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Someone please tell me, what this picture is about? Germany's Tomte &Kettcar, Norway's Gorgoroth and Gorilla Biscuits in one picture? C'mon...

"She says she's falling"

Dreampop at it's best and my favourite classic in that genre. I've been listening to that song multiple times and it still blows my mind. The live video is not that good, since reverb on the vocals are missing. but give it a try anyway. Give Slowdive a try anyway. Long live the reverb.

Back On Track, again

Hello everyone,
I finally managed to start over again with this blog thing. That's cool. So, it's already November again. The last couple of months were fun. I found myself in a cool position to witness several great concerts of some even greater bands such as Interpol, Bohren und der Club of Gore and, finally Neurosis. Pretty amazing. Hardcore-wise, however, there hasn't been much that has amazed me in the present. I won't blame you, dear Hardcore. Well, maybe it's just me. Or Switzerland. Yeah, blame it on Switzerland and it's ridiculous scene.

Speaking of it: Two swiss bands put out their first records these days, Fall Apart and Deadverse. Check their records out, if your interested... and except to hear more about Deadverse on this blog soon.

"Asan Un Nefer - hell will come"

The Mercy Seat

This clip is taken from my favourite dvd to watch while taking a bath. Go figure. Check out Blixa Bargeld.

Geeez, we got more!

I almost forgot: I'm in love!

Black Mountain "Tyrants"

Today's contribution to the RIFF comes from Canada's Black Mountain. 4:38 is what I am talking about. Needles to say that the whole song rules. To be a little more precise, the complete new album slays. I still can't get really into their older stuff, so this is a nice surprise to me.

6.6. International Day of Slayer

Hi World, what up? At least in my own case: Not very much. I'm done with school and I hope I will never ever have to study french words nor algebra formulas again. Well, you can't be sure on that. However, life's good. Not supergood, but you know, okay. As for this blog, I'm currently working on several interviews, all of them with guitarplayers of hardcore bands. Expect a major update in the next few weeks. We'll see.

The new CULT OF LUNA record ETERNAL KINGDOM will see the light of day in less then two weeks. I got the promo Cd-R and since I first listened to it, it hardly ever leaves my cd player. In my opinion, the band made a huge step forward from the last SOMEWHERE ALONG THE HIGHWAY record. The record, which according to the band is a concept album based on a true story of a psychopath who killed his wife, contains 11 tracks full of raging, diverse and heavy-as-shit post rock / hardcore. While SOMEWHERE ALONG THE HIGHWAY was more classic sludge stuff, the new record varies in tempo, rhythm and soundscape from song to song. All without drifting too far from their roots. It's still hard and dark and especially the vocals sound more"hardcorish" than on the previous records, but all in all this is somehow outstanding compared to other bands from this genre. I really dig it and I'm exited to get hold of an actual vinyl copy of this record.

Next topic: I had nothing to do, so I made a muxtape. You don't know what the point of this is? Me neither, to be honest. But you can listen to 11 songs from my current heavy rotation playlist here: http://www.liquidswords.muxtape.com/. Too bad, it's limited to 10mb per song, so I had to chose the short ones.

Neurosis are on the muxtape as well, and speaking of Neurosis, they will come to Switzerland together with Entombed, The Ocean and a couple of others. How cool is that?

Let's finish this blog entry with a last thought on the newest Bitter End song "Purgatory". This is the best Trash/NYHC Crossover track since the demise of True Blue. I mean it. Thank you and good night.

"...dance, dance, dance to the radio"

Epic.

"...always so unsure"

Regardless of what any hypekid might say, the new Portishead slays. It's on heavy rotation overhere and I don't know where to start. It's fear, frustration and depression in it's purest form I guess. Beth Gibbons brings Popular Music to a whole new level of frightness. Portishead may have been background music with their earlier outputs, you know, the kind of music you could have listened to while breakfasting on a sunday morning, but with "Third" this won't be possible anymore. This is not something to just skip over. "Dummy" may have been categorized as Trip Hop, but this doesn't do the math anymore. "Third" is different. It's way more ambient and the band definitely didn't repeat themselves. In an interview I've read Adrian Utley (guitar) mentioned, how they got inspired by bands such as Om or Sunn0))). I don't really hear these influences, but it's still awesome to hear this from an respected musician like him. After all this shows, how the bandmembers gave their best to do something different with their third album. They could have done the same album again and again and people most likely would have bought it, but they didn't. Thumbs up for that! Well, I guess I'm running out of words. I may be a bit too enthusiastic but damn, it's been a while since a new record has caught me that much.

