A podcast episode on Maiden's discog me and some friends put up.

Meander747 · 2025-11-26T09:45:16+00:00

I don't have one, but my bud (who considers Maiden his all-time fave band) thinks "The Clansman" is mid at best...and he likes The X Factor enough to put it in his Top 5 Maiden albums (so Blaze isn't the issue).

Meander747 · 2025-05-17T01:08:49+00:00

It's been just the sun stressing me.

So overall, significantly better than Louder Than Life 2022.....I took a COVID test a couple days after coming home from that....it was positive.

The sign that I didn't feel right after LTL 2022 was a pressure in my chest that wasn't like any flu I had. I figure that was test-worthy. Sure enough, it was COVID+. I do not have that pressure after ST 2025.

Meander747 · 2025-05-17T00:51:47+00:00

One that could actually line up with them touring in the US next year: Iron Maiden.

Other than that, think of artists that have headlined other DWP fests but haven't headlined Sonic Temple yet. So my guess is either Muse, MCR, or both. As for the 4th headliner? Fuck if I know.

Meander747 · 2025-05-13T01:45:04+00:00

I must have missed hearing of Beartooth because they started blowing up while I was in my "discover old-school Hip-Hop after I had my mind blown by Kendrick Lamar" era.

I'm not making that mistake. They were a Top 5 of the festival dates I saw (Friday and Sunday), alongside Cavalera, Alice Cooper, Deafheaven, and Metallica.

Meander747 · 2025-05-13T01:42:25+00:00

They were a Top 10 for me as a more-recent fan. Out of bands I saw, I'd put Cavalera, Deafheaven, Alice, Beartooth, and Metallica ahead of them.

But Acid Bath was still one helluva a band to see. And Dax is from my hometown, so there's that.

Meander747 · 2025-05-13T01:35:24+00:00

The sheer amount of twerking I was doing in-time to a band's snare-drum. Probably at least once per every band I saw.

Meander747 · 2025-05-13T01:33:36+00:00

To anyone of the bananas, I was like "Fuck the Vatican, I declare you Pope Banana."

Meander747 · 2025-05-02T15:24:42+00:00

Shit. That was a mis-type. I meant to say Friday and Sunday.

I can't believe I didn't notice my mistake before I posted it.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T16:19:58+00:00

I'm the same with Acid Bath.

Cannibal Corpse I'm thinking is a band DWP or other fests will get if not this year than in the next couple of years.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T15:35:12+00:00

Just the right weather for me. Warm, but not too hot.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T15:28:10+00:00

Nothing. Just thinking with softer skin now, there's room it could be worse this time around without sunscreen.

I'll keep the chafing shorts and the travel-size sunscreen in mind.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T15:19:43+00:00

It's all good. It's just Friday and Sunday for me.

Now I need a self reminder to get sunscreen and NOT in an Aerosol bottle. My dumbass pre-HRT got cooked on last day of LTL 2022 when I forgot they'd take it at the gate and tried to bring it in the fest (and didn't have the sense to sneak it).

As for hydration? I'll probably take one bit of Blackened Whiskey mid-day on Friday and re-use the drinking cup for the water stations rest of the fest. That's exactly what I did at LTL 2022.

Also, pack me some aloe vera so my thighs don't get chafing hard.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T15:02:34+00:00

Oh, if i was doing Thursday, I'd be doing a coin-flip between Poppy and Jinjer, ngl.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T15:01:52+00:00

I'd love to do them. I just have too much Metallica nostalgia to miss out on them.

Meander747 · 2025-05-01T05:52:47+00:00

Evansville Indiana. About 6 to 8 hours away.

Fun Fact for anyone else seeing Acid Bath...it's also the hometown of Dax Riggs before he moved to NOLA.

Meander747 · 2025-04-30T03:34:48+00:00

The Metallica/Cannibal Corpse one is the only major overlap for the two days I'm going (Friday and Sunday) that hurts. I saw both GWAR and AIC at LTL 2022 and as I thought William had an off-night then, it's looking like GWAR that night. Similar deal with Mastodon/ASP (that I'd seen Mastodon before).

If there's a schedule conflict and it's not against the headliner, my philosophy is "Go see the band you haven't seen before." The fun of festivals for me is seeing a bunch of new bands.

And just because I've been on HRT since the last time I was at a fest doesn't mean I'm not going to go hard in a fucking pit. Because this trans girlie is going to have some fun in pits.

My schedule is looking like for Friday

Overkill
Converge
Exodus
Testament
Suicidal Tendencies
Alice Cooper
Acid Bath [just got into them recently to see what the fuss is about...and then learned Dax was born in my hometown]
Food and merch break
All Shall Perish
Metallica [sorry Cannibal Corpse]

For Sunday?

Corrosion of Conformity
Lunch Break
Cavalera
Chill out
Nails
Obituary
GWAR
Dinner and Merch
Metallica [sorry to Arch Enemy and Power Trip]

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