<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:07:59.769-08:00</updated><category term='Punk'/><category term='Hewhocorrupts'/><category term='Grindcore'/><category term='Powerviolence'/><category term='Indiana'/><category term='Chicago'/><category term='Metal'/><category term='Pig Destroyer'/><category term='Dudefest'/><title type='text'>BACON AND BLASTBEATS</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-6830030601398016389</id><published>2009-02-02T10:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T10:33:36.097-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Should Hewhocorrupts Inc. Sue Careerbuilder.com?</title><content type='html'>Is corporate America finally running out of ideas? Have the so-called "Marketing Experts" at the big firms finally figured out that the intarwebs is the best source of ideas as opposed to 4 years learning about trends and charts at an Ivy League American college? One thing's for sure: Hewhocorrupts Inc. wins this one based on originality. You decide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Careerbuilder.com Superbowl 2009 commercial:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fsJ6HVkWT14&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fsJ6HVkWT14&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hewhocorrupts: Master of Profits:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXhRCfyIc3M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXhRCfyIc3M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-6830030601398016389?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/6830030601398016389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=6830030601398016389' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6830030601398016389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6830030601398016389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2009/02/should-hewhocorrupts-inc-sue.html' title='Should Hewhocorrupts Inc. Sue Careerbuilder.com?'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-644711507265505896</id><published>2009-01-31T18:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-31T18:18:05.268-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Baconaut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/images/bacon-12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 576px; height: 432px;" src="http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/images/bacon-12.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would love to try this motherload of meaty goodness known as the &lt;a href="http://www.bbqaddicts.com/bacon-explosion.html"&gt;Bacon Explosion&lt;/a&gt;. If I were to die of a heart attack while eating this, it will be well worth the effort.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-644711507265505896?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/644711507265505896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=644711507265505896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/644711507265505896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/644711507265505896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2009/01/baconaut.html' title='The Baconaut'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-9148050826008389379</id><published>2009-01-26T07:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T08:02:18.425-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lil' Wayne Likes Cynic?</title><content type='html'>Cynic: Veil of Maya (live at Hoevifestivalen, Norway, 2007)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c5VzbQQEQo0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c5VzbQQEQo0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lil' Wayne: Prom Queen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ip8IFSTMlO0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ip8IFSTMlO0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-9148050826008389379?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/9148050826008389379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=9148050826008389379' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/9148050826008389379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/9148050826008389379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2009/01/lil-wayne-likes-cynic.html' title='Lil&apos; Wayne Likes Cynic?'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-1515947735220864474</id><published>2009-01-21T12:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T12:03:46.697-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Balloons=Metal</title><content type='html'>Nena-99 Luftballoons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jQYQTFudrqc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jQYQTFudrqc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iron Maiden-The Wicker Man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BA-iouPu6oE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BA-iouPu6oE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-1515947735220864474?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/1515947735220864474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=1515947735220864474' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1515947735220864474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1515947735220864474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2009/01/balloonsmetal.html' title='Balloons=Metal'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-6365546520346447581</id><published>2009-01-09T07:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T08:14:50.194-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bacon's Top 10 Albums of 2008</title><content type='html'>Aaaah, it's 2009 according to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar"&gt;Gregorian&lt;/a&gt; calendar but according to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_year#January"&gt;Russian Orthodox calendar&lt;/a&gt;, it's still Christmas. So that's a quick cop out for being so late with coming up with a list. Anyhoo, here are my top 10 albums of 2008:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Nachtmystium-Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61hUjeDl8-L._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely the most adventurous release of the year. If the members of &lt;a href="http://www.pinkfloyd.com/"&gt;Pink Floyd&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.tangerinedream.org/"&gt;Tangerine Dream&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/hawkwindofficial"&gt;Hawkwind&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathory_(band)"&gt;Bathory&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/ulver1"&gt;Ulver&lt;/a&gt; did an all night jam session, this would be the fine product, covered in hash smoke and colorful lights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Disfear-Live the Storm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61lmSUUBWwL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The punkest release of the year. And this band has two of Death Metal's OG's, &lt;a href="http://www.atthegates.se/"&gt;Tomas Lindberg&lt;/a&gt; of At The Gates and &lt;a href="http://www.entombed.com"&gt;Uffe Cederlund, formerly of Entombed&lt;/a&gt;. Think &lt;a href="http://www.imotorhead.com/"&gt;Motorhead&lt;/a&gt; on steroids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Coffins-Buried Death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61uHSS27PAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Death Metal these days is all about how much your BPM is and how many time signatures can be applied to a song, coupled by clean production polished by Pro Tools. &lt;a href="http://www.coffins.jp/"&gt;Coffins&lt;/a&gt; from Japan doesn't give a shit about that. They put on the back to basics old school Death Metal, pure evil riffage, and what's important the most: putting the death back in Death Metal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Trinacria-Travel Now, Journey Infinitely&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zE%2BOL2kfL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A total mind fuck of an band, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/trinacriamusic"&gt;Trinacria&lt;/a&gt; sounds like Vikings who stumbled upon an icy grave, only to be cryogenically thawed a thousand years later in the year 2008. Vikings who then later discovered how to use synthesizers and distortion pedals along with the electric guitar and percussion sections. Features members of Norwegian noise muses &lt;a href="http://www.femailmusic.com/"&gt;Fe-Mail&lt;/a&gt; and Viking Metal vets &lt;a href="http://www.enslaved.no/"&gt;Enslaved&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. The Gates of Slumber-Conqueror&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jBPBYWiUL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most overlooked albums of the year, Conqueror is a concept album that recalls &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian"&gt;Conan the Barbarian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull"&gt;Kull the Conqueror's &lt;/a&gt;epic storylines mixed with very thundering riffage inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.manillaroad.net/"&gt;Manilla Road&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=37249652"&gt;Cirith Ungol&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Torche-Meanderthal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/61tsQgcbeFL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.torchemusic.com/"&gt;Torche&lt;/a&gt; never ceases to impress me. They can be really massively heavy while being able to harmonize and concoct those catchy riffs. If stoners smoked weed and ate a lot of cotton candy, this might be the end result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Boris-Smile&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mLjrIzlNL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/borisdronevil"&gt;Boris&lt;/a&gt; are definitely the torch bearers of psychelic doom-tinged Experimental Metal from Japan. "My Neighbor Satan" is my favorite song title of the year, and this album is a weird mix of punk and colorful doom pyschedelia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Enslaved-Vertebrae&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.tigernet.no/WebRoot/Tiger/Shops/Tigernet/48A1/6976/70D9/9E9D/4338/5286/5705/F6DE/123110.