GOD FORBID’S DALLAS COYLE: AN OPEN LETTER TO LIGHT THIS CITY
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 5:17pm by Dallas Coyle
Open Letter To Light This City
Tonight was the last night of the “In Thrash We Trust’ tour with Death Angel, Arsis, Soilent Green and Light This City. The first thing I want to do is thank every single person who came out to this tour and rocked out with us. Some shows were packed and some shows weren’t but in the end none of that matters. The shows we played were for the people who came out to rock! I sound like a broken record but we get to play a show every day. Most of the people who come out to the show make this their one time of the week, their one time of the month — hell, their one time of the year to escape and lose themselves in some heavy fucking metal!
To those people, I THANK YOU!
After this six week run a lot of things have happened. No matter how many tours you do you never have the same story. You are always surprised. It could be the people you encounter that you haven’t seen in a long time. It could be the new bands you meet on tour who become new friends. There is a bond that is established between everyone on tour; from crew, to promoters, to bands, to fans. It really is an amazing animal. Honestly, if any of you out there are scientists in behavior you’d do well to do a study of the rhythm and mechanisms of a tour. I bet you’d find some anomalies that may coincide with the patterns of weather currents.
It is true energy.
Unfortunately, Light This City had to leave this tour early. It really sucked because I really liked everyone in the band. When a band leaves a tour prematurely it can affect you. Soilent left the tour early to do the Dethklok/Chimaira tour. I was happy as hell for them because that tour is kicking ass and they deserve to play for new people. When Soilent left we felt it. It was a blow. It was like our package had to reset itself.
Light This City was still with us so everything was all good — until the Al Rosa Villa. Most of you know about this place. I’m not going to go into it about the Al Rosa but for some reason that place has some serious karmic energy. The last time we played there Doc trashed the dressing room over some dispute I can’t really recall. Doc is a reserved individual. He’s definitely not violent but that night he lashed out. I was probably being an insufferable bastard. Like I said — I can’t remember. The night of the Al Rosa was the night LTC left the tour.
Getting personal about bands is something I don’t do because their business is their business but for this blog I have to share how I think bands should stay open ended.
Frost, Brian, Hollywood, Ben and Laura are some of the most down to earth, genuine people I’ve met on tour. I know they’ve done some great tours and have heat on them so when they told us they were leaving the tour I was surprised but –
I saw it coming.
I have an amazing talent for getting a feel for a situation. If you can name that talent, I’m all ears.
Not just two days before that day in Columbus I was thinking about LTC and the ways they can really take their band to the next level. These guys aren’t ‘middle-class’ like we are. They are still trying to break so I got some ideas in my head for them. They have everything necessary to make it. When I heard their new stuff I was truly digging it. It was massive shit. Everyone in the band was feelin’ it and I can tell they were moving in the right direction. When it comes out, BUY it! It’s awesome!
Two days before Columbus I walked up to Laura and I told her I thought she should bring more sex appeal to her presence. I think my exact words were, “Bring more sexy before the bitter sets in.” It was funny but trust me, once the bitter sets in it’s hard to get away from it… I would fuck with her a lot. I’d ask her to sing Happy Birthday because I’m a stickler for singing. Why Happy Birthday? Because if you can sing that, you can sing anything! I really thought on the the album after their new unreleased one she should add some sort of melodic stuff to contrast the brutality. Laura is brutal. She can kick most of those bitch-ass lambgoat posters to the fucking curb.
By the way, to you lambgoat punks… Laura wouldn’t fuck any of you if you were the last dudes on earth… She’s got class. You’ve got flaccid penises. I understand your impotent rage. Eat a hard dick.
Why would I ask her to add some melody? Because I cared about them. When I go on tour and see bands who are ridiculously talented playing their hearts out every night it makes me remember how hard it is to do this. Light This City is incredibly talented. To tell you the truth, before this tour I’ve never even heard them but after touring with them I wanted to help them in any way I could. We’ve been on tour with a bunch of bands who’ve gone on to bigger and better things and the only thing I feel is pride. When I see a band with the gift I want to give them everything I have.
