An afternoon conversation built anticipation of seeing a band on the rise and as Tryg, frontman, told me more about his band, it grew even more. Fall From Grace has been pushing their music with the utmost enthusiasm and drive to one day hit a level of success that will bring the music to the masses and, at the same time, pay the bills and fill their bellies. As I was told by Tryg, that is where he deems success to lay.

With a new album to promote, "The Romance Years 2012", and fans to gain, Fall From Grace are ready to put in the work required. The summer tour season has begun and they have already completed nearly two months on the road with Eve 6 and are currently touring with Saving Abel and Redlight Kings. This type of work is not handed to you it is taken. By being persistent and actively engaged in their careers these guys have been able to tour the nation without having outside management. To me, that is unbelievable. Inspiring is what these guys are and a band that deserves to be heard.

So make sure that you come out to Rams Head Live on July 13 to welcome these boys back to Baltimore. This is one show that will not disappoint. By the way, if you see a bald, brown guy in the crowd, buy him a drink.

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Maryland Deathfest X

  Break out your illegible black metal t-shirts and your patch-infested denim vests, folks- it’s Maryland Death Fest time again!  Now in its Xth installment, MDF 2012 is shaping up to be one of the best lineups yet.  I got the chance to speak with Ryan Taylor and Evan Harting, cofounders of the thing, and they gave me the lowdown on the genesis of MDF, and it’s evolution into THE mecca for extreme metallers, both in the states and abroad:

SW: So were you guys big metal purists in high school? How did the concept come about?

Ryan Taylor: Fortunately I started early – so did Evan – with listening to metal, but when I was younger, say, ten or eleven,  I had all the Metallica, Megadeth and Black Sabbath – mostly the stuff my Father exposed me to, which got me interested in metal to begin with. Then, at around fourteen, I started getting into the more underground stuff; discovering all the different subgenres of  extreme metal which, as we all know, can seem…endless. So Evan and I met in high school, which was at Parkville High, I guess I was probably sixteen and he was fourteen, and over the next three or so years we discovered that we had pretty similar interests in music, which made it pretty easy for us to work together and throw the first festival.

Evan Harting: Yeah, in high school I was (a metal purist) a lot more so than I am now; now I am a lot more open minded, but back then it was strictly death metal, basically. So that’s why for the first year of the fest, it was all brutal death metal, for the most part. That’s pretty much all we both listened to at the time. The concept for MDF came about  when we both worked together at this restaurant in Perry Hall, we were pretty active in the scene, we were at shows all the time and we had friends in bands like Dying Fetus and stuff like that, so about two years before we threw the first MDF we went to the last year of the Ohio DeathFest, which inspired us a little bit to start something similar… so when that festival  stopped, and then the Milwaukee Metalfest, I don’t know if it stopped or it just became no longer credible – Anyway, there was no longer anything along those lines happening anymore. So initially we just wanted to get some band from the east coast and kind of just have a one day thing. But soon after we announced that, bands from all over the place began writing, and it just sort of blew up, so the first year ended up being three days long, which we never intended.

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Philly Convention is approaching quickly!!!!

Frankie Scorpion is presenting the first ever talk show in the tattoo industry:

"THE TATTOO VIEW"!

Tattooo wives casting call:

We are looking for tattooed women that have either dated/lived with/ are married/divorced/engaged/ or had babies with heavily tattooed man or a tattoo artist. We are looking for new cutting age women who are the ideal perfect tattoo wife for reality show.

Model Search: Come register. We submit your information to casting and management companies that are in need of alternative actors and models for commercials, music videos, sitcoms and movies. We are looking for men and women. $20 registration fee.

Frankie Scorpion & Eternal Eclipse Events will present Tattoo Wives Casting red-carpet after-party at Raven Lounge in Philadelphia on Sat Feb 11, 2012. Party starts 8pm to close. Red carpet walk starts at 11:30pm. Pre party will be held there on Friday Feb 10,2012.

Come get interviewed at the Philly tattoo convention and win free passes to the red carpet after party in a raffle with Sara Blades.

Send your customers to THE TATTOO VIEW booth after they have been tattooed so that we may do a live interview!

Interested in sponsoring the show, "The Tattoo View"?

Send your name, number and shop information to Frankiescorpion8@gmail attention Sara Blades

We are also showcasing "The Dali Dynasty" Live Art Exhibit.

Master artist Francisco Poblet was mentored by "Salvador Dali" at the age of 14 and has been painting the world for 71 years. As Art Director for Western Publishing during 1967-1976, Mr. Poblet designed many child hood Gold Key Comics such as the first editions 1-15 Star Trek covers, The Road Runner, The Pink Panther, Scooby Doo, Disney's Golden Books and many, many more. Mr. Poblet will honor us with his magnificent paintings and sneak peak to the World Trade Center Collection to appear in New York's WTC Museum. Autographs will be Saturday the 11th from 2- 4:00 p.m.

Submit your Dali inspired art by Friday the 10th at The Dali Dynasty Booth and your registration forms by Feb. 2 to be judged by Francisco Poblet.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the convention and promise to continue bringing more new and exciting ventures to the "Tattoo Industry!

LET'S GET TAT, TAT, TATTED UP!!!