Today is another big step in Frosthold‘s career. Tonight we’re playing with one of the most well known death metal bands, Cannibal Corpse. It’s an exciting time for us; we’ve released our new album which is finally complete. The intention now of course, is to spread the CD as far and wide as we can. We’ve already got a huge list of labels, magazines etc. to send the CD to, and we’ll start getting them shipped off after the gig.
The show tonight is totally sold out, which makes it our first sold-out show ever, and possibly our largest crowd – I don’t know how many people were at our Cradle of Filth gig. Anyway, I’m playing some suitably brutal music to get myself in the mood including:
- The Axis of Perdition – The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques)
- Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
- Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
- Bloodbath – The Fathomless Mastery
- Morbid Angel – Covenant
Yeah I know, I got really sloppy over Christmas and totally forgot to blog. So here’s an update in a clear, concise unordered list.
- Amelie, my newborn niece is doing great (born 23rd December 2008!)
- Christmas was fantastic, we had a mountain of presents both at Hannah’s mums and at my sister’s, including a one-of-500 pressing of Primordial – Dark Romanticism on picture vinyl, Fallout 3 (at last!), COD5, a high-definition video camcorder and several other awesome presents.
- We spent £500 on kitting out the nursery – it’s looking awesome, and the last piece is the wardrobe, arriving tomorrow.
- I made my first Jamie Oliver recipe yesterday, a Chicken and Leek stroganoff – very yummy
- I made my first home-made loaf of bread yesterday, and it beats shop-bought bread hands down. So easy as well!
- I went to our “local” pub, the Parson’s Collar on 28th with the Frosthold guys, not bad. Very drunk.
- We played Munchkin Quest for the first time on the 29th. Very cool!
- Frosthold played a cracking gig at the Wedgewood Rooms on the 30th, as well as releasing our new CD, called When Brothers Fought In Arms… see the Frosthold website for details on how to buy a copy!
- I made a new Frosthold website incorporating the new artwork, and also in OO PHP5 instead of the old top-down PHP4 the original one was written for.
- We had a 4D scan of the baby yesterday. We determined it is 99% a girl, but she was so curled up with her hands and legs over her head that we couldn’t get a good 4D image – we rebooked for next week!
If I went into much more detail I’d make an enormous blog post, so I’ll leave it at that, but I promise I’ll start blogging more!
I’ll post the same review as I wrote on Pompey Music forum as I’m lazy and can’t be bothered to type another review. My review of Hellfest is going to be pretty in-depth, so I shall work on that tonight.
Frosthold – Not a bad set by all accounts (apart from one of the bouncers who thought we were appalling…), think we generally played a lot better than usual aside from some minor mess-ups including me totally losing my place in The Aethelings due to Phil’s guitar suddenly being drowned out of my monitors…otherwise good.
Akakios – I was recovering from sweat for most of it, but I heard good metally sounds coming from over there.
Mayz – I had a disagreement with the door staff at this point, so missed most of Mayz calming down from wanting to rip their faces off. Sounded nice and proggy, but I’d have to listen to it properly to get it I expect. The only other thing I remember of Mayz was them turning up very late, I don’t know the full story, there could be a really valid reason, but turning up so late is just not cool…
Enochian Theory – Just excellent as always. Every time I see them, they get so much better, tighter, and more touching. Aside from the orchestra being a bunch of lazy bastards and seemingly not playing what the conductor was telling them to play, it was absolutely flawless. I’ll definitely be picking up a copy of the new CD when it’s done as I really loved the songs. Very tight, very pro, very WIN, very MANLY. In the bedroom.
If you’ve been following my Twitters/blog for a few days you should notice I’m getting hyped for Hellfest. Well this is my last regular blog post until at least next Monday. I’ll try and keep this up to date with Twitter updates, and I’ll try and post a blog if I’m not too passed out. Anyway, the ferry is at 11:30pm tonight, we’ve gotta be there at 9:30pm (silly, I know!) so I’d better get a move on!
Farewell to thee all, fair readers, temporarily anyway.
Oh, and get some tickets for Frosthold!
So after a few years of piggy-backing my personal stuff on my various websites (Total Carnage, Frosthold etc.) I’ve finally taken the plunge and ordered myself my own personal domain name. It’ll probably take a little while for me to sort stuff out and start getting all my stuff redirected to the new site once it’s up and running, and I’m thinking of creating my own theme (at last!) to really customise the site.
I’ll also add other bits and bobs, and give you more of an insight to the wonderful and highly exciting (hah!) world of me… watch this space (or maybe another space if you start getting a 301 error…)
