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Ryan MDF

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About Me


I'm one of the organizers / promoters of Maryland Deathfest , North America's biggest underground metal party of the year.
I'm originally from Baltimore, MD and I moved to Europe in June, 2005. Since then I have spent time living and / or working as an English teacher in Ceske Budejovice and Prague , Czech Republic, Zurich , Switzerland and currently I'm living and working in Kosice , Slovakia until further notice. Click on the links if you have no concept of Europe.
I enjoy traveling and experiencing new places perhaps more than anything else. I've been to 15 countries so far and will not be satisfied until the number of countries visited reaches at least 35.
I speak quite a lot of Czech and can also understand Spanish and German pretty well. I'm also currently learning the differences between Czech and Slovak languages. It's my intention to become more fluent in all of the aforementioned languages in the future.
I've been playing bass guitar for 13 years and guitar for 5 years.
Between 1994-2002 I played bass in several Baltimore based death / grind bands (Ciborium, The Buried Won't Tell, Dead Lamb and Dead in the Manger) and recently I started writing again for a few new bands based in Czech Republic ...stay tuned for more on that.
I received an Associate's degree in Simulation and Digital Entertainment in 2003, but have yet to utilise it and maybe never will.
I like Czech beer....a lot.
AIM - RTciborium

MSN - [email protected]
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My Interests

- Organizing Maryland Deathfest
- Travel
- Living abroad
- Experiencing new places and other cultures
- Attending festivals in Europe
- Teaching English
- Learning foreign languages
- Graphic and web design
- Photography
- Playing around in Photoshop
- Czech beer
- grindcore / death metal / goregrind / d-beat / crust / classical / jazz
- Playing bass (especially jazz bass)
- Playing guitar
- Writing music
- Good food
- Sexual intercourse
- Meeting new people
- Baltimore Ravens and Orioles

:generally not missing the US:

Music:

