25 ways of the Davo

1. I would describe myself as a Metaller.

2. My 10 favourite bands would be: Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Rammstein, Gojira, Metallica, Marilyn Manson, Machine Head, Judas Priest, Devildriver
To keep it themed and make it 25, add these as well: A Perfect Circle, Lamb Of God, Killing Miranda, London After Midnight, Slipknot, Korn, Snake River Conspiracy, Sepultura, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, The Smashing Pumpkins, System Of A Down, The Pixies, VNV Nation

3. I’m a Vegetarian and it fucks me off that I get so much abuse for it, as I never preach to meat eaters at all.

4. I like sci-fi a lot. Star Trek, Buffy, Firefly, Bablyon 5, Stargate….all awesome!

5. I’m really down at the moment because a lot of negative shit keeps happening in my life. I appreciate when people say I can talk about with them but I don’t want to keep talking about it, I want it to get better!

6. I didn’t bother with uni despite getting better a-level grades than most people I know. I’ve thought about it but it just doesn’t appeal.

7. I work in a newsagents. I’ve been in retail since I was 18 and it’s crap and boring and I hopefully will do something better in the future.

8. I want to go abroad more, I like seeing other countries and exploring them but haven’t done so enough.

9. I’m an atheist. I have immense dislike for organised religion.

10. I love going to rock/metal festivals and gigs. I’ve been to every single Download and 7 Readings. I’m happy to watch a band I like time and time again.

11. I fucking hate a lot of people….namely those who are disrespectful to others and get enjoyment from causing misery.

12. I vote Liberal Democrat.

13. I don’t have tattoo’s or piercing but I do actually like them on other people (particularly hot metal girls….), it just doesn’t make sense to me to get them done myself.

14. I didn’t really start finding my identity until I was 15/16ish and started hanging out with a different group of people and hearing music that didn’t suck for the first time….

15. There was a whole month when I was 17 when I literally listened to nothing but the Smashing Pumpkins. Then I went to Discord and Liam (for some reason) didn’t just play them all night…..

16. I started the huge bottle fight before Lamb Of God at Download 2007.

17. The first album I ever purchased was Rage Against the Machine’s self titled debut when I was 16.

18. I’m a part of TEAM SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19. I want to own a metal shop selling CD’s and hoodies and stuff like that so I can spend my whole time at work air guitaring and talking about bands I love.

20. I fell out of love with football when I was about 17/18 and haven’t returned to it since. Crazy to think I loved it like every other kid when I was younger.

21. I think I’ve matured a lot in the past couple months in particular.

22. I read alot. Not so much at current but I’ve read crazy amounts in the past and will do again.

23. I don’t feel any pride at being English or British or whatever. I more consider myself European rather than either of those terms, because of all the nationalism associated with them. And yeah…I WANT the UK to join the Euro.

24. I’m a bit of a wanderer, I feel directionless a lot of the time

25. My friends are awesome.

LAMB OF GOD

Last week me and many of the Bath metal heads travelled to Bristol to go the Accademy to witness the Defenders Of The Faith 2 tour. Five Finger Death Punch, Unearth and Dimmu Borguoir were all pretty good. Then came the almighty Lamb Of God. They were fantastic. Really, really good gig. They performed very well and the setlist was pure genius!

Hourglass
Laid To Rest
Walk With Me In Hell
Pathetic
Set To Fail
Ruin
Descending
Something To Die For
Dead Seeds
Blacken The Cursed Sun
Omerta
Vigil
Contractor
Redneck
Black Label

Every song was a highlight really, but particuarly enjoyed the first 4, Descending followed by Now You've Got Soemthign To Die for and the closing salvo of Redneck and Blkack Label (and of course when they announced Black Label I ran straight into the middle screamign Wall OfDeath and throwing people to each side!)

The new stuff soudned really good, was a wicked night. Fuck yeah METAL! :D

Fucking fuck fuck fuck!

Long story short, I managed to lock myself out of work today which was a fucking nightmare. Empasis on the fuck and the ing and the nightmare. It was like an episode of Black Books but ACTULLY REALY AND HAPPENING TO ME! *WEEP Thankfully I found emmzy and she let me borrow her phone to get hold of Trev and eventually the shop was re-opened. Really stressed me out though. Argh. And Now I feel fuckign stupid and pissed off.

Soulfly

Me and my bro ventured over to Bristol last night to see the mighty Soulfly, who kicked much ass! Very metal, very fucking good! Opening 4 song slavo of 'Blood, Fire, War, Hate', 'Refuse/Resist', 'The Prophecy' and 'Back To The Primative' = fucking moshtastic! Other higlights were 'Red War' (the song Max did with Probot!), Unleash (Wall Of DEATH!) and Troops Of Doom! And lets not forget ending with 'Eye For An EYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

So yes, a short sharp and to the fucking metal point set. Very glad I went!