Metal Parties

Something I regret not doing when I was younger was having more metal parties with my friends. I remember are usual thing back then was just going to bars and attempting to fill the jukebox with whatever metal we could find. It sort of worked, kind of, but when a great heavy hitting song was followed by a rap, pop or country song it kind of killed the mood. Plus I'd be damned if there's a decent bar in all of Milwaukee, Wisconsin that's even slightly decent and filled with interesting people. Yep, that's right, no metal/rock bars around here. Looking back I think one reason why we were always stuck going to bars was simply because we were young and some of us lived with our parents and such and we didn't have our own places to destroy with drunken metal mayhem.

Perhaps another reason why some sort of organized events never took place was simply because I wasn't social enough to get something together, but somehow within the past couple of years I've opened up a bit, met a lot of great people from around here and actually helped put together some fun parties. The first proper one was back at the end of 2010, a new year's gathering, which I dubbed, 'Joe's Non-stop to Midnight Metal Massacre.' I should point out though that we went far past midnight, in fact last year we went until 4 AM. Since then its been a semi occasional thing to just have friends over at my place and get drunk, share tunes and just thrash around like a bunch of metal idiots. Its not the sort of thing you can do all the time since the alcoholic life style doesn't always fit with me, but there's always new/old music to share as well sometimes you've just got to let go of everything and go crazy.

Yesterday was my birthday and both myself and a good friend hosted a party, which he dubbed, 'The Great Joepocalypse.' It turned out to be a real thrill since we cooked out, drank and blasted metal loudly into the cool afternoon skies and through the night until just slightly past 3AM this morning. I was happy since a lot of friends showed up, even a few from out of state down in Illinois and I'd like to think that everyone had a fucking great time... well, despite the hangovers some may have had.

I had originally conceived a nearly fifteen hour playlist, but of course we didn't last long enough to get through the entire thing. Below however is the list of what we listened to for the duration of the party. The playlist wasn't in any specific running order, just on shuffle, but this is it from the first song to the last. Feel free to look through it and decide if its the sort of music you'd want to get drunk with. Also enjoy a shot of me and two of my buddies (I'm the one on the left).

Black Sabbath - TV Crimes (4:44 PM)
Dr. Shinker - Dead by Dawn
Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
King Diamond - Arrival
Megadeth - Victory
Celtic Frost - Eternal Summer
Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue
Megadeth - Skin O' My Teeth
Architects Of The Aftermath - Victim
Sadus - In Your Face
Year of the Goat - Of Darkness
Venom - Witching Hour
Dark Fortress - When 1000 Crypts Awake
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Napalm Death - You Suffer
Grotesque - Blood Runs From The Altar
Sepultura - R.I.P. (Rest In Pain)
Megadeth - Last Rites/Loved To Death
Barren Earth - Forlorn Waves
Cathedral - Enter the Worms
Death - Altering the Future
Dismember - Soon to be Dead
Skid Row - Midnight/Tornado

Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
Sepultura - Morbid Visions
Obituary - Slowly we Rot
Atrophy - Things Change
Holy Terror - Distant Calling
Gehennah - Rock'n'roll patrol
Survivors Zero - Thorns of Rapture
Sepultura - Stronger than Hate
Bones - Good Die Young
Impaled Nazarene - Satan Wants you Dead
W.A.S.P. - Locomotive Breath
Sleestak - Chapter 3 - The Prophecy Of The Great Sleep
Trouble - Mr. White
At the Gates - Suicide Nation
Bonded by Blood - Theme From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Napalm Death - Negative Approach
Blind Guardian - When Sorrow Sang
Hypocrisy - Inseminated Adoption
Morbid Angel - Lord Of All Fevers & Plague
Carnage - The Day Man Lost