Now, go and buy the record. My two cents...

You're trippin'!

"...set my spirit free"

"...something worth living for"

I've had a short chat with Stief from Justice/Rhythm To The Madness about music and some guitar-related stuff. As you may know, Stief knows how to play his stuff precise and tight - be it some late-80ies Bad Brains stuff or more shredding material like he's doing with Rhythm To The Madness. Beside that, Stief is a cool dude. Go figure.

1. Hi Stief, on 8 March 2008 Justice played their last show. Now, having had some time to look back, what thing you think you will miss the most out of the last five years?

There's a lot of things I might miss about being in Justice, like going on tour or playing cool shows, but I guess those aren't things that are gone forever from my life. I'm still doing bands so I can still look forward to such events, hopefully not in vain.
It must've been around when the 7" came out or maybe the LP, that was a time when there was a lot of new stuff happening allover and people were stoked and it was all coming from the same spirit, so to speak. Riding that wave was the most awesome feeling ever.
Right now I feel like a lot of stuff that's going on, I've seen it before you know, and it doesn't get to me anymore the way it used to do. I kind of dislike that, but I can't complain because when I had the right age and mindset for it, everything was happing in my life.



2. Justice has been a band that’s progressed from the start. Musicwise there has not been anything we couldn’t expect from you guys. Okay, maybe H8000 mosh but besides that?... Has there been a certain point where you just figured out to not really listen to people’s opinions and what not? A point where you told yourselves to try something „new“?

Yea sure, that point was our first practise. Playing hardcore in Belgium at that time meant doing something new. We were out to show Belgium what hardcore was all about, how ignorant/arrogant that may sound now, that was our strength. And from then on we were like babies, absorbing anything we newly encountered we liked and trying to put that in our music. If you're doing music, people's opinions can never matter, I can't even imagine going like "oh wait if we play this part like this, so and so are going to like us better" That's dumb.

3. Your latest output „Live and Learn“ has a lot more rock in it. You know, R-O-C-K! The track that stood out for me the most was the song „Meaningless“. Now, I heard you first recorded the song with your own voice. So, were you responsible for music and lyrics? Are you this kind of bandleader who records melody and arrangement back at home and record it on your own to show it to the band? And since I’m curious, is there any chance to hear the Stief-version of the song?

I was playing around with that riff on my guitar and I came up with a vocal arrangement that sounded cool in my head so I wrote a verse and a chorus to back up my ideas. I went in the studio and tried it out just to see if it would work. Flip liked it a lot so he kept my words and vocal pattern and wrote some more verses for the song. It was his idea to use his voice the way he does on the recordings, real soft, almost talking. I think that was a stroke of genius because it sounds so much better than the way he did it on the demos we recorded with him singing.
You can hear my version on my ipod whenever we see each other.

4. With the music also the musicians progressed. When first seeing you in 2004 the band wasn’t really tight and also the band had other bandmembers. Now, I did have a look at your first 7“ seeing that you recorded drums instead of guitar on it. How and when did that change come and why is it, this band had that many line up changes?

I started playing drums for Justice because I was their only choice, hah. When I saw the opportunity to move to guitar I took it, because I wasn't a real drummer. The reason we had so many line-up chances is because Justice demanded a lot from it's members.

5. Do you think, that if the band had a solid line-up right from the start you could have reached more?

I think we reached everything we could reach, being just a hardcore band in the hardcore-scene. Having line-up changes was part of the growing proces of Justice and it's members personally. So if anything it made us stronger.



6. Soon after you took over on guitars, the band became more melodic. A lick here and there, as well as slowing down the music a little. Were you the driving force behind this progression?

When we were writing elephant skin, we wanted that to be a real hardcore record, so we were bent on writing real hardcore songs. The songs that came more natural for that record were all the slower, groovier, more melodical songs and all the fast songs we got a headache writing them.
So after that record, I was just gonna go with whatever felt natural. I'm sure that if Erik was still in the band that ep would've turned out totally different. But I wasn't going to force this band in writing fast parts and then ending up with songs we weren't going to like.
I was just feeling that that sound was something all the individual members felt right by and that's why it came out like that.

7. Let’s have some guitar-related talk then. When and why did you decide to learn to play? Have you ever took any lessons?

When I was 12 I took some lesson for maybe a year, but I learned most of it by playing in bands.