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enslaved manages to make albums that don't sound alike, and do it in a very impressive way. The perfect soundtrack to watching the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)"&gt;Northern Lights &lt;/a&gt;while enjoying some &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead"&gt;Mead&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen"&gt;Bergen, Norway&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Plague Bringer-Life Songs in a Land of Death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410nBx5iqhL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grindcore has always been either politically correct or just obscenely gross. &lt;a href="http://www.plaguebringer.com/"&gt;Plague Bringer&lt;/a&gt; brings down all those conventions with Grindcore that comes from the heart. A digital testimony against the continued digitalization of the human existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Toxic Holocaust-An Overdose of Death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61A8TcdQIFL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thrash got so milked out really dry in 2008. So many bands are trying to sound like &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/exodus"&gt;Exodus&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.testamentlegions.com/"&gt;Testament&lt;/a&gt; did back in 1987. Toxic Holocaust started the Thrash throwback in 1999 though, back when these bands were either still grade school or playing in nu metal cover bands. Toxic upends these young upstarts with a blackened Thrash attack that can make &lt;a href="http://www.hellhammer.org/"&gt;Hellhammer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.sodomized.info/"&gt;Sodom&lt;/a&gt; proud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out these wonderful albums if you haven't yet. Looking forward to a great year with more great Metal to come!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-6365546520346447581?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/6365546520346447581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=6365546520346447581' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6365546520346447581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6365546520346447581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2009/01/bacons-to-10-albums-of-2008.html' title='Bacon&apos;s Top 10 Albums of 2008'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-5615926261044574190</id><published>2008-12-29T10:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T10:33:56.519-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spend The Holidays With Sweaty, Half Naked Dudes</title><content type='html'>I went to see "The Wrestler" on Xmas day. After seeing it, it's definitely high up in my top films of 2008. Go see it. It's more than worth it and the performances by Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei are nothing short of spectactular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u14BC9tBRAA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u14BC9tBRAA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-5615926261044574190?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/5615926261044574190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=5615926261044574190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/5615926261044574190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/5615926261044574190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/12/spend-holidays-with-sweaty-half-naked.html' title='Spend The Holidays With Sweaty, Half Naked Dudes'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-7672647287625482055</id><published>2008-12-23T12:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-23T12:48:10.122-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Since I Have Nothing Better To Do On Company Time...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://a124.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_a2f174457c182932260973bf055ef4c3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 415px" alt="" src="http://a124.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_a2f174457c182932260973bf055ef4c3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know you are from Chicago when:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You - correctly - don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois.&lt;br /&gt;You become irate at people who do.&lt;br /&gt;You measure distance in minutes.&lt;br /&gt;You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Des Plaines".&lt;br /&gt;Your school classes were canceled because of excessive cold.&lt;br /&gt;Your school classes were canceled because of excessive heat.&lt;br /&gt;You've even had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.&lt;br /&gt;Stores don't have sacks, they have bags.&lt;br /&gt;You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.&lt;br /&gt;You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to the mall I wanna go with."&lt;br /&gt;You can locate Illinois on the United States map.&lt;br /&gt;Your idea of a really great tenderloin is when the meat is at least twice as big as the bun and accompanied only by ketchup and a dill pickle slice.&lt;br /&gt;You install security lights on your house and garage and then leave both unlocked.&lt;br /&gt;When asked how your trip was to any foreign, exotic place, you say, "It was different."&lt;br /&gt;You carry jumper cables in your car.&lt;br /&gt;You know what the numbers I-80, 55, and 90 mean.&lt;br /&gt;You realize that I-290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.&lt;br /&gt;You refer to any interstate highway as "the Tollway" or else "the expressway."&lt;br /&gt;You know the given names of the interstates, i.e.: Stevenson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Dan Ryan.&lt;br /&gt;You refer to anything south of I-80 as "Southern Illinois".&lt;br /&gt;You refer to Lake Michigan as "The Lake".&lt;br /&gt;You refer to Chicago as "The City".&lt;br /&gt;No matter where you are, when you hear the term "Downtown" you immediately assume they are talking about Downtown Chicago.&lt;br /&gt;You find yourself referring to the central business district of any city you happen to be in as "The Loop."&lt;br /&gt;You have two favorite football teams: The Bears and anyone who beats the Green Bay Packers.&lt;br /&gt;A brawl over which Chicago baseball team is better breaks out every year at your neighborhood block party&lt;br /&gt;Even though you live 3 hours south, you still buy "The Trib."&lt;br /&gt;You know what goes on a Chicago Style Hot Dog.&lt;br /&gt;You know what Chicago Style Pizza is -- and feel pity for those that don't, and with good reason!&lt;br /&gt;You know why they call Chicago "the Windy City".&lt;br /&gt;You understand what "lake-effect" means.&lt;br /&gt;You know the difference between Amtrack and Metra, and know which station they end up at.&lt;br /&gt;You have ridden an "L" (elevated train).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-7672647287625482055?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/7672647287625482055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=7672647287625482055' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7672647287625482055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7672647287625482055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/12/since-i-have-nothing-better-to-do-on.html' title='Since I Have Nothing Better To Do On Company Time...'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-4708463131874575078</id><published>2008-12-11T09:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T09:47:46.359-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Metal Videos Of 2008</title><content type='html'>I hardly watch music videos these days, but thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/"&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt; and people's reccomendations, here are my top 5 most Metal videos of 2008:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, videos are not a substitute to seeing these awesome bands live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lair of the Minotaur-War Metal Battlemaster&lt;br /&gt;What makes it so Metal: warriors, weapons, naked zombie girls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pl7SonqCNzI&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thundergod&lt;br /&gt;What makes it so Metal: vikings, epic sea voyages, lots of fire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eABVwEgzIss&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enslaved-The Watcher&lt;br /&gt;What makes it so Metal: epic Viking themes, tall cliffs, evil mist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CGOHk2J4jV4&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toxic Holocaust-Wild Dogs&lt;br /&gt;What makes it so Metal: toxic waste, abandoned nuclear warehouse, post apocalyptic feel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p4iNyGbErps&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Municipal Waste-Sadistic Magician&lt;br /&gt;What makes it Metal: explosions, corrossive chemicals, camp 80's movie references&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZEFDUiaKcno&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-4708463131874575078?