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Why doesn't Ireland get these kind of shows?

The population of London City is greater than the population of the entirety of Ireland.

Very tempted by this, although I'm going to Maryland Death Fest a few weeks later.

I was always curious as to how this can be free when I know a big issue with a lot of bands not coming to Ireland is costs / not getting a big enough crowd yet a band like Drowned can play a free show in Limerick? I know they are not the first or biggest international act to have played this festival bigger bands have played before when it was also free in.

Not all the bands get paid. You could probably draw a line on the poster at some point and all the bands above get paid, and all the bands below don't.

Class lineup, might actually get down.

Interesting to see how it works - I assumed you queued up to get a wrist band. I will be down early anyway if I do get going, their merch is always unreal.

Take the head off your electric toothbrush and put it in them.

That was a great story. Possibly merits a separate thread for first/exploratory/lo-fi band attempts?

I wonder how much they paid to get on that bill.

Oh cool, might get down to this.

No longer available, sorry.

Altars is still their peak, and probably my favourite DM album, but revisiting Formulas and Heretic they sound really interesting. Very complex and heavy, they really sound like being trapped in Quake/Doom which is apparently what Trey did 24/7 at the time.

I started re-reading through the Discworld books from the start, I am just about to finish Thief of Time.

The only one I actually didn't absolutely love has been Interesting Times - I thought his attempts to satirize ancient Chinese culture was clunky and came across as awkward. Also the story seemed to drag.

On the non-fiction side, I read Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum. Very interesting, really helped explain Russia's current attitude towards Ukraine. Harrowing at times.

I am going to have to sell my ticket to this unfortunately, something has come up.

Face value obviously. PM me.

I will let this go for E35.

I am going to have to sell my ticket to this unfortunately, something has come up.

Face value obviously. PM me.

None, not even really sure who is running it because it doesn't seem like Distortion Project. This, Brujería and Suffocation don't really have any info on the Belfast shows.

Must give the Bon Jovi one and Exhumed a go, will deffo save Exhumed for a few cans. The Slave to the Grind documentary about grindcore is still all on YoutTube, it is a fun watch. 

Watched the Exhumed one with a few cyans, good craic, dragged a bit near the end I thought.

Would love to see Zealot Cult open in Belfast too, or Strangle Wire.

Seen Suffocation the last time they played the Limelight absolutely dying a death, Cannibal Corpse were in the other Limelight the night before!

I'd say he is still sober. He seems to have lightened up a bit lately, there was a video on their instagram warming up backstage and the band started jamming some Latin music and they started dancing, even Abbath himself 

Would hit this in Belfast but a bit of a stretch for a Tuesday. Great supports too.