8. I think that there are mostly two kind of guitar players. The ones who start to play because they want to start a band, who try to figure it out all by themselves but eventually need more time to get to know more besides the kind of music they’re jamin‘… And then you have the ones who start taking lessons in their childhood. They end up covering all the stuff their teachers told them but face troubles by doing their own thing at first. Do you feel familiar with one of the two?

I'm definately the former of the two. The more I play guitar, the more I feel like I can't play at all. I'm always thinking of taking jazz lessons, or just any lessons, but I never do. I def feel I should learn more technical stuff by trying to play stuff from guitarists I like.

9. Is there any guitar player (hardcore or non-hardcore) you kinda look up to? Someone who specifically inspired you in the way you play?

There are a lot of guitar players that I look up to, but there's one that really inspired me to play the way I do and that's Erik Tilburg, our former guitar player. He's not so good technically, but his ideas and riffs are always sooo cool. Hardcore guitar players that I think rule are: Matt Henderson, Walter Schreiffels, Peter Mozes, Porcell, Brian Baker and that other dude from Minor Threat, Gavin Van Vlack, Dr. know...

10. When starting finding THE riff, what guitar and what amp did you have back then?

The first amp I bought was a JCM 900 slx, the first guitar I bought was a Gibson Les Paul studio. Pretty basic stuff.



11. …And what’s your current equipment set-up like right now?

Right now I play a Gibson Les Paul custom through a JCM 800 50 watt reissue and a JMP 100 watt from '79. I use an equalizer to boost my sound and a digital delay to emphasize my leads, Matt from underdog showed me that and he told me he got it from touring with Brian Baker.

12. How important is the right choice of your gear in the beginning?

Nah man, if you're just starting out you have to go through a range of shitty stuff untill you're worthy of decent equipment. You should feel like you earned that gibson, I played a second hand 75 euro worth guitar my entire life until I started a band and then I borrowed a somewhat decent one from our second guitar player. When I started playing for Justice I bought my (Les Paul ) studio.

13. Something that I’ve been noticing for a while is that a lot (if not all) belgium bands use old classy old Marshall amps. I guess they’re not that expensive but to find the right ones could actually take some time. Any idea how to explain the belgium Marshall pre-JCM900 fetish?

Well it's kind of coindidence maybe, I know Cete from rise and fall swears by Marshall, he wouldn't use anything but Gibson, Marshall and Sunn. Michiel from dead stop just used it cause it gives him the sound he was looking for with dead stop I guess. I just use it cause I know I'm going to get an awesome sound without really putting an effort into it. I don't know a lot about gear but I know classic Marshall will give me what I need. I have played 5150's or Mesa's on tour sometimes but they don't give the notes that I play the definition that I want them to have. The sound itself is really thick, but it's also cold and muddy. I know a lot of guys who get a great sound out of those latter amps though, you just have to go with what feels right for yourself.



14. Now, I don’t know about you. But me myself, I always kinda have the same riffs I play during soundcheck. Please name your top 5 if you have any.

Good question, I always switch after every couple of shows, it depends on what I'm listening to. This is my top 5 tough:
AF - victim in pain
Bad Brains - sould craft
Bad Brains - sailin on
Led Zepellin - baby I'm gonna leave you
any new riff I'm working on.

15. Speaking of good tunes. When it comes down to hardcore, which five songs would you choose as examples for perfect riffing. Be it a whole song, a single moshpart or an intro. List them and tell me why?

AF - undertow: Matt Henderson at it's best, so hard, so groovy, so brilliant.
Bad Brains - soul craft: Best riff ever.
Burn - new morality: Listen to that opening part and try not to wish you wrote that.
Leeway - all: from born to expire until adult crash, all awesome riffs.
Justice - born to lose and every inch: Erik Tilburg doing his thing.

16. As a guy who had toured Europa several times and played with tons of other bands from all parts of the world, is there a country out there where you thought that you really hadn’t seen any single person who actually could play his guitar? Are there certain "unprogressed" countries? And what about the opposite?

LOL, not being able to play the guitar isn't determined by what country you live in. I've seen good and bad guitarists all over the world.

17. Justice is done. Rhythm To The Madness, your new band is ready to take over. The music is way harder, can we expect the unexpected the way we could with Justice? Will the Urban Metal converge with Free Jazz?

Nope, RTTM has rules because it's a band in a certain genre, and we're aiming to keep it there. However we are going to try our best to feel out the limits of that genre.

