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10 (ARRESTED) FOR $10

 Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 1:00pm by

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Our friend Dan Rodriguez at Metal Insider tells us that, according to WBIR-TV, ten people were arrested yesterday at the Knoxville stop of 10 for $10 tour, which offers – duh – ten hardcore bands (including Poison the Well and Madball) for the low low price of ten bucks. The charges range from disorderly conduct to inciting a riot; apparently, a fight broke out, and when the venue’s security guards attempted to intervene, even the fucking band jumped in to give them what-fo’.

But here’s the best part: the fight broke out at 3:30 pm… just as the first band on the bill was taking the stage. So that’s ten dollars well spent.

Metal Insider’s sources tell them that the band in question was Terror. I would have guessed The Mongoloids just based on their name, but I guess you really can’t judge a book by its yadda yadda yadda.

I’d fucking love to know what the fight was about. I’d love to know what a group of hardcore kids found so offensive that they felt the need to start a battle royal before the show had even kicked off. I bet it was something really meaningful and worth fighting over, like someone looked at someone funny, or pushed a little too hard in the burgeoning mosh pit, or touched another dude’s girlfriend’s ass. Y’know, the kind of things I usually punch people for.

I also want to take a moment to call the cops out for classifying this as a “riot.” I have had the unfortunate luck of being in a riot (in motherfucking Philly, no less, where rioters don’t dick around), and if only ten people got arrested, this either wasn’t a real riot, or the Knoxville PD suck at their job.

Speaking of Knoxville PD: if you head over to Metal Insider, they have some footage of the Po’-Po’ making arrests. It looks like they sent every cop car in Knoxville to the scene. Which just goes to show ya: nothing interesting every happens in fucking Knoxville.

-AR

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  • metalguy

    the cops probably dont like windmill moves and got them before they started

  • Kye

    Hardcore shows ALWAYS have fights.

    It’s fairly ridiculous. Terror would jump in. Dumbasses.

  • Gary S.

    HARDCORE IS SERIOUS!

  • Ajax

    I live in the Knoxville area and it doesn’t surprise me that they assembled the entire police force for this. When something “big” like this happens they go apeshit because they get bored of stalking the interstates or breaking up the college keggers. The KPD do suck at their jobs. Not much happens in Knoxville, although we’ve been getting a string of good shows to come through town like Opeth, Gwar, Chimaira, and In Flames will be here in September. Yay for Knoxville making headlines other places than locally, haha.

  • bob

    man fuck knoxville! i went there one time to see unearthat the valarium. we checked into the hotel and had time to grab a bite before the show, but we got lost and turned around in an apartment complex only to be followed out by cops who searched my car (they called the k9 unit) and eventually charged me with TRESPASSING! i think most of it had to do with my nc tag, but these guys were the biggest dicks, all of em buddy buddy joking around as they tore apart my car. worst part is (besides ruining the rest of the night) i had to go back to that hell hole for court and plead not guilty with the a-hole cop standing right next to me. i was found not guilty on all charges (3 total). so here’s my recommendation: don’t ever go to knoxville. fuck that town, their cops, the vols, the shittiest air quality in the country, and everything else about that place pisses me off…i need to stop writing cuz i’m getting pissed off just thinking about it!

    • Ajax

      Lol, I feel you on that. The KPD is utter shit. And we can’t exactly help the air quality here. Storms roll in and bring all the shitty air from the midwest and then it gets stuck in the mountains so us here in the valley get owned.

      Amen to fuck the Vols. I hate that shit and its the most putred color of orange anyway. I’m a Gator fan though :)

      • iceman

        FUCK YOU BOTH.

        GO VOLS!!

  • narcopolypse

    wait what did you just say about fighting? you don’t understand fighting! you don’t love fighting!? i’m going to kick your ass, pussy! you’re dead MetalSucks! all of you!

  • http://www.myspace.com/1033metal Jackson

    from scrolling through the posts on the blabbermouth story about this, some one who was there said it wasnt terror but another band who was a local opener who’s name I now forgot but aren’t listed on that tour flier

    • heathermichella

      the opening band was Fingers Crossed from knoxville.
      they were playing a Merauder cover, “Life Is Pain” when shit jumped off.

  • Corey

    http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=93112&catid=2

    There’s the local news story. You get the story from some of the kids at the show in the commets section. We’ve always had this problem with bouncers at any of the “mid sized” venues we have around knoxville.
    I watched a bouncer walk up to the bassist of MyChildren MyBride who has literally just joined the pit and put him in a chokehold, kicked his feet out from under him and drug him out by his feet outside the venue. He did this without any semblance of a warning to “tone down” the dancing. And that’s one of the more tame stories of the bouncers overreacting.

