Hell died and went to Miami.
I know how to smell a scam, and this thing reeks. But I couldn’t write it off so easily, because I found it through a band’s official tour schedule. So I started looking around at a bunch of different band sites, a bunch of reputable music magazines, everything I could think of, and sure enough, it appears to be legit. If it is a scam, it’s about the most well played one I’ve ever encountered. I honestly think this is real.
So you probably figure, ok, cruises are for yuppies and old people, it’s probably going to be a lot of cheesy hair metal, washed up gimmicks, and no name bands. It certainly isn’t going to be the most impressive names in metal, all playing at least two sets a piece, chilling on the deck getting hammered with the fans between performances, right? …Right?…
Blind Guardian, Týr, Finntroll, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Amon Amarth, and Iced Earth top the lineup. I’m not fucking kidding. This cruise includes Nevermore, Marduk, Sonata Arctica, Moonspell, Rage, Epica, Dark Tranquility, Testament, Obituary, Exodus, Fear Factory, Gamma Ray, Unleashed, and a Bathory cover band consisting of members of Mayhem, Einherjer, Dimmu Borgir, Thyrfing, and Primordial.
On a cruise ship.
I think I just crapped my pants.
According to the creator of all this, “I live in Vancouver, BC, very close to the cruise ship terminal. So one day about three years ago I was sitting with my friends on my balcony having a few beers. Obviously we had one too many, because I remember asking those guys, hey, wouldn’t that be cool to charter one of these and put a heavy metal festival on? That was when 70000TONS OF METAL was born.”
Through the Shattered Lens 
As an avid gamer with almost no social life in exchange for pure, animalistic manly gaming essence, I have only ever heard of three of those band names within my ‘circle’ of information, be it friends or random youtubin’. Those being, case you were curious you little scamp, you: Nevermore, Fear Factory, and Dimmu Borgir. The rest could be a list of hair products for young men for all I know. But what do I care? I am full of pure, animalistic manly gaming essence.
This comment is begging for an “I’m on a horse” remark…
/OldSpiceWhistle
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Of the ones you haven’t heard of I suggest you check out Blind Guardian. You shan’t be disappointed especially with the albums “A Night at the Opera”, “At the Edge of Time” and “Nightfall on Middle-Earth”
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