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OK, so Clint, Mattlach, and I went to see 3 Inches of Blood tonight in Lowell at this hole in the wall called Club Fuel. There are some things about Lowell that are asthetically pleasing. the area we were in had a lot of cobblestone and bricks on the sidewalks and there was a picturesque walkway along the river, but then we started to notice that all the businesses are closed and half the buildings look like they're set up to be condemned. It's a bummer.
anyhow, 3 Inches of Blood is this incredible power metal band from Canada (I think Vancouver...) and they sing about the good things like pirates, axes, swords, vikings, orcs, and killing the "enemies of metal". Their album has received much critical aclaim, and they're supposed to be totally intense playing live.
we called the club at like 7:30 and they said the opening bands had already started which surprised us since it was so fucking early. Sucks to be an opening band. We got there at like 9:00 or so to find that 3 Inches of Blood and Metal Church, the two headlining bands, were not there yet because they were stuck in traffic or something. We went to get some food and found that Lowell is a ghost town on Sunday nights (or at least the part of Lowell we were in since we just went out walking around the block). We ate at a greasy chinese place, the only restaurant open. We then returned to the shit-hole bar. there were maybe 20 people in there. more upstairs watching the second band on the bill. 3 Inches of Blood and Metal Church still hadn't showed up. After a little while Metal Church's Winnebago pulled up outside and they began unloading all the equipment. Still, we sat talking and telling good stories for like another half hour until I asked about 3IOB again, and they said they just got a phone call from the band's manager saying that they were cancelling the show and the rest of the tour with Metal Church was off. So who knows if this was inter-band drama or whatever. maybe the singer from 3IOB banged the aging girlfriend of the singer from Metal Church. who knows. it was at least good to get out of the house and do something. There were a number of excellent highlights such as the grossest mullet and two of the fattest people I've seen in a very long time. Also, a metal dude and his metal queen who had hair that went down to like her knees.
let's hope 3 Inches of Blood figures out that they should be playing good clubs in Boston instead of shit-holes in Lowell the next time they make it to this part of the country. Also, let's hope they don't cancel any more fucking shows.
anyhow, 3 Inches of Blood is this incredible power metal band from Canada (I think Vancouver...) and they sing about the good things like pirates, axes, swords, vikings, orcs, and killing the "enemies of metal". Their album has received much critical aclaim, and they're supposed to be totally intense playing live.
we called the club at like 7:30 and they said the opening bands had already started which surprised us since it was so fucking early. Sucks to be an opening band. We got there at like 9:00 or so to find that 3 Inches of Blood and Metal Church, the two headlining bands, were not there yet because they were stuck in traffic or something. We went to get some food and found that Lowell is a ghost town on Sunday nights (or at least the part of Lowell we were in since we just went out walking around the block). We ate at a greasy chinese place, the only restaurant open. We then returned to the shit-hole bar. there were maybe 20 people in there. more upstairs watching the second band on the bill. 3 Inches of Blood and Metal Church still hadn't showed up. After a little while Metal Church's Winnebago pulled up outside and they began unloading all the equipment. Still, we sat talking and telling good stories for like another half hour until I asked about 3IOB again, and they said they just got a phone call from the band's manager saying that they were cancelling the show and the rest of the tour with Metal Church was off. So who knows if this was inter-band drama or whatever. maybe the singer from 3IOB banged the aging girlfriend of the singer from Metal Church. who knows. it was at least good to get out of the house and do something. There were a number of excellent highlights such as the grossest mullet and two of the fattest people I've seen in a very long time. Also, a metal dude and his metal queen who had hair that went down to like her knees.
let's hope 3 Inches of Blood figures out that they should be playing good clubs in Boston instead of shit-holes in Lowell the next time they make it to this part of the country. Also, let's hope they don't cancel any more fucking shows.