I don't see how that applies to any of these bands, the line-up is a broad range of styles from death metal to thrash to various other styles of metal, but absolutely no hot topic mallcore allowed.
Although somehow I doubt you listened to all these bands on your way back from the YMCA, Village Person.
The hot dog post is strangely on topic, though, as fresh grilled hot dogs are included with the price of admission.
post by A Satisfied Legionnaire at May 30,2013 8:38am
Honestly I can't wait for this!
post by alcks cskot at May 30,2013 9:11am
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post by ShadowSD at May 30,2013 12:40pm edited May 30,2013 7:49pm
Parking is free and venue is very 4:20 friendly, where else can you see an eight band metalfest, eat, have parking covered, and practically be guaranteed to get smoked up all for $15?
Best of all, CTMetalFest is as always a DIY/by the bands show with no outside "promoter", so all money after expenses goes to the bands. This is the sixth year we've headlined CTMetalFest, and all but one year had paid attendance in the 150 - 300 people range, which we like to think is a hell of an accomplishment for a DIY fest with no nationals at a venue with no walk-in draw; we want to make this year the biggest ever, please come out and support \m/
post by I Have A Question at May 30,2013 12:48pm
Who are these bands and why would anyone pay $30 to see them?
post by AndrewBastard NLI at May 30,2013 1:10pm
Good luck 'Forsaking the Sun' at the mid summer outdoor metal fest, bro
True, it'll still be light out by the time they go on, too, d'oh. Won't be hot though, this is more like late spring than midsummer so we won't all be sweating our balls off.
post by ShadowSD at May 30,2013 2:37pm edited May 30,2013 8:00pm
1. There's these things called websites on these intertubez here where you get to click on a band's music and listen to it.
2. For starters, Lords Anointed are from MA not where I live in CT, Lightsbane is from southern CT near NY but they were just on NEMHF this year in Worcester, and Suicide Dream (my band) has headlined over a hundred shows across MA, CT, and RI and been regularly performing in the northeastern metal scene for well over a decade, playing shows with Crowbar Overkill Type O Negative Exodus Moonspell Mastodon Doro Pesche too many to list blah blah blah and going from Maine to Indiana. It's one thing not to like us, that's fine, but if you haven't even heard of our name, you don't appear to be very familiar with the northeastern metal scene to the point where I'm surprised you would even be posting on a site like this. But maybe you're new. I've only been posting Suicide Dream shows here on rttp for ten years now.
1. the idea is that people will be encouraged to buy half price tickets in advance instead, committing a large crowd to the show investing in going instead of flying by the seat of our pants the night of and seeing which way the wind blows - it's especially important to know the draw for a big show like this where you have to get the right amount of food in order to not totally overshoot or undershoot it.
2. all the bands on the bill are hard working bands in the New England metal scene that get out there often and play originals, and they identify as metal - not metalcore - and there's no promoter taking a cut.
3. there's this really cool thing called going out and watching new bands that are writing and performing metal in case you might like some of them, and supporting the New England metal scene.
1. There's these things called websites on these intertubez here where you get to click on a band's music and listen to it.
2. For starters, Lords Anointed are from MA not where I live in CT, Lightsbane is from southern CT near NY but they were just on NEMHF this year in Worcester, and Suicide Dream (my band) has headlined over a hundred shows across MA, CT, and RI and been regularly performing in the northeastern metal scene for well over a decade, playing shows with Crowbar Overkill Type O Negative Exodus Moonspell Mastodon Doro Pesche too many to list blah blah blah and going from Maine to Indiana. It's one thing not to like us, that's fine, but if you haven't even heard of our name, you don't appear to be very familiar with the northeastern metal scene to the point where I'm surprised you would even be posting on a site like this. But maybe you're new. I've only been posting Suicide Dream shows here on rttp for ten years now.
1. the idea is that people will be encouraged to buy half price tickets in advance instead, committing a large crowd to the show investing in going instead of flying by the seat of our pants the night of and seeing which way the wind blows - it's especially important to know the draw for a big show like this where you have to get the right amount of food in order to not totally overshoot or undershoot it.
2. all of them are hard working bands in the New England metal scene that get out there often and play originals, and they identify as metal - not metalcore - and there's no promoter taking a cut.
3. there's this really cool thing called going out and watching new bands that are writing and performing metal in case you might like some of them, and supporting the New England metal scene.
no thanks
post by basically everyone at May 30,2013 3:00pm
Pay to open for Type O Negative and then brag about it, about it.
Pay to open for Type O Negative and then brag about it, about it.
Wrong. We made a profit on that show.
