Back from my adventure in Atlanta and I have to say that the homeless people nearly ruined the entire trip for me. Usually, I don't mind the poor, lower class citizens that sit on street corners and sing their songs and screech about the end of times, but when it came down the fact that I couldn't walk five feet from the hotel without being bombarded by alcoholic homeless men was just rediculous. I felt like I was stuck in the Twilight Zone and every single homeless person who happened to just finish smoking his crack and drinking his last bit of booze for the day was suddenly attracted to me and me alone. I didn't let them ruin my fun, however, and tried to run (quite literally) away from all of them with every intention of keeping my wallet intact.

Thursday night was probably one of the most awesome nights in such a very, very long time. The concert features two openers for Mastodon and Dethlklok, those being High on Fire and Converge. High on Fire was a band that I was already familiar with and a decent fan of, but Converge was relateively new and...different. I don't want to insult their music, which was absolutely awesome, but I couldn't bring myself to like the vocalist. He rarely used lyrics and pretty much screamed 'RAAAH!!' into his microphone every chance he got. He was, however, a good performer and allowed some of the people in the pit below to sing into his microphone (which he threw out to them several times).

Mastodon and Dethklok were epic. Just freakin' epic. Mastodon blew me away with their performance, and Dethklok did just the same. It's hard to decide who I liked more, but I can't deny the fact that I nearly lost my mind when Dethklok started playing the opening theme to Metalocalypse. Haha. It was the best ever, and seeing them play live was just a dream within itself.