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/4708463131874575078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=4708463131874575078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/4708463131874575078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/4708463131874575078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-videos-of-2008.html' title='Best Metal Videos Of 2008'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-7141949104405129436</id><published>2008-12-03T15:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T15:47:20.709-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kuma's Doom Fest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e209/trocc/doomfest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 461px; height: 640px;" src="http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e209/trocc/doomfest.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone's favorite Chicago Metal burger place, &lt;a href="http://kumas-corner.com"&gt;Kuma's Corner,&lt;/a&gt; is having the 1st ever Kuma's Doom Fest in 2 weeks! This will benefit a number of charities so it's more than a good reason to go bang your head to the heaviest Chicago Metal show of the year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-7141949104405129436?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/7141949104405129436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=7141949104405129436' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7141949104405129436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7141949104405129436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/12/kumas-doom-fest.html' title='Kuma&apos;s Doom Fest'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3966748159174874025</id><published>2008-11-30T19:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T19:22:42.210-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Metal Shows To Go: December 2008</title><content type='html'>Every month, I will be posting shows that I plan to attend during the course of that particular month. I hope to see you Chicago metalbangers out there!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12/05/08 Gates of Slumber, Demiricous The Horde, The Muzzler @ Metal Shaker&lt;br /&gt;12/06/08 Bible of the Devil, Imperial Battlesnake, Bloodcow, Midnight @ Cobra Lounge FREE&lt;br /&gt;12/13/08 Hewhocorrupts Inc. Holiday Party feat. Sweet Cobra, Hewhocorrupts, Brokedowns, Canadian Rifle @ Mutiny FREE&lt;br /&gt;12/20/08 Kuma's Fest feat. Kongh, Samothrace, Indian, Ol' Scratch, Minsk, Beneath Oblivion, Rue, Ganon, Rabid Rabbit, Drug Honkey @ Double Door&lt;br /&gt;12/27/08 Holidays of Horror 2008 feat. Macabre, Cianide, Elfvis, Spare Change @ Empty Bottle&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3966748159174874025?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3966748159174874025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3966748159174874025' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3966748159174874025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3966748159174874025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/11/metal-shows-to-go-december-2008.html' title='Metal Shows To Go: December 2008'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-8987167512135340603</id><published>2008-11-30T18:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T19:01:21.478-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Previous Melvins Poster</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/STNOdSByHfI/AAAAAAAAACI/O558vEbNqeA/s1600-h/Melvins+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/STNOdSByHfI/AAAAAAAAACI/O558vEbNqeA/s400/Melvins+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274645853543472626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is an official poster I did for the Melvins/Big Business show at Reggie's last Nov. 20th. After years of getting screwed over of not getting to see the Melvins live, I was offered a chance to design a poster and that was my ticket to finally seeing these legends live, and they didn't dissapoint. In celebration of this milestone, I'm having a free download of the poster available. It's a hi-res 11x17 JPEG so if you want to download it and print it for your wall, go right ahead, just right click and save. Hope everyone had a great Turkey weekend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-8987167512135340603?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/8987167512135340603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=8987167512135340603' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8987167512135340603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8987167512135340603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/11/previous-melvins-poster.html' title='Previous Melvins Poster'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/STNOdSByHfI/AAAAAAAAACI/O558vEbNqeA/s72-c/Melvins+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-7707971749833700355</id><published>2008-11-24T10:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T10:22:42.256-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday Monster Mania</title><content type='html'>Tonight, I shall be go attend a screening of a Swedish vampire film called "&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/"&gt;Let The Right One In&lt;/a&gt;". I've read a lot of good reviews for this film and I am going on a limb to say that this is definitely be way more worthwile to watch than that other vampire movie that came out, &lt;a href="http://www.twilightthemovie.com/"&gt;Twilight&lt;/a&gt;. Besides, Swedes by default can make any horror film grimmer and more frostbitten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICp4g9p_rgo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ICp4g9p_rgo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On another note, Indian versions of American music videos are a fucked up mix of uber cheesiness and WTFology. Their version of Michael Jackson's thriller looks like a vision of some dude who was watching that on Indian MTV while on shrooms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LbvP7dT3Dx0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LbvP7dT3Dx0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-7707971749833700355?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/7707971749833700355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=7707971749833700355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7707971749833700355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7707971749833700355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/11/monday-monster-mania.html' title='Monday Monster Mania'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-753115458874739345</id><published>2008-11-03T10:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T10:13:37.758-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bacon And Blastbeats Proudly Endorses Barack Obama For President</title><content type='html'>After 8 disastrous years with George W. Bush, I think it is time for a change in the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go forth and vote tomorrow!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://obeygiant.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/obama_shep_print_final2.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-753115458874739345?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/753115458874739345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=753115458874739345' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/753115458874739345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/753115458874739345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/11/bacon-and-blastbeats-proudly-endorses.html' title='Bacon And Blastbeats Proudly Endorses Barack Obama For President'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-759036421305561796</id><published>2008-11-03T10:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T10:11:00.474-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is It May 2009 Yet???</title><content type='html'>This is quite possibly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;THE BEST &lt;/span&gt;Maryland Deathfest lineup &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EVER&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall be in Baltimore during this awesome weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.supremebrutality.com/mdf09.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-759036421305561796?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/759036421305561796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=759036421305561796' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/759036421305561796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/759036421305561796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-it-may-2009-yet.html' title='Is It May 2009 Yet???'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3260599583735455904</id><published>2008-10-06T11:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-06T11:48:43.526-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Black Metal Beds</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SOpddZpEDYI/AAAAAAAAACA/Ggs23sAmdHQ/s1600-h/blackmetalbeds.