Report: Fear And Loathing At NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FESTIVAL
May 15, 2006Chris Harris of MTV.com has issued the following report:
It's 2:30 p.m. on a sunny April Friday, and most of the people gathered inside the Palladium are in a state of advanced refreshment.
"Dude, it's Metalfest," reasons a hulking bald guy clad in a faded black SLAYER T-shirt, who is sporting an elaborate goatee that'd make ANTHRAX's Scott Ian jealous. He's fisting two plastic cups of beer, and remaining upright is becoming more and more of a problem. "Wanna do a shot?" he asks.
"It's Metalfest" is a phrase we'll hear often this weekend in Worcester — host to the eighth installment of the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, one of the world's single largest annual gatherings of the metal elite, and the one to which every heavy metal disciple worth his or her (OK, mostly his) salt will be coming to worship.
See someone stumbling out of the mosh pit with blood gushing from his nostrils after catching an elbow in the face? "Dude, it's Metalfest," says Tim, who drove up from Ohio, with a shrug as blood drips onto his CROTCH DUSTER T-shirt en route to the cigarette-butt-laden sidewalk.
Meet another guy who blacked out on some stranger's hotel bed for 10 hours, then awakened to find his wallet, cell phone and "stash" gone? "It happens, man," says Greg, who's driven three hours from Connecticut and is digging frantically through his car and pockets, hoping to find his missing possessions, knowing all the while that they're gone forever. "It's Metalfest."
Read the entire article at MTV.com.
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