Metal memories

[Lurker]

Why so short, were his health problems starting then?

short because everything started late,very late as i remrmber.Chuck himself in top form.

Aaah Burrgermeister,running the scumbag gauntlet was a right bastard back in the day all right.3 lads i know had tickets robbed (1 victim type twice). Surrounded once myself after and ordered not to run before bolting like a rabbit between the 2 smallest scrotes.Twas strange it seemed just part of a McGonagles gig.Great days all the same.6'3, handy for catching and keeping sticks

[Bürggermeister]

Ah yeah, I did ok. At Kreator in the Top Hat, I came away with 7 plecs and a stick. Mille just kept coming over to where I was at the barrier and... yoink, thanks! 😂

[Lurker]

The lad that robbed the tour bus didn't come away with as much.ya must have a fine collection at this stage.Only managed one lousy pick ever and it hardly counts as I had to ask for it after the show

[ochoill]

A very personal metal memory here but I can still remember the week I realised I didn't actually like nu metal and was just idly listening to it, and it was when I swapped a copy of NIN "Fixed" for both Korn "Issues" and Methods of Mayhem's s/t.  Quantity over quality there.  Deeply regretted the swap in absolutely no time.  Horseshit.  My first ever gig was Korn all the same, a year later, and I enjoyed it too.

A lot of my metal memories are more in line with that or stupid things happening at gigs.  I saw Astfgyl get hit in the hole by a car outside Metallica years back too, he swore he was grand then spent the rest of the gig in a squat on the ground.  Unreal

Edit, re. that Metallica gig - they were touring St. Anger (downer) with Linkin Park (downer) and The Darkness (downer).  Enjoyed it though, still a decent set off Metallica, and my first proper crowdsurf, up during Battery for ages looking back into the stadium crowd going spare, thinking "this is fuckin lethal", 16 years old.  Then was dropped down over the barrier where someone grabbed my jocks from the top of my pants while security were dragging me down.  They managed to rip them clean off my body from under my jeans.  Security let me back in through the back of the crowd, where eventually I found the other lad still squatting and trying to tell me he was enjoying himself

[Circlepit]

I remember my brother had Girls,Girls, Girls on tape and I thought it was so heavy!
Back then Top Of The Pops used to play a video during the closing credits. Paradise City came on.
It was like lightning in my brain. It blew me away. Then I was given a copy of Master Of Puppets, The Real Thing and Arise.

I got about 5 seconds into Battery then switched it off as I thought it m was going to be some acoustic shit. What a fool!!!!
Faith No More was another light bulb moment and Sepultura scared the shit out of me but I knew I was hooked.

My first proper gig was Sunstroke 94.
Myself and my friend went hell for leather on the mosh pit as soon as we got in. By the time Helmet finished their set we were fit for bed.

Therapy? could have set fire to themselves and I wouldn't have noticed.
I also thought I was a hippitty hop king  during IceCube.

[astfgyl]

A very personal metal memory here but I can still remember the week I realised I didn't actually like nu metal and was just idly listening to it, and it was when I swapped a copy of NIN "Fixed" for both Korn "Issues" and Methods of Mayhem's s/t.  Quantity over quality there.  Deeply regretted the swap in absolutely no time.  Horseshit.  My first ever gig was Korn all the same, a year later, and I enjoyed it too.

A lot of my metal memories are more in line with that or stupid things happening at gigs.  I saw Astfgyl get hit in the hole by a car outside Metallica years back too, he swore he was grand then spent the rest of the gig in a squat on the ground.  Unreal

Edit, re. that Metallica gig - they were touring St. Anger (downer) with Linkin Park (downer) and The Darkness (downer).  Enjoyed it though, still a decent set off Metallica, and my first proper crowdsurf, up during Battery for ages looking back into the stadium crowd going spare, thinking "this is fuckin lethal", 16 years old.  Then was dropped down over the barrier where someone grabbed my jocks from the top of my pants while security were dragging me down.  They managed to rip them clean off my body from under my jeans.  Security let me back in through the back of the crowd, where eventually I found the other lad still squatting and trying to tell me he was enjoying himself

I was enjoying myself it was just that Linkin Park were giving me the shitting pains was all it was nothing to do with the car in the arse. Have to say LP were the least live sounding live band I've ever seen.

One of my favourite memories at any gig was at Deicide when Glen Benton started acting hardy after being hit with a plastic cup but got instantly put back in his box when a big lump of an Eastern European lad in a wifebeater was pointed out as the culprit. Actually his offstage voice was hilarious as well when I bumped into him before the gig.

[Lurker]

Came across this from an Fugazi show in McGonagles,a great pic with alot going on.Wasn't at it but it brought back memories of a day when aggressive exuberance was not only welcomed but expected

[open face surgery]

Another one, slightly more silly, that comes to mind was down at Day of Darkness in around 07 or 08 and myself and Open Face Surgery,  drunk as mules, sitting in my old purple Ford Ka (what??) and singing along to Footprints by Warning. Possibly twice in a row... then getting out of the car and chatting with the singer from Graveyard Dirt, and between him being fucked and me being fucked and him having the strongest Donegal accent in, eh, Donegal, I couldn't understand a fucking word. But sure, we had a laugh all the same 

What sort of silly, funny, profound or otherwise memories do you have around this little subculture of ours?

