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It's easy for me, I've only been to six gigs in my life and two were not by choice. Black Sabbath last year at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. It isn't a great venue in truth but it's the best my home town has to offer. Aside from the new stuff, which was garbage, they were fantastic. Played everything slower and heavier then it appears on the album and Ozzy nailed it. Couldn't understand a word of his interaction with the crowd but during songs he was fantastic.

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Was tommy clufetos drumming for them? I saw em at download festival 2012 n he made sound so fuckin heavy. Thankfully they hadn't released their new shit at that point so I guess I dodged the bullet there. Ozzy was the same at that show, shuffling around like a zombie and completely inaudible when he wasn't singing. I'm guessing the new album is absolute dog shit then?

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Have you ever been to the metalsucks website? I'd link it but I'm pretty sure I read that I can't so, google search it is. They have tons of articles and exclusive preview tracks etc. don't let the name fool ya, it's a good website for metal heads. Kinda like metal injection but better. I'm pretty sure they previewed a few of the Judas Priest tracks on there. Recently previewed new abysmal dawn tracks, anaal nathrakh's latest song. A lot on there basically. Might save the disappointment, I weren't a fan of redeemer of souls either

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Ahhh lol that sounds awesome' date=' the states get the best festivals[/quote'] Not really. Things are shaping up here, especially with lineups at smaller fests like Doom in June, Denver Doom, Martyrdoom, Chaos in Tejas, etc... improving, but most of our big fest's lineups suck for the most part. I could usually stand to see a couple of bands at ProgPower, Ozzfest and Mayhem/Rockstar Fest are dog shit, and Milwaukee Metalfest, if they're still doing it anyway, has always been hit or miss. MDF has always had the best lineup of any big US fest, and this year they ironed out all of the logistical problems, so it really was a killer experience. Europe, on the other hand, has fests everywhere, and most of them that I see listings of have absolutely stellar lineups.
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Smaller festivals are generally a better experience and have a more varied lineup so I can see what your saying but I see line ups for tours and festivals in the states all the time n I wanna cry haha. For metal fests the UK only really has Bloodstock, Download and Sonisphere and the latter 2 are bigger so generally you won't see anything heavier than say, metalcore. Mainland Europe is awesome tho, Wacken wins everytime.

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The gig I went to was a chirmara. Ill niño. And kittie. That was. A great show
Damn! Chimaira, I'm sooo jealous right now lol, never got the chance to see em what with work and what not and now never will :( the "metalcore/NWOAHM" bands seem to be dropping like flies. 3 or 4 so far this year. to be honest I don't really care for most of em but some of em were really awesome and under appreciated.
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Eg. Animals as leaders, Devin Townsend project and monuments tour, probably won't come to the UK... Deicide, septicflesh, inquisition and abysmal dawn tour, probably won't come to the uk... Carcass, obituary, macabre and exhumed, no uk dates... Unearth, darkest hour, carnifex, origin, the breather, black crown initiate, no uk dates and most shockingly of all, suffocation, kataklysm, jungle rot, pyrexia and internal bleeding, no uk dates lol it's not that the bands don't tour here but the lineups are always different (and shitter XD)

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Eg. Animals as leaders' date=' Devin Townsend project and monuments tour, probably won't come to the UK... Deicide, septicflesh, inquisition and abysmal dawn tour, probably won't come to the uk... Carcass, obituary, macabre and exhumed, no uk dates... Unearth, darkest hour, carnifex, origin, the breather, black crown initiate, no uk dates and most shockingly of all, suffocation, kataklysm, jungle rot, pyrexia and internal bleeding, no uk dates lol it's not that the bands don't tour here but the lineups are always different (and shitter XD)[/quote'] Well, don't feel too bad, none of those shows booked in my town either. My buddy tried to book the Deicide tour, but they didn't think they would have enough time to get to their next gig if they played, and the Suffocation tour got booked in another state on our potential date before my buddy got to make an offer.
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Deathstorm. That sounds about right, wouldn't have thought that would be a problem in Camden Town thou, they have all sorts of bands and artists rolling through there. Saw Black Dahlia Murder, Fleshgod Apocalypse and skeletonwitch just last year and another just the other day. Blutausnerd. That really sucks bro, only one thing worse than them not showing up n that's them considering showing up then not lol.

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Deathstorm. That sounds about right' date=' wouldn't have thought that would be a problem in Camden Town thou, they have all sorts of bands and artists rolling through there. Saw Black Dahlia Murder, Fleshgod Apocalypse and skeletonwitch just last year and another just the other day. Blutausnerd. That really sucks bro, only one thing worse than them not showing up n that's them considering showing up then not lol.[/quote'] I'm used to it. I live in Salt Lake City, so we get passed over for lots of gigs. On the other hand, we get lots of great ones in between, especially underground shit that you would never think of. The same friend I'm referencing just booked the legendary Solstice (US death/thrash) who played a couple of weeks ago, and also booked another legendary band in Raven, who will be playing here in November. I'm sure that the UK gets tons of great European gigs, but US bands probably don't make as many appearances as they do here.
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Very true but it's strange cuz American music pretty much dominates the airwaves, not that there ain't a lot of European bands, especially on the extreme end of the spectrum. Suppose it just comes down to record label cash, you can have a shit ton of sales n still not get the European gigs, flights and tour buses and whatnot.

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This is a bit of a layered question to answer for me, since there's just so many components to a great show experience. In terms of performance by a band, Decapitated was the best live band I ever saw (saw them six times, never a dull show) their best set being the that of the first Summer Slaughter tour in Atlanta in 2007. Carcass comes a VERY close second, I'm just a bit of a Decap stan. As for best lineup of bands, that's a toughy. The Summer Slaughter date mentioned above was probably the strongest, which was Necrophagist, Decapitated, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation, the Faceless, Arsis, and a couple others I didn't much care for, but what made it cool was that there was a whole other show going on downstairs that all upstairs attendees had access to which included Daath, Fuck the Facts, Draped in Sorrow and With Faith or Flames. Close second was when Eyehategod came to Savannah recently, opened up by Ringworm, Enabler, Holly Hunt, Shroud Eater, Day of the Beast, Iron Man, and a few others. Honorable mention for simple experience, when I saw Cannabis Corpse play a late night gig in what seemed like an abandoned warehouse in metro Atlanta. It was lawless society at its finest. 80% of the crowd was freely smoking, there was a guy dressed as a giant bud moshing around the entire set, people were setting off firecrackers in the hall, and they even wheeled out "the bud tank" which was a girl in a cardboard box on wheels, with a pvc pipe sticking out, blowing enormous shotguns to people.

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