Havok - Prepare for Attack
Mayhem - Necrolust
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Kyuss - I'm Not
Possessed - The Exorcist
Tokyo Blade - Lightning Strikes (Straight Through The Heart)
1349 - Sculptor Of Flesh
Necrophobic - Awakening...
Megadeth - The Disintegrators
Gehennah - Bang your Heads for Satan
Sahg - Downward Spiral
Sepultura - The Curse
In Flames - December Flower
Cathedral - La Noche Del Buque Maldito (Aka Ghost Ship Of The Blind Dead)
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Pentagram - Much Too Young To Know
Amorphis - Black Winter Day
Iron Maiden - Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky
Pentagram - Forever my Queen
The Black League - One Colour Black

RoutaSielu - Kaipaus
Carcass - Carneous Cacoffiny
In Flames - Upon An Oaken Throne
Iron Maiden - Déjà Vu
Testament - Souls of Black
Pentagram - Live Free and Burn
Mantic Ritual - Panic
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Heaven & Hell - Eating the Cannibals
Recipients Of Death - Necropolis (City Of The Dead)
Sepultura - Infected Voice
Green Carnation - Just When You Think It's Safe
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust
Overkill - Rotten to the Core
Autopsy - In the Grip of Winter
Judas Priest - (Take These) Chains
AC/DC - Touch Too Much
Finntroll - Trollhammaren
W.A.S.P. - Cries in the Night
Insomnium - The Elder
Black Widow - In Ancient Days
Gehennah - Bitch with a Bulletbelt

Black Breath - Feast of the Damned
Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting
Judas Priest - A Touch of Evil
Ophthalamia - Deathcrush
Ghost - Ritual
Morningstar - Diehard Rocker
Rotting Christ - Full Colour Is The Night
Melechesh - Leper Jerusalem
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Behemoth - Slaying The Prophets Ov Isa
Testament - Electric Crown
Devil - Time to Repent
Gehennah - Bulldozer
Ancient Rites - Mother Europe
Metallica - Trapped Under Ice
Iron Maiden - Wildest Dreams
Pentagram - Treat me Right
Sodom - Don't Walk Away
Type O Negative - Blood & Fire
In Flames - Episode 666
Kingston Wall - I'm Not the One
Testament - Practice what you Preach
Sodom - Witchhammer
Kreator - Extreme Aggressions
Moonspell - Alma Matter
Moonsorrow - Kylän päässä
The Obsessed - Inside Looking Out
Black Sabbath - Die Young
Nachtmystium - Nightfall
Grim Reaper - Rock & Roll Tonight
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Anthrax - Lone Justice
Pentagram - When the Screams Come
Enslaved - Fenris
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Demons & Wizards - Dorian
Sigh - Messiahplan
COC - Señor Limpio
Darkthrone - In The Shadow Of The Horns
Summon - Of these Sins...
Warbringer - Living in a Whirlwind
Black Sabbath - Snowblind
Watain - Reaping Death
Beherit - War Command
Vader - Silent Empire
Black Sabbath - The Law Maker
Iron Maiden - Running Free
Barathrum - Legions of Perkele
Megadeth - This Day we Fight
Skeletonwitch - The Despoiler Of Human Life
Toxic Holocaust - Metallic Crucifixion
Venom - Poison
Candlemass - Crystal Ball
Slayer - Altar of Sacrifice
Absu - Transylvania
Impiety - Torment in Fire
CCR - Lookin' Out My Back Door
Insomnium - The Day It All Came Down
Destruction - Release from Agony
Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
Municipal Waste - Trapped in the Sites
Megadeth - I Ain't Superstitious
Guns N' Roses - Buick Makane (Big Dumb Sex)
Sahg - Pyromancer
S.O.D. - Sargent "D" & The S.O.D.
Nokturnal Mortum - Україна
Cathedral - Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)
Arsis - Elegant And Perverse
Sentenced - The War Ain't Over!
Indungeon - Die in Fire
Lazarus A.D. - Last Breath (3:13 AM)

Yes, we really played that many songs.

As a final note I recommend if you have your own place (an actual house works better over and apartment, obviously) and some good metal buddies then try throwing some parties. I think you'll find its a fun and rewarding experience and just a great way to spend an evening.