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I have 4 1. Shaking Howard Jones hand after my wife did while going over the barricade when we crowd surfed during our song(the end of heartache, from KsE) 2. Breaking up a Lil over a quarter oz of bud and piecing together eight papers to roll a cheech and Chong style joint to smoke with Born Of Osiris 3. Meeting and hanging out with Iwrestledabearonce 4. Seeing my wife get her nose broke while trying to mosh during All That Remains Lol, it didn't even phase her she just kept wanting to mosh, she's a Lil badass and that's it for me, how bout you guys ?

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Man, I have way too many to even name. Some of the best include: King Fowley dedicating A Witness to Suspiria to my beard, and then grabbing my beard and pulling my face next to his to shout the first few lines. Getting on stage with Solstice with Jake Rogers to provide chorus vocals for their cover of Suck My Dick. Being a metal nerd alongside John McEntee of Incantation as we met Rob Urbinati from Sacrifice. Running into a college professor at a Nazxul show and talking philosophy over a beer during one of the opener's sets. Frank Chin of Vektor still owes me an anal probe in exchange for my 5000 space credits. Got in to see Watain for free at their first show in my town because the door man thought I was with the band. Meeting Aaron Stainthorpe, and getting to thank him in person for doing our album art. Helping Ross Dolan of Immolation track down a girl who had left her purse in the band's dressing room at the venue. Catching Frost's drumstick at a Satyricon gig, and then having him sign it as he mused that I had received one of the few that he "hadn't turned into sawdust". Getting Korean bbq tacos with Jason and Rhett of Gravehill, and then having Rhett offer to play drums for us. The list goes on, but those were some of the highlights for me.

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Man, I have way too many to even name. Some of the best include: King Fowley dedicating A Witness to Suspiria to my beard, and then grabbing my beard and pulling my face next to his to shout the first few lines. Getting on stage with Solstice with Jake Rogers to provide chorus vocals for their cover of Suck My Dick. Being a metal nerd alongside John McEntee of Incantation as we met Rob Urbinati from Sacrifice. Running into a college professor at a Nazxul show and talking philosophy over a beer during one of the opener's sets. Frank Chin of Vektor still owes me an anal probe in exchange for my 5000 space credits. Got in to see Watain for free at their first show in my town because the door man thought I was with the band. Meeting Aaron Stainthorpe, and getting to thank him in person for doing our album art. Helping Ross Dolan of Immolation track down a girl who had left her purse in the band's dressing room at the venue. Catching Frost's drumstick at a Satyricon gig, and then having him sign it as he mused that I had received one of the few that he "hadn't turned into sawdust". Getting Korean bbq tacos with Jason and Rhett of Gravehill, and then having Rhett offer to play drums for us. The list goes on, but those were some of the highlights for me.
All of those stories are incredibly awesome dude.
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The many blunts shared with the guys from Decapitated, the Cannabis Corpse show in the abandoned warehouse in Atlanta, breaking my friends nose with my head while moshing to Krisiun, the countless great times I've gotten to have with all sorts of musicians and fans alike that I've met through the years, shit I could go on forever.

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Na dude Covan, Vitek and Vogg (Martin was present a few times but never got to know him much) me and my best friend followed them for months back in 06 or 07 through the whole southeast and by the third show they recognized us and totally embraced us, to the point where when they returned to the US a year later Covan was able to pick us out from the previous year. Covan was the most fluent so therefore we got to know him the most he was just an extremely personable guy, while Vitek could barely speak English he was still the nicest guy you could imagine, Vogg never spoke much he always seemed like the assigned blunt-roller kinda guy who'd just sit there and grin the whole time

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Hell yea that would be cool as fuck being able to be recognized and embraced like that I know I tried talking and being cool with the the vocalist of the red chord once after a show and I thought that dude was gonna beat my ass, he didn't seem to be someone you would wanna approach, was even wearing my red chord shirt too, was like WTF?

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man theres a totally different atmosphere amongst bands like that who receive the attention they do as opposed to straight up death metal bands from across the globe who aren't even superstars in their home country but are just happy to be selling out crowds in America. I mean of course theres always exceptions but its to be expected as sort of the American musicians way the more coverage and fame you get the more of a douche you're gonna become, eventually at least edit: and to be totally honest, when I think of bands like the red chord with such a young sound to them I think of likening their for lack of a better term elementary approach to music towards their most likely behavior, so I could definitely see the vocalist being a dick to anyone who didn't have large tits and a gaping twat. Not saying any members aren't talented but their style is honestly what many bands pass through on their way to better things, imo.

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I had a buddy get stabbed in the shoulder at a Lamb of God concert in 2005. Pretty metal I guess. We were both pretty drunk at the time and he didn't seem to mind that much. It was a misunderstanding about a possible girlfriend gropage of another young white male that was prone to violent outbursts.

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