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WHY I STOPPED BEING CATHOLIC IN NOVEMBER 2013

22/4/2015

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I have been wanting to talk about this since November 2013 but its something that hard to discuss & you shouldn't talk about.

 Its all about religion. Its OK to be a  Christian Metalhead while listening to bands that are drawn to Christianity like Mortification & Stryper but if your going to listen to Black Metal or Satanic stuff like King Diamond, Morbid Angel  and Immortal then you better reject god. Because there's no point going to a Morbid Angel gig and believing in God. Your basically at the wrong gig.

I met a man called Omar at Living Colour in Feb 2014. He was Half Egyptian, half Anglo Saxon. He was raised under Islam. But at 17 he found Agnostic and turned the other way.  I told Omar you did what was best for you.

I was born to an Anglican British man and a Catholic New Zealander woman. My father accepted marrying a Catholic and wanting his kids to be brought up Catholic and this to me is fucked up. When the Child reaches 12 he or she should choose a religion to follow or not follow any religion.

Even though i did everything i was supposed to as a Catholic, religion never interested me and if you ask me there are some Catholic's out there such as (my mother and my New Zealand family) that swear allot  Well if you want to swear maybe you should be an Atheist.


In the times i wasted going to New Zealand, crap was thrown at me by bastard relatives who were Catholic . Some other cousins were also agnostics but the thing is only a few people out of that family ever had respect for my personalities.

But after 26 years waiting i found love, respect and similarity with my fathers British family and everyone in my dads family and extending family is an amazing person and the funny thing is there simply christian or they don't practice and that's what i like.

2010 I lost my virginity in a one night stand with a woman called CJ in her mid 30's. 

A few months later I went to a STRYPER CONCERT raised my hands and ask god for forgiveness because i didn't abstain from sex before marriage and i didn't get laid for 3 years

In 2011 i had a dream where i was smoking weed in a field but i then woke up to realise that: "I cant smoke Marijuana i'm a Catholic" and that mindset & the medicines i take has stop me from ever touching drugs.

I cant see myself ever being a Rastafarian and worship Hallie Sallessie because touching weed is wrong. Unless your a sick person. But Hallie Selassie is a god to Africans and Afro people whose ancestors were forced out  of Africa.

In 2013 i enjoyed meeting up with various women around the world and i was glad that i was getting lucky. Then i thought to myself doesn't anyone hate me for getting laid before marriage or even paying for sex in Amsterdam? I did feel some guilt in having one night stands but it made me more of a man.

Fr Kevin Lee was killed in the Filipino Typhoon of Nov 2013. He had been a dickhead since 1999 when he came to the church i attended from 1988-2014 He was an arsehole of a priest at with the offensive ways he said mass, he had girlfriends in a double life, he got married while he was still a priest before he came out telling everyone that he got married to a lady in Manilla and back stabbed parishioners by not telling people he had girlfriends for 20 years.

Mother nature killed Kevin Lee in Nov 2013, not god. God doesn't kill people or causes natural disaster, the earth does that and god doesn't tell you when your time is up.

When Kevin Lee died  i told everyone. You got 3 options in life: 1) take a vowel of Abstinence and be a religious leader. 2) get married have kids and live together death to do apart.

Or #3 is where you DON'T get married, you DON'T have kids but you live in an ever last relationship with another person and your deeply connected with them. You don't want to get married because divorce is not cheap and you don't want to have kids because you want  to be free and roll in the hay with your partner using contraception to protect you from STD's and unwanted pregnancy

I would take option #3. I have many adversities in life: I have cerebral palsy, i have medical conditions, i take medicines every day to live, i was a dumb ass at school, I have never been in a relationship & i have anxiety.
  
Because of all these factors I cant see myself getting married or having kids but i can still see myself finding a mature woman older than me to be with for life and she too would not want to have kids or even get married.

Religion wants you to get married and have kids. What if you can't do it because of adversities? You might as well take option 3 so you can be happy

Since November 2013 I have stopped giving 2 shit about religion. I met an Atheist New Zealand woman and i told her i couldn't see myself as Catholic because allot of the laws of the church are shit. She told me "you need something to prop you up". I just felt like she turned off my religious switch. Weeks later she told me 

"Don't be the sheep that follows the flock. Your unique like everyone else don't let anyone tell you how to live your life".

