Metal Festival Calendar Launched

Good day Hellions with the luggage's and over-stamped passports, it's yours truly bringing you another tool to help you on the iron-clad highways, the seas of acid, and traversing the skies from a botched stage-dive, aka as Metal Travel \m/

The Metal Festival Calendar is up and running, so for those who want to inject a \m/ HEAVIER \m/ dose of acid laced steel, now you have the goods to make it happen.

Also, I am making a all-points bulletin to my fellows allies and strangers of the Iron-clad variety. The calendar only has some, but not all Metal Festivals. I would like some info on other Metal Festivals that are not listed to be sent my way so I can put them up. The necessary filtering will be in effect, but that's meant more for the quality of the injection.

Barge to Hell 2012, Day 5, Schwag, Final Words and Thank You

I6Z6A6N NOTE: This was posted on January 3, 2013, but the date reflected on the top is for organizational purposes.

The morning after the last full day of Barge to Hell. Just like my previous Metal Festival experiences, this is the day when you leave behind a magical place that can't be replicated. When you look around and see people who understand and get what you're all about, and realize your going back to "civilization", it's a terrible feeling but a necessary evil as moments like these don't happen often for Metal fans (unless you're in Europe, lucky bastards \m/). With this negative feeling comes a positive memory that will remain in the mind for a very long time.

Looking back, the trip was unique but familiar, as it was my first Metal Cruise (and my first cruise ever). To say I had anticipations of what to expect would be an understatement, as my mind was flooded with expectations that were beyond all my Metal experiences, and that's a lot of Metal.

After everything was said and done, it was a \m/ HEAVY \m/ experience that left 4 days missing from my life. It also allowed me a chance to look deep inside myself in a way I never had a chance to do so, and changed me in a way that as of this writing, I still can't figure out.

Onward, to the final chapter of the Barge.

December 7, a day that will live in infamy. While the history books indicates this was the day of the Pearl Harbor Attack, another historical moment was in the making. A historic moment made of Steel. This was the day the Barge to Hell was officially over, ending another successful chapter in the History of Metal.

Upon waking up, the boat was already docked in the starting point of this journey, the Port of Miami, with all the Metalheads either still asleep or waking up and taking advantage of the breakfast the vessel offered before heading off to the next part of their journey (and for some, it was a long one).

Barge to Hell 2012, Day 4

The last full day of the Barge to Hell. The "it's going to end" feeling has begun to rear it's ugly head. One thing about my Metal experiences is that it has prepared me for this day, and to take the saying that has been said time and again but very applicable to this situation, "all good things must come to an end".

For those of you who have not gone to Metal Festivals, this is a feeling you will one day feel as the last full day is what you make out of it and will leave the mark on the festival you attended. Some people go full throttle to get the last shits and giggles out of their system, where as for others it is the opportunity to wind down and soak in the festival in a calm state, to prepare to get back to "civilization".