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SOpddZpEDYI/AAAAAAAAACA/Ggs23sAmdHQ/s400/blackmetalbeds.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254114674961812866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/sugsuselesscrap/?action=view&amp;amp;current=blackmetalbeds.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/sugsuselesscrap/?action=view&amp;amp;current=blackmetalbeds.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will my Black Metal bed have spikes and torches on the bedposts? I want one!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3260599583735455904?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3260599583735455904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3260599583735455904' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3260599583735455904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3260599583735455904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/10/black-metal-beds.html' title='Black Metal Beds'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SOpddZpEDYI/AAAAAAAAACA/Ggs23sAmdHQ/s72-c/blackmetalbeds.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-4776076361493958919</id><published>2008-09-30T14:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T14:59:56.178-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ed Hardy &amp; Affliction...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Please die. I hate your "I try to look like I know how to rawk even though I don't" clothes and the the douchebags who wear them. Why should I pay $100 for your stupid ass shirts? I can screen print a better looking shirt than your overpriced poser uniforms. Die. NOW. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kitmeout.com/img_assets/affliction-t-shirt-jeans.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.kitmeout.com/img_assets/affliction-t-shirt-jeans.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glamgirlboutique.com/catalog/skins/default/en/images/ed-hardy-collage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.glamgirlboutique.com/catalog/skins/default/en/images/ed-hardy-collage.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-4776076361493958919?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/4776076361493958919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=4776076361493958919' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/4776076361493958919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/4776076361493958919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/dear-ed-hardy-affliction.html' title='Dear Ed Hardy &amp; Affliction...'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3925639838324217152</id><published>2008-09-18T13:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T13:15:49.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee Is Metal Thrashing Mad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://a108.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/124/l_2d923570824c368333d8c5449c91801b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://a108.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/124/l_2d923570824c368333d8c5449c91801b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gonna be at this show at the Coffee Pot next Thursday. It's gonna be nuts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3925639838324217152?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3925639838324217152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3925639838324217152' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3925639838324217152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3925639838324217152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/coffee-is-metal-thrashing-mad.html' title='Coffee Is Metal Thrashing Mad'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-8139748860019592306</id><published>2008-09-18T12:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T12:57:33.656-07:00</updated><title type='text'>There's Really No Such Thing...</title><content type='html'>...as too much SLAYER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0Hqb64A7mA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c0Hqb64A7mA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CKehDdgtXnE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CKehDdgtXnE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B2h3GRTI9VE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B2h3GRTI9VE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-8139748860019592306?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/8139748860019592306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=8139748860019592306' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8139748860019592306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8139748860019592306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/theres-really-no-such-thing.html' title='There&apos;s Really No Such Thing...'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-2449469105422933850</id><published>2008-09-12T14:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-12T14:09:11.367-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Heavy Metal In Baghdad</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GBZ7Ggx-rUE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GBZ7Ggx-rUE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night, me and a couple of friends attended a free screening of &lt;a href="http://www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com/"&gt;Heavy Metal In Baghdad&lt;/a&gt; at the Metro. It was filmed and financed by &lt;a href="http://www.viceland.com/index_int.php?country=us"&gt;Vice Magazine&lt;/a&gt;. The documentary is about &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/wwwacrassicaudas5com"&gt;Accrasicauda&lt;/a&gt;, Iraq's only heavy metal band. Vice spent a few days with the band, filming their day to day lives and the hardships of being in a heavy metal band in post-Saddam Iraq. Anger, hatred, frustration and despair barely describe the predicament of these guys. This is a real eye opener and a must see for any metal fan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-2449469105422933850?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/2449469105422933850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=2449469105422933850' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2449469105422933850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2449469105422933850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/heavy-metal-in-baghdad_5159.html' title='Heavy Metal In Baghdad'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-7267221274775110937</id><published>2008-09-11T13:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T13:53:37.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>She's Gonna Tear Your Mind Up, Will Rip Your Soul</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/photos/Gov-Palin-2006_Official.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.gov.state.ak.us/photos/Gov-Palin-2006_Official.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Would you elect this beast to be the VP of this country? I sure hope not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-7267221274775110937?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/7267221274775110937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=7267221274775110937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7267221274775110937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/7267221274775110937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/shes-gonna-tear-your-mind-up-will-rip.html' title='She&apos;s Gonna Tear Your Mind Up, Will Rip Your Soul'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3743895354813170772</id><published>2008-09-11T13:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T13:28:30.823-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Impaled This Saturday!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.returntothepit.com/rttppics/impaled008_441015.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.impaled.info/"&gt;Impaled&lt;/a&gt; are coming this Saturday to Reggie's, and they aren't gonna dissapoint. They decimated at &lt;a href="http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/maryland-deathfest-vi.html"&gt;Maryland Deathfest&lt;/a&gt; last May and I've been salivating for more G.O.R.E.!!! &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendID=24844386"&gt;Phobia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/killtheclient"&gt;Kill The Client&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/illogicist666"&gt;Illogicist&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/maruta"&gt;Maruta&lt;/a&gt; open. It's gonna be disgustingly delicious.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3743895354813170772?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3743895354813170772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3743895354813170772' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3743895354813170772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3743895354813170772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/impaled-this-saturday.html' title='Impaled This Saturday!!!'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-5946955220934727396</id><published>2008-09-09T14:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-09T14:55:34.698-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In Aboriginal Australia, Heavy Metal IS Serious Business</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n8/htdocs/aboriginal-headbanging-167/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n8/htdocs/aboriginal-headbanging-167/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So serious, gangs are named after Judas Priest and Slayer. Playing the wrong cd in the wrong side of town can get you killed. Seriously. Thanks to Vice Magazine for covering &lt;a href="http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n8/htdocs/aboriginal-headbanging-167.php?source=db"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-5946955220934727396?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/5946955220934727396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=5946955220934727396' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/5946955220934727396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/5946955220934727396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/in-aboriginal-australia-heavy-metal-is.html' title='In Aboriginal Australia, Heavy Metal IS Serious Business'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-6586686650686761415</id><published>2008-08-26T12:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-26T12:25:43.319-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Party Like A Nachtstar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SLRYpUfAwgI/AAAAAAAAAB4/cArrMH0y064/s1600-h/Nachtmystium-After-Party-WEB-FINAL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238909733435392514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SLRYpUfAwgI/AAAAAAAAAB4/cArrMH0y064/s400/Nachtmystium-After-Party-WEB-FINAL.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/sugsuselesscrap/Nachtmystium-After-Party-WEB-FINAL.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yours truly made this nice poster.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-6586686650686761415?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/6586686650686761415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=6586686650686761415' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6586686650686761415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6586686650686761415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/oh-hai-there-wanna-party-wif.html' title='Party Like A Nachtstar'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SLRYpUfAwgI/AAAAAAAAAB4/cArrMH0y064/s72-c/Nachtmystium-After-Party-WEB-FINAL.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-2440976710114896403</id><published>2008-08-21T15:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-21T15:19:15.008-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It Ain't That Bad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://theonlythingiknowforsure.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/metallica.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://theonlythingiknowforsure.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/metallica.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So probably a hundred Metal blogs have posted about this today: Metallica released a new song. Metallica, to this day, remains the most recognizable Metal band in the mainstream music business and it is definitely important because many of us in the underground have expressed disdain over the post-Black Album output that they have produced. The Day That Never Comes reminds me a bit of some Fade To Black and To Live Is To Die. Thankfully the song isn't bad although it could use some improvement: more solos from Kirk, the bass needs to be more pronounced, and James really needs to drop the cowboy vocals. I do encourage you to listen to it and give a very objective opinion about it. &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/metallica"&gt;Check it out here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-2440976710114896403?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/2440976710114896403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=2440976710114896403' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2440976710114896403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2440976710114896403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/it-aint-that-bad.html' title='It Ain&apos;t That Bad'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-6002916808419499341</id><published>2008-08-20T11:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T11:51:20.849-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Swedish Skullet Attack</title><content type='html'>Nifelheim's only US show EVER. It's happening right in my city. Go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/MadeinDeath/Fliers/NIFELHEIMCHICAGO.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/MadeinDeath/Fliers/NIFELHEIMCHICAGO.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-6002916808419499341?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/6002916808419499341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=6002916808419499341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6002916808419499341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6002916808419499341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/swedish-skullet-attack.html' title='Swedish Skullet Attack'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/MadeinDeath/Fliers/th_NIFELHEIMCHICAGO.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-2061700037022881868</id><published>2008-08-18T10:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T10:39:32.992-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Metal Masters Tour</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb123/killerwolf13/Heaven%20Hell/MetalMasterflier.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb123/killerwolf13/Heaven%20Hell/MetalMasterflier.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to tomorrow's stop of the Metal Masters tour featuring &lt;a href="http://judaspriest.com/"&gt;Judas Priest&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.heavenandhelllive.com/"&gt;Heaven &amp;amp; Hell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.imotorhead.com/"&gt;Motorhead&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.testamentlegions.com/"&gt;Testament&lt;/a&gt;. It will be held at the First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre in Tinley Park, IL, about an hour by train from Chicago. If you are not planning on going to any of the stops of this tour and you claim to love Metal, you should give up your Metal membership card.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-2061700037022881868?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/2061700037022881868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=2061700037022881868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2061700037022881868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2061700037022881868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/metal-masters-tour.html' title='Metal Masters Tour'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb123/killerwolf13/Heaven%20Hell/th_MetalMasterflier.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3702862616262643158</id><published>2008-08-13T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T14:33:45.138-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jesus Christ</title><content type='html'>I don't even want to talk about this shit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2kKHSbXOB5A&amp;color1=291787617&amp;color2=325161297&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2kKHSbXOB5A&amp;color1=291787617&amp;color2=325161297&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3702862616262643158?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3702862616262643158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3702862616262643158' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3702862616262643158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3702862616262643158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/jesus-christ.html' title='Jesus Christ'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-2854927527496733158</id><published>2008-08-13T09:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T09:35:46.117-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Milkshake Brings All The Boys To The Yard</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Harvey_milk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Harvey_milk.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I read in the &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8267975799907502470"&gt;Red Eye&lt;/a&gt; earlier this morning that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sean_Penn_Filming_Milk_in_2008.jpg"&gt;Sean Penn&lt;/a&gt; is going to play &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk"&gt;Harvey Milk&lt;/a&gt;, the openly gay San Francisco political official who was assassinated in 1978. His assassination sparked the "White Night" riots and prompted further action calling for equal rights for the LGBT community. Meanwhile, there is a band from Athens Georgia named &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/harveymilk"&gt;Harvey Milk&lt;/a&gt;, and they're really heavily sexy Doom/Sludge/Post Metal. It would be cool if they got called to do the movie soundtrack, most especially since they have a new album out (which is stellar) and ultra-journeyman/heavy end wizard &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Melvins-joepreston.jpg"&gt;Joe Preston&lt;/a&gt; plays live bass for them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-2854927527496733158?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/2854927527496733158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=2854927527496733158' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2854927527496733158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2854927527496733158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-milkshake-brings-all-boys-to-yard.html' title='My Milkshake Brings All The Boys To The Yard'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-8794418502967230659</id><published>2008-08-13T07:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T07:42:22.976-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake Up And Smell The Carcass</title><content type='html'>My friend Omar from &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/revolutiontattoo"&gt;Revolution Tattoo&lt;/a&gt; did this piece. This is, by far, the best tattoo EVER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://a341.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/28/l_ca3020c0de19c292f21921cac1b6f854.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://a341.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/28/l_ca3020c0de19c292f21921cac1b6f854.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-8794418502967230659?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/8794418502967230659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=8794418502967230659' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8794418502967230659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8794418502967230659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/wake-up-and-smell-carcass.html' title='Wake Up And Smell The Carcass'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-1423130895904920277</id><published>2008-08-12T07:20:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T07:24:04.395-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Metallica + King Diamond</title><content type='html'>This would've been the only reason for me to attend the 1 Ozzfest date in Dallas last Saturday. Here's Metallica jamming to Mercyful Fate classics with none other than Mr. Kim Bendix Petersen aka King Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTgNo6Fb9_g&amp;color1=11645361&amp;color2=13619151&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTgNo6Fb9_g&amp;color1=11645361&amp;color2=13619151&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-1423130895904920277?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/1423130895904920277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=1423130895904920277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1423130895904920277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1423130895904920277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/metallica-king-diamond.html' title='Metallica + King Diamond'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-6037949827342471157</id><published>2008-08-11T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T07:14:43.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Similar Much?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/product.do?cid=11174&amp;amp;pid=582735&amp;amp;scid=582735022"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/product.do?cid=11174&amp;amp;pid=582735&amp;amp;scid=582735022"&gt;Old Navy:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deathwishinc.com/estore/graphics/00000001/Converge.JaneDoe.CD.jpg"&gt;Converge:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blatant corporate plagiarism? You decide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-6037949827342471157?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/6037949827342471157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=6037949827342471157' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6037949827342471157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/6037949827342471157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/similar-much.html' title='Similar Much?'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-1450652967663210953</id><published>2008-08-11T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T15:10:43.145-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Week In Review: August 4-10</title><content type='html'>I was supposed to go see &lt;a href="http://www.melvins.com/"&gt;the Melvins&lt;/a&gt; last August 4th but there were 2 things that prevented me from going to that show:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) Tix were sold out.&lt;br /&gt;b) There was a nasty hardcore storm that pounded the city all night, therefore, I wouldn't have been able to make the trip to the Double Door anyways. And it was a nasty storm indeed. The tornado sirens were going off and the hailstorm that followed knocked out the power in my block for a day. It sucked sweating balls in the early August heat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went to the &lt;a href="http://www.madeoutofbabies.com/"&gt;Made Out Of Babies&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://www.plaguebringer.com/"&gt;Plague Bringer&lt;/a&gt;/Pigs show at the Empty Bottle last Sunday. I wasn't able to catch Pigs because I missed the bus from work. Plague Bringer slayed as always, and Made Out Of Babies once again pummelled me with their cute but brutal audiovisual sexiness. Do catch these bands when you get the chance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-1450652967663210953?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/1450652967663210953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=1450652967663210953' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1450652967663210953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1450652967663210953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/week-in-review-august-4-10.html' title='Week In Review: August 4-10'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-2300103892876665674</id><published>2008-08-08T10:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T10:45:45.262-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Possibly The Best Thing I've Seen All Week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://invisibleoranges.com/images/detail-comic-bringback80sspeedmetal.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://invisibleoranges.com/images/detail-comic-bringback80sspeedmetal.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://invisibleoranges.com/"&gt;Invisible Oranges&lt;/a&gt; for posting this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-2300103892876665674?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/2300103892876665674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=2300103892876665674' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2300103892876665674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2300103892876665674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/08/possibly-best-thing-ive-seen-all-week.html' title='Possibly The Best Thing I&apos;ve Seen All Week'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-2981170439471538356</id><published>2008-07-31T07:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-31T14:57:57.023-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Church Of Real Kvlt Metal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mileman.no/darkthrone_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.mileman.no/darkthrone_small.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://darkthrone.no/news/index.php"&gt;Darkthrone&lt;/a&gt; epitomizes what is tr00 and kvlt in Norweigian Black Metal. They refuse to play live. They mostly shun away from the Metal press. They record very lo fi albums. They record songs in their native Norweigian language. They've recorded a Sousxie and The Banshees cover. Their promo photos are mostly set in Norway's vast forests. They even refused a nomination from Norway's version of the Grammy awards. Did I mention they have a cult following around the world? All this while they stay tr00 to themselves and their sound.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This was an interview done by a German Metal zine in Fenriz's apartment a year ago. Surely enough, Fenriz continues to boggle minds everywhere, and makes you question what is really kvlt and gr1mm in Black Metal. &lt;a href="http://www.takemetoyourfenriz.com/"&gt;Enjoy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-2981170439471538356?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/2981170439471538356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=2981170439471538356' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2981170439471538356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/2981170439471538356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/church-of-real-kvlt-metal.html' title='The Church Of Real Kvlt Metal'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-5341884012885510023</id><published>2008-07-29T21:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T21:28:13.839-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Week In Review: July 22-29</title><content type='html'>Nothing really much happened these past few days. It was mostly spent packing, cleaning, and throwing out shit from my apartment. I'm moving this Saturday to Pilsen, and as much as I am looking forward to moving to a new 'hood, I've been reflecting the past 3+ years I've spent in this Humboldt Park apartment. It pretty much went from a nice home to a hellhole in a matter of months. This lease was a nightmare, having a total of 9 whopping roommates in 1 year. Fucking shit. I'm glad this shit is almost over, and I am looking forward to better days in my new 1 bedroom apartment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as Metal goes, didn't really go to any shows this past week, I pretty much laid low, but I did go to this really cool DIY house show at the &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendid=370461898"&gt;Shitspace&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/hewhocorrupts"&gt;Hewhocorrupts&lt;/a&gt; headlined, &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/chicaxrox"&gt;Chica X&lt;/a&gt;, a 7 year old rapper from East Moline was direct support (check her out, she's AWESOME), &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendID=81994373"&gt;Chicago Thrash Ensemble&lt;/a&gt; played their last ever show and some other bands played before them. I was expecting a big turnout since it's yet another one of those crazy Hewhocorrupts show, but there was barely 50 people crammed in the Shitspace. I brought and downed a 12 pack of PBR and took a few shots of whiskey, which definitely helped me flirt with the lovely ladies hanging out at the show. Normally, I'm the shyest dude when it comes to meeting girls, but give me a few beers, I'd be talking to them like I was Kat &lt;a href="http://kothelegend.