I felt guilty that i was not respecting the church laws on sex before marriage, contraception and what not. Then i thought to myself. What are we doing in the world these day? We are still fighting, kicking and killing each other over religion because we are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Orthodox, Shinto, Bahia, Hindu.  Even Atheist's are getting their ass kicked for not submitting to a religion.

I  walked out of a Church gathering in Oct 2013 BECAUSE NOBODY WAS TALKING TO ME AFTER ALL THE WORK I DID FOR THAT CHURCH  I was like "FUCK THIS EVENT, I 'M GOING HOME"

So i didn't go to St. Michael's Catholic Church in Baulkham Hills for  4 weeks. I stood down from my role as projectionist at  church because everyone was too lazy to help me out (when they know how to do MS PowerPoint).

​ People are so fucking lazy when I stared at 100 people in pews who have been raised on MS Office and not one dimwit Catholic had the balls to come up  to me and say "I can do the projector".

I went to a church gathering in Dec 2013 (when i wasn't attending mass) and i told people that i found Atheism because i felt that religion is just totally wrong, stupid, ill informative and even persecution and i would rather live my life being a HUMANITARIAN like Che Guevara caring about issues in the worlds nobody gives a shit about.

And my Catholic friends try to brain wash me in many ways. I told them all that my religious switch has been turned OFF. I just started moving away from these people.


I found another church to attend in Chatswood. it was called the Armenian church. I found peace attending that church because nobody was full of shit, no Hillsong music were sung and the Armenian people were nice and this Armenian Aposolit Church was far  better than the Catholic church.

So i went there for a few week and Luck started to happen with extra work.

But i pissed off my Mother again, because my own Mother was paranoid of the people i was worship with. Mother's are always paranoid and my mothers always been like that. I had an argument with my mum during the Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony as she was BITCHING ABOUT my Iranian friends and my Armenian Church.

and i just ripped into my mother saying:

"I HATE MY NEW ZEALAND FAMILY,
 I HATE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
I AM AN ATHEIST,
DON'T TELL ME HOW TO FUCKING LIVE MY LIFE!


And my mother was crying her fucking eyes out and that that time i was thinking why can't i move out of home and move out of this situation.

I visit Buddhists on a regular basis and whatever they tell me I  agree with them with 200% of my attention and they say Chanting does them good but the thing is they don't say "Buddha is god" they say Buddha is Buddhism. Buddhist also say rules about Sex before marriage and not eating pork are bullshit.

The important thing is Buddhist don't tell me to go back to Church and they don't tell me not to shag someone over 45.

So i went back to Church in February 2014 but then in March  2014 i felt that i should not be attending St. Michael's Baulkham Hills church, I should not be helping out at Church and i shouldn't be a Catholic.

I didn't  go to  the Catholic Church for 7 months in 2014 and I have only  been to a Catholic Church 8 times since December 2014. I do atending wedding and funerals at St. Michael's Baulkham Hills, but I don't take Holy Communion and its kinda hard to say HI! to people when I stopped hanging out with these people back in 2014.

 I just can't see myself ever want to go back to being Catholic because the people at St.Michael's Baulkham Hills are nothing more but dorks and those people have disrespected me for travelling or being a Dream Theater fan and i can't deal with Catholics because allot  of them  are fucked in the head!


So since my 28th Birthday in 2013, I don't give 2 shits about any religion. I lost respect for religion for what has happened in the world.


The only religions in the world that are worth following are Satanism, Rastafarian or Buddhism. Because those religions don't tell you to rape children or shoot people in the streets or get angry at people for offending their god. 

You can burn a church down, you can smoke Marijuana and call Hallie Selassie a god or you can Chant to a guy that existed in Asia. But you shouldn't believe in Religions that  tells you not to laid before marriage

I do not see myself interested in Religion, I want to swear in my art, have sex with older women, I want to be a metalhead  But you can't do that when your tied down with religion.

So if you don't like what i just said, I'm sorry that i have offended you.  But if your Catholic, then you probably don't understand my intentions and if you want to brainwash  me back into the Catholic Church then please UNFRIEND ME and stop reading my website.

