And here it is What you all have been waiting for! The Description of OZZFEST.

OZZFEST 2006
So Farragher and Laura called us and told us they had arrived, meanwhile Joe Dan James Rachel Lauren Mike and myself had been amusing ourselves and sun blocking ourselves up because it was going to be very hot today and we were going to be outside from 8:45 (the time we got there) through about 11:30 PM). We then proceeded to head towards the entrance to meet them there.

Whilst waiting at the entrance I saw 4 people that I knew from Wentworth (Josh Pratti, POLAND!, Jesse, and Jesse’s Twin Becky) so I walked up to them and made my presence known, it was quite cool seeing them all there. I talked to them for a little while then saw Farragher coming with Laura so I went to tackle him haha but I didn’t. It was official everyone was there. So we all got our tickets settled and proceeded in. Josh and Poland’s group went there way and we went ours. We looked at a few booths and I gave everyone who hadn’t been there a run down of what was going on. We then headed to the second stage to see all the opening bands.

Bands from Second Stage:

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME (Heard them from the Parking lot, wasn’t bad at all from what we could hear)

WALLS OF JERICHO (didn’t hear too much of them)

FULL BLOWN CHAOS (from what I heard they weren’t too bad)

BAD ACID TRIP (The singer was insane therefore their stage act was good)

A LIFE ONCE LOST (All right)

ALL THAT REMAINS (Was wandering around second stage booths and the crowd talking to people that I knew)

THE RED CHORD (Wandered away from second stage to see the sights)

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD (Still wandering)

NORMA JEAN (wandering back)

BLEEDING THROUGH (Put on a good show)

UNEARTH (Kick ass of Course)

ATREYU (Not bad at all although People that I call to let listen to them should learn to answer their phones *cough* Seip *cough*)

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY (Put on a Great Fucking Show!)

While at Second Stage we were checking out all the booths in the area and hitting each other with water. We went to the Trojan booth to get free Condoms:-p. While getting in line I heard the band that was playing announce to the crowd for them to separate and I knew what was coming. I sprinted to the crowd for what Lamb of God calls the wall of death, was coming. My Favorite type of Mosh Pit. I got there right as the sides let loose. It died down pretty quick but I got a few good hits on me and on others. Nothing feels as good as a Mosh:-D. I then headed back to the Trojan line when Mike Lauren and Joe met up with us there, so I proceeded to say

Me: “Hey Joe, do you know what type of mosh pit that was?”

Joe: “Yea”

Me: “You know that’s my favorite kind right?”

Joe: “Yea, I turned and said to them ‘How much ya wanna bet Fred just sprinted over there?’”

Me: I looked at Rachel who I had given my water while her, Farragher, and Laura were laughing. “Yea about that, Rachel What did I do when I heard what was going on?”

Rachel: “You sprinted over there”

I then found out Dan and James had headed over as well and that was cool. Well we got to the front of the line and the wheel to win condoms was stopped because he only had one type left so he just handed out those. We wandered some more, possibly headed over to the shower heads (there were two shower heads out so people could cool down and not get heat stroke.) we did this several times over the day. Everyone put on decent shows. As the second stage progressed we started looking at some of the booths around the Tweeter center and seeing all the shirts and such, as well as this cool t-shirt booth playing Opeth, Farragher complemented the guy on it and he gave us $5 off . So I got this awesome Glowing Skull T Shirt. We eventually wandered back to The Second Stage and went over to the PS2 booth. While relaxing there for a while I ran into a good friend of mine from school. THE DON WONDERS! It was awesome seeing him there. We talked for a bit, and then split up. Oh there was another booth worth mentioning. There was a booth dedicated to Dime bag Darrel (RIP) it had all these guitars with artwork from other bands dedicated to him, the artwork was amazing. When I get the pictures from Farragher and Rachel I’ll have to post them. Any who we went back to watching the bands and they were doing pretty well. Eventually The Second Stage headliners came on. Black Label Society, a band I have seen at Ozzfest since 2001 (not including the one year I missed …:[ 2004 ) But as they have progressed they have grown on me. They put on a great show and I went in the pit a couple times, after a few songs they played Fire It Up which is most likely my favorite song by them. FYI I am also a fan of the guitar hero game and so is Farragher, Rachel and Laura have had to watch us play many times as well so when I made the joke of playing Fire It Up on guitar hero; They all got a good laugh out of it. I went in the pit a couple times for them. There was this good looking girl in the pit too, had an Iron cross tattoo and a bikini top of Iron crosses, Damn.

Any who there set was pretty good and when they ended it was time to stop and get some drinks before heading to main stage.

When we got to our seats Dragonforce was on and we found Joe Dan and James who had separated from us earlier. Dragonforce was pretty good, reminded me of Iron Maiden, clean power metal. Then Lacuna Coil came on. I apologize to any of their fans, but they fucking suck. I mean damn Way too synchronized and pre-pressed fashion metal bullshit. Joe told them how much they sucked and their response wasn’t even correct, it was “I see some people can’t take female leads of bands, well you can kiss my ass” Now first off bitch listen here, we are fine with female leads, hell KITTIE Is pretty damn Good are problem with you and your band is you all just SUCK. Stupid fucking people.

