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MESSHUGAH !!!!!!!!!
Apr 21, 2008 | 3:28 PM
Category: Music
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When I heard that Ministry  was touring and that Messhugah was the opening act, I nearly passed out.  I've seen Ministry a bunch of times so seeing them again was no big deal but Messhugah is the top of the heap when it comes to my favorite metal outfits!  I got on line right away to see if there were tickets available.  The moment the total came up on the ticketmaster website I think I actually did lose consciousness.  Tickets were going for $101.00 or something close to that.  So I just told myself that this was not to be.  But out of the blue on Friday night, I get a call that there are two tickets waiting for me at the venue.  I called a friend and raced out the door..

We picked up the tickets and arrived in time as the lights were going down.  Messhugah is the heaviest band on the planet in case you didn't know.  Their brand of experimental, sub sonic, math metal is unique in this universe.  No one sounds like them and no one would even try.  Guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Marten Hagstrom use custom made eight string guitars that enable them to play in keys that are so low that it's a miracle they don't trigger earthquakes.  Couple that with drummer Tomas Haake polyrythmic bashing and it makes for a sound like no other.  Vocalist Jens Kidman is an excellent frontman and owns one of the better metal growls in the business.  And Friday night they lived up to my expectations and absolutely leveled the crowd that was in attendance.  They mixed older songs with newer tracks from their  latest release "obZen" and the audience ate it up.

Watching this band play was like nothing I had ever seen live.  They don't tour the U.S. very often and when they do, Houston is usually not one of the stops.  I feel very lucky to have witnessed it.  If you are looking for something different, bone crushing and flat out mind bending to put on your mp3 player, look no further.
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Jun 18, 2008 | 11:48 AM

Thanks for the invite Rueben. I have plenty of help for the mini crisis, but I still don't know what to do about the family. I wanted to give half of my profits from my online Mary Kay sales to the family, but don't know how to go about it. My website address is

www.marykay.com/antihutchinson

Can you do anything to help me with this, and please respond on my blog.

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According to Kristine Galvan, I'm the station junk man. That's because I pick up all the assignments that everyone else avoids. But hey, it's a living. I'm a non-award winning, non-journalist and so far I like it that way.

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