apocalyptica Blog and Journals

10) Let It Rock- Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil Wayne

9)Alcohol- Millionaires

ps: I ABSOLUTLY LOVE SKELANIMALS!! im wearing a skelanimal shirt right now =)

8) 5)Under Pressure- David Bowie and Freddie Mercury(from Queen)

  ps: i like My Chemical Romance and The Used version also

7) Highway to Hell- ACDC

6)Travelin' Soldier- Dixie Chicks

5) I Don't Care- Apocalyptica ft. Adam Gontier(three days grace)

4) All That I've Got- The Used

 3)Concerta- Cash Cash

2) Monster- Meg & Dia

1) I'm Not Your Boyfriend Baby- 3OH!3

Chapter 3 Enter At Your Own Risk

They approached Cass's apartment and just as Cassandra reached for the door Jussi jerked it open and smiled shyly at them. He stepped aside letting them enter the room his eyes gazed at Amy as she walked past him, she just looked at him and quickly down at her feet. Who is this freak and why is he staring at me she thought to herself. They walked into the livingroom and it was full of people it seemed like. Amy's eyes wandered around the room looking at each person briefly as she smiled shyly.

Cass placed her arm around her sisters shoulder and looked at the room full of people

"Everyone this is my little sister Amy, she is gonna be staying here with me in London for however long and I would like if you guys made her feel welcome." Cass announced to the room of people.

Then Cass started pointing people out and introducing them to Amy.

"Amy this is Ville, he's a musician friend of mine" Cass said as Amy smiled shyly at Ville and he just smirked at her with a sexy grin.

"That is Timo, Blazie, and Archie sitting over there on the couch." Cass pointed out

"hello ..." Amy said in her sweet american accent, Jussi looked over at her when she spoke.

"And that weirdo over there is Jussi, he's harmless he just looks scary." Cass teased him with a loving smile

Amy looked at him and then quickly looked away as a loud crashing noise came from the guest room.

"What the hell ... " Cass said

Just as she spoke 3 men came running into the living room laughing histerically

"What the fuck did you break Eicca?" Cass blurted out

Eicca stopped laughing only to start back as soon as Laury came walking into the livingroom covered head to toe in shaving cream. Amy started giggling at what she saw and that caught Laury's attention.

"You think this is funny?" he questioned her ... looking at her with a devious manner.

"You are covered in shaving cream"  she said softly as she backed away from him as he came towards her.

Just them he launched himself at her hugging her tightly and smearing shaving cream all over her with what was on his body. Amy screamed with laughter as the room started laughing aswell. Laury let her go and backed away from her, and looked her up and down.

"So who are you?" he asked

"Laury this is my little sister Amy, she's from the states." Cass mentioned.

"Amy this is Laury, Eicca, Mikko, and Perttu" Cass said as she introduced them to Amy.

So on Saturday I packed up the car with me, my dad, and my daugther and we headed to Ozzfest, we were like the Clampets except more metal :)  Got to Pizza Hut park around 11 ish, missed the first two bands which were the winner and runner up of the Garage to Ozz contest, and I can't for the life of me find out who it was that won....anywhoooo....

The first band that we checked out was The Destro, they were playing on The Texas (Third) Stage.  We, being my dad and I, both decided that they were pretty good!  Had a great time listening to them, DEF would be interested in hearing more. 

The next band that we checked out was Witchcraft...it wasn't that they were bad, they just kind of seemed out of place for an Ozzfest type event.  I felt bad for them, because basically as soon as they started playing people just left in droves.  We stayed for most of their set, but at one point my dad had left to go find us some water, I don't know if you heard but apparently Texas is hot as hell during August, my dad came running back to wear me and my daugther were standing to tell me that In This Moment had already started on the mainstage.  So we made like trees and leaved :D

I LOVE In This Moment!!! I first heard of them last year at Ozzfest and have had two more opportunities, not including this Ozzfest to see them!  They are great and I hope that they get huge at some point in their careers.  This particular day probably wasn't thier best, the had sound problems, but I still really enjoyed.  They sang mostly stuff off their first album but threw in at least one new song that I could tell from a CD that they are getting ready to come out with!  Good good stuff!!!