The world needs more: Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, Donald Woods and less right wing racists people~Martin Anthony
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Top 10 love making songs for Metalhead's

19/4/2015

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People all over the world want to get laid even while listening to some sweet as music. But these days people are fucking tired of hearing "Sexual Healing" or Throw your Arms Around me"

When I lost my virginity (with a curvy mid 30’s lady called Carol Jane) at aged 24 I was thinking of 3 songs in my head that are like the best songs to think of or listen to when you’re getting laid.

2 months later I was watching the Christian Metal band Stryper. As they played “Reach Out” I raised up my hands and said “forgive me Lord for having pre-marital sex”. I didn't get laid for close to 3 years until I went to Amsterdam in June 2013

But seriously the music of Stryper is enough to make you want to be a Christian with a chastity belt. I still listen to Stryper but i don't ask Buddha, Satan or Hallie Selassie to forgive me since i "GET OFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE"


1) Can't Get Enuff  Winger

Ask any lady  from New Zealand if they know about Rachel Hunter and they will know how she dated KIP WINGER in the early 90's before tying it up with Rod Stewart.

"Can’t get Enuff" is the opening track off "In the Heart of The Young" it’s all about a guy who cannot get enough of seeing his lady friend and how it’s never enough. It’s hilarious to watch the video and see a woman peeling off all her clothing in a photo booth.

Winger music is some of the best music to listen to when you’re getting laid. Someday I always wish I was Kip Winger as his music has been a big influence in my love making
2) Soul Kiss  Olivia Newton-john

I used to be obsessed with her shitty music when I was 18 and 19 but my mother feared I was becoming a bit gay. If you want my honest opinion I could only ever listen to one record and that is "Soul Kiss". I am not gay and last time I checked I love women. But I only ever went to that Olivia concert in March 2012 so I could get sober and heckle ANDY TIMMONS of DANGER DANGER

The title track is about a woman who gets down on her knees and begs. So it’s basically a woman begging to give you a RAD BLOWJOB. So a "Soul Kiss" is pretty much a blowjob, or 50 euros  is what i once paid in Amsterdam

 Whoever wrote the song should have offered it to a metal lady like Lita Ford instead of a wash up musician
3) Gonna Get Close To You (Queensryche edition)

This song was originally written by French-Canadian Lisa Dalbello in 1984 in the video she demonstrates safe sex by putting cling wrap over her mouth. Have any of you people ever used a *dental dam* when performing oral sex on a lady? I once asked a lady that and she told me she never even bothered
Fast forward 2 years later and the Prog Metal group Queensryche got glamed up for their "Rage for Order" record. When I first hear this song it sounded like a guy was stalking a woman as he wanted to get close to her.

Every time I see a hot mature woman in a city bar I always tell myself "Gonna Get Close To You" so I talk to allot of women these days and it’s just to help my confidence. I seriously would fall head over heel for a woman who is 1) a redhead and 2) a Queensryche fan

The video portraits Geoff Tate as a stalker but if you ask Geoff Tate is plain as Black and White and is a Lunatic and a fool who is wasting his time making music these days.
4) Rock you like a Hurricane Scorpions

The album artwork for “Love at First Sting” shows a couple locked in a pose while the lady is getting a tattoo done.

The song represents a person’s presence and how he is going to rock this woman like a hurricane in the bedroom. The video shows women pushing on a fence trying to get closer to the band

"Love at first sting" is something everyone wants as you want to get laid first meeting

5) Pour Some Sugar on Me~ Def Leppard


When I first heard this song at Live 8 2005 I instantly became a Def Leppard fan and that band has influenced me to be an awesome Pommy man in many ways.


I always misread the song about taking an incredible wank. Or the song could be about doing 6 lines off a woman.
6) Naughty Naughty Danger Danger


It’s a song so nice they named it twice just like the band.  When you press play on that record and hear the creepy voice at the Intro saying "Let’s get naughty naughty" it’s the start of something nasty.

'LETS GET NAUGHTY NAUGHTY, DOWN AND DIRTY" It always seem that Glam band have the best love making songs. I find it amusing they can put an audio sample of Ted Poley trying to hook up with a stripper but getting bitch slapped in doing so.
7) Fur Immer  WARLOCK

I had to include a Warlock song on my list since DORO is a huge MILF even though she never had kids.  It just reminds you of a lover being inside your heart forever.