18. Beside Rhythm To The Madness, are there plans for a new band?

Yes, rttm is just something cool to do but it isn't something that flows from deep within my personality. I just try and write music like other bands have done, because I like it, I think it's fun. For example, the cro mags were really hard dudes, so when they wrote music, it obviously turned out to be hard, but I'm just this average kid who lived with his parents his whole life, so I don't have to kid myself that writing hard music is going to make me hard, it's the other way around.
So I'm trying to start up a new band that's basically gonna pick up where Justice left off and I'm gonna try and run with that and see where I end up.

19. I guess we’re done. Stief, thank you for your time. Any closing comments?

How about shoutouts: Iris, Apetown Ghent (kampioenen!), Keyzershof dinner party last saturday, powered records, Union Town and Samrosis.

• Rhythm To The Madness
• Justice
• Powered Records

"shoot baby, shoot baby!"

The video's kinda silly, but I dig the song.

"...wish i wasn't an emotional wrack"

So yeah, I'm a bit lazy. There hasn't been anything new within the last couple of weeks, but I'm really busy with other stuff surrounding me. I'm going to upload this blog soon, I already got a couple of ideas, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, I just want to say, that the last Justice Show was awesome. It was cool to hang out and great to see some familiar faces. Blacklisted and True Colors got an awesome crowd response and Justice just killed it. I bought their latest record "Lived and Learned", it's good. Again, the new record is hard to compare with their last one, since it's got a totally different feeling. Lyrics are dark and the music (especially the guitarwork) got a huge Quicksand-Vibe in it. Best song, at least in my opinion is "Meaningless". Filip did a great job with his voice on this one, so don't sleep on that.

And YES, Blacklisted played as well, as mentioned above. That being said, i love that band. I remember hearing a recorded version of the song "Wish" for the first time when they were here, and I was totally blown away. I refused to download the leaked version of the record, because that's one of the few records that actually matters in my opinion. So, I'm gonna wait. For the others more curious of you out there, if you haven't noticed, the band uploaded an album-stream on their myspace.

I know, it's a rather needles blog entry, it's just to show that this blog is not dead (yet). Bye.

"it's normal to be afraid..."

Short random notice before I go to bed: Today, I figured out that I'm gonna see Isis, Dinosaur JR, Band Of Horses and Explosions In The Sky in the next couple of months. That's cool.

To end the day, here's a live version of Explosions In The Sky's "The Birth And Death Of The Day". Nice tune, check it.

"realize that this is hell..."

Today's band featured on this blog is called Pulling Teeth. They currently released an awesome record called Martyr Immortal on Deathwish, which I really dig. And finally this band got the attention the may have deserved already a couple of years ago.

A friend of mine once got me a copy of their demo CDR. He told me, he got it through some Slumlords guy and what not. Since I have never been a big Slumlords fan I didn't had high hopes on this band. But, boy was I wrong. The three songs that were on that record really got me. It has a huge Thrash Metal edge, it has shredding guitars, it has some Clevo Moshparts and it has apocalyptic and socio-critical lyrics. I listened to the demo a lot, but after a while I somehow forgot about the band. The main reason for that will most likely have been the fact, that the three songs are really, really short.

Anyway, after being really excited about their latest output Martyr Immortal, I thought it was time to upload this demo for my ipod and why not upload it for my blog as well? So, here we are. If I remember correctly, all the songs appeared on their first real release Vicious Skin as well, so it's nothing new except for the mix of the recordings. Feel free to enjoy anyway.

1. The Kids Are Not Alright

2. Bleeding To Death

3. Sand and Cells

Download link

Winter Tour Report pt. II

The sequel of the already legendary Tour Report pt. I. Here it is, by the way, go and buy the new PJ Harvey Album "White Chalk". Lovin' it.

Dec 24, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

After an awesome 10-hour sleep we got up in the morning in Vienna. Actually my mind won't let me remember if we hung out in Vienna or if we drove straight forward to Slovenia. But I know, that we were listening to Turbonegro in the van, and I also remember by now, that Krieger (singer of Fall Apart) went at war with a bus stop sign. You can't imagine? Pretty simple: He tried to get our van out of the parking and ignored the above mentioned sign. The sound of "Kkkkkkkkkkkrsh" was recognisable for everyone inside the van. If we hadn't expect this tour to turn out a finacially disaster, we realized so shortly after that accident. But hey, Krieger's gonna pay this on his one and will most likely sell some of his xposix records on ebay to do so. Yup.