I believe the singer is the most important element of any band. That’s why I was grilling Laura on that stuff. You have to use what you have to make it in this fucking business. I don’t care who the fuck you are. It’s not just sex appeal, it’s not just good songs. It’s a fucking package.
A band is like a fucking Xmas present!
That night when I spoke to LTC it disappointed me. How the fuck are you going to throw away something that only one in a million people can do? Most people don’t have the talent to BE this. Most people don’t have the RIGOR to do this. Most people can’t HANG with this. If some people can’t hang on it doesn’t mean YOU have to fall. ARE YOU HEARING ME? What’s growth without pain?
Laura, you lead the way. If you power through this all is not lost and the identity is intact. Your identity hasn’t even been developed. Develop your own identity before you worry about some other person’s identity. Love don’t pay the bills! Youth is a gift! Don’t throw it away! There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Like my Grandmama says, “Do it while you’re young! 21 never comes back! If niggas can’t hang, they can’t hang!”
To LTC: You know what you need to do. You’ve been doing it. You can keep doing it. You are a BAND! People out there count on you to create for them because they can’t! Do you know you’ve probably saved a life? People look up to you!
Don’t throw that opportunity away. It may be harder these days to make this a living but I believe you can do it. Take time off. Get a new perspective but don’t QUIT! You lose when you quit in this game.
A new record is a new day. Maybe Ben has to take time. Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t. The one thing I know is that you have a support system in your band most people would wish for. Brian, Hollywood and Frost are guys that people like me would wish for if my band were having issues. Trust me, we’ve had issues. I’ve wanted to quit so many times but I didn’t because something or the other kept me there and I never regretted staying. I’ve always thought about if I had made the decision to quit. I would’ve regretted that decision more than anything.
Unfortunately, I think you will too. Please don’t let it go.
I’m 28 and I’ve got my own problems. GF is at the end of a 4 year cycle and we’ve stayed together. There’s no reason you can’t. Don’t let Ben disband your band. Disband it yourself if that’s what you want to do. I don’t care who reads this because it’s very rare when I see a spark in a band. When I did previously, most of the bands went on to better things.
You will too. If you stay together.
Hopefully I won’t have to send condolences to Light This City. If you feel the same as I do hit Laura up and tell them to stay together. There is more to be done.
HORNS!!!!
[For an official explanation from Light This City about their breakup, visit MetalMartyr - Ed.]
wow
What a nigger-loving faggot.
oh neat, a faggot of biblical fucking proportions.
get fucked you has-been nigger. nobodys cared about your ass-eating band for like 4 years
wat
flip your fucking van nigger.
nigger
nigger band
die in a fire
RUDE BAND
dallasy coyle is a cunt.
I hope Laura decides to do a side project with Marta. And when I say “side project” I mean a Hustler pictorial.
as gay as my band is, its nothing compared to the faggotry that is Nigger forbid and Light This Shitty
Well wasn’t that special.
this band is mostly nigger, and mostly faggot, and mostly done
NO ONE CARES ANYMORE
METALCORE IS DEAD
AND YOURE STILL A NIGGER
Lambgoat has arrived! Aaahhhh… :)
NIGGER HAS ARRIVE
Jesus.. this post went from 0 to asshole laden in just 4 minutes!
Wow totally unnecessary for the bashing–aw he called out Lambgoat poster; way to pretty much prove his point. Idiots.
But this sucks about LTC, but I mean I guess what can you do? It seems as if they made up their mind about breaking up.
I wonder if Prosthetic will put out the album without direct tour support–hopefully they will.
But keep up with the blogs Dallas; fuck the naysayers.
awful, shit nigger band
god forbid is over the hill, someone put this band back into slavery please
this is mostly one faggot using random people from lambgoat’s usernames to post this ignorant shit. lambgoat has gone to as of late. i mean if you’re gonna be racist at least be funny.
this band is still together?
There is nothing more pathetic than these hateful, weak and vulgar posters that are all big behind their safe screens and wouldn’t dare say anything like this to Dallas’ face. I thought this was a great post that offered really heartfelt advice. Well done.
For the record, the comments in the Lambgoat news article were 90% what we call “news only posters”, their opinions are meaningless and they are generally terribly stupid human beings. They’re the ones who supported this band, LGMB could give 2 shits about this garbage or your generic metalcore “band.” Van flip, pronto.
well, fortunately, no one gives two shits about your worthless faggot opinion.