8) Bastards bullets bitches and beer~ Bastardizer


I think any band that makes a reference to women, alcohol,weapons and bastards  need to be in this playlist. I think it's always been the opening track on every Bastardizer gig I have been to. But the thing is Thrash/Black metal music doesn't really go together with love making

9 Mama Genesis

Its about a song of a guy that falls in love with a hooker he calls “Mama” AND how she doesn’t have  feelings for a client. The saying goes "love them then leave them and forget them". Phil Collins must have been a huge pleased man during a time after he broke up with his wife.

10) Still in Love With You Virgin Steele

 
When i first listened to Virgin Steele i just fell head over heels for this song. Its the song you play after you leave someones house after an hour long "roll in the hay" and how you are "Still in Love" with a lady with benefits or a girlfriend who dumped you.

This song could make any lonely bloke drop his pants and jack off in the sink because he would be thinking "Oh i wish Carol Cox didn't stood me down and now I’m wasting all this Jizz in my hotel bathroom”

Virgin Steele 1993 Whitesnake inspired album "Life Amongst the Ruins" has allot of loving make music in it. Especially "Too Hot to Handle", "Sex Religion Machine" and "Love is Pain"

Dishonorable mentions

Touch Me~ Samantha Fox

Every time I hear this song I feel like I want to make love to a woman who loves pop music but hates metal. I don’t think I could ever get it up if this song was playing in the background. Being British it’s  our unofficial hook up anthem.

Samantha Fox is a bit of a MILF these days but it’s a shame she turned out queer. But that's life

If I Can’t Have You~ Kim Wilde


The year was 1993, I was at 8 year old who started wasting 12 years of his life listening to shitty music. But the music of 1993 will always be remembered for being Awesome even if It was Heavy Metal or Pop rock.

Kim Wilde had just had a successful 13 year career in the music business and was about to top it off by covering a Bee Gees pend song.

The lyrics are sung in a passionate way but the music video shows Kim Wilde knocking over some shit in her house and even taking her top off. I got my first erection at age 8 after watching that video. At the time I was watching video's on Channel 10 "Video Hits" such as “Physical”, “I Should be so Lucky” made me realize that yes women are good at peeling off all their clothing and

Real life Scenarios

One time I was visiting a mature woman  Foriengers “I Wanna Know What Love Is” came on the radio and I though to myself "Yes I do know was love is thank you very much"

After I got out of the shower Whitesnake “Is This Love” came on the radio and I told her about my love of WHITESNAKE 1987




Some days in my life when I know I am going to go get laid I play these songs and even watch the videos to remind myself that I got to perform well in the bedroom.


 Because without these songs I don’t think the Testosterone within me would me working and I would be dropping my pants infront of my Doctor to show that my testosterone replacement theraphy isnt working well.

When I am in the bedroom my mind will start playing all these songs I know about. Ill be thinking about Winger, Queen of the Ryche, Soul Kissed, Scorpions and all the others i can think about.

As I always say. Use a JIMMY HAT and forget what Pope Francis says about using contraception. Life is too short, get off as much as possible.


Fat Eddie: UH YEAH I NEED A JIMMY HAT, LOVE GLOVE, SALAMI SLING, DIPPER SLIPPER?

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Tori (A remake a Peter Gabriel "Biko")

18/4/2015

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In the early part of Peter Gabriel's Solo Career, he released a song titled "Biko" that explains how Anti-Apartheid hero Stephen Biko was killed in Port Elizabeth Police Room 619. "You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire" is about even though "The Man is Dead" his  legacy will not die

During the 1980's Peter Gabriel toured the world. In his setlist contains this song. Before he starts seeing it Peter explains how South Africa has RACISM  enshrined in its constitution, that Steven Biko was a brave man who preached Non Violence until the fateful day Biko was imprisoned, tortured and killed in a South African Jail.

At the end of the song Peter Gabriel and the Audience gives out a large African calling. Before protesting the issues of South  Africa

For all those still in jail in South Africa!

