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Testament @ 2019 Brutal Assault Festival

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Testament on the Sea Shephard Stage (August 2019)

If you build a time machine, go back to 1985, wander into my remedial English class in high school, and whisper into my 16-year old ear that in 34 years I will be in Czechoslovakia (because the Czech Republic doesn’t exist in 1985 so I won’t know what you are talking about if you refer to it), watching the band that the guy sitting next to me plays drums for (Legacy, soon to change their name to Testament), at an 18th-century fortress under a half moon with over 15,000 others (including many Germans–who this fortress was originally built to keep out), you will blow my mind, but I probably won’t believe you. Plus, I don’t remember the part about a stranger whispering in my ear back then so you probably won’t build that time machine and do this.

At the time, I had never been outside of the USA. In fact, I’d only been to three states at that point in my existence.

Metal Monday

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Romana Kalkuhl of Burning Witches

The night before, I saw her husband on the same stage.

Metal Monday

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Destruction’s Damir Eskic @ 2021 Josefstadt Festival

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I didn’t realize it at the time, but I saw Damir’s wife play the next afternoon. Stay tuned for next week’s “Metal Monday” for a photo of her.

Franciscan monastery in Pilsen (Czech)

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Františkánský klášter (Plzeň, Czech Republic)

The Czech Republic is one of the least religious countries in the world. So it’s no surprise that as I walked around the exterior and interior of this complex I saw exactly zero people.

Wiley Arnett of Sacred Reich

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Wiley Arnett of Sacred Reich @ Brutal Assault 2019

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The “Surf Nicaragua” EP was one of the first CDs I owned. It only took me a little over 30 years to finally see Sacred Reich live.

Konopiště Castle

Konopiště Castle (Czech Republic)

I didn’t do the tour when I visited this place so I didn’t know until today that this was the last residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinan, one of the more famous humans to have ever roamed the planet.