For those of you that don't already know, I'm whoring myself out at this Friday's show to benefit RageRockRadio.com. This Friday is your chance to win a dream date with yours truly, or if you're a sad and pathetic human like some of my band mates, you can win a chance to have me scrub your undies and your toilet, whatever gets you off I guess.

In addition to Friday's show, we're giving you two chances to celebrate Halloween D.C. style - Friday the 26th in Lowell with Disorder By Design, as well as Halloween Night at the Compound in Fitchburg. Be sure to come and check out these shows.

As a special treat, we've got some new videos uploaded to MySpace and youtube from our past couple shows, including two new songs, Dystopia and One More Stain

Metal venues (and live music venues in general) are dropping like flies. The Skybar and Rox's are gone, Uptown Tavern is closing in October, Goodtimes is closing at the end of the year, and there are countless others. Why? Because our society is fixated on listening to the same old shit, over and over again. Turn on the radio, they play the same 5 songs in an endless loop, and those songs are all cookie cutter verse-chorus-verse bullshit. Originality is no longer profitable, let's stick to the same formula and rehash the same old crap in a different package.

Cover bands, DJs and karaoke now dominate the 'local music scene'. If you're content with this, then sit back and turn the radio up and enjoy your mediocrity. If this pisses you off, then consider this a call to action. Get out to local (original) shows, but a tshirt or CD from a band you like. Tell your friends about them. As long as the venues see that there is a following for live music, they will make it available. Do your part, support those of us who bleed on stage for your entertainment value.

There are plenty of amazing local bands in the area, check them out. For those of you looking for an immediate fix, check out First Shove, Broken Hell, and Devil's Champion this Saturday at the Uptown Tavern in Manchester. It's free, and now non smoking.

See you in the pits

You've probably noticed the new logo both here and on MySpace - this looks like the final version. Thanks to Chris from Undying Breed for the help. In the near future you should see some new shirts and such featuring the new logo.

We've added some new bells to the site too - the new media player on the main page as well as an auto updating banner with our next show details, available on the Links page. We've also added a Metal News section which is updated almost daily with the latest metal news from around the world.

We've got some killer shows coming up in th next month or so, here's flyers for the next few: