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Dear Peoples,

I want you to imagine 4 guys who just got out of high school and are trying to express themselves with really loud rock. Now age those guys about 10 years, sell there souls to the devil, dress them like the soldiers of Satan, throw in more speakers, amps, and subs than would fit in a high school gymnasium, and surround them with raging crazy fans that start moshing as soon as the first chord is struck and you have a limited view of what a Metal Concert is. Now extend that to about 12 hours, get 12 more bands, add crazy amounts of caffeine, booze, and rage and you have a glimpse of what the ROCKSTAR MAYHEM FEST is. If you are offended by Satan please leave. Now.

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Ok, now that they're gone I can talk about my love for kittens. JUST KIDDING. Anyway, If you were at Mayhem this year I commend you. If you were not. Here is the lineup for who was at Mayhem.


White Chapel
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Mushroomhead
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The Black Dahlia Murder
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Behemoth
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God Forbid
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Job For A Cowboy
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All That Remains
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Trivium
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Cannibal Corpse
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Bullet For My Valentine
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Killswitch Engage
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Marilyn Manson
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Slayer
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That's all 13 bands that were at Mayhem. There was a locas band in the line up in St. Louis but I didn't mosh to them so I don't really remember who they were. Feel free to click on the text bars under the bands and explore their universe. If you arrrre going to use TPB please buy a t-shirt or go to a show. How can your favorite band tour they have no money?

When I was at Mayhem I had a ĵ(|{1n9 blast. I also remembered to record some video and take some pictures with my phone. Here is the resulting video.

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I know the video is choppy and out of focus but a 1 dollar phone that came from a ATT plan took it. So all things considered it came out pretty good. Using your phone as a camera is really the only way to take video of a pit. I have a nice 10 MP camera that I use for most things but I didn't bring it to Mayhem because I would have been destroyed 2 seconds into Job for a Cowboy.

In order to get your $h177¥ phone transfer pictures and video to your phone you just need to buy a Mini SD Card. I bought my Mini SD at the chain office supply store where I work but you can get it online for $12.99 at Tiger Direct. Then just jack the card into your phone. Use your settings to change where the camera saves your videos and Pictures to the Mini SD and your set. Snap and Shoot away. When you're ready to put them on your computer just take the card out of your phone and put it in the SD adapter. The put that adapter into your computer and start transfering. Most phone cameras shoot in .jpeg format but they record video in .3gpp. Most video editing software is not prepared for .3gpp. In order to get your videos on to Youtube, Blogger, or The Underground City (TUC is my choice becouse they don't cater to WMG) you need a converter. The best converter I have found is called Any Video Converter. AVC does a very good job of converting .3gpp to any other format (really). After you convert it's pretty easy to create and upload your videos. Now your ready to document your mosh!

A good friend of mine created the videos below. They are taken with a real camera and thus are ĵ(|{1n9 awesome.






This is video that my good friend found of a B Stage pit early in the day



This is a video from the Job for a Cowboy pit



Ok Well I had a great time at Mayhem and I will buy tickets as soon as they come out. I'm looking foreward to going to Pop's as soon as I can. If you are going to Pop's, tell me. Maybe, I'll show up.

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The Renegade Rabbit