Amon Amarth (full band)
Overkill (full band, went to a bar with them)
Ministry (Al and Mike, we partied for like 4 hours)
Fear Factory (only Burt)
Celtic Frost (only Tom)
Morbid Angel (full band)
Doro (just her)
In Flames (full band)
Nevermore (the vocalist, didnt really talk to him for long tho)
Killing Joke (Paul Raven)
Anathema (full band, drank vodka with them)
Destruction (only Shmier)

hell, thats all I remember but Ive met more. I get to meet these people simply because I often have a press pass.

Bart from Quo Vadis came up to me before a show a couple of years ago and asked me if he could share the joint I was smoking with some friends with him...there are a lot of non metal musicians I have met...like Len, Sector Seven and The Barstool Profits because they're all from around here...

Let me think....First to come to my mind at the moment would be Lotta Höglin from Beseech for me and my classmate arranged a little assault on her after the gig in order to get an autograph and we succeeded....
Of course I have bumped into members of our homemade Metsatöll....at the birthday of the band or yeah....even in a shop or street....but I have not talked to them....
A very good acquaintance of mine would be a local award winning jazz singer(does definitely not qualify as a metal artist)....I went to a music class with her younger sister and we also were on a trip years ago....

Written by jupitreas on 22.08.2006 at 01:21

Amon Amarth (full band)
Overkill (full band, went to a bar with them)
Ministry (Al and Mike, we partied for like 4 hours)
Fear Factory (only Burt)
Celtic Frost (only Tom)
Morbid Angel (full band)
Doro (just her)
In Flames (full band)
Nevermore (the vocalist, didnt really talk to him for long tho)
Killing Joke (Paul Raven)
Anathema (full band, drank vodka with them)
Destruction (only Shmier)

hell, thats all I remember but Ive met more. I get to meet these people simply because I often have a press pass.

That's pretty awesome. I'm sure your press pass would come in handy at times like that! Do you interview bands and stuff as well? Is your pass because you of a job you do or something?

I've met lots of people from relatively unknown bands. The only famous metal musician I ever talked to was Muhammed Suicemez from Necrophagist. I told him that he should eat deep dish pizza. I shook hands with him and avoided touching anything with my right hand for about a week or so.

I didn't meet very much musicians, but here I go anyway:

- Epica (full band) twice: Once in Vosselaar and once in Kortrijk, both in Belgium. Then I met Mark in Amsterdam after the Paradiso gig
- Liv Kristine from Leaves' Eyes at Metal Female Voices Fest last year
- Roy Khan from Kamelot after the Epica gig in Paradiso (Amsterdam)
- Amanda Summerville: One of the choir singers from Epica, also in Amsterdam
- The Old Dead Tree: full band. They signed a poster for me. I have put this poster in 100? frame and hung it central in my living room.

On my wish list is certainly In Flames. Man, I'd like to party with these guys after a gig. It must be sick!

none, you're really lucky, I wish I lived near where those bands do their gigs.

I have met Emperor and In Flames. Both full band.

I have met Jens Johansson,even got a picture.I also briefly met Timo Tolkki as well as members of small bands.I have also met the guys of Into Eternity.

I've met all the guys from Strapping Young Lad (all of them) which was an awsome experience. I met some guys from Goatwhore and some local bands and that's about it...

Oh, just Oscar from HammerFall! It was on Sweden Rock when I saw him (It's hard to miss him)
I screamed: Oscaar!! And I got his autograph

I've met...

In Flames x 2
As I Lay Dying

Nothing spectacular.

Written by jupitreas on 22.08.2006 at 01:21

Amon Amarth (full band)
Overkill (full band, went to a bar with them)
Ministry (Al and Mike, we partied for like 4 hours)
Fear Factory (only Burt)
Celtic Frost (only Tom)
Morbid Angel (full band)
Doro (just her)
In Flames (full band)
Nevermore (the vocalist, didnt really talk to him for long tho)
Killing Joke (Paul Raven)
Anathema (full band, drank vodka with them)
Destruction (only Shmier)

hell, thats all I remember but Ive met more. I get to meet these people simply because I often have a press pass.

I envy you man, I really do... except for Amon Amarth and "Burt" from Fear Factory...

Amon Amarth ,Slayer i think the festival's name ROCK THE NATIONS in turkey in 2004
Megadeth (only Dave At Desertrock In Duabi in 2006)

thats it !

Aside from Signing's i've met :

Alexi Laiho x 2
Jaska from COB
Stone Sour x quite a few
Joey Jordison x 5

Best of all was Satyricon twice...first time was a quick hands shake and hello's...second time spent about 20 minutes chatting to Frost about the most random things imaginable. Hope to meet them again soon.

Cato9021 - I'm so jealous you met Emperor.

Let me see if I remember corectly some of the guys I've talked to:

Kim Bendix Petersen;
Miland Petrozza & Sami Yli-Sirniö;
Eddie Marcolin & Leif Edling;
Ronnie James Dio;
David Coverdale;
John Tardy,Trevor Peres, Allen West, Donald Tardy;
Dave Mustaine & one of the Dover brothers (don't remember which though);
Igor & Max Cavalera (at diffrent shows, diffrent years).

That's about it & a bunch of virtualy unknown bands from Bulgaria, Greece & Romania.

I met Kerry King of Slayer!! I Also met 2 of the guys from Vader... and Six Feet Under (except for the bassist).

All Mago de Oz band....i travel with them to Bogota, i saw them cuz i heard some people singing and when i look back to see the people who was singing was the band...so i give to them all tmy Mago albums....cuz i always travel with my albums and we travel back to Venezuela to see the show on Caracas also i saw then in Bogota

Non, hope to meet some more...

Dimmu Borgir (Galder, Vortex and Mustis)
Meshuggah (full band)
Goatwhore (full band)

non-metal is:
Mindless Self Indulgence (just Jimmy)

Blind Guardian (whole band, but only could chat to Hansi Kürsch)
Gamma Ray (whole band, but only could chat to Kai Hansen)
Emperor (whole band)
Zyklon (Sechtdamon, when he was on tour with Emperor)

Hmm...none I think...I envy you all

I hope to meet every musician I'm listening to.....So far, I know members of Greek bands...

Written by heresiarch on 21.08.2006 at 20:27

I have met all the Sentenced boys
Tarot boys
Sova and Janne from Barathrum
Luttinen from Impaled Nazarene

Tony and Jani from Sonata Arctica
Jarkko and Arto from Teräsbetoni
Mitja and Ville from Moonsorrow

The only band I have met to date is Extol. (They also happened to be the only concert I've been to so far, unfortunately.) The story is that I was with a group of friends (they are more into Extol than I am; I just went because it was a concert and I was getting in free) at a rock festival and Extol was part of the gig that day. They had a booth set up in the organization fair area and of course we dropped by to say hi and check them out. They were selling shirts and albums, and the friend who paid my ticket got a CD signed by them. They were really friendly to talk to and I enjoyed conversing with them and asking them all sorts of questions; they didn't seem to mind and journalism is my major after all so why not get some practice in? Hehe.

well I met the members of My Enchantment (a portuguese band), we hang out before the concert. I dont know if that even counts.

I think it would be more interesting if more people would say how they met the person, what they did with them, what their personality was like, etc.

Twilight moon the whole band, Altaria, whole band, Korpiklaani the whole band was on the same plane as them when they were of to Wacken, Emppu from Nightwish, Mathias Lillmåns Finntroll's vocalist, Jani Liimatainen from Sonata... um I think that was everyone...

Written by Dangerboner on 08.09.2006 at 03:06

I think it would be more interesting if more people would say how they met the person, what they did with them, what their personality was like, etc.

Probably because what constitutes as "meeting" is going to a sign-in or waiting until the show is over and saying hi and bye whilst getting stuffed signed.

I don't ever bother with sign in's myself, to many fucktards and I can't imagine the bands really want to hear all the typical b.s. that people tell them. All I can say is that I have hung out with "Bam Bam" from Skid Row, my wifes mother is friends with him, funny guy.

Yeah that's true.