Blind Idiot God

Skinless - Siege Engine

Fridays at this time of year have lighter crowds, but make up for it with lots of (often loud, annoying, and poorly-behaved) school groups.

Defeated Sanity - Salacious Affinity

That, but worse. When it gets slammed, it gets SLAMMED.

SFMM has all the time in the world to get it ready, while SFNE has to have it ready as soon as possible due to a relatively short season that typically takes several months to really take off due to unpredictable spring weather.

I was there with a friend on Friday as well, and yeah, you aren't kidding about the school groups. Maybe I'm just getting old, but preteens and teenagers get more and more irritating by the year, and while they were just kids being kids, we still eventually just got to the point where we couldn't deal with them any more and called it a day. There were also some extremely slow ride crews; definitely remember Wicked Cyclone's crew not being on point, and Thunderbolt's crew also could have picked up the pace a little bit. Wouldn't be surprised about the food crews, but neither of us felt like eating in the park aside from my friend's impassioned search for either a snow cone or a slushie and her abject expressions of horror at the price (which we still paid, as we didn't want to end our search empty-handed).

Nightmarer - Cave Digger

Cryptopsy - The Curse of the Great

Entheos - Melancholia

Ulcerate - Clutching Revulsion

Could also be a safety thing. I've had friends who have worked as scare actors, and they all had enough bad encounters with drunks and macho idiots who wanted to show off for their girlfriends to make them size up anyone who seemed suspect before making a move. Direct eye contact can be interpreted as an aggressive gesture, and I suspect that most of them would see it as such.

Nocturnal Rites - A Heart as Black as Coal

Beneath the Massacre - Light

Inferi - A Beckoning Thrall Malcolm sent me a lil somethin' somethin' in the mail today, two days ahead of the release date.

Ingested - A Nightmare Incarnate

Skeletal Remains - Seismic Abyss

Morbid Angel - Rapture

Dyscarnate - To End All Flesh Before Me

Lecherous Nocturne - Quantum Mysticism

Avatarium - The Starless Sleep

Oceans of Slumber - The Decay of Disregard

Candlemass - Samarithan

Augury - The Living Vault Been a hot minute since they've done anything, but I'm enjoying the new one so far.

Ulcerate - Praise and Negation

The Black Dahlia Murder - Necropolis