Next came Hatebreed; Who by the way did an awesome show their new stuff wasn’t bad and I was quite fucking happy when they played I WILL BE HEARD!.:-D

Then came Avenged Sevenfold Never really heard too much of their stuff but they put on a good show and near the end they called out the singer of Bleeding through and did a tribute to Dime bag by playing “Walk” by Pantera. THE CROWD ERUPTED as did we. I screamed every word and bounced along with every beat. They soon after ended their set, and then the stage was prepared for Disturbed. Disturbed put on a great show. Half way through their set a bottle fight started and then when our side got the idea of just holding stuff so the People on lawn wouldn’t have ammo the lawn started throwing sod, and after a while it was just annoying so we all moved to get out of the way the girls were getting hit bad and people were leaving with them so Dan James and I went with the last of them as they left and I went to find Joe, Joe was hanging with this group of kids from Providence Rhode Island who were a row in front of us They were quite cool we had talked to them for quite a bit of the show, They thought my group was pretty funny especially after all of our condom balloons.  Any who near the end of Disturbed we regrouped and went back to our seats the fight was over, and dirt was everywhere on the ground and on us.

Next up was System of a Down. What a fucking show they put on, I mean holy shit, it was great, and Serj kept randomly changing lyrics because he was bored. For Example during Sugar When he says I sit in my desolate room, he replaced it with “I shit in my desolate room, no lights, no music, JUST ICE CREAM” it was great. During another one of their songs with one of Serj’s rush of lyrics he just broke out into WHAT THE FUCK AM I SAYING!? Haha. Also Randomly Daron (guitarist) would start another one of their songs slowly before everyone joined in, One particular time he started with: “My Cock is Bigger than yours, My Cock can walk right through the door, Can’t you see that I love my cock so much more than yours?” Then they broke out into Cigaro:-p. The crowd was dying of laughter it was great.

Then Ozzy came on stage, He had a nice big introduction, and Came on and had fun. Just a note to you all Him being on stage and seeing it is always awesome but this year it was even better and more special since he didn’t do every tour date only select cities. He Loves the Massachusetts crowd so much its great:) we all go insane for him! He put on a good show, not as long as former years but long enough hell I’m just glad he was there, he played Suicide Solution, Crazy Train, I Don’t want to change the world, Bark at the Moon, Mama I’m Coming home:), among other great songs:). During Ozzy Our New friends had to leave so we said goodbye to them and wished them a safe trip. About a half hour later the show was over and we all headed back to our cars. Farragher and Laura split from us and they seemed like they had a great time:), but before we left, we used Farragher’s phone to get two group pictures. The rest of us got back to mine and Mike’s cars and I had enough Gatorades so we could each have one sitting in a cooler in the back of my Steel Chariot. After that it was time for Mike and Lauren to make there way to Newburyport. I drove us all back to our area. Dropped James off at my Dad’s place, found out he had stuff at my house still and said I would drop them off later. Then headed back to Quincy to drop of Joe and head home. Joe’s arms were burned to almost leather It was fun to poke them.

Then it was back home with Rachel and Dan, I passed out for a few, showered and went back to sleep. What a Great night:).

No comments

The show was Amazing. I had heard of all but the openersm “Thine Eyes Bleed”, and I wasn’t disappointed with any part of the show. Thine Eyes Bleed had some good music and now I may need to acquire it for myself, hard music with deep singing. Then Came Mastodon, I hadnt’ heard much of their stuff but that is going to change, because there set was awesome, their music was great and the energy they had was awesome. Both Mastodon and Thine Eyes Bleed had about a half hour set. Next we had about a 10 minute wait while they set up for Children Of Bodom!! Now I’ve known about this band for a while but have heard only some of their stuff, and some of what I had heard was their joke covers (i.e. The Final Countdown, Some Britney Spears song [hilarious as it was]) but I must say they kicked ass, definitely knew how to put on a good show. Again we had a 10-15 minute wait (which annoyed many people but it was quickly forgotten when the next band came on) and then LAMB OF GOD came on , one of my favorite bands. Their set was Fucking AWESOME!, of course. They played my favorite song by them VIGIL, I went insane, it was awesome, I knew nearly every song they played except for the one thats coming out on their new CD either next month or in August! KICK ASS! So as usual they finished off their set with Black Label, but sadly only mosh pits no wall of Death . After their kick ass set there was another long wait I’ll say closer to 20 minutes for Slayer to come on, and since it was my first time seeing slayer I wanted to watch most of it, and I didn’t do much in the mosh pits, and their set was Frigian Great The songs were awesome (they played dance with devil Raining Blood and a few others I can’t think of at moment) The visuals behind them for each song were cool as well, because instead of having a backdrop with a picture it was a white backdrop they had stuff projected on to it.

Times for bands
5:30 ish for Thine Eyes Bleed
6:15 ish for Mastodon
7:00 ish for Children Of Bodom
8:20 ish for Lamb Of God
9:45 ish for Slayer

I also got out of their with minimal markings, injuries. Now It is the morning after and my neck is sore as hell, but it was definitely worth it, and to top it off I ran into two old friends during the pits for Bodom, Geoff Karasic, and Shanye Murray, it was kool shit. I’ve run into them before at shows its weird, I never see them then all of sudden we see eachother at a concert. Last time I saw them at a show I beleive was Ozzfest 2005. It’s always cool running into old friends.

All in all it was a great time and I’m glad I went.

And now a picture of what I looked like after the show.

Always Remeber, Keep on Rockin’
~Sincely Your Emperor,
Animalistic

Ah yes an unholy alliance has been formed between great powers: the SLAYERs of Beast, the LAMBs OF GOD, all CHILDREN OF BODOM, the great beast MASTODON, and all those  who claim that THINE EYES BLEED. They will be congregating in a place once known as Tsongas Arena in an area that once was known as Lowell, MA. I will be attending this gathering to watch over them and get some enjoyment, and they have even proposed an entertainment session during this gathering, I forsee this being an excellent show of power. I shall update later with what I thought of this gathering.
Sincerely Your Emperor,
Animalistic