AN ANNOUNCEMENT RE: DEATHMIKE
The user known as ‘deathmike’ has been removed from this site. Not on account of his poor music taste, but as a result of his behaviour in the real world and my reluctance to be associated with real-life knobheads.
Back in November of 2007, the North West UK was treated to two festivals on the same weekend – ‘Damnation’ and ‘Gekfest’. While both catered to a metal audience, ‘Gekfest’ was unarguably the more underground, more extreme festival, appealing to a more niche audience than the fairly mainstream Damnation. In-line with the extreme nature of Gekfest, the flier’s slogan stated ‘No frills, no faggotry’, an obvious jab at the watered-down scenecore / pussy bands which plague the modern live metal scene, and nothing more than that.
Deathmike took the opportunity to report Gekfest to Greater Manchester Police as a ‘hate crime’, as a result of the festival’s slogan. This was done as a result of a personal vendetta between Damnation organisers (whom Deathmike is closely affiliated with) and Paul, the organiser of Gekfest, and not as a result of any valiant crusade against homophobia, which is how the meddling parties are now trying to paint the picture.
As a result of these (and similar) actions by Deathmike and his Damnation cohorts, Negura Bunget, the Gekfest headliner, were told that they were not allowed to play, making Manchester the only city skipped on their tour and ensuring that lots of Negura fans (myself included) didn’t get to see one of their favourite bands.
I know full well that Deathmike did not report the gig because of a crusade against intolerance. He did it for shits and giggles, to stir up drama, and to get his own back at Paul, who he felt had insulted Damnation by (quite rightly) pointing out that it is the more commercial of the two events.
So, yeah. Deathmike’s removed from the authors and won’t be contributing to Metal Jerks any more. I’ll leave his reviews up because I’m never a fan of destroying creative works, even when made by vindictive people with disagreeable opinions.
Fuck you, Deathmike.
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 @ 7:14 pm 
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January 7th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
What a faggot.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
You know, you should really get your facts straight before you start dragging names through the dirt. Just saying.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Darkane – Whether Negura couldn’t play as a direct result of Mike’s actions or not is irrelevant – I’d ban him anyway. He maliciously set out to damage a gig he knew lots of fellow metalheads wanted to go to, which is inexcusable.
If he’d had a real issue with the slogan (which he didn’t), the grown-up thing to do would be to contact the organisers and express his concerns, not report the festival to the police, snigger about it, and encourage others to do the same. Fuck that.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Well don’t go announcing that it was a direct result of his/damnation’s actions then.
If you banned him for his actions based on the slogan, fair enough. I don’t know much about the situation but I fail to see how a complaint over a slogan would result in a romanian band being banned from a town!
I guess everyone needs someone to blame.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Yeah, you have put up a completely inaccurate statement there. Gek himself has released a statement stating that the “No faggotry” portion of the flyer had nothing to do with Negura being cancelled.
In his own words
“It had nothing to do with it, if it had done the whole festival would have been shut down, it wasn’t”
So to state it in your statement makes ya look kinda dumb.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Gek said that ages ago, back in November before any of this shittiness was uncovered.
The police would’ve paid special attention to Gekfest as a result of Deathmike’s call to them, his encouragement for others to do the same, and Severed’s complaint to the ASA. And at the demands of the police, Negura were banned. It doesn’t take much to realise the two could very well be related.
The pair’s behaviour was out-of-line, childish, spiteful, and done without regard for the community of metalheads it might affect. A community which the complainants are meant to be a part of.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Are you fucking thick?
Gek said that despite complaints over the no faggotry name – that had nothing to do with it.
He’s since found out who made the complaint and suddenly this changes it somehow?
The complaint had fuck all to do with negura gatting cancelled, Gek himself confirmed this in November. The reason he changed the spin is the same petty childish bickering you’re claiming to dislike.
But it would appear you’re kinda too dumb to see this.
Quelle suprise