They gave us 30 tickets. We sold 33 (buying none ourselves, fuck that shit, and having a couple people who bought tickets not making it to will call and we resold those tickets at the last minute) so we ended up walking out of there with over a hundred bucks, beating the Webster ticket system which made the maximum we could have made $30.
Fuck paying to play and buying your own tickets. No bands on this show are permitted to buy their own tickets, we want people to see the bands not a bunch of bullshit.
It really wasn't that hard selling tickets for Type O at all, FWIW, the Webster gave us a week and $23 tickets so I was worried at first, but people really didn't want to miss that show (and they were right, that was their last tour and Peter died only months later).
3. there's this really cool thing called going out and watching new bands that are writing and performing metal in case you might like some of them, and supporting the New England metal scene.
no thanks
Haha, true for many I'm sure, but fortunately most of us who read and post here go to metal shows and don't just complain about their very existence online. Don't be one of those people who complains there are no good live shows/new bands out there and then refuses to ever check out new bands for the first time. You might actually really like a band you're not already familiar with.
post by Oh my gawd! at May 30,2013 5:08pm
Your band made $100 dollars on a show?????? Fucking rock star over here. Quit your day job and pay to play every day.
post by ShadowSD at May 30,2013 5:13pm edited May 30,2013 7:56pm
Just pointing out that it wasn't pay to play if we made $100 (you can't have it both ways) - and I'm not saying $100 is a lot, we got $650 to headline Beltane Festival earlier this month and we'll probably get at least as much for this fest, if not more. Just settle down, Beavis, go to a show and get baked, it's more fun.
Yo bro, will there be a lot of hot bitches with them titties hanging out? Maybe a wet t-shirt contest? I got some dudes from Framingham who want to hunt for some fresh muff and I hear the Ct. Bitches are total sluts? You kind of sound like a pussy so if you hook us up with some loose twats I'll watch ya back I'm the pit. Let me know. We can pound some Bud Limes.
post by RTTP Promotional Consultant at May 30,2013 8:19pm
Trying to bully people into buying tickets in advance by DOUBLING the door cost for a 4th rate local band fest is maybe the dumbest idea anyone could suicide dream up.
post by I Have A Question at May 30,2013 8:42pm
Did the mentally challenged person who designed the flyer get paid for their work or was it a charity thing?
post by I Have A Question at May 30,2013 8:45pm
Also, in ten years with that rock start resume you've only made it as far as... Indiana?
post by ShadowSD at May 30,2013 8:48pm edited May 30,2013 11:29pm
Bully people? It's just making it easier for the bands to sell their $15 tickets, how can you feel bullied to buy an advance ticket to a show because it's half price? That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
If a fest with 150 - 300 people paid attendance five out of six years it was held is a fourth rate local band fest, I have to find these first, second, and third rate local band fests where eight bands draw several hundred people instead of a measly two or three hundred. Let me know when you play one of those, I will gladly come and support (not joking at all), I'll make sure to pay at the door and not buy an advance ticket so as to not feel bullied by you.
post by RTTP Promotional Consultant at May 30,2013 8:50pm
I'm only here as a consultant. You've been doing this for 10 years and still have to tell people who your band is. You obviously don't need my help.
post by Truth at May 30,2013 9:01pm
So every band needs to sell 20 - 30 tickets to get on this?
Hey Question Guy, whining about the flyer was two days ago.
Solo I've played in DC, Sweden, and Iran, our singer/bassist has played out in Europe. As for our band we've always been self-managed and never opted to invest the time and money in going further out touring to the degree that's required of a metal band that doesn't have label backing, in great part because we didn't have a full length CD and shirts/other merch completed to make such an investment make sense at the time; we did do a demo as a four-piece that sold out and turned down some indie deal offers that came from it plus some offers to do some shows in NC and elsewhere, because we were opting to wait for something bigger to come along, but by the time we were really hitting a peak and about to record something new with our updated three piece line-up, I went and had a kid while our singer also took a hiatus, and then once you have a wife and kids you REALLY can't rough it across the country hoping to break even on the travel and send home little to no money - so yeah, but finally our full-length CD is almost done and we can actually mail it to labels, something we never actually did yet (the indies I mentioned came to us after hearing the music online or seeing us live) so we can finally see if we can get a good enough deal to record and tour on terms that work for us.
You've been doing this for 10 years and still have to tell people who your band is.
Ha ha seems a good burn - except when you stop to think that bands never have to stop promoting if they continue playing out, no matter how big they get. Good try though, consultant, 9 out of 10 for effort, your job at rttp is safe.
post by Full-Leafed Maple at May 30,2013 9:25pm
tl;dr
post by Good luck Lacuna Coil's retarded sister at May 30,2013 9:25pm
I'm sure you'll be playing stadiums once that full length drops.
So every band needs to sell 20 - 30 tickets to get on this?
We ask every band to shoot for at least 40 advance tickets and we hold ourselves to the same standard, there's no penalty for not hitting that mark but we ask each band to aim high. All the bands that play this with us each get all their money after twenty tickets sold, plus a hundred dollar bonus at forty tickets sold, plus an even cut of 100% of the money from people who pay at the door, plus all band members eat for free, plus if we end up ahead enough at the end of the night we pay more on top of that (we have in the past paid an extra twenty-five to a hundred bucks to a band on top of all the agreed upon stuff if there was enough money left over). In previous years, some bands have made $300 - $500 on just the advance ticket sales part of it: Invictus, Mornalir, Dwell, On The Rocks come to mind just off the top of my head. We all know those kinds of numbers are normally unheard of for a multi-band local show, so it's a great gig if you're willing to work hard and beats counting on some non-musician and self-proclaimed "promoter" to get people to the show who in most cases brings no one and then takes a bigger cut than any band member who performs.
I have no regrets, man, the last ten plus years all I have done for a living is music: mostly playing guitar and teaching guitar. That's not easy to pull off. Just the ability to be even do that and to be able to play with the caliber of musicians I get to play with in this band is a real gift that I'd be ungrateful to gripe about; stadiums can come with time, the road to getting to that point is as important as the road from then, and the path we've taken so far has given us the chance to play with some great bands here in the scene that we wouldn't even have met otherwise. I wouldn't change a thing.
post by Cool story fagget at May 30,2013 10:03pm
Cool story fagget
post by WifedowSD at May 30,2013 10:24pm
Can you faggets just buy tickets to this stupid fest so my useless fagget of a husband can pull his weight with bills for fucking once?
post by futtup shaggett at May 30,2013 11:11pm
Make your suicide dream a reality now kthx
post by Big bag of assorted nigger parts at May 30,2013 11:35pm
I give Shadow points for tenacity. He loves his band and can't shut up about it, and that's pretty American for an Iranian.
His bassist also has that intriguing Sandra Bernhard thing going, where she's alternately hot / terrifying depending on the angle or light or something. And that has entertainment value itself.
CT is a different world than MA. Case in point, if you live in CT, this show is actually something to might consider going to, because there's fuckin NOTHING going on otherwise. I hate this kind of music but according to shit-eating videos I've posted here, it takes all types. Apparently, some people think shit tastes like cake.
Follow that dream, Shadow, just remember to nod and say "yup" when I post something involving willful AIDS transmission. I do hope the show is successful.
A+ post and thanks dude. First line made me LOL it is so true, good observation. We have a update on our site I keep forgetting to post a thread about including new promo photos of our singer/bassist where they all were really great photos, I'll probably post that thread tomorrow, and you're absolutely right that very little does happen here in CT that's for damn sure.
post by society of the shutup faggets at May 30,2013 11:54pm
I give Shadow points for tenacity. He loves his band and can't shut up about it, and that's pretty American for an Iranian.
His bassist also has that intriguing Sandra Bernhard thing going, where she's alternately hot / terrifying depending on the angle or light or something. And that has entertainment value itself.
CT is a different world than MA. Case in point, if you live in CT, this show is actually something to might consider going to, because there's fuckin NOTHING going on otherwise. I hate this kind of music but according to shit-eating videos I've posted here, it takes all types. Apparently, some people think shit tastes like cake.
Follow that dream, Shadow, just remember to nod and say "yup" when I post something involving willful AIDS transmission. I do hope the show is successful.
On behalf of the secret fraternity of Shutup Faggets, we humbly invite you to SHUTUP FAGGET.
Me too, I always look forward to playing this place more than any other, sound quality is off the charts good (it's the one venue where my ears aren't ringing for the whole rest of the night after the show ends)
I give Shadow points for tenacity. He loves his band and can't shut up about it, and that's pretty American for an Iranian.
His bassist also has that intriguing Sandra Bernhard thing going, where she's alternately hot / terrifying depending on the angle or light or something. And that has entertainment value itself.
CT is a different world than MA. Case in point, if you live in CT, this show is actually something to might consider going to, because there's fuckin NOTHING going on otherwise. I hate this kind of music but according to shit-eating videos I've posted here, it takes all types. Apparently, some people think shit tastes like cake.