For all those still being tortured!

For all the prisoners of conscience!


For Stephen Biko

When i first heard this  song in January 2015. I was starting to know about the history of Donald Woods and how he exposed the War Crime of South African Apartheid.  Donald Woods could have suffered the same fate as Stephen Biko but he was banned from doing  any editorial work in the whole of South Africa. 

I made a remake of this song. It has the same song structure with the same music. But the lyrics pay tribute to those of Tori Johnson as this is our 2015 version of "BIKO" called "TORI"

If i was to perform this song live id introduce it by telling the story

There was a man in Sydney Australia who preached love for all. He was a supporter of his own people even when they were discriminated against for being different.  In a nation that still discriminates people by not giving them Equal Marriage

Tori Johnson was held against his will for 16 hours, made to stand up in front of a window holding a black flag that preaches hate, extremism and terrorism. At 2.14 am Tori Johnson was shot dead by an Immigrant Prick Man Haron Monis. A bastard who preached hatred towards Australian Military personal who died in conflict, A man who lied to get asylum in a nation that locks people up for seeing Asylum, a man who hated our freedom to do what we want to do with our lives.

 Man Haron Monis killed Tori Johnson for no apparent reason. But in return another human killed Monis and that man is the spirit of people who don’t want to live under an umbrella of religious violence and extremism.



 This is for Tori Johnson

December  2015
Sydney, Australia weather fine
It was business as usual
In Martin Place shop 53
Oh Tori, Tori, because Tori
Oh Tori, Tori, because Tori
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Tori, Tori, because Tori
Oh Tori, Tori, because Tori
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Tori, Tori, because Tori
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now


 At the end of the Song i would  yell out a calling, protesting my opinion on various things


In memory those people killed by Terrorists

For those people who want the freedom of Movement


For those people persecuted for their  own belief and choices



For the family and friends of Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson

I really didn't want to call this song Katrina. Because even though she wasn't killed  by the gunman. She was killed by Shrapnel fired from NSW Police. She was not unlucky, she was not protecting Julie Taylor she died in the line of Cross fired even though she had to put up with 16 hours of hell but then to have her life taken away by trigger happy officers who were stupid enough to use American M4A1 carbines instead of a  FN Machine gun.

I will always feel pissed for what happened on 15/16th December 2015. The System has failed and there are just so many people who should be held responsible for 2 peoples death. Australian Immigration are the morons for letting him in.

  I hope that all Nations that i want to reside in the future will not let in any more Immigrant Pricks to  cause HARM to our ways of life.

RIP Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson


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The Legend of Forgery

9/4/2015

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The year was 2008 the date was Wednesday 7th May. I was sitting outside “The Forum” at Moore Park waiting to meet the guys in Saxon. I was there from 11am just waiting and hoping to get the best spot for the front row.

I got lucky as i got to meet Nigel Glocker and Biff Byford as they signed my copy of Crusader



Around 5pm am group of teenagers walked past me. Most of them were wearing Denim vest like what I had on. One of the guys (James Grant) remembered me from the Ozzy Osborune concert in March that year.



There was a pair of Identical twins (Luke and Josh Bennett), a guy called Daniel, a tall bloke called Dean and an up and coming guitarist Tim Sheppard

I introduced myself and told them about how long I had been waiting there.

4  months later I met the same group of guys at the Olympic Park McDonalds. Tim and Dean were taking part with the “Double Pounder” challenge. I walked in and made an appearance saying that “I was from Saxon?”

Everyone was there to go watch Judas Priest at Acer Arena. 2 weeks later I saw the same guys at Testament and there was more blokes in denim vest and allot of these people I have been friends with for a long time

The Twins Luke and Josh were in a band called Forgery with their friend Tim Sheppard and a doucebag false metalhead called Digby.  They were based in Canberra and the told me about their music.

There was Luke on Vokills and Bass, Josh on Drums, Tim and Digby on guitar


The first time I ever saw any footage of Forgery was the guys playing Sodom “Outbreak of Evil” at a talent contest in Canberra.
Digby quit the band in November 2008 but according to band members he was going to get fired and he was a shitty guitarist who had no passion for Heavy Metal. Just hip hop bullshit Here's a video of him singing "PARANOID
The guys in Forgery told me about their gig in Canberra on Friday 28th November 2008. But I couldn’t make it because I was trapped in my shithole Dish washing job at Tequilas on Main. A month later I was suicidal because the prick owner from Uruguay called Ricardo VIlla couldn't give me the chance to work in the bar.