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/katt.gif"&gt;Williams&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-5341884012885510023?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/5341884012885510023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=5341884012885510023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/5341884012885510023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/5341884012885510023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/week-in-review-july-22-29.html' title='Week In Review: July 22-29'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-508108966198527426</id><published>2008-07-22T11:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T20:07:15.358-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One Hell Of A Week: A Review</title><content type='html'>Hi folks, it's a Tuesday, a really boring one at least, and what better way to do something productive than to post yet another blog? Anyways, last week was a total doozy. Monday was &lt;a href="http://www.atthegates.se/"&gt;At The Gates&lt;/a&gt;, and it ws definitely one of the best shows of the year. Most of my friends showed up, and it was great to be in the same venue and actually having a great time being music fans without all the jaded internet bullshit. &lt;a href="http://www.toxicthrashmetal.com/"&gt;Toxic Holocaust&lt;/a&gt; started off with their no holds barred toxic thrash, Municipal Waste got the party raging, &lt;a href="http://www.darkesthour.cc/"&gt;Darkest Hour&lt;/a&gt; were consistent as always, and when At The Gates came out, the place went apeshit. From start to finish, THEY WERE ON FUCKING FIRE. Never a dull moment on their set. Possibly the best reunion tour of the decade, besides Celtic Frost and Emperor. After the show, there was an after party at &lt;a href="http://www.kumas-corner.com/"&gt;Kuma's Corner&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;amp;friendID=113568664&amp;amp;blogID=414743434"&gt;Anders and Tomas even blogged about that party&lt;/a&gt;. Never to turn down a personal invitation from Uncle Alex, I went and had a blast with the bands at the party, hell, even Toxic Holocaust crashed over at my place. They even left me a really cool note when they got back on the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, hung over and tired, I went to see &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/weekendnachos"&gt;Weekend Nachos&lt;/a&gt;, Harm's Way and The Catburglars at Subterrenean. If I could describe the show, it would definitely have more stage dives than the special olympics swimming event. It was THAT AWESOME. Wednesday was my birthday, and I am a year closer to getting AARP benefits, physically I could feel it, but mentally, I don't really feel like I got any older. Deep inside, I still feel like that 13 year old kid who first discovered Metallica and Iron Maiden. Thursday was &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/wolfncub"&gt;Lone Wolf &amp;amp; Cub&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&amp;amp;friendID=59691372"&gt;Ramming Speed&lt;/a&gt; (from Boston) and &lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendid=213517992"&gt;Harpoon&lt;/a&gt;. It was a drunken blast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had to recover Friday and hung at Kuma's Saturday to chill out when I got yet another invitation to go rock out at the &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/borisdronevil"&gt;Boris&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/torche"&gt;Torche&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/nachtmystium"&gt;Nachtmystium&lt;/a&gt; show the following evening at the Empty Bottle. I was like, wow, what a way to cap an awesome week, huh? Early the next day, I found out that guest list spots were cut off but Uncle Alex was able to pull some strings to get me and a few friends from Revolution Tattoo into the list. Isn't he such an awesome guy or what? He bought a couple of rounds of beers to boot! I arrived fashionably late during Torche's 1st song, and as always, they never dissapoint and they bomb stringed to stoner heaven with their lush melodies coupled with pounding heaviness. This was my 2nd time seeing Boris, the 1st time was when they did their first ever US tour supporting &lt;a href="http://www.southernlord.com/band_SUN.php"&gt;Sunn O))). &lt;/a&gt;They blew me a way the first time. They crushed and lifted my soul up this time. The majority of their material got culled from Smile, and they definitely sounded better live. An additional treat was when &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_%28Boris_collaborative_album%29"&gt;Michio Kurihara&lt;/a&gt; was also playing with them that night. SUPER!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-508108966198527426?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/508108966198527426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=508108966198527426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/508108966198527426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/508108966198527426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/one-hell-of-week-review.html' title='One Hell Of A Week: A Review'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3005160966019304043</id><published>2008-07-17T19:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T19:08:27.939-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Uh, So Do You Plan On Buying The New Metallica Album?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/metallica-deathmagneticcover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/metallica-deathmagneticcover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm seriously am having 2nd thoughts about this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3005160966019304043?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3005160966019304043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3005160966019304043' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3005160966019304043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3005160966019304043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/uh-so-do-you-plan-on-buying-new.html' title='Uh, So Do You Plan On Buying The New Metallica Album?'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-3286178159914586233</id><published>2008-07-14T09:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-14T09:48:52.127-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Red In The Sky Will Be Ours Tonight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://thecraptastics.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/fail.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://atthegates.se/site/img/extreme.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://atthegates.se/site/img/extreme.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight marks &lt;a href="http://www.atthegates.se/"&gt;At The Gates' &lt;/a&gt;first Chicago show in over 12 years. If you don't have a ticket yet, what the hell are you waiting for? Go buy a ticket on &lt;a href="http://chicago.craigslist.org/search/tix?query=At+The+Gates&amp;amp;minAsk=min&amp;amp;maxAsk=max"&gt;Craigslist&lt;/a&gt;, from the &lt;a href="http://hob.com/tickets/eventdetail.asp?eventid=51630"&gt;House of Blues&lt;/a&gt; (even though they're a sucky venue) or some schmuck whose waiting in line with an extra ticket and their friend(s) decided to flake out. &lt;a href="http://www.darkesthour.cc/"&gt;Darkest Hour&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.facethewaste.com/"&gt;Municipal Waste&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.toxicthrashmetal.com/"&gt;Toxic Holocaust&lt;/a&gt; round out this boner worthy tour, so if you miss it, you better have a valid reason, otherwise, you've pretty much achieved major &lt;a href="http://thecraptastics.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/fail.jpg"&gt;FAIL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-3286178159914586233?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/3286178159914586233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=3286178159914586233' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3286178159914586233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/3286178159914586233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/red-in-sky-will-be-ours-tonight.html' title='The Red In The Sky Will Be Ours Tonight'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-1963955539886846639</id><published>2008-07-10T07:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-12T10:09:08.237-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Maryland Deathfest VI</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SHYgEyY0cgI/AAAAAAAAABA/3DTtRNBP9tA/s1600-h/mdf.