I've officially discovered I've become the world biggest cheapskate when it comes to buying CDs, almost to the point where I will refuse to pay anything more than $10 unless it is among the near 5% of godliness, only then is it worth more...but that's another story.

It was cool to meet Drunkinstoper, Ripper is a righteous individual as well.  I met Glen Benton, shook his hand a couple times. Cool guy no matter what anyone says about him, he was really down to earth, straight shooting and pretty modest actually.

Here's a quick run down from my perspective:

Yeah, great show by all the bands. Prices sucked generally at CM and The End and some other huge amount of overpriced CDs stand I don't know the name of. I dealt with anyone that would deal with me, if not I just walked away. I managed to score a lot of great CDs for $10 or less. Relapse had some killer deals and I actually had to pay $12 for one CD.  Guess I'll be saying good-bye to The End, hello Willowtip, Ebay and CM new release $10 promotions.

Hooked up with my bro Ripper, and met another cool bro, Drunkinstoper on Friday. Spent too much money on beer and nachos. Took about 200 pictures. Had a blast, heard a dude from The Chasm raise a toast to "the worst Metalfest ever" but it wasn't, I think him not caring for Lullacry is what triggered it.  It was a pretty good fest. I missed a lot of bands I wanted to see as usual but saw a lot of great ones.

Recap of the bands:

Enslaved were the best.   \m/
Skinless was very fucking bad-ass!
Glen Benton is very cool dude.
MOD played A.I.D.S. and I screamed along the lyrics.
Nuclear Assault are gods.   \m/
Repulsion were heavily influenced by Venom among others.
Windir are fun, I'd love to get some of their stuff (but not for more than $10 a CD).
Demonstorm are the men (well one of them) in tights.
Demonicon are fucking wicked.
Converge from Within are a band everyone here should be familiar with or will be some day.
Epoch of Unlight...
Usurper are cool.
Vital Remains ripped shit up.
Suffocation were crushing!
Macabre were maniacs as usual .
Summer Dying ripped my head off.   \m/
The guitarist from Beyond Therapy rules!
Silencer have gotten better, great set..
Cage were pretty good.
Mistweaver was great.
Asgaroth were pretty damn ripping.
Naglfar were sick.
And last but certainly not least, Strapping Young Lad......FUCK YOU!   \m/