Thanks for the link, Vince!
this guy obviously wants to fuck this Laura chick. I saw Light this Shitty on the All That Remains tour and they were awful. I do have to agree though she does have a good voice but its not worth keeping the band together. I also agree with master of puppies…racial slurs over a website are for fucking pussies. Yea his band blows but that crossed the line.
YouAreSceneAsFuck,
What is a faggot opinion?
MarchHare,
Lambgoat 90% supports this band? Where was the 90% on the last tour? I forgot: you only pay 8 bucks a show cause paying more would be selling out… or maybe supporting a band.
Lambgoater,
Thanks for letting me know that. I kind of figured but I couldn’t be too sure. Again, thanks.
Jed,
What hill would we be over? Be more specific.
EvaMarieSmellsLIkePee,
Actually, Hillary Clinton is a nigger… but opinions are like assholes.
Classic stuff. I implore you to keep them coming. It’s great entertainment for all of us. But please, don’t try to debate me on anything, you won’t succeed.
Ciao,
Come again.
NEXT TIME YOURE IN CA, ILL FUCKING LYNCH ALL OF YOU NIGGERS! 6444 CHURCHILL ST SAN BERNARDINO CALIFORNIA 92407 MOTHERFUCKER! FIGHT ME!
Just for the record, the comments left by evamariesmellslikepee, toejam, alexcreate from mouthful of birds, CarsonSlovak, Sifl, SLK,lambgoats penis advisor, jed, and humble_pie were all left by the same person at the same IP address. He or she used an obviously fake e-mail address to register or I’d post it here for everyone to clog his inbox full of hate mail. But this is basically one 11 year old with way too much free time on his hands.
someone please delete the irrelevant racist comments on this…
and it’s a nice sentiment that he’s reaching out, but these open letters are pretty unprofessional. tell LTC to get their shit (back) together, but dont call laura and ben out on their personal business in a public forum.
that’s real funny, Dallas. i dont know who you are, but i know that your some punkass 16 year old listening to songs about angry daddies, while ive learned how stupid all this is and moved on to better stuff try some coldplay but i doubt you will im a succesful franchisee of 4 mcdonalds restaurands. what do you have to prove for yourself?
Well this got boring
and Dallas, maybe you didn’t read what I posted earlier, but if i EVER see you post on here, or go to ANY show ANYWHERE, i wil send someone to kill you, you dumb faggot. my brother is a DJ who is hooked up with ALL of the gangs on long island. these guys have no problems with going to jail. and they dont like little fags like you, either. let me know.
Someone who takes that much time to post the same hate-filled bullshit obviously does care what you have to say, Dallas. And obviously pays attention to MetalSucks, not matter how much he/she says he/she doesn’t care.
And kudos to Axl and Vince for keeping the racist comments up because most of us are intelligent enough to know it’s the same person, IP address knowledge or not, and because idiots like this tend to hang themselves if given enough rope.
Pay no mind, Dallas, because I hope you know most of us don’t think like that or really give a shit what color you are as long as you make music we like.
by the way Axl (or VN), maybe you should forward the dipshit’s IP address along with the death threat to the local authorities just to fuck with the little ‘tard.
Lambgoat… Heh. How cute!
Hey, you know what’s a really good book? “Watership Down.”
that “death threat” is an ancient copy and paste.
Hey dumbass, if you copy and paste a specific death threat, it’s still a death threat. If you aim it a person from a minority group, especially after throwing several racial epithets, add hate crime to the list. You’re truly a pathetic stain.
Lol, I’m sorry but when that kid said the shit about “knowing gangs” and his brother being a DJ in long island, did anyone get the “My New Haircut” vibe?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about My New Haircut
“MarchHare,
Lambgoat 90% supports this band? Where was the 90% on the last tour? I forgot: you only pay 8 bucks a show cause paying more would be selling out… or maybe supporting a band.”