Abscess
Aeon
Afgrund
Agathocles
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Ahumado Granujo
Alienation Mental
Amoebic Dysentery
Anasarca
Anata
Angel Corpse
Anthrax
Antigama
Arsis
The Arson Project
Assassination
Atheist
At the Gates
Autopsy
Bathtub Shitter
Beastie Boys
Beethoven
Behold...the Arctopus
Beton
Birdflesh
Bjork
Blockheads
Blood Freak
Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus
Bodies Lay Broken
Bolesno Grinje
Bolt Thrower
Brodequin
Broken Hope
Brutal Truth
Buckethead
Burnt By the Sun
Butcher ABC
Capharnaum
Carcass
Carnal Diafragma
Catheter
CBT
Cephalic Carnage
Cerebral Turbulency
Charles Mingus
Citizen
CODC
Coffins
Coldworker
Collision
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
Commit Suicide
Consume
Contrastic
The County Medical Examiners
Copremesis
Corrupted
Cretin
Cripple Bastards
Crotchduster
Cryptic Slaughter
Crypticus
Cryptopsy
Cyness
Cynic
Cypress Hill
Dahmer
The Day Everything Became Nothing
Dead Infection
Death
Deathbound
Decapitated
Decrepit Birth
Deepred
Defaced Creation
Demilich
Denak
Deranged
Despise You
Destruction
Deviant
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dim Mak
Din Addict
Disavowed
Discharge
Discordance Axis
Disfear
Disfigured
Disfigured Corpse
Disgorge (Mex)
Dismember
Disrupt
The Disturbance Project
Dr. Shrinker
Dream Theatre
Drogheda
Electro Quarterstaff
Embalmer
Embalming Theatre
Embryonic Crytopathia
The End
Engorged
Exhale (CZ and Swe)
Exhumed
Extreme Noise Terror
Fatal
Firing Squad
Fistfuck
F.K.U
Flesh Parade
Foetopsy
Fondlecorpse
From Ashes Rise
Front Line Assembly
F.U.B.A.R.
Fuck...I'm Dead
Fuck the Facts
Gadget
General Surgery
Ghoul
Gigantic Brain
Gore Beyond Necropsy
Gorefest
Gorgasm
Gorguts
Gorod
Grave
Gride
Gronibard
Gruesome Stuff Relish
Guided Cradle
Gurkha
GUT
Haemorrhage
Helmet
Hemdale
Houwitser
Immolation
Impaled
Incantation
Infanticide
Ingrowing
Inhumate
Inhume
Iniquity
Insect Warfare
Intervalle Bizarre
Intestine Baalism
Ion Dissonance
Iron Maiden
Isacaarum
Jaco Pastorius
Japanische Kampforspiele
Jig-Ai
Jigsore Terror
J.S. Bach Kalibas
The Kill
Kill the Client
Kreator
Kutabare
Lahar
Last Days of Humanity
Leng Tch'e
Libido Airbag
Lock Up
Looking for an Answer
Lord Gore
Lycanthrophy
Lykathea Aflame
Lymphatic Phlegm
Macabre
Machetazo
Magrudergrind
Malevolent Creation
Malignancy
Malignant Tumour
Maniac Killer
Meshuggah
Mesrine
Metallica (1980's)
Mincing Fury and Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay
Ministry
Misery Index
Monstrosity
Mortal Decay
Motorhead
Mozart
Mr. Bungle
Mumakil
Municipal Waste
Napalm Death
Nashgul
Nasum
Nate Kizerian
Necrophagist
Negligent Collateral Collapse
Neuraxis
Neuropathia
Neuro Visceral Exhumation
Nuclear Assault
Obituary
Odious Mortem
Origin
Phobia
Pig Destroyer
Pigsty
Pink Floyd
Pisschrist
Plastic Grave
Poppy Seed Grinder
Pretty Little Flower
Primus
Profanity
Prostitute Disfigurement
Psycroptic
Psyopus
Pungent Stench
Purulent Spermcanal
Putrescence
Pyaemia
Quills
The Red Chord
Regurgitate
Reinfection
Relevant Few
Repulsion
Retaliation
Rompeprop
Rotten Sound
Sadus
Saprogenic
Sayyadina
Screaming Afterbirth
Severe Torture
Severed Savior
Skinny Puppy
Skitsystem
Slayer
S.M.E.S
S.O.B
Sotajumala
Spawn of Possession
Splatterhouse
Splitter
Squash Bowels
Stanley Clarke
Stickoxydal
Stoma
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
Suffocation (before Souls to Deny)
Sulaco
Suppository
Swarm of the Lotus
Terrorizer
Theory in Practice
Today is the Day
!T.O.O.H.!
Tool
Total Fucking Destruction
Tragedy
Trauma
Tu Carne
Ulcerate
Uncurbed
Unholy Grave
Unleashed
Unsane Crisis
Uprise
Utopie
Vader
Victims
Virulence
Visceral Bleeding
Vital Remains
Vomitory
Vulgar Pigeons
Waco Jesus
Warscars
Wojczech
Wormed
WTN
Yacoepsae
Zombie Ritual
Zyklon

Movies:

To name a few: Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, American Psycho, Blow, Natural Born Killers, A Clockwork Orange, Airplane!, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Machinist, UHF, The Goonies, The Exorcist, Clerks, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, American Beauty, Naked Gun (all), Scarface, Sideways, Three Amigos, Freddy Got Fingered, Road Trip, The Shining, Spaceballs, Anchorman, The Burbs, Bad Taste, Fight Club, Tommy Boy, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, American History X, Office Space, Braveheart, The Big Lebowski, Wayne's World, Reservoir Dogs, The Ring, Shaun of the Dead,,,,etc

My Blog

I am no longer accepting friend requests from bands

Sorry, that's just the way it goes. I do not have the time or desire to sort through dozens of crappy band requests on a daily basis. If you REALLY think I would like your band and aren't some random ...
Posted by Ryan MDF on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:13:00 PST

Read a short interview I did with Gorehog Webzine

1) Hey Ryan, how's it going?It's going quite well, aside from the fact that I'm still hungover from last night.2) How did this whole idea come to be?What sparked the festival's birth?Myself and Evan w...
Posted by Ryan MDF on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:18:00 PST