Recent content by mindcrime2358

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    My PP4 Pix (or at least the ones that came out)

    Hey! That's me handing a camera to someone in the picture of Evergrey at the autograph booth.
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    Hotel Alternative

    Is there any cheaper alternatives to a hotel room? Hell, I'd settle for a parking lot to stay in overnight... We drove from Wilmington, NC to Baltimore for Dream Theater/Queenryche in July which was 7 hours, then to Cleveland for Iron Maiden this month, which ended up being 13 hours. I've got...
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    Weird Experience

    The Wednesday after ProgPower III, me and my friend went to see Onward & Angra at a club called Ziggy's By The Sea. This was after seend Angra at ProgPower, with a pretty good amount of people there. Also, I've seen a video of Angra playing Rebirth in front of a HUGE crowd of people. Anyway, we...
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    Grade each bands performance in past ProgPowers

    Zero Hour-8: As far as technical playing goes, they blew everyone else out of the goddamn water. They were gods. As far as stage presence, they couldve done better. But I've tried to play Zero Hour stuff with my band, and it's not easy to move all over the place while concentrating on...
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    Post 10 bands who you hope to see at future ProgPowers.

    Onward Rhapsody Hammerfall Zero Hour Spiral Architect Shadow Bal-Sagoth Nocturnal Rites Wuthering Heights Shaman
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    Evergrey to play NYC before Progpower!

    . Does anyone else really have trouble understanding why everyone likes Arch Enemy so damn much? Ok, they have a girl singer, so what? So does Shadow, and I like them much better. I don't need Angela Gossow shoved down my throat every time I pick up a metal magazine. And I wish people would...
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    Where is everybody coming from??

    Wilmington, NC
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    Progpower 5 submissions and requests

    Onward Primal Fear Zero Hour Hammerfall as for up and comers, Alchemy X Widow (great band from where I live. check em out http://www.burning-village.com/index.shtml And if you can have Devin freakin Townsend, then why not have Bal-Sagoth. All hail Byron!
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    Your recommendation...

    Dont forget about the techincal metal, like Zero Hour and Spiral Architect. A little hard for some people to adjust to at first, but its some amazing stuff.