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By Darryl Smyers in Music News

Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 3:00PM

Starting on Friday and running throughout the weekend is something called The Bloodapalooza Tattoo Art and Music Festival. A quick perusal of the event's webpage offers a lengthy list of schedule bands. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of metal acts on the bill.

But you know what is a surprise? It's taking place at the Sterling Hotel. Weird.

Anyway, local acts like AdaKaiN, Benzley, Calling All War, Jointmethod, Mother Truckin' Skull Diggers, Pimpadelic, SaintKarla, Spinter and The Mother's Anger are just some of the bands scheduled to take part in the festivities. One of the few out of town acts is Austin's Quartershackle.

I'll admit it: I haven't heard of a lot of these acts. But SaintKarla recently sent me its newest release and it was solid metal/emo-punk. Plus, there's bound to be a lot of semi-hot, semi-dressed, tattooed gals running amok, right?

Tags: Bloodapalooza, metal, upcoming performances

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Petra says:

Denton's
Trebuchet is also playing on Friday at Bloodapalooza.

They're also playing tonight in Denton at Rubber Gloves with The Life And Times and Dead Twins.

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 4:21PM

ix says:

catch +THE SALUTATION+ and their
hip hop infused, synth driven rock anthems
at Bloodapalooza Sunday 3pm

its going to be a blast

- Art & photo gallaries
- Miss Bloodapalooza Contest
- over 150 tattoo artist
- tons of awards
- LOTS OF LIVE MUSIC!!!

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 4:27PM

Anonymous says:

saintkarla is not metal, not even remotely

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 4:37PM

D-Rail says:

Nothing weird about it being at the Sterling- wait until you see what we've done to the place. It will never be the same- Rooftop Stage- VIP Lounge- Art Galleries- Seminars- Poolside DJ's- Stripper Poles, Shadow Boxes- it's gonna be SICK!

Full details @ www.bloodapalooza.com

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 6:32PM

darryl says:

Com on no name! not remotely metal? hell, back in the day, some local djs claimed cheap trick was a metal band. and I suppose, in a way, they were. metal comes in many forms. Saintkarla have some emo punk tinges to their music and emo punk has some metal cousins beating around the bushes. I just wanted to give Saintkarla a shout out and let folks the band has a good cd out there. excuse me for helping out a local band. getting all tangled up in labels is just too petty to bother with. but, alas, here i am bothering with it. anyhow, saintkarla are way more indie, alt-rock and they play this festival at 6:00.

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 6:54PM

Anonymous says:

You can always count on some metalhead to say, "[Band X] is not metal."

Same goes for fans of punk and kunnnnnnntry....

Gotta keep it real.

Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 8 2009 @ 7:05PM

JC says:

I hope a DO slideshow is in order.

Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 9 2009 @ 8:11AM

Anonymous says:

@darryl - ok, so they may have some distant cousins that are metal, but that doesn't make them metal. Didn't ever say they were bad, just that it's not metal.

@anon#2 - Did you even listen to them? Listen to the songs on the myspace and tell me they're metal.

Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 9 2009 @ 2:10PM

JohnofSaintkarla says:

Darryl thanks for lettting us play at Bloodapalooza, It was an experience we won't soon forget.

Posted On: Friday, Apr. 24 2009 @ 6:01PM

Johnofsaintkarla says:

and DARRYL from the Oberver, (wow this is confusing) thanks for the shoutout

Posted On: Friday, Apr. 24 2009 @ 6:03PM