I overcame my suicidal tendencies because I wanted to live to see my friends band Forgery. I thank Stevie Nicks Bella Donna LP for saving my life. I was on the "Edge of Seventeen" when i was 23.



2009 came and I had to change my way of life if I wanted to live and no die of a fucking heart attack on the job. I was getting Panic Attacks on the job because the two fuckhead managers Ricardo Vila and David Keys fired the old Spanish dishwasher Marcel. So everytime i came into my washroom at 4pm there was a load of shit everywhere and I was the one who had to sort it out

One thing that kept me sane in the first quarter of 2009 was Heavy Metal. On the day Saxon and Kreator released their new albums “Hordes of Chaos” and “Into the Labyrinth” i went to Utopia record to buy those 2 albums. Kreators “Hordes of Chaos” struck a chord with me because those opening rifts would make me so angry I would so love to bash the shit out of all the Immigrant Pricks at “Tequilas on Main”.

I ordered a stamp with the Forgery Logo on it and I would buy like 200 sticker labels from Woolworths for less than $3 and I would make a whole bunch of Forgery Sticks and under the logo i would write

“If you’re sick and tired of Delta Goodrem why not try Forgery”

“Forgery: KILL POP MUSIC”

“Listen to Forgery”



I would go around Sydney town sticking all these Forgery stickers in location such as Central Station, The Metro Theatre, Train station, The botanical gardens and even outside record shops and all. I never got caught and some of my sticker stayed up for some time.

I was doing the same type of marketing “Rat Skates” was doing in 1980 to `promote his band Overkill

I was still having a shit time at Tequilas on Main and I was still getting Panic Attack that would force me to leave work early.

I got to see some awesome bands after that last panic attack. I saw Lamb of God, In Flames and Unearth one night and 2 nights later I saw Devil Driver, Lacuna Coil, 36 Crazyfits. I got to meet Dez from Devildriver and Chris from Lamb of God


I lost respect for Lacuna Coil because their equipment failed during the concert and their fascist Italian  rodie slapped me on the knee for waiting outside. Italians are nothing more than fucking facist and since 2009 I fucking hate Lacuna Coil and their music is nothing more but shit. Goth Metal is not Metal IN MY OPINION.

This was 2 years before I went to Italy and had to deal with the real fascists in TrenItalia and Rome Metro. Italy sucks and the only good metal bands that ever came out of Italy was Black Metal bands Bulldozer and S.S Death

2 weeks later I got out of my shitty job at Tequilas to go watch Death Angel and Armored Saint. I had to ask permission from Ricardo Vila for anytime off. 2 days before the concert I rang Ricardo to let him know I had to go to Canberra on the weekend to see my mates band


The other manager David Keys was being a fuckhead as well. He said to me “You got to be working here more instead of being out there you can’t be seeing band all the time Martin” 

I had not seen any bands at all from the time I saw Def Leppard 10th November 2008 till the time I saw Lamb of God 24th February 2009. 3 months without going to a fucking concert
At Death Angel/Armoured Saint concert I got to Hang out with the usual gang + the guys in Forgery but the night became awful because this 30+guy called Dominic was just having a go at me and bitching about certain things I was doing. I made friends with Dom but I haven’t seen him since Testament in 2010.

I gave the stamp to Tim Sheppard as i walked into the night sad that some so called Manager or bodyguard of the band had to be a total jackass to me. I didn’t feel like going to Canberra.


I had to go back to my shitty job to hear my boss Ricardo Vila rant at me for calling his mobile. He called my mobile once so why can’t I call him for anything. This immigrant Prick should have died years ago.

The next day I went down to Canberra on the Greyhound bus leaving Central Station at 8am. I was in the Australian Capital at 11am as its a short 3 hour ride to Canberra.


I ended up walking to where the Diplomatic Missions are and nothing had changed in the last 2 years since I went to Canberra. I ended up giving someone directions because I was holding a Canberra Gregory’s I borrowed off my mate Adam.

