About The Contributors

Brad Sanders

Nickname: Colonel (I think you’re forgetting “B-Rad” -ed)

Location: Sometimes Ohio, sometimes Indiana, usually USA

Favourite band(s): Iron Maiden, Clutch, Opeth, Mastodon, Rush, My Dying Bride, Immortal, Carcass, Mouth of the Architect, Dream Theater, Genesis, Between the Buried and Me, Alcest, Cobalt, Nile, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash

Favourite venues:

• Bogart’s, Cincinnati
• Peabody’s Down Under, Cleveland
• Dayton Dirt Collective, Dayton

Best gigs:

• Queensrÿche @ Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, Columbus 2005-09-28
• Sparrows Swarm and Sing @ Stillwater Photography, Dayton 2006-08-19
• Iron Maiden @ Air Canada Centre, Toronto 2008-03-16
• Clutch @ Newport Music Hall, Columbus 2008-12-30
• Carcass @ Peabody’s Down Under, Cleveland 2009-03-14
• Alcest @ Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago 2010-04-24

Soundtrack of my life:

• ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ by Iron Maiden
• ‘Supper’s Ready’ by Genesis
• ‘Animal Farm’ by Clutch
• ’1913′ by Kenoma
• ‘The Pass’ by Rush
• ‘Sons of Northern Darkness’ by Immortal
• ‘Ghost of Perdition’ by Opeth
• ‘I Don’t Believe In Love’ by Queensrÿche
• ‘Highwayman’ by The Highwaymen
• ‘Nightfall’ by Blind Guardian
• ‘Lashed To The Slave Stick’ by Nile

Favourite quote: “In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is
that nothing is ever ‘in and of itself.’” -Chuck Klosterman

Favourite film(s):

• ‘The Big Lebowski’
• ‘Inglourious Basterds’
• ‘Fargo’
• ‘There Will Be Blood’
• ‘The Shining’
• ‘Mulholland Dr.’

Most likely to say: “I’ll be damned”.

Location: USA

Favourite band(s): Savatage, Overkill, Megadeth, Y&T, Angra, Edguy, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Gamma Ray, Dio, Candlebox, Flotsam & Jetsam, Tesla, L.A. Guns, Cinderella, Andre Matos, Jon Oliva’s Pain, Avantasia

Best gigs:

• Megadeth @ Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA 1995-02-03
• Cinderella @ TLA, Philadelphia, PA 1995-04-26
• Dio @ Birch Hill, Old Bridge, NJ 1998-06-19
• Iron Maiden w/ Queensryche & Halford @ E Center, Camden, NJ 2000-08-12
• Overkill @ The Paramount, Asbury Park, NJ 2002-03-23
• Y&T @ Jaxx, Springfield, VA 2002-12-06 & 07
• Criss Oliva Memorial Concert @ The Masquerade, Tampa, FL 2003-10-17
• Edguy w/ Tad Morose @ BB Kings, New York, NY 2004-09-15

Soundtrack of my life:

• ‘Blackout in the Red Room’ by Love/Hate
• ‘Face the Day’ by Great White
• ‘I Hate’ by Overkill
• ‘Peace Sells’ by Megadeth
• ‘Swatting at Flies’ by Flotsam & Jetsam
• ‘Take What You Can’ by XYZ
• ‘November Rain’ by Guns N’ Roses
• ‘In My Darkest Hour’ by Megadeth
• ‘Point of View’ by D.A.D.
• ‘Me Against the World’ by Lizzy Borden
• ‘I Could Have Been a Dreamer’ by Dio
• ‘Believe’ by Savatage

Favourite quote: “There are two ways you can hear this next song, there’s our way and there’s their way, for those of you that think this is their way, this song is called The Mechanix” -Dave Mustaine

Favourite film(s):

• ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy
• ‘Clerks’
• ‘Office Space’
• ‘Rock Star’
• ‘The Wedding Singer’
• ‘The Lost Boys’
• ‘Shock ‘Em Dead’

Most likely to say: “Bunch of savages in this town”, “Yay!”, “Why?”