  • Ajax

    Yeah the bouncers get pretty wild. My friend got hit in the face and the bouncer took the person who hit him and beat him with a Maglite. It was pretty awesome but kind of uncalled for.

  • Canvas Of Flesh

    Haha, some hardcore kids got their shit ruined. What a bunch of ‘tards. The fight probably got started by some ass-hat trying to practice his ninja moves in the pit.

    • Dave

      The fight was started by the bouncers.

  • Elitist Fuck

    It’s kind of a shame that one of the better venues in TN has to have fucking morons ruin a perfectly good show for fans of the genre.

    • Dave

      This is not one of the better venues in TN. It used to be good when it was called the Electric Ballroom.

      I boycotted the Valarium long before this incident and I’m not even really that into hardcore music.

      Too many bad stories about the bouncers there being assholes.

      You want a good venue in TN, The Hideaway, The Muse, some place in Chatty I can’t remember the name of… hell, even Rocket Town is wayyy better than The Valarium.

  • shiiiettl7

    terrors crew and death before dishonors crew hate each other thats probably why this happened

    • mr lun

      um………. what? please stfu

      • shiiiettl7

        fuck u dillhole

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Harrington-Neil-Sauer/677600672 Harrington Neil Sauer

          dillhole?

          and i love how hardcore bands got “crews” like rap artists, fucking wiggers. why cant these new hardcore bands be more like dri and sick of it all

          • yes

            yes dillhole
            have you never sever that 70′s show? haha

          • 20 eyes

            yea its the official decline of modern hardcore….
            didnt see that coming!
            i bet they even have “diss” songs…

            D.R.I. + SOIA fucking rule!!

    • Sandy Duncan’s Glass Eye

      Yeah….because Sick of it All never rolled with a crew. Anytime a NYHC band plays outside of NYC they bring like 15 “roadies” and other assorted randoms with them. I saw a Madball show in the 90′s where the crew hanging out onstage matched or exceeded the amount of paying customers. Hardcore kids run in packs, always have, always will.

    • stu1

      Ummm, no they don’t. What’s fucking wrong with you?

    • Dave

      FYI, I’ve seen Terror and DBD play together on 2 separate occasions and they got along great both times.

  • visforvajeen

    Is this why there’s no JFAC or BOO review? Because they obviously smoke weed and drink? Is that not hXc for the straight edge communitaw?

    • 20 eyes

      who the fuck are j-fac and BOO, they sound like a rapper and a ghost.

  • gnarlk

    holy shit, a fight at a tough guy haad coah show? i never thought such a thing possible. 10 dudes in shorts and basketball jerseys with shitty tattoos no doubt…

    • Topher

      Don’t forget visors and puffy vests, yo.

      • gnarlk

        yeah, how come hardcore thugs look more and more like guidos these days?

        • Topher

          LOL I hear ya man. The whole “suburban gangster” look has been pretty popular for ages though , at least in the North-East/NY tri-state area. Still, I get a chuckle out of the whole thing from time to time.

    • Dave

      Wrong. All the guys I know who got arrested are really chill but they were standing up for justice. A few kids seriously got arrested for talking to the cops.

      Way to stereotype. Maybe you’d rather support shitty venues beating up kids and calling the cops on them then lying about what happened.

      That’s what happened.

  • http://skinnytees.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/Article/Index/article/Crabcore---killing-metal-one-shuffle-at-a-time-10047491 EdSW

    jesus fucking christ, could they not at least have waited until the bands FINISHED playing. Retards.

  • SolaceInNothing

    Maybe hardcore guys shouldn’t fight so much and practice on their instruments more so they can become metal guys.

    • Johnny

      No that would mean they would actually put out good music and we don’t want that

    • Dave

      All a matter of opinion.

      I say metal moshpits are 10x more stupid than hardcore pits because half the losers are drunk fucks flipping birds and thinking they’re hardasses for being stupid.

      Hardcore isn’t about fighting, it’s about letting out your aggression and trying to not hurt people.

      I’m not even super into hardcore music but I must admit that the live shows are much more exciting and fun than most metal shows.

  • HagstromSpeed

    Maybe they should smoke a bowl, chill out, and enjoy the music instead of being straight edge-angry faced fucks who look for any reason to fight….FUCK hardcore kids…

  • Fong Chung

    Hahahaha this always happens in Baltimore, and in South Central PA. Same exact type of fight actually, and guarentee it was the same crew. Hardcore kids in the East Coast usually know everyone. Don’t ask me how, but they do and they make your life uncomfortable at shows. I’m kinda glad I never went to this shitty tour.

