thread: 2007-02-12 : Metal
On 2007-02-12, Ben Lehman wrote:
One of the awesomest experiences of my life was going to a speed metal show in Beijing. These guys were clearly practicing in empty lots out in the outskirts of town—their dirty clothes and scruffy looks weren't very effected. But they all had awesome long hair, and just got up there on the stage and screamed and screamed about their lives while the crowd just fucking smashed each other. My friends stayed out of the pit, trying to maintain a modern indie-kid ironic detachment, but I just jump in and started headbanging with the Chinese guys. In China, where crowds would often part around me and point and stare and giggle at the strange foreigner, it was the one time I was ever in a crowd where it was clear that no one gave a flying fuck that I wasn't a local. We were all there to smash each other up, scream, and throw up the horns. Just a bunch of crazy humans, and damned if we didn't get that shit done.
The name of the band was "Suffocation."
