Chris Colgan
Best Metal Concert I've ever been to: The second day of the Saints and Sinners Festival in 2006, at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ. I was up in the front against the barricade for the sets of Job for a Cowboy, Through the Eyes of the Dead, A Life Once Lost, God Forbid, All That Remains, Unearth, and Killswitch Engage. Doc Coyle of God Forbid handed me his pick after their set ended. Bob Meadows of A Life Once Lost climbed out into the crowd and was standing on top of me while singing "Vulture". Trevor Phipps of Unearth climbed out into the crowd and stuck the microphone in my face so I could sing part of "The Great Dividers". And Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage climbed out into the crowd and basically stood on my shoulders and conducted the crowd as we sang "Rose of Sharyn" for him. It was an experience that could never be duplicated or surpassed.
Best Metal Concert I've never been to: Sounds of the Underground 2007 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. Headlined by Gwar, Shadows Fall, Chimaira, Every Time I Die, Darkest Hour, and many others, with special guests Testament and All That Remains. It was a day of incredible music. I would have killed to see that show.
A few of my favorite bands: Killswitch Engage, In Flames, Demon Hunter, All That Remains, Unearth, Soilwork, Iron Maiden, Sevendust, Shadows Fall, Disarmonia Mundi, Chimaira, Haste the Day, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Mnemic, 3 Inches of Blood, As I Lay Dying, Scar Symmetry, In This Moment, Nonpoint, Metallica, Seemless, Dark Tranquillity, God Forbid, and A Life Once Lost, to name a few.
What Metal means to me in 20 words or less: Say what you want, as loud as you can, no matter what anyone says or thinks about you.
About Me: I'm 22 years old, a native of Rhode Island. I'm a senior communications major at Seton Hall University. I DJ at 89.5 WSOU under the name Chris the Mad Scientist. I love music and could not live without it. I was introduced to metal by my best friend at school, who gave me a copy of Master of Puppets to listen to. I've never looked back since. I go against the grain as much as possible in life, and I firmly believe that originality and self-expression are the most important qualities to have in this world of imitation and stagnation.
My List of Top Metal Albums
E-mail: WSOUMadScientist@hotmail.com
 Best metal concert I've ever been to: I've seen so many great shows, it's hard to say.
Some that stand out are Savatage in the Hall of the Mountain King years, Sanctuary on the
Into the Mirror Black tour, Manowar on the Fighting the World tour, Vicious Rumors
on the Welcome to the Ball tour, King's X at Roseland for Faith, Hope, Love and
their self-titled, and my first times seeing Trouble, Nevermore, Opeth and In Flames live on
stage. I'll also never forget seeing Metallica walk out onto a dark, smoky stage of tombstone
crosses on the MASTER OF PUPPETS tour warming up for Ozzy. I was terrified!
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 Best metal concert I've never been to: Two shows from the late
Eighties still
stick in my mind. The first was the "Hell on Wheels" tour with Armored
Saint, Helloween and
Grim Reaper. Can't believe I missed that one. And then there was Stryper
and Loudness at
Madison Square Garden. The city still seemed real big to me at the time.
A few of my favorite bands: Opeth, Spiral Architect, Nevermore,
Evergrey, At the
Gates/The Haunted, Carcass/Arch Enemy, Lacuna Coil and a zillion others.
What metal means to me in 15 words or less: We burn because the world
should be so much
more beautiful than it is.
About me: Ladd Everitt was born in 1970 and, as the accompanying
photos show, is aging
rapidly. He compensates for his fear of dying and becoming irrelevant by
launching himself into
mosh pits at great physical risk and by trying to be as "heavy" as possible.
He was introduced
to metal at the age of eleven or twelve by a troubled teenager who lived
next door who was kind
enough to blast "Iron Man" on a small radio in his driveway. He has never
looked back. Unlike
fellow ex-reviewer Craig "The King" McCullough, he denies reality and refuses
to shave his widow's
peak clean off his head.
My list of top metal albums
E-mail: LaddDC@AOL.com
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Karl Haikara
Best Metal Concert I've ever been to:Danzig with Doyle coming out for the encore and some Misfits songs. Really a great show.
Best Metal Concert I've Never been to: Essentially any of the original Norwegian BM bands shows, seeing Dead on stage would have been amazing
Some of My Favorite Bands:Bathory, Emperor, Darkthrone, Nokturnal Mortum, Agalloch, Xasthur, Leviathan, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Graveland, Borknagar, David Bowie, Joy Divison, Wongraven, Satyricon, others.
What metal means to me in 10 word or less: The sound of eternity.
About me: I am in a number of metal projects, and one mostly non-metal band. Music to me is what life is about. www.myspace.com/khaikara
My list of top metal albums
E-mail: Yeandir@gmail.com
Best Metal Concert I've ever been to: The first time seeing Metallica (1988); seeing Dio in 2000 (he performed excellently for over 2 hours, pretty amazing for a guy who's about 90 years old); In Flames on their first U.S tour in 1999. My first concert will always be a highlight: AC/DC in 1988. Oh yeah, and seeing Queensryche when they played the whole OPERATION: MINDCRIME album. That almost makes up for the really boring Geoff Tate solo show I saw last year.
Best metal concert I've ever been to: Fates Warning at Evening Star Motel in Niagara Falls, NY. It was very small and intimate. Those kinds of concerts are usually my favorite. A recent one was Nevermore, Into Eternity, and Opeth. Three really talented bands on one stage. It was a authentic progressive technical metal concert. And finally, Cynic with Cannibal Corpse was the most entertaining.