Next came probably one of the biggest highlights of my day, Apocalyptica!  I SERIOUSLY enjoyed these guys.  I like to see people do something different and the way these guys wailed on fucking cellos was INSANE!!!  I had heard of these guys before, but never really paid much attention, they DEF have my attention now though.  The only songs that I can absolutely say for sure that they played (I was running around trying to find the illusive FYE tent to get Maria Brinks autograph, while simultaneousy watching these guys K? :D) were "I'm Not Jesus" (I did some checking and Corey Taylor didn't sing, he was probably in Detroit with the rest of Mayhem) and they did a cover of Metallica's "Seek and Destroy" which was friggin amazing!!!

Next was Shadows Fall, we were settling in after travelling around the stadium trying to find that damn tent, when these guys came on.  We were sweating our asses off, it was almost unbearable the heat that day, but were still having fun.  I was enjoying Shadows Fall's set quite a bit, when I realized that Drowning Pool was getting ready to come on, on the Texas Stage.  That was one of the deals, I got to see In This Moment and he wanted to see Drowning Pool.  So we headed over.  They were awesome!  Sang all the good stuff: Bodies, Step Up, 37 Stitches, Soldier, and Tear Away, among others, not in that order.  You KNOW that they killed it since they are from Dallas, and we were in Dallas (OK actually Frisco, but close enough).  It was a pretty good set.

UNFORTUNATELY!  By the time that Drowning Pool was over and we could head over to the mainstage Cavalera Conspiracy was well into their set.  I was SERIOUSLY dissapointed as they were one of the top bands that I wanted to check out.  But I did enjoy the show they put on.  Just wish I could've seen more.

Next came, probably, the BIGGEST mistake that we made for Ozzfest.  For some reaons, unbeknownst to me at this time, after some discussion, my father and I both decided that we would stay and watch Jonathan Davis's set instead of bothering to go over to the second stage to see Sevendust.  We are both STILL kicking ourselves for that.  It isn't that Jonathan Davis was "bad" but his solo stuff would be more suited for a small venue until he can kind of refine his act.  I also don't really think that it was "Ozzfest" type music he was playing.  The other thing that bothered me was that every song that he sang seemed to come off the Queen Of The Damned soundtrack....NOT that there is anything wrong with that, but I was like... DUDE!  You got anything original you would like to share with us?!?!?!  I've read a bunch of hateful reviews about his set, and I just have to say that I don't agree with all of that.  He was still entertaining to watch, he was still Jonathan Davis.  I think that most of those people that were hating on him probably don't care much for Korn either, and I do.  So that might be the difference.

Hell Yeah was next.  Now all the other reviews that I have read kind of blasted this set too.  I'm inclined to go with the majority on this one.  It wasn't a "horrible" set, but not great.  The only songs of theirs that I recognized would be "Alcohaulin' Ass", "Hell Yeah", and "Waging War".  Other than that not much more to talk about.

ON TO THE DIMEBAG TRIBUTE!!!  I was really excited to be apart of this!  Ever since they mentioned that this would be apart of the show, I thought "This is going to be awesome"...Well...It was good...I wouldn't go so far as to say it was "Awesome" though.  The tribute consisted of a shit load of noteables taking the stage and some Pantera songs while clips of Dime Bag played on the two big screens.  The songs they played were "Mouth For War", "New Level" and another song I'm not familiar with.  There is nothing wrong with the songs that they chose to play, they are good songs, I'm just suprised that they chose those particular ones.  The acoustic version that they did of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" was kinda bad actually, I hate to say that, Pearl Aday was up on stage, with Scott Ian, Mike Inez, Jerry Cantrell and Lars Ulrich (I think that was it), and her harmony was a little off and she overpowered the melody, it left me with one of those uncomfortable "I'm embarrassd for you" kinda feelings.  But despite that, it was pretty moving, because the song is a good one, along with the video clips of Dime Bag, it almost made up for that girl trying to ruin it!

Next was Serj, THIS is where me and my dad's opinion starts to differ a little bit.  My dad did not enjoy his set at all.  I on the other hand got pretty much exactly what I was expecting.  Serj's songs were sang in his quirky manner with his uber political undercurrent.  It was Serj to the bone.  My dad did say that he wasn't real familiar with SOAD's stuff so maybe that is why he wasn't digging on it so much?  I don't know.  I do have to say that along with Jonathan Davis, I don't think this particular event was a good place for him to get any kind of love.  Some assholes behind me kept screaming "METALLICA" during his set, it was pretty irritating.  That is when I discovered that fan girls and metal heads, more on that to come!

