?

Yup, a few times. They're awesome guys.

Ever seen other French bands ?

benighted anyone?

Yeah, Benighted kicks ass, you should check Kronos and Recueil Morbide for other good brutal death bands

Gojira

Gojira looks quite successful in the US, right ?

i wish they would do a headlining tour... i keep missing them cause they keep opening for terrible bands.

I hear you, In Flames... that would have been ok years ago but now... Maybe Gojira will be playing at Hellfest, one of the best metal festivals in the world.

A particular man in France rules my panties. Je t'aime Julien.

That's it, I found a place in Springfield so I'll be there for the months of April/May/June. Seems like there's gonna be some good gigs around there : amon amarth, enslaved...

you'll be here in time to watch the Bruins crush the Habs in the playoffs.

ABSURDISM, THE GUILLOTINE, LOTS OF OBSCURE POLEARMS FOR D&D (GLAIVE-GLAIVE-GUISARME FTW) - THE FRENCHES IS OK BY ME.

great, I master absurdism but I'd better be drunk to watch hockey

wow, epic thread is SRSLY epic.

Haha - now you're getting it. LOL

Anything particular to do in the area in spring ? Is there something for 4/20 ?

don't move to springfield, i grew up there and it's a fucking shithole...west springfield is a little better but theres nothing in western ma anymore...just come to boston.

We usually head out to Purgatory Chasm (crazy natural gorge that's full of cool caves where the natives hid from pilgrim assholes) with a flashlight full of joints.

Thanks for the warning but my girlfriend lives in WS so I'm heading there for now

sweet, well enjoy!

Sounds cool, I want to see some nice forests and stuff. Even better if there's some weed involved.

Thanks man, I will definitely

PRAISE BOB!

our local college station just pulled the hour of slack from their lineup because their board of directors is comprised of yuppie fehgs

That's blasphemy, man

purgatory chasm is the ballz. add trippy and WIN

If you like that place you'd prolly dig th FLUME GORGE in North NH. I luvs it. Do that and the kangamangas in the same day, great time.

those are called normans. they're nordic.

with the example set by kosovo, the norman and the celtic breton nations deserve independence from the french state

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WELSH

oh, that's bullshit, if you start like that, everyone deserves independence from everyone else. No nations... maybe that would be more simple in fact, write that to Obama. Next big file after legalizing pot.

I like french Fries!

who doesn't

French people leave armpit hair everywhere.

you did the same one months ago skin sandwich, you should renew the jokes a little. So you like skin in your sandwiches but not hair ? What do you do when you get some hairy skin in your sandwich ?

saying the french held kingship over england is like saying the aztecs are flooding over our southern border. just sayin.....

Some were normans, some weren't. The world is a whorehouse, blood is mixed everywhere.

I get pissed off, say the same lame joke and JackGrants people to death.

you JackGrants people to death ? how does that work ?

Is the metal shop in Providence still up and running ?

YUP