  • mak

    i know some of the kids who were arrested
    they all deserved it and arent worth spit

    guess hardcore can never me fun again since this tough guy crap ids so cool

    • http://www.myspace.com/xbenxthexbastardx ben asylum

      yo mak, who are you? i’m one of the people arrested, you wanna say me and my friends arent worth spit and that i deserved to be punched in the face by a bouncer AFTER BEING RESTRAINED by a police officer, even though I was breaking up a fight, and not fighting? you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about, neither do any of the people here.

      here is what scott vogel the singer of terror said:

      how was the Knoxville stop on the 10 for 10 tour, what happened ?

      To sum it up quickly. Local band plays merauder cover. A few of us from the tour go upfront and sing alone. When the breakdown hits a little dancing starts. Security insanely over reacts and grabs a tour member by the throat for doing nothing wrong at all without any word or warning. Others try to get the mans hand off the friends throat but in no way trying to make matters worse. More security swarmed in and then it was just a mess with them on the complete offense leaving no choice but to fight back. I have never seen such retarded security in all my years and the way the police handled the after math was disgusting. Cool thing is a bunch of us went to a house show and had a great show their without any nonsense.

      shut your fucking mouth and learn the fucking facts before you spread lies you piece of shit.

  • CrapMcPoopin

    my disgust for hardcore scenes, kids, and crews does not change my appreciation of Terror’s unoriginal but fun music.

  • Metal Fuckin’ Dave

    apparently a security guard grabbed some kid for “dancing” and started pummeling him so everybody and their brother jumped in on the action. Stupid hardcore behavior.

    • CB

      I’m really not one to condone violence in many situations. That said… if my friend is being mistreated by anyone for no reason, I’m gonna do something about it. If you wouldn’t, I’m not sure you really have friends.

  • geno malkin

    vision of disorder is cool band dont know they belong at a crap show like this.skinheads are gay at shows.

  • JCMOSH

    seriously, FUCK all of you who said these kids deserved anything they got.
    i witnessed ALL of this and NO ONE deserved any kind of punishment.
    if anyone deserved to get hurt, it was the fucking meathead bouncers that started the bullshit.
    as for the Knox PD, they can all suck a dick. these kids got arrested for nothing.

    the show was moved to a house where Terror, Trapped Under Ice, Crime in Stereo and most of the other bands played sets for the kids. hardcore is about fucking unity. which obviously you all don’t know anything about. these bands LOST money because of the venue’s bullshit and STILL took the time to play in a basement. Terror played a complete request only set.

    fuck all of you that don’t know a goddamn thing about hardcore and try to talk shit.

  • tried and true

    the people involved, are taking action against the mistreatment.

    you all would talk shit about hardcore shows when you’ve never been to a real one where even though people are getting hit we’ve all got smiles on our faces and our fists in the air. especially in a basement with close to/over 100 kids packed inside.

  • JCMOSH
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jadrian-Scott-Escalante/1522694357 Jadrian Scott Escalante

    “ben asylum says:
    July 15, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    yo mak, who are you? i’m one of the people arrested, you wanna say me and my friends arent worth spit and that i deserved to be punched in the face by a bouncer AFTER BEING RESTRAINED by a police officer, even though I was breaking up a fight, and not fighting? you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about, neither do any of the people here.

    here is what scott vogel the singer of terror said:

    how was the Knoxville stop on the 10 for 10 tour, what happened ?

    To sum it up quickly. Local band plays merauder cover. A few of us from the tour go upfront and sing alone. When the breakdown hits a little dancing starts. Security insanely over reacts and grabs a tour member by the throat for doing nothing wrong at all without any word or warning. Others try to get the mans hand off the friends throat but in no way trying to make matters worse. More security swarmed in and then it was just a mess with them on the complete offense leaving no choice but to fight back. I have never seen such retarded security in all my years and the way the police handled the after math was disgusting. Cool thing is a bunch of us went to a house show and had a great show their without any nonsense.

    shut your fucking mouth and learn the fucking facts before you spread lies you piece of shit.”

  • Capncrackpipe

    Yeah, Fingers Crossed was the opening band, and Scott Vogel of Terror was busting some fucking heads. It was beautiful. But I was right next to the guy that started the whole fight. It was a bouncer guarding the stage, and apparently he didn’t like the way this one guy was moshing, and put him in a headlock. That’s when the shit hit the fan. Every bouncer in the venue had a bloody nose or a couple of shiners to show off by the time the dust settled. The basement show afterwards was the shit though. I got some free tickets out of the motherfucker who owns the Valarium, not that I really want to go back there after all that went down.