After Serj was the moment that most of the people in the venue where waiting for!  The prince of darkness Ozzy Osbourne!  At 59, this man still makes grown men go insane!  It is awesome to watch.  He took the stage and the place went wild.  The first song that he sang was "I Don't Wanna Stop".  Other songs that he sang were Iron Man (Can I getta I AM IRON MAN!!! :D), No More Tears, Road To Nowhere (GOD I LOVE THAT SONG), Crazy Train, Mr. Crowley, Bark At The Moon, Moma, I'm Coming Home, War Pigs and thats all that I can remember.  During the middle of his set Mr. Wylde did the sickest solo ever, he did the same thing last year when I went to Ozzfest so I was kind of expecting it this year, with him ending on the National Anthem (Not Jimi Hendrix good, but good enough to give me some damn goosebumps!!!) ALOT of people were bitching about the length of the solo, I don't see what the big deal was!  It was good, it was entertaining, and it OBVIOUSLY serves a purpose, TO GIVE OZZY A BREAK!!!  The man is old, and has done a lot of drugs K?  (He's not actually that old, but he's done A TON OF DRUGS!!!) and I'm sure his stamina is pretty much nonexistant at this point.  So if Zakk Wylde wants to show us his goods so Ozzy can take a breather that's FINE BY ME!!!....And scene

So Ozzy kept cracking me up because towards the end of his set he would say, "OK!!!  This is the last song" then he would play the song and after the song he would be like "If you guys go REALLY FUCKING CRAZY, we'll do another song!!!"  Of course the crowd would cheer and then he would be like "OK!!!  This is the last song!"  and this process repeated itself like 1304 times.  I looked at my dad and said "He's doing like NINE ENCORES!!!"  LOL!!!  IT was funny though.  After Ozzy was done and they started preparing the set or Metallica there were FIREWORKS!!!  No kidding!!!  They didn't last for a super long time, but it was a nice way to keep the crowd entertained for a bit.

Last but not least Metallica took the stage!  I need to be completely honest here, I was interested in seeing Metallica but I would, by no means, consider myself a fan of the band.  There are several of their songs that I actually LOVE LOVE LOVE, but the whole Napster thing left a band taste in my mouth and I just automatically think "Crybabies" when I hear their name.  BUT I was still interested in seeing what kind of show they put on!

I'm pleased to say that if I "hated" them before seeing them, I don't "hate" them nearly as much now.  Those guys put on a helluva show.  They blew me outta the water, that's pretty much all I can say.  They played every song that I wanted them to play with the exception of two.  The version they did of "One" about made me cry it was so friggin beautiful.  "Enter Sandman" was great, and DAMN that song brings back so many memories.  The other songs that I can remember them singing were Seek and Destroy, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Battery, Sanitarium, And Justice For All, And Nothing Else Matters, Sad But True, Unforgiven, that's all that I can remember, they played for like 2 hours or something!  But it was a good set.  They broke out a new song off their new album it was called "Cyanide" I have no official opinion of that song, I would need to hear it again.  By the time Metallica came out I was burnt, sweating and tired, so I wasn't trying to hard to pay attention to that song.

The one part of their set that I didn't care for was the encore, they played "12 Minutes of Satan" and they had this guy come out, King Diamond, I have NO IDEA who he was, and I don't care, he creeped me out and added absolutely nothing to the show and that is when we left. 

The part of their set that I loved was their actual set, they had this huge screen and cameras were on every member of the band and the one that was on Lars was awesome because it would vibrate with him drumming LOL!!!  I just liked it, but the huge screens made it possible for all us suckers in the cheap seats to have a good view of what was going on on the stage. 

So that is pretty much it for my Ozzfest experience, sorry it's so long, a lot of stuff was going on :)  The only other thing that I was going to talk about was how there have been nothing but scathing reviews of alot of the shit that went on on Saturday.  I was flabbergasted, I had such a great time and there are all these people just blasting it.  When I say that some metal heads are just like some fan girls I mean it.  They are so opinionated, one sided and irrational, that nothing will change their mind, they will be unhappy with the line up no matter what, and they won't give people like Jonathan Davis a chance because "He's not metal enough" Just make me want to cut someone!  Okay I'm done!!!