Blind Idiot God

Gatecreeper - Sterilized

Aborted - Coronary Reconstruction

Dyscarnate - Iron Strengthens Iron

Unfathomable Ruination - Pestilential Affinity

Tribulation - Wanderer in the Outer Darkness

Cannabis Corpse - In Dank Purity

Septicflesh - Sunlight/Moonlight Also, Logic is the latest addition to the "hip-hop for white people who don't actually like hip-hop but don't want to say it for fear of being lumped in with the people who arbitrarily hate it for stupid reasons" category.

Septicflesh - Martyr

Abysmal Dawn - Rapture Renowned

Deftones - Mein

Cytotoxin - Redefining Zenith

Inanimate Existence - Forever to Burn

Revocation - Cradle Robber

I was under the impression that everyone in MA either went down to the Cape or up to the Lakes Region and/or the White Mountains for vacation, though it also seems like the Cape is one of the de facto NH vacation spots as well. Old Orchard Beach has always kinda been one as well, but it used to mostly cater to Quebecois coming down from Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, and QC.

Nah, Portsmouth is a far more attractive draw to developers who want to plunk down luxury condos with obnoxious gastropubs with chalkboard menus where a waiter with a beard and a gelled quiff will sell you $16 appetizers. I just don't see them putting Old Orchard Beach on their radar any time soon. Also, that was probably Lafayette Road in Seabrook that you drove through (judging by the abandoned Ames), and I assure you that that's a very accurate impression of that town. It's basically 1A and Lafayette plus a bunch of trailer parks, and both of those roads are a mix of chains, run-down strip malls with facades that haven't been updated since 1996, townie dive bars and disgusting family restaurants, fireworks stores, and porn stores.

Palace Playland will be around as long as Hampton Beach continues to get worse and worse, as Old Orchard Beach has traditionally been Hampton Beach-lite to begin with and is starting to attract the people who don't want to pay $40 to park on someone's lawn for a tiny little strip of beach where they can step on dirty needles and watch trashy NH couples make out and get into drunken screaming matches. It's not glamorous and it does indeed feel like a traveling carnival, but I don't see it going away any time soon.

Suffocation - The Warmth Within the Dark

Abhorrent Decimation - Granted Indulgence

Beneath - Alignments

Decrepit Birth - The Sacred Geometry

Savage Messiah - In Thought Alone

It's funny how you mentioned seeing Melvins when a friend of mine who was out on his honeymoon in Seattle a few weeks ago saw King Buzzo's nephew playing with Undergang. Granted, Sam Osborne has never tried to capitalize on his uncle's name (not that you really can when you only play in underground death metal acts) and my friend didn't actually know who he was until I told him, but it's still pretty cool.

Origin - Truthslayer

Fit for an Autopsy - Hydra

Deftones - Good Morning Beautiful