Dr. Loomis, you have a call on line 2...

Man! Halloween is tomorrow, kids! The Day of Horror draws near! And it's especially awesome because one of the musical projects I'm in faces our baptism of fire; tomorrow night we perform our very first gig at Lost and Found in Madison, and we are going to annihilate every soul there. Our name is Loomis (you know, Donald Pleasance's character from Halloween, Michael Myers' shrink...you remember, right? We were gonna be Voorhees, as in Jason, but some (cra)punk band from Britain already has the name) and we freaking shred. I label us as a grind band, but that's not quite the case. Certainly, we have many of the stylistic indiosyncrasies of grind, but we incorporate a lot of different strains of metal into our approach. Oh, and lest I forget... we shred. I play guitar and do some cookie monster vocals, Jon Taube plays drums (and occasionally lets out a "pubescent-schoolgirl-in-Hell" vocal), and Zach Johnson and Eric Jackson both do vocals (Zach has the screechier vocal (think Pig Destroyer), whereas Eric rips up the guttural vox (think Nile)). We have 4 originals at this point in time, and we also rip a rendition of The Misfits' "We Bite." Yeah... we shred. But, I don't want to turn the excitement over the coming of Samhain into an excercise in vanity on my part, so remember: rock the Halloween, boils and ghouls. And don't do anything stupid. Just because it's Halloween doesn't mean you have to ruin your life (or others'). Cripes. Just have a good time and be safe. Watch out for the Undead. Later, fiends!