Feral Depravity, Hemorage, Infernal Throne, and The Beerslayers @ Club 66 tonight

Lucas Morgan of Infernal Throne @ Musichead opening for Warhead

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Lucas Morgan of Infernal Throne @ Musichead opening for Warhead
The night Michale Graves played at Musichead was a strange one for me. I was really getting into his music, especially his new CD, Vagabond, during the prior month. My mom was dying, and his tunes helped to get me through that time period.
My mom died a few days before the show. The day after the show we were going to be driving to Eugene for the funeral. It was also my daughter’s birthday (4/18/13) so it didn’t look like I would be going to the show after all. My daughter ended up having volleyball the same night in Medford so I did end up catching just the first few songs before I had to leave.
I didn’t have my concert, camera lenses with me so these didn’t come out the best. The night was still a welcome change of mind for me. I really hope Graves comes back to Southern Oregon so I can see his full show someday.
Opening for Lich King a month ago (4/27/13) was Oregon metal band, Crimson Guardian.
Next up after Negative-Zen was Gladius from Portland.
These guys finished with an excellent cover of Helloween’s “Ride The Sky” which I was into in high school (but probably haven’t listened to in almost two decades) before any of the members of Gladius were even born. Does that make me old or the music timeless? Or both?
Last night there was a Cinco de Mayo Metal Show in Medford with Cauldron (from Canada), Gladius (Portland) & Negative-Zen (also Portland). Sunday night isn’t the best night for a show, but Musichead shows usually end before 10 p.m. so I headed up I-5 to check it out.
First up was Negative-Zen. The thing that looks like a sharks fin in the foreground of the left part of the above photo was actually the mohawk of the person standing in front of me.
Several days ago I posted some photos of Lich King at Musichead. About a million Lich King fans paid the blog a visit so I’m rewarding their presence with some more pictures of the band today. Actually, it wasn’t a million visitors, but blog traffic did go up by a factor of more than three times the norm for any given day so thank you Lich King for the Lich King bump.
A couple of funny parts of the evening were when Witch Cult covered Nargaroth’s “Black Metal Ist Krieg” to end their set while Lich King members were selling their “Black Metal Sucks” t-shirts not far away. Members of Witch Cult then requested Lich King’s “Black Metal Sucks” a couple hours later when Lich King was on stage which Lich King dedicated to Witch Cult. Good times…