So, Slovenia! We arrived there, while the sun was setting and it was an awesome landscape. A little bit of a mediterrian feeling came up and we got high hopes for the show that night. The promoter of the show mailed us before, to let us know that we should just try to find "the huge casino building in the center of the city". We did so, some minutes passed by and a super chill anarcho-crustie with booze in his hands walked our way saying something like "So, you are swiss bastards? Welcome!". Awesome! Turns out, the show takes place at a small squat called Ideal Bar. They had a party going on for three days already which was their way to celebrate Christmas. We spend some time in the "backstage" watching Nirvana Homevideos as well as the super good movie STREET TRASH together with a super drunk anarcho (with an old MAYHEM Longsleeve btw.) who seemed to know every single spoken word in the movie. After a lot of hanging around and having food, FALL APART played a short set in front of 15 people. So did we. We gave away some free shirts as well as a lot of beer and the crowd seemed to like it. Altough they found it pretty strange, that most of us weren't totally drunk.


Dominik, our drummer banged the drum so hard, that there was a huge hole afterwards. One of the guys in FALL APART didn't know any better than sayin' "You can put your penis into this!", so one of the crusties managed to do so... Now, imagine yourself how a completely wasted punk tries to put his dick into this hole of the snare head in front of some retards from Switzerland.



After the show we had to load our gear into the van again, cause we had a long drive before us through the night. The punks tried their best to convince us to stay there and party on with them for like forever, but we didn't. Everyone got into the van, I had to stay up the whole drive, to make sure our driver didn't fall asleep. Again, the whole landscape was awesome. We drove through Croatia were there was a lot of snow contrary to the almost warm weather in Slovenia.


We decided to make a short trip to Budapest, Hungary since we had enough time. At the borders to Hungary policemen stopped us and asked us for some kind of a permission we should had in order to pass the borders. We didn't know anything about that and so the guys in blue told us to drive back to the borders of SLOVENIA to get some. Wow... needless to say, we didn't want to do so. All of a sudden, the one guy said something in the way of "Well, you are a rockband, so you have to sing something for us to pass the borders, and yeah, give us a cd". There we were, 9 kids in a van singing "Jingle Bells" at 4 o'clock in the morning somewhere in eastern europe.

After I told them, that we sound like Bruce Springsteen they were satisfied and let us pass.


Dez 25, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia


It seemed to me like this day never ended. After ending up in Budapest at 9 in the morning on this holy day, we started to realise that every single shop was closed that date. Too bad. Especially for Benno, since he tends to be a hungry guy. Somewhere along the highway I also managed to get rid of my beloved STRIFE baseball cap (Victory Records, circa 1997), since I thought that it will bring us no luck. So, that was definitely a hard but fair decision.


Banksa Bystrica is a nice, small town. I'm not sure but from what I saw, it seems quite touristic and also there were a lot of alternativ/punk people around there. We finally found a Pizzeria with cheap prices and I lost my wallet. Or it got stolen. Whatever.

The show was put up by a cool Irish guy, who's name I already forgot. But he was supernice and took care of us. There were alot of people and some local bands raging from Crust to Screamo to Grindcore. My ears heard a Nasum Covertune as well. I went into the van to take some sleep, because I was so damn tired and the show was set up late. I guess, we both played good sets that night. We played the song "Shroud" from a band called Born Against. We did this several times before, but it's kinda weird, when after the show an elderly guy comes up to you, wanting to thank you so much for that one song and so on. I mean, in Switzerland or Germany, when playing a classic hardcore show, people are way too cool to tell you so, nor do they know any bands that aren't hyped at the moment. Sad but true.

Our singer also managed to break some girls' hearts. While playing our show, two girls were standing in the first row. All eyes on him, without even noticing the REST OF US BEING COOL AS WELL! No, sorry. Nevermind.

We crashed at the promoters house and I finally got my urgently needed sleep.

We Are The Youth

"Fools follow rules, but this is not a game..."

Everyone who knows me a little better actually should know that there are probably two hardcore bands which I put above every other shitgroup. First there is Judge, second there is Burn. While Judge got me because they were one of the first real hard (and by "hard" I mean, in fact "hard") bands around with emotional and personal lyrics, Burn always will have a place in my heart as a band that stood out of the masses like no other band at that time did.

While coming out of the same scene Judge, YOT and many others came from, the band knew how to put hardcore on some next, higher level. With the release of their first self-titled 4-song ep on Revelation Records they showed that progression is possible within such a small, sometimes ignorant scene. Burn took a completlely different path than others did.