Read the whole post, shitdick, I said 90% of the faggot, news only posters. Lambgoat/mb as a whole knows your shit is tired and we lost interest after your first album. Enjoy basking in stupidity and irrelevance, enjoy supplying entertainment to the lowest common denominator, enjoy your downward spiral into obscurity when MTV2 finally pulls the plug on your lifesblood. Now go write a br00tal breakdown before Slipknot takes their fans back.
you guys are fucking stupid god forbid are fucking amazing fuck the haters and all u stupid assholes
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why would anyone listen to diet kirk hammit anyways? who the fuck is laura, god forbid sucks dick and this douchebag looks like he should play in coal chamber, at least then he’d make cool jnco wearin’ airwalk stompin’ jzams
Fucking Christ. I have no idea what/who Lambgoat is. But I’m pretty sure it has something to do with being a dumbfuck, ignorant, shit talking prick. Did I miss something?
band full of rude-ass niggers.
I had never once visited Lamegoat. Now that I have, I’ll never go back. One paragraph news posts followed by 20 comments that start with “First Post” followed by 19 variations of “Fuck you” or “Ur a fag”.
These Lambgoat people clearly make the Blabbermouth idiots look like Ph.D.’s.
Like I said, we call them “news posters”. They’re the kind of idiots that listen to bands like… God Forbid.
These posts piss me off. I come to Metalsucks because it’s intelligent (most of the time) conversation. If I wanted this shit I’d go to blabbermouth where they say everything sucks if it doesn’t have 1000bpm double bass and vocal chord tearing vocals.
Some people’s kids.
Goddamn. I knew America was ignorant, but reading some of these replies, I’m shocked at just how far people will go with their words.
I personally would love to see LTC get back together. They’re a great band! …plus, I haven’t seen them live yet ha.
Maybe Dallas shouldn’t have made the post all about them though. I get the whole “open-letter” thing is pretty lame these days, but if you actually listen to what he’s saying in general, he’s got some great points.
Bands who break up just because of one member are giving up a shot that tons of people would kill to have, and I definitely think that those dreams should be worth more than some inner squabble.
Keep up the good work, Dallas. =)
have you tried getting ‘real` friends? You sure seem like a pathetic person pretending to be all these names just to prove what a terrible person you are. i hope that asshole ends up in riverhead in a jail cell 23 hours a day. That’s assuming he’s out of middle school.
What happened to hardcore kids being all about anti-racism and bigotry and all that happy horseshit. Plus, why do you care so much about this band that you’ll spend several hours registering fake email addresses and posting slurs. God, the internet is fucked up.
who the fuck says this kind of shit over the internet. GOD FORBID fukn rulse. Just brought the new DVD cant wait to watch its gonna be great.
It’s a fucking opinion column, Dallas’s opinion, if you don’t like it ignore it. I don’t completely agree with the man always but I respect his columns. If you want to call him out on it, fine. Dallas will respond if it’s an intelligent statement. Rascist, flame-spewing horseshit like this is why I hate the internet sometimes and the cave-dwelling neanderthal nitwits who shit from their mouths on it!
God Forbid is a great band of cool guys, and that’s all that needs to be said because THIS BLOG HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD FORBID!!! He was trying to give advice to a band and get METALSUCKS readers to support them. Why should you talk shit about him and open your mouth to prove that you are a fucking retard with no friends, a no future and one pubic hair. instead of wasting your time here, you should take the milk money that you saved [that is provided that someone doesn't kick your ass and take it from you on a daily basis... that would explain you are such a peckerhead] and run to the store and buy the new Hanna Montana cd. instead of making racial slurs and death threats you should finish your homework and when mommy calls you down for dinner, eat your vegetables and shut the fuck up.
Just when you thought ignorance of these epic proportions was waning……BOOM! These people are living proof that racism and ignorance abounds. Dallas Coyle is an articulate,intelligent, and extremely talented individual with an insight into haow shit really works in a touring band. People would be better served closing their mouths and opening their ears. Maybe you could learn something…even if it’s by accident! Great work Dallas!! God Forbid’s new DVD fucking rocks!!!
i love dallas coyle and god forbid! christ its like your haveing a who can say nigger more times than everyone else contest. dallas is awsome. and gorgeous. so shut the fuck up! lol
GOD FORBID RULES!
DALLAS RULES!
Nicole, everything was well said except for that America is ignorant bullshit. That statement right there is ignorant. A couple of idiots from a shitty message board does not make up America.
