First two questions have the same answer: it's a hardcore festival. Pretty much every other band had stage diving, two-stepping, pile-ups, what have you. Since none of these things are are really applicable to Deafheaven, you get a crowd of people waiting for the mosh part standing around uncomfortably knowing it isn't going to come. Standard warehouse lighting is the norm, as is screaming over the mic (especially for post-hardcore sort of things). Here's a video from another band (different year, but same venue, I think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaac8PkP224

The band made it into memes ("I don't always listen to black metal...") even back then, so they were popular among certain groups of people.

He has been butchering that song live for as long as they have been playing it. They wrote it in the studio, I know that much.

Does "Sexy Alexi" have a drinking problem? I remember reading an interview after something wild came out. The band was really young at that time; I'm pretty sure he himself was under eighteen when the record was released, and he was boasting childishly about getting drunk in club parking lots and such. He totally reminded me of all the rich kids in my highschool who had just discovered liquor, and no doubt a sudden introduction to the touring lifestyle served to increase his intake dramatically.

Not anymore

I saw them a few years back and he played the show with a broken shoulder, pretty sure he was really drunk and fell off a car or something. Although that may be another incident altogether. Didn't miss a single note.

If I remember right, didn't he fall off climbing a fence or something? Or was that his wrist? I saw them in 2006 and 2008, both shows were acceptable.

I wouldn't doubt it, I may be confusing the car thing with an article I read about him one time. I want to say this show was late 2009 or 2010. I've never really listened to them but they're alright and they put on a good show, from what I've gathered he's always fucking himself up.

Funny to read the amount of retards trying to justify it in the Youtube comments. If it sounds like shit, it sounds like shit. Shouldn't embarrass yourself trying to play it live. End of story.

Drunk Andre Matos' performance in an Avantasia Concert in Chile, what can he do?

- Fall and break the scenario
- Rub some chick's ass
- Go upstairs crawling
- Steal some microphones and remove its wires
- Been carried by Jorn



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0ryFHurNU

Ugh, that's just embarrassing! What is with that guy, or hell, the entire Angra crew? I don't think I've seen a single live video of Matos, Angra or any related projects (Shaman) where they didn't sound like absolute garbage.

That was sad. I'm sad now ;-;



People call it blackgaze. The vocals and drums can be considered BM, but the guitars are pretty much all about shoegazing.

Fucking awesome. This kind of power metal would be much better if they were all hammered.

Yet another Vital Remains video for this thread. I'm 7 minutes in and it's just painful.



The drummer must be doing his best impression of a drum machine that got programmed to the wrong tempo and wasn't reset. He's got all the emotion and care of one, that's for sure.

Damn, the only parts where he sounds decent in the slow ones. Most of time is a fucking mess. Bring Donadeo and Boynton back!!!!

Vital Remains is the most unmusical, embarrassing load of shit around... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idCJabltBx8

That was awful. The drummer completely sucks (no idea who the hell that even is)...I actually saw them live with Albert Allende (he forgot several sections of "Dechristianize" and had to get Tony to show him the parts ONSTAGE) and would pick that fuckin' guy over this one haha. As a vocalist, I think the real sin is the singer. His voice is just god-awful, and his stage presence is laughable.



I really don't see the problem with this one...they actually sound relatively tight. The bassist's vocals are awesome . The guy's camera couldn't handle the sound, though, it seems.

Good god that sea of phones is embarrasing, must suck to be onstage seeing everyone just holding up phones nowadays instead of having fun.

The drummer is Marco Pitruzzella, currently in Six Feet Under. As for the singer, he's a metric fuckton better than Scott Wily, who is seriously one of the worst death metal vocalists I've ever heard.

Oh my God! It sounds like a fucking typewriter... a typewriter that's out of sync. And the vocals...!?! "Hurrgh hurrgh huughuhuhu BLÆRLB LÆRLBÆRBLARGH (backing vocals) huh hu huhh"

EDIT: I guess I'll contribute. I don't hate Maniac, but that cat wheeze is so far removed from either Dead's ghastly rasps or Attila's deep chants, that it's pretty unbearable. Hellhammer's drumming is in the typewriter tradition, but the intensity on the fast part (ca. 02:00) is actually quite interesting. Maybe not "retarded", but very out of place.

I remember hearing from someone around here that Tony was in a pinch and picked Allende without actually auditioning him.

Here is a good one of Unleashed... OMG its horrible

How about the fucken shitty fucken banter at the fucken beginning of the fucken video by the fucken retard fucken vocalist. Which needs a interpreter onstage to relay his dumb shit pit instructions. And skip to the end of the video, where he effectively says to the audience, "thanks, faggots". They should have all rushed the stage and stomped that fool down.

I'd say the sound is from the drum monitor, and not the actual PA sound. And then recorded with a camera.

Fear Factory has been awful live for years now, mostly due to Burton being absolutely incapable of staying on key when he sings.

Geoff Tate's Queensryche is the gift that keeps on giving. Check the first 30 seconds of this one out:

Decent performance from the band, but the dude who runs around the stage at the beginning really kills the vibe.


Yet again, decent performance, and I respect them for letting that guy onstage, but nonetheless it is still very "out of the ordinary" to say the least (watch from 2:50 to see what I mean).

People stage diving non stop is what happens at OEF. If you think that's nuts, look up any grind or brutal death band playing at OEF.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBO3bAlh43Y

The singer looks like he's having an orgasm half the time. That's just painful.

More fake Queensryche. FYI, the keyboard and orchestrations on this track are piped in audio, so the keyboardist is faking playing the entire song. Does Tate owe that dude something or what? Letting him "play" with his band, although he really does nothing but just stand there and look like a special ed case. As if that wasn't enough, @ 2:30 Robert Sarzo forgets the lyrics for his backup vocals and just mouths "bah-bah bah bah bah ahead" without actually saying anything. Classic shit right here.

If Tate gets the Queensryche name in court, can we all agree to never discuss Tate again and just simply refer to the actual Queensryche as Queensryche from then on?

Okay, but until then, enjoy Geoff Tate temporarily channeling Meatwad (@0:10)

Tate's band isn't QR. It's just Geoff Tate to me.

I... don't... even...
Yeah, that's it, we have a winner.

^ That is so fucking weird.

OEF looks goddam awesome. Especially the human pile during that random 1 man grind band linked somewhere up above.

Scott Wily was both a godawful vocalist and a fucking lunatic. Dude got kicked out of Vital for going on a heroin binge and vanishing mid-tour, then later got kicked out of Zircon when they tried to stage an intervention and realized that it was a lost cause. Then he started stalking one of the regular's from Ralph's and showed up at her house, got arrested, got placed under an involuntary psych hold, got released, and later started flooding the Return to the Pit message boards with posts about how he was going to kill her and another local musician who he delusionally believes was sleeping with her. I believe he's currently in jail for violating a protective order, but I'm not sure.

And what was that guy swinging right at the end? Looked like a friggin mace and chain

this reminds me of this video where there's a guy that storms the stage while Bolt Thrower is playing, and then decides to strip naked, wtf

The one that springs to mind is a Cloven Hoof performance in Cyprus. Russ North had just joined the band again and has a history of drinking. The band kicked him out and uploaded a video of him "performing" at this gig which consisted of him falling over multiple times and just screaming high falsetto notes at random.

I exchanged some Youtube words with their guitarist and now singer Joe Whelan and he said he was told to put the video up (presumably by Lee Payne) it was only up for a few hours I think and then it was taken down and I can't find it anywhere. The title of the video was actually titled "The fall of Russ" or something like that.