Follow that dream, Shadow, just remember to nod and say "yup" when I post something involving willful AIDS transmission. I do hope the show is successful.
bravo.
as probably the longest-running Suicide Dream fan, play on I say, play on. I would love to hear that first EP re-recorded. only Suicide Dream and Sacreligion twice a weekend at the Springdale Turnhall is real.
post by Ancient Master nli at May 31,2013 8:59am
I wonder if the nazi's will be there seig heiling again like they did when we played this in 2004? My opinion of CT? CHISEL IT OFF
post by shutup connectigget at May 31,2013 9:11am
No matter how much you suck New York's cawk, you will never replace New Jersey as NY's bottom bitch.
as probably the longest-running Suicide Dream fan, play on I say, play on. I would love to hear that first EP re-recorded. only Suicide Dream and Sacreligion twice a weekend at the Springdale Turnhall is real.
Free pitchers of beer for metal bands should be the law everywhere. Thanks brother, and Eternity's End from that old EP is being re-recorded for this new album - we couldn't really leave that one out, plus that old version didn't have Laurel on lead vocals anyway.
I wonder if the nazi's will be there seig heiling again like they did when we played this in 2004? My opinion of CT? CHISEL IT OFF
Yeah 2005 I think, that was the first year we did this, I totally missed out on nazis being there though or have completely forgotten about that, that's pretty fucked up that happened. I blame the fact that there were no Antifa trolls on rttp back then [SM = 1000].
Having a band name like this is an extra iron clad guarantee on never killing yourself. Why?
Imagine the throngs of idiot news reporters, HOW DID WE NOT SEE IT COMING, IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, ARE OTHER BANDS WITH DEATH RELATED IMAGERY IN THEIR NAMES AT RISK
I'd have to come back to life just to beat everyone to death.
That wasn't me, but it expresses my sentiments accurately. Mannerly troll.
I was a little suspicious of his "living in the past" comment but I couldn't be sure, it's starting to get hard to keep track of who is trolling who on this site anymore sometimes, it would probably require a big diagram at this point.
I know this post can't be serious, but if you're going to put lime in alcohol like this is Mexico, drink tequila shots or GTFO with your lame ass lime beers.
This fest will be filmed by the Metal Cyndicate for local TV distribution in several states, and I'm working on getting us a free plug from 106.9 WCCC like we got for this the previous year (the WAAF equivalent down here in CT). One of the WCCC morning DJ's is even thinking of coming down this time, the girl is all about metal and drop dead beautiful, hope that works out.
post by Dragon From The Fucking Carebears Movie at Jun 2,2013 2:20pm
Bahaha @ "Metal Cyndicate". I would shit all over that.
post by grondmothrwb at Jun 2,2013 2:20pm
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post by ShadowSD at Jun 2,2013 2:40pm edited Jun 2,2013 2:41pm
Yeah but European metal fans usually clap their hands up above their heads at concerts which would be hard for a stumpy armed dragon and the oh oh ohhhh chant would incinerate several rows.
post by AndrewBastard en el i at Jun 2,2013 6:12pm
you should make your dream come true...
HAHHA GET IT? CAUSE ITS A SUICDE DREAM? U'D KILL YOURSELF!
post by ShadowSD at Jun 2,2013 6:16pm edited Jun 2,2013 6:23pm
Somebody already posted that, and I already made a joke about it.
Old news/repost
post by AndrewBastard NLI at Jun 2,2013 6:33pm
Sorry. I didn't actually read any of this pointless drivel
post by EricJutsu at Jun 2,2013 8:59pm
Cool to hear that the show will be filmed. Looking forward to seeing you guys play. Also, hurry up and start playing the "Moonspell" song already.
post by Cable Access Cameraman at Jun 2,2013 9:02pm
Cool to hear that the show will be filmed. Looking forward to seeing you guys play. Also, hurry up and start playing the "Moonspell" song already.
Thanks, dude. Although unfortunately we probably won't be doing that one (Darkness) at this show, we will be playing a couple of other new ones that only got added to our live set in the last few weeks, and I'm sure it won't be too long before Darkness finds its way into one of our live sets too.
Cool to hear that the show will be filmed. Looking forward to seeing you guys play. Also, hurry up and start playing the "Moonspell" song already.
Thanks, dude. Although unfortunately we probably won't be doing that one (Darkness) at this show, we will be playing a couple of other new ones that only got added to our live set in the last few weeks, and I'm sure it won't be too long before Darkness finds its way into one of our live sets too.
wow.... this is invertisux level of delusion..
sick logged out anonymous post praising yourself, bro. shits so pathetic raynard is jealous
xgodzillax, we have actual fans dude so I don't have to reply to myself, the only person I post as in any thread is as ShadowSD and rev can back that up too. Eric Weissenborn already bought a ticket for this fest and will be at there in person if you're still bent on him being a figment of my imagination.