Next up, I can almost Gaurantee that most of the people that bad mouth Light This City and God Forbid have never even listened to either band. Why? Becasue they are closed minded retards that don’t beleive women or black people belong in metal or can fit the metal genre.
Now I’m not a huge fan of God Forbid and I don’t own any of their cds but they have obviously made a name for themselves and have a large fan following. And it’s really cool that Dallas takes the time to do a column like this and write a heartfelt message to Light This City.
On to Light This City, anyone that says they suck have obviously never listened to a song and heard the absolute talent of every band member and how it all runs together. Laura is a great screamer and I think a little melody in her singing would sound great too. I can’t wait to hear the new record and hopefull the band will work everything out. They were just getting started.
<3 Light This City, I hope they do get back together.
Don’t know, don’t care who this DIP$HIT lambgoatluver is but your walkin on very thin ice man. Dallas and the GF crew is DEEP and you’re diggin a sorry sad little grave for yourself little man. Tools like you take up space in this world. If it hasn’t happened already, and if you ARE stupid enough to be putting you ACTUAL address… best not answer your door because there will be a long line of GF supporters, me included to beat you to a pulp along with your pu$$y “gangster DJs”
Nicole, Americas slogan is “ignorance is bliss” – i agree with SOME of what you say…
hey lambgoat… grow up kid
GONE FOREVER!
… another thing, I dont live far from San Bernadino. I’m familiar with how f*cked that town is. Cost of living is somewhat low and people move out there because of that, yet decide to drive 4 hours to and from for work AND have the audacity to complain about gas…. NICOLE THIS IS THE IGNORANCE YOU SPEAK OF! Out in SB there is nothing there for nobody (yes, i understand the double negative) sh*t is spread out and your f*ked without a car. Its also the nations capitol for METH(HEADS) – And I’m sure this tool a) has WAY too much tim eon his hands & b) a methhead.
I know the kind because my buddy got into that BS and is doing time becuase of the f8ked up sh*t it got him into.
… ok, I’m done!
LTC was a mediocre band at best. God Forbid is so much worse. Get anally raped with a jackhammer, Dallas.
d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n Said:
“These Lambgoat people clearly make the Blabbermouth idiots look like Ph.D.’s.”
Ain’t that the fuckin’ truth!
No matter what anyone says, i’ll always believe that America is ignorant. Oh and the internet and messages boards do make up America. Seriously, what’s more American than spam, porn, shit talking, and stealing. God bless this place.
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Wow, some idiot thinks he’s big shit because he has 12 email addresses and can say ‘nigger’ and ‘faggot’ on a blog.I’m amazed that there was no fuss on Blabbermouth about this.
Not nuts on LTC, but if they had the goods, it sucks they split.
I’m very interested in the socio-political views of someone named CrapMcPoopin. I wish to subscribe to his newsletter. Hell, he can fuck my sister!
Could somebody clue me in, here? Am I missing something? Did Coyle’s post contain encrypted insults, invisible to the untrained eye? Because I saw NOTHING in it that could possibly offend ANYONE unless A) you have some personal stake in ensuring that LTC remain disbanded, or B) you just stumbled across a video of Coyle fucking your mother in the ass.
Jesus fucking Christ, people. This is just a guy pleading with a band he loves not to break up. If you can’t sympathize with that or respect it, then you, my friend, are a worthless fucking piece of shit. I’ve never heard anything by God Forbid or Light This City, but plenty of bands I’ve loved have broken up, and every time I wished like fucking hell that I had some way of letting them know how I felt and that I was someone they might take seriously. But I guess that just makes me a faggot.
In short: all you haters need to fuck off and die.
Holy fuck, there are some weak-ass fuckheads around. Probably the same acne-encrusted, testicles-still-haven’t-dropped shit-talkers who love to spew trash on XBox Live, but if you looked at them mean in person, they’d probably piss themselves and run home to mommy. I guess being behind a keyboard instead of actually saying shit in person makes a 95-pound little bitch who couldn’t open a pickle jar into a big ex-Marine badass. Pretty fucking pathetic.