I went up north of Canberra to visit my friends Chris and Ivan. I have known Chris since I was 5 years old and their parents were like 2nd parents to me. They let me stay the night in their wonderful house.


The gig was held in a small pub in Canberra called the Phoenix. It was in the civic center of town not far from where I would have stayed if I was in a hostel.

It was Saturday 14th March 2009. It was the first time I had ever had a Saturday night off since I saw Testament in September 2008. I was regaining my social life after spending a whole year in that shithole in Rouse Hill called Tequilas on main.

I was in my everyday clothing as I really didn’t feel like going to this concert after the issues I had with Dominic. He was there and I did my best to stay clear from him. I sat next to Luke, Josh and Tim and I apologies for being a jerk at Death Angel. They were glad i was here

I local metal band from Canberra got up on stage but as far as I remember they never really made a big impact.

I helped the guys by putting Tim Sheppard guitar on stage as they hit the lights around 9pm




From what i remember the set list had a whole bunch of Originals and some of them ended up on the Hellbringer EP that was released in December 2009

 “The Hammer” 

“Spawn of the Void” 

“Unleash the Dogs of War” 

“The Banished” 

“Storm the Rapture”

 and there was also cover songs of Sodom  “Outbreak of Evil” and “Witching Hour”

I shook hand with Luke, Tim and Josh as they thanked me for attending their gig. I didn't bother sticking around to see “Reign of Terror" as I had to get back home to my friend’s house

I was so glad that I went down to Canberra to see Forgery. They were the best band that ever came out of Canberra and maybe they didn’t become media highlighted unlike Alchemist but they went overseas.
This was the first time I had ever seen Forgery live. I would continue to Watch Forgery every now and then before they became Hellbringer as they dominated the whole Sydney Scene

2 weeks after the Forgery gig I went to work, chucked a spaz at the Chilean Immigrant Prick Chef Maria, tore off my Appron and Hat and walked the fuck out of “Tequilas on main”. I spent the next 2 years drinking FREE COFFEE at Tequilas on Main before I moved on from a Restaurant that is falling apart.




Times I saw Forgery/Hellbringer Live
#1 14th March 2009 @ The Phoenix bar in Canberra; Supporting Reign of Terror

#2  30th April 2009 @ “The Leiwsham” in Lewisham: Supported by “Hazmat” and “Altar of Scion”

#3 31st October 2009 @ ANU Bar in Canberra supporting Darker Half at Metal Evolution Halloween gig

#4 23rd January 2010 @ The Sando Hotel in Newtown for the 2nd Under the southern Cross festival

#5 6th Febuary 2010 @ Krave Nightclub a headlining gig

#6 26th March 2010 @ The Lewisham Hotel in Lewisham supporting Hazmat (Last time I saw that band under the Forgery name
#7 17th April 2010 @ The Lewisham Hotel for the Hard & Heavy Festival

#8 10th July 2010 @ Manning Bar Redfern for Utopia Records Birthday Celebration W/Mortal Sin, Darker Half, Killrazer,  Switchblade, Anno Domini

#9 24th July 2010 @ The Landsdown Hotel Broadway Supporting Rampage W/Teratornis

#10 17th September 2010 @ The Bald Face Stag supporting Black Majesty and Darker Half

#11 6th November 2010 @ The Bald Face Stag supporting  Cauldron  Black Ram

#12 26th March 2011 @ The Bald Face Stag supporting Taberah
#13 Friday 13th May 2011 @ The Vavle Bar Tempe HEADLINE GIG with support from Kill for Satan and Teratornis
#14 3rd May  2013 @ The Valve Bar HEADLINING GIG with support from Bastardizer

#15 28th September 2013@  The Valve venue Supporting King Fate with support from Bastardizer

#16 19th April 2014 @ The Bald Face Stag supporting Backyard  Mortuary

Hellbringer was suposed to play at Headbangers Open Air 2012 but they  pulled out due to a lack of job, Money and time after spending big to have Harris Johns come to Canberra to record their first full length album. Hellbringer made a grand debut in Europe during 2014 playing across Denmark, Germany and France to thousands of peeople
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