Until that day, I personally think that no other band could mess with Burn the way they made and played their songs. Of course, a lot has changed and a thousand of bands existed or still exist that are technically on a higher level, but the thing that made Burn special is, that they still were a hardcore band. It wasn't just a band where everyone wanted to show their skills, they still got short and fast songs with the energy of punk and hardcore... progressive hardcore!

By chance a found some videos of one of their later on following reunion shows. Check them out. Seems like not a lot of people did really care about them, but still the band went nuts and played well. On the second guitar we have Vic 108/Beyond/Shelter. Man, Vic and Gavin, two of the most interesting guitarplayers in the history of hardcore in one band! ...Oh and check out Chaka's speech in the beginning of "New Morality". Yes, I love Burn. Good Night!
SHALL BE JUDGED

NEW MORALITY

GODHEAD

OUT OF TIME

Winter Tour Report Part I

Finally I managed to make my first blog-entry in 2008. As you might know, Seed Of Pain went on tour during christmas holiday together with Fall Apart. I took my time to put up a little tour-report. Here it is:

FUCK CHRISTMAS - PRAISE SATAN TOUR 07 PART 1

Dec 21 Zug, Switzerland


After getting our van ready and loading in our stuff (which took us about a whole day) we arrived at the venue. Of course not on time. Fedi, the promoter of the show inmediately made us feel welcome when we drove our van to the venue by showing us his grimmy face and his nice italian middle finger... AND cooking awesome food for us. Let's talk about the show. The event was called "X-Mas Mosh Festival", other bands playing were Born From Pain, No Turning Back and a few moshy swiss bands. We really did NOT fit in to the bill, but nevermind. We had our fun. I guess, we played okay and to my suprise a lot of people were actually watching us with their cute New Era Caps on.

After SOP, Fall Apart followed up. I personally think, that this was the best set of them I have witnessed yet. The crowd-response was cool, people sang along and I even found myself trying out what it's like to be stagediving. (Dear readers, stagediving is still no good, since that night my back hurts constantly.)

After the show, we went back to Lucerne to our homes and families.

Dec 22, Winterthur, Switzerland

This show was in a nice, small squat. SOP and FA were the only bands playing, still a lot of people actually showed up. That's no big surprise, since Fall Apart got a lot of strange friends from Winterthur. They all showed up, drank beer and danced to silly and/or bad music. The atmosphere was completly different from the day before, way more familiar. Thomas from Germany showed up with our 12inches, so this was kind of our record release show. We had a hell of a luck, cause the 12inches should have already arrived the day before, but DHL somehow fucked that up. Whatever, we were damn happy to have the records with us for the tour.

After the show we slept at the venue, while all the crusties and anachrists made a HUGE party downstairs( H-U-G-E). Sadly without us, cause the day after we had to get up early. Vienna was our next destination.

Dec 23, Vienna, Austria

We didn't get much sleep. We got up at something like 6 o' clock in the morning and when we wanted to load our stuff into the van, we realised that the already infamous after-show-party was still going on. We had to explain to everyone, why we were ALREADY leaving and that it was nothing personal and so on. It was quite funny. But we didn't have any time to waste. Travelling from Winterthur to Vienna takes some time.

While being on the road, we listened to the song "The Decline" from NOFX over and over again. Good song.

We managed to arrive more than on time in Vienna at the Arena. Pascal FA had the nice idea of going to the famous Vegetasia Restaurant, too bad that we found ourselves after a 30 minutes walk in the cold in front of a closed restaurant. After saying FUCK YOU to the opening times that restaurant has in our own way, we walked back to the venue.

Again, SOP was the opening act of the evening. From the beginning on I had some strange problems with my amp. The sound was desasterous on stage and I guess not much better in front of it. I can't even say if we played bad, it just sounded crappy anyway. However, people showed up and watched us, which I think isn't always like that! So, thank you Vienna. Next time, it'll be better.

After FA, Losing X Streak played and the Vienna Crew went completly insane. People were moshing and singing along. They made LXS feel really welcome. To be honest, I didn't really dig their music, however I fully enjoyed their Cro-Mags covers. Meanwhile, Adi FA went to the hospital to check, what's up with his foot. We already feared that we had to cancel the following shows, but happily after a while he returned with the news, that the doctors didn't find anything.

Since everyone was tired from the short night before and the long drive we decided to go to sleep as soon as we could. I fell asleep soon after I read "FUCK DMS" written by Rick Ta Life on the bedroom wall of the venue. "Fuck Rick Ta Life" I whispered back.