Sort of screwed up that Dallas come out and says whatever the fuck he feels like saying in his blogs – which takes balls – and there are gutless little shit-eaters out there who just got out of school (and got beaten up again by the school bully) that feel the need to clutter the discussion pages with ravings that make the recent Disturbed/DEP fight look logical. Yeah, you’re tough, you little bitch. A fucking French poodle probably has bigger balls than you do.
Anyway, I typically don’t follow bands when they’re off-stage, as a lot of times their rantings and hypocrisy (example: Otep’s blogs and political horseshit) tend to piss me off, but Dallas is fucking straight on what he thinks, and talks about a lot of shit no one else wants to. Unfortunately, some dumbfucks like the one(s) in here invariably have the urge to make themselves feel important, so they write absolutely asinine, halfwit shit.
Dallas, you own, because not only will you say what you think, you don’t take what the fuckheads say seriously, which means all of us who enjoy reading your stuff get to keep reading it. Rock the fuck on.
“What happened to hardcore kids being all about anti-racism and bigotry and all that happy horseshit.”
They all became privileged white kids from upper middle class to rich families. Using “faggot” and “nigger” started as an ironic takedown of racists and has morphed into a bunch of 15 year olds who’ve never met a black or gay person not getting what the big deal is with using those epithets, but, hey, who gives a shit? They’re like any other annoying kid– when you give them attention, even negative, they keep going. Ideally, they’ll get the shit kicked out of them and their First Blood shirts in Detroit or Washington Heights one day.
Long, verbose responses as to how offended you are by their shtick is EXACTLY what they feed off of, so if you want to see more Lambgoat posters on this website, keep being really offended. Otherwise, let ‘em do what they gotta do and move on. I personally think Lambgoat is hilarious, but much like in the same way a kid that has spasms hits himself in the face with his own arm is hilarious. Or something like that.
…and yes, I realize the hypocrisy of advising people not giving Lambgoat kids long, verbose responses with a long, verbose response. Get AIDS, fucker. Ur all fags.
Holy hell, it’s like the comment section from Metalsucks was switched out with Blabbermouth’s.
Granted, I’m not into LTC, but goodness gracious, people…
There was some serious hate comments there… I’m pretty shocked, actually.
If it is indeed an 11y/o kid I can’t help but think that he’s the kind of kid that is obsessed with myspace (like the video that was posted here some months ago).
Whoever this kid is needs to really start jacking off. It might help release tension in a healthy way.
screw all these haters Dallas, they have nothing better to do.
Yeah, when did this place turn into Blabbermouth.net2?
An open letter to whomever:
I’m here to comment on these “insults”. After reading this whole page of dribble I can honestly say everyone here is clearly nothing more than a pile of a “spent step-daddy ejaculate”, slowly dripping out of little “step-son’s” asshole when it comes to the art of insults.
Use your words like a sybian, jostling the clitoris and g-spot of the english language, until your insult builds and literally gushes all over the hard-wood floor. Then leave it there for some unsuspecting family member to slip in and watch from the corner as they beat the dog for having another “accident”.
Why just call someone “nigger” when you can tie in other ethnic backgrounds too? See, you could insult Dallas and Axl at the same time like this:
“Why don’t you serve up some unleavened fried chicken so everyone will know you’re a jewish nigger?”
See? That is Insult Gold™. I insulted an African American with a typical stereotype whilst making fun of Passover. And by adding the adjective “jewish” to the word “nigger”, I’ve painted a racial slur that’s not just offensive to black people, but CHEAP black people as well. See what I did there? One, two stereotype death punches.
All I’m trying to say is: If you’re going to spit venom, at least make sure the mixture is lethal – otherwise you just look like a blubbering fucking bloated whore trying to abort some rotten crotch fruit in a prom bathroom stall while your ‘baby daddy’ gets you punch – only you’re not at the prom, you’re in a double-wide trailer; and the fetus’s father is actually your brother. Now let’s make this fairy-tale have a happy ending: be a good drop of pus from the blister in the cunt of a whore and fuck off.
I’ll be here all night, folks.
what a backwards fucked up world we live in !!!! rasicst punks fuck off!
All you weakass hillbilly’s eat a dick…Dallas’s Dick…Godforbid Bitch…Inbred bitches…
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