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221396084600107522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SHYgEyY0cgI/AAAAAAAAABA/3DTtRNBP9tA/s400/mdf.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Happy Thursday! I'm backtracking a little bit and I'm going to describe my out of town trip to Maryland last May, whose highlight was being at the world renowned &lt;a href="http://www.supremebrutality.com/"&gt;Maryland Deathfest&lt;/a&gt;. It was held at the Sonar in downtown Baltimore. I actually stayed in Baltimore for 5 days and hung out in DC for 1 day before jetting back to Chicago, so this was pretty much my "Metal vacation" if you could call it that way. MDF was held over the course of Memorial Day weekend, and it was definitely a mega monstrous blast. This was my first time seeing a show outside of Chicago in a long while, let alone being in one of the most grueling marathons of Death Metal, Thrash, Grindcore and Powerviolence this side of the Atlantic. The whole weekend can be summed up as an orgy of Metal, countless bottles of &lt;a href="http://www.nationalbohemian.com/"&gt;Natty Boh's&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.yuengling.com/"&gt;Yuenglings&lt;/a&gt;, greasy food outside the venue, a crust kid tent city by the parking lot, getting more food, water and booze (and dodging the shady pimps and nasty, toothless hookers) at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Block_%28Baltimore%29"&gt;"The Block", &lt;/a&gt;chilling on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Street_%28Baltimore%29"&gt;Gay St.&lt;/a&gt; and a lot of new and awesome friends. It was really cool to see a lot of the bands just mingling with the crowd out in the street and in the lounge areas, and Sonar's security were chiller than the ones we have here in Chicago. I also spent at least $200 in merch, mostly shirts and import cd's, there were 2 rooms that had distros from all over the country selling stuff at discount prices. Too bad I wasn't able to get any Carcass sweatpants though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since there were a lot of bands that played that weekend, I'll just list the top 5 bands I saw who had the most impact from each day, in no particular order:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 1: Grave (Sweden), Squash Bowels (Poland), Ingrowing (Czech Republic), Phobia(US), Skarp (US)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 2: Anaal Nathrakh (UK), Ghoul (US), Coffins (Japan), Disfear (Sweden), Trap Them (US)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day 3: Nuclear Assault (US), Blood Duster (Australia), Macabre (US), Dead (Germany), Gruesome Stuff Relish (Spain)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sleeper hits: Hellnation (US), Engorged (US), Behold...The Arctopus (US), Flesh Parade (US), Gadget (Sweden)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not so great: Torsofuck (Finland), Defeated Sanity (Germany), Infected Malignity (Japan), Monstrosity (US), Kalibas (US)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/8909188@N05/sets/72157606072560822/"&gt;my shots&lt;/a&gt; came out like shit, although there's a lot of awesome shots that can be found on &lt;a href="http://www.returntothepit.com/concert.php?date=2008-05-23"&gt;Return To The Pit&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe I need to invest in a D40 that can withstand the pit action when I go next year...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-1963955539886846639?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/1963955539886846639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=1963955539886846639' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1963955539886846639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/1963955539886846639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/maryland-deathfest-vi.html' title='Maryland Deathfest VI'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SHYgEyY0cgI/AAAAAAAAABA/3DTtRNBP9tA/s72-c/mdf.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-8284101000063860380</id><published>2008-07-07T12:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T15:04:23.927-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Indiana'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Powerviolence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Grindcore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pig Destroyer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Punk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dudefest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hewhocorrupts'/><title type='text'>Dudefest Indiana Review</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SHJ9lYDOEiI/AAAAAAAAAA4/ij1n4DjOFpY/s1600-h/pig+destroyer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220372999140413986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SHJ9lYDOEiI/AAAAAAAAAA4/ij1n4DjOFpY/s400/pig+destroyer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;About 2 weekends ago, I went to this wonderful 3 day orgy of dudes, honorary dudes &lt;a href="http://venuszine.com/articles/music/features/3752/How_to_survive_Dude_Fest_as_a_dudette_%5C"&gt;(the ones with vaginas, duh)&lt;/a&gt;, booze, drugs and bad food known as &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/dudefestindiana"&gt;Dudefest&lt;/a&gt;. I didn't even know this festival existed up until last year, but it has been held annually in the city of Indianapolis since 2003. This year's lineup was stellar: Pig Destroyer, Torche, Kylesa, Insect Warfare, Coliseum, Kung Fu Rick, Iron Lung, Despise You, Hewhocorrupts, Plague Bringer, Gaza, Nachtmystium, Skeletonwitch, and many, many more. Me and a few friends took a roadtrip from Chicago and it was definitely one of the best weekends of my life. I took quite a few pictures from the fest and some of them can be viewed &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/8909188@N05/sets/72157605852874702/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I even messed up my knee stagediving during Hewhocorrupts and since I was in a drunken funk, messed it up further by doing more stagedives during Pig Destroyer's set, which had a lot of inflatable whales, beachballs, and even a stuffed blue dinosaur. New friends were made, lots of beer was consumed, great times and lasting memories were definitely had. If you weren't there and you didn't have a valid reason not to go, I do feel sorry you missed out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=ogna8aiQyV8"&gt;Hewhocorrupts: Master Of Profits (I'm the dude who stagedives on stage left at around :13)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Wy6MKz63Y&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;Pig Destroyer: Trojan Whore/Naked Trees (crucial dino mosh action included)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-8284101000063860380?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/8284101000063860380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=8284101000063860380' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8284101000063860380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/8284101000063860380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/dudefest-indiana-review.html' title='Dudefest Indiana Review'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/SHJ9lYDOEiI/AAAAAAAAAA4/ij1n4DjOFpY/s72-c/pig+destroyer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8267975799907502470.post-9000100532978843410</id><published>2008-07-07T11:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T12:35:25.744-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chicago'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metal'/><title type='text'>Welcome to Bacon And Blast Beats</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Welcome to Bacon and Blast Beats! This is going to be an extreme music related blog that would concentrate on, but not limited to, extreme music artists, album and concert reviews, band interviews, etc. I will mainly focus on what's going on in Chicago because this is a wonderful city to live in if you're into extreme music. This blog will also serve as a literary extension of my upcoming graphic design portfolio website, which once finished, will be called Blast Beat Designs dot com. Please be patient as content will be added on an as needed basis, because of my other commitments. Cheers, and may this blog be a part of your days to come.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;- Carm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8267975799907502470-9000100532978843410?l=baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/feeds/9000100532978843410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8267975799907502470&amp;postID=9000100532978843410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/9000100532978843410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8267975799907502470/posts/default/9000100532978843410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://baconandblastbeats.blogspot.com/2008/07/welcome-to-bacon-and-blast-beats.html' title='Welcome to Bacon And Blast Beats'/><author><name>Carm</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OwGIRkH20Ao/TRDZ6rd3-WI/AAAAAAAAAI4/0YvrolzOQZQ/S220/thumb.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
