I used to go to shows. I used to see things that came to my town and even travel outside the walls (but, not north of The Wall) of my comfort zone to see plenty of awesome stuff. But, it’s been a while. A loooooong while. Every time a metal tour hits the road, I check the dates and there’s generally a venue within 3 hours of me I could hit. 3 hours…LOFUCKINGL. I have a shit job (which = shit pay) and a family, so luxuries such as metal shows are reserved for YouTube and the occasional DVD purchase. Yes, it sucks to see tours like Decapitated/Fleshgod Apocalypse pass within 2 hours, through Columbus, Ohio and not be there. But, this is the way of things. Pimpin’ ain’t easy.
I need to live in a town that has not only better opportunities for me as a professional (insert profession), but as a metalhead with a hankerin’ for some live, mosh-inducing calamity. Enter Tucson, Arizona. This city is one that could most likely be my next residence. My fam and I have friends there and are looking for a change of scenery. Don’t get me wrong, I love WV, but it’s not really the land of open doors.
The average WV metal show
Good jobs don’t fall like rain ’round here. Not that jobs are jumping out in front of oncoming unemployed folk anywhere in the country, but it’s fairly bad here. Anyway, fuck talking points that border on politics. I was talking about metal. Tucson has this venue called The Rock. In doing a little research on the town, I clearly had to see what the metal scene was like. If you check out their site, you’ll see that there are fuckloads of awesome shows there in the next few months. Devildriver/Skeletonwitch, Periphery/The Human Abstract/Textures, Underoath/Chariot/Comeback Kid/This is Hell (actually, they’re playing here as well…and j/k, that show is going to suck balls), Black Dahlia Murder/All Shall Perish/Cannabis Corpse and Chimaira/Impending Doom/Revocation are all going to be at The Rock between now and the end of October. That may not seem like a lot of awesome shows for someone who lives in NYC or L.A., but that’s fucking HUGE for someone like me. We’ll probably get a lot of insertcore shows, but nothing that I could put myself through. We had some great promoters in this town once upon a time and still have one guy who really does a great job in getting metal(ish) bands that appeal to a huge audience…just not me.
So, despite opportunity and pro-family reasons, moving to a town where a metal show could simply be a night out and not a voyage is something that would really be awesome. This post is now over.
Wait, I could always hit the Behemoth/Cannibal Corpse tour…in Europe. Assholes.
