Metal Injection

We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She will be checking in constantly with dispatches from the tour. Catch up with all her tour diaries, as well as a ton of photos at the Blackenedfest hub.

Day 5

After a night of heavy partying in Orlando, the support bands headed to Tallahassee for a very intimate show. Tallahassee is such the typical college town. Since school is out, there was the average local turn out. Once the show was over, the 150 capacity bar turned into a nightclub with an 80's dance party. It got really wild then. Just a bunch of smelly bearded dudes dancing in a sea of young 20-somethings.

While, Cattle Decap was packing up their trailer, their fill-in bassist Rah (pictured, above right) had a dance off with a local. I will be sure to include it in the end-of-tour video diary. Ultimately, the greatest part of the night was when these really tall, barely dressed young ladies walked by and all the guys started shouting and whistling. Josh, waited for the other guys to get exhausted before sarcastically exclaiming, "well, I WAS gay!"

Day 6

Houston was hot and gross. But, at least the air conditioning on the buses was working. Here is some video of grinders hard at work.

Cattle Decapitation: Gardeners of Eden

Cephalic Carnage: The Will Or The Way

Day 7

Mayhem: Illuminate Eliminate // Anti // Freezing Moon

I've always heard about how br00tal the San Antonio scene was but I didn't know how incredible it was until I saw for myself. It makes sense considering the weather. Mayhem put on probably my favorite set of the whole tour so far. The crowd went nuts for every band. Except for the guy below who probably spent all of his last two week's allowance on his Mayhem shirt, only to pass out near the merch booths. I finally met one of our ticket giveaway winners: Shane. He was super cool and said he actually read my blogs. That makes one of us, buddy.

See more photos from the tour at our Blackenedfest hub.