  Only the vaguest of memories of that one. Well, I remember the Donegal accent and the Dummu Borgir shirt he was wearing with slits on the elbows for some reason.

Crowdsurfing during the middle riff of Angel of Death in The Point in 01.

That Enslaved gig was September 06 and amazing. Time flies.

[Eoin McLove]

I think there may have been a few spritzers on board!

[Circlepit]

The last Day Of Darkness I was at had Primordial as headliners and I'm sure Abaddon Incarnate too. They were heavy as hell that day.
I bought a six feet under cd amd a demo from a band called Moonfog.
Them I had fun with a lady on the bus home. I ruled!!

[Eoin McLove]

A bit of a "totes random" memory here, but I remember as a young lad, very early 90s it would have been I think, and going swimming in Stewart's in Palmerston and in the changing room seeing a canvas school bag from, presumably, an older kid. It was covered in metal logos but the one that sticks out in my memory was the Pestilence logo. Over the decades I've sometimes wondered who it might have belonged to and if it might have been one of the Morphosis dudes who lived close by in Lucan...

[ochoill]

A bit of a "totes random" memory here, but I remember as a young lad, very early 90s it would have been I think, and going swimming in Stewart's in Palmerston and in the changing room seeing a canvas school bag from, presumably, an older kid. It was covered in metal logos but the one that sticks out in my memory was the Pestilence logo. Over the decades I've sometimes wondered who it might have belonged to and if it might have been one of the Morphosis dudes who lived close by in Lucan...

Slightly similar but older, I was around 15 and helping our old youth club clear out a room they were renting in the town, over a funeral home (which has another few related odd memories as a kid).  There was a part we never used and I was asked to haul some furniture out to a skip.  Among them all was an old chair, beige canvas and steel frame.  The back of it was covered in faded 80s metal names - in particular I remember Venom, Accept, Sodom, and Bathory on it.  I knew these bands by name but had only ever listened to Venom.

I asked the YC staff about it, they had no idea who drew on it, "it's been here like that since we had the rooms, so it must have been done beforehand".  They were in this building since the mid 90s so it was done long enough before then for it to be abandoned to them as a spare.  Something compelled me to take it home, even though I knew fuck all of the bands on it, the thought of this odd little relic from a metalhead a decade or so previous struck me, it would be like someone finding my old green canvas backpacks.

So it sat in the room, with meself and the brothers laughing at it every now and again, wondering who in the town tagged the chair with all this 80s metal, but it was still up at home last time I was there, with the names basically faded off it now.

Yeah it went nowhere but it's a metal memory.

[Eoin McLove]

That's magic. The amount of bands who I was familiar with by name and logo/ artwork/ imagery alone as a kid, some of whom I developed a liking for as I got older, and some of whom I still haven't really delved into. I find the majority of my taste over the past few years has been at the older end of the spectrum (a bit like myself) so I'm sure I'll get around to all of it in good time.

[Bürggermeister]

I loved the risk of pre-internet times, seeing band names scrawled on jackets and bags and, based on the other band logos there you might know and like, deciding it might be worth a gamble picking up an album by them. Similarly, seeing band names on t-shirts worn in pictures by bands you like or mentioned in thanks lists, sort of a quality assurance by association thing. I got into loads of bands in this way, taking a chance on buying something by bands I had never heard a note of, going on where I'd seen their name combined with the label they were on, the artwork, all that sort of stuff.

[Pentagrimes]

 I was thinking about this thread earlier and one of my favourite memories of the teen metal days has to be putting on a Lamentations/Unearthly/Dreamsfear/Morningstar gig in Gerry's in Waterford when we were all about 15/16, back when apparently letting a bunch of clearly underage kids do a gig in the back of your pub on a Saturday afternoon seemed totally acceptable. Absolute mayhem, bunch of folks travelled from all over, I think Darragh or Quirkey ended up on door duties at some point?

Morningstar (some of whom I think went on to Geasa later) had a singer who did the full corpsepaint/robes thing and did some sort of mock communion thing which the ould one who ran the place had a shit fit over. Very fond memories of piling back to my gaff after and staying up all night talking shite, sneaking in to  the kitchen to watch Anathema on Raw Power or whatever at about 1 amwhile trying not to wake my ma..ah the innocence of youth! I actually have pictures somewhere of the gang of us in my gaff, but none of the actual gig - there was a video of it somewhere but fuck knows where it went.

I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure that was the only show Unearthly ever played? Think they played a Gorefest cover that I did vocals for if my memory serves me right also. The night definitely ended with some sort of "Midnight Mountain" cover/free for all.