OTEP , laughing/comedy, women in music and heavy metal, heavy metal/extreme music in general, music/music business, managing bands/artist management, booking tours and local shows, going backstage, promoting bands/street teaming, going to concerts and live shows, compilation CDs, multi-tasking, the video game industry, playing video games, public speaking, writing/giving speeches, entrepreneurship, computers, website design, graphic design, HTML, the Internet, volunteer work, bean bags, JAGERMEISTER, photography, art, poetry, SPORTS - especially volleyball, billiards, singing/growling in the shower and busting my shit in the process, humping, and SNEEZING!
Everyone affiliated with the music industry.
Who I've met so far:
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What I Do:
ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR
NONELOUDER & NONELOUD"HER" :
Bands, artists, and music industry professionals that I have interviewed:
- The Autumn Offering
- Cannibal Corpse
- Hate Eternal
- Caliban
- Silent Civilian
- Psychostick
- Unearth
- Mnemic
- OTEP
- Jarboe
+ MORE COMING SOON!
Interviews I have coming up:
- TBA
Bands that I have photographed:
- OTEP
- The Autumn Offering
- Caliban
- Sworn Enemy
- Bleed the Sky
- Ion Dissonance
- Ill Nino
- God Forbid
- Silent Civilan
- Burn in Silence
+ MORE COMING SOON!
Album reviews that I have written:
- Blind Guardian
- Dog Fashion Disco
- Evolocity
- (hed) P.E.
- Nightmare
- Sworn Enemy
- Thoughts Lost
- Fleshgore
- Iscariot
- Heaven Shall Burn
- Burn in Silence
- Purified in Blood
- The Showdown
- Burn in Silence
+ MORE COMING SOON!
Support local/underground METAL radio:
- 90.1 FM - WEFT (Champaign, IL)
- Ferocity Radio | Website
Support these local bands from Chicago:
- Small Town Murder
- Odis
- Desecrate the Hour
- Hexah
- IMPALE
DEMAND! Seven Year Existence:
Shows/Concerts/Events that I am promoting/attending listed below on the calendar:
METAL:
OTEP , Seven Year Existence, Job For A Cowboy, Divine Heresy, Knights of the Abyss, God Forbid, Misery Index, Cannae, The Red Chord, Bury Your Dead, War From a Harlot's Mouth, Into the Moat, Avenged Sevenfold, Arch Enemy, Eths, Burn the Priest, Orphaned Land, Dreamevil, FLESHANDBLOODROBOT, See You Next Tuesday, Lamb of God, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Hatebreed, Devildriver, Bleeding Through, Slipknot, As I Lay Dying, Shadows Fall, Daath, Sworn Enemy, Meshuggah, Burn in Silence, Cannibal Corpse, Jacknife, The Autumn, Offering, Strapping Young Lad, In Flames, Throwdown, Fear Factory, Blood Has Been Shed, Ill Nino, The Black Dahlia Murder, Himsa, A Perfect Murder, ALL THAT REMAINS, Crisis, Purified in Blood, DEICIDE, TERROR, The Haunted, Krisiun, Behemoth, Devilinside (now HORROR), Bloodbath, Trivium, Horse the Band, Rumplestiltskin Grinder, Ion Dissonance, King Diamond, Caliban, Despised Icon, 3 Inches of Blood, Cephalic Carnage, Emmure, Full Blown Chaos, Sinai Beach, Everytime I Die, Ill Nino, Jack off Jill, Zyklon, Machine Head, Mudvayne, Mnemic, Skinlab, and so much more shit that you've probably never even heard of.......metal baby.
CHECK OUT THE BAND I MANAGE:
Seven Year Existence (Champaign, IL)
UNSIGNED/UP & COMING/LOCAL METAL:
Seven Year Existence (Illinois) , Day I Dread (Kentucky) , Psychostick (Arizona) , Level C (Ohio) , Conspiracy Assassins (Colorado) , and Within Chaos (formerly Necrogazm from Texas) , HUNG (New York) , IKILLYA (New York)
Support local music.
OTHER:
The Mars Volta, H.I.M., Portishead, Deftones, Ella Fitzgerald, The Dresden Dolls, Porcupine Tree, Dog Fashion Disco, Colbie Caillat, Common, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Mike Patton, Erasure, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Frank Sinatra, The Doors, Mos Def, Incubus, Pitbull, Shakira, Phil Collins/Genesis, Latin/Spanish music, Hindi music (especially Mukesh), Boy Hits Car, Papa Roach, Tupac, Daft Punk, Journey, Bone Thugs N' Harmony, The Roots, 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC, Dave Matthews Band, Rufus Wainwright, Peter Gabriel, Johnny Cash, Telepopmusik, Shirley Bassey, Kinnie Starr, Joseph Arthur, Joan Armatrading, Al Green, Art of Noise, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Oasis, Temptations, D'Angelo, NYOIL, Bill Withers, Ben E. King, Gary Jules, Tyrone Wells, Priscilla Ahn, Johnny Cash, Yael Naim, Louis Armstrong, Immortal Technique, Jeff Buckley, The Cranberries, and more.
music=life
OTEP's Abominations DVD, Bend It Like Beckham, Frida, Eternal Sunshine [of the Spotless Mind], The Matrix, Shrek 1 and 2, OLD SCHOOL, X-MEN 1 and 2, A Monsoon Wedding, Super Troopers, SAW I & II, Borat, American History X, 28 Days, G.I. Jane (rawr!), Million Dollar Baby, Harry Potter movies, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Team America (FUCK YEAH!), V for Vendetta, and The Skeleton Key.
Documentaries:
Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car?, and Supersize Me.
Uranium (RIP), Headbanger's Ball, Slave to the Metal (RIP), Entourage, The Real World, Road Rules, Yo Momma, Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park, Jeopardy!, TOM and JERRY, (my guilty pleasure is anything on MTV).
Yearbooks and Cliffs Notes.
The United States Military.