Black Easter

It has been a while since easter already but better late than never right? So here is how I celebrated easter... Evil style!!

Our friends in Cancer Bats came to town and Stanley brought them here in his van. Stanley is an awesome guy and he is also the one who introduced us to the guys in Cancer Bats when he got us in at the Roskilde Festival 2 years ago. Needless to say, good times were had. New friendships were made and the rest is history. We have talked about doing a satanic bible on him for a long time so since there was a bit of spare time before the bats had to play we figured that now was the time! So done and done! One satanic bible of DOOM!
I took some pictures of the bats the night before when they played Odense. Check them out on my photoblog.

Satanic after show rites at The Rock

(photo by the EVIL princess Inferno)

Max, our Russian comrade, came back to get a satanic crow. And that is what he got.

He brough presents from mother Russia. Good stuff...good stuff indeed.

The Russian gift basket incl. the flowered scarf.

In all this unholyness we had to get Martin in as well. The original plan was to start 2 new pieces on him but I decided to finish the chest piece of evilness instead and just start one piece the next day. Pictures of that next time.

One of the few painting that I actually did get done on my vacation was time little thing.

With all this black art comes a soundtrack as well. A lot of headphone time so I wouldn't drive Amalie crazy. I actually kinda like being in my own little world of headphones. Keeps me more focused. The problem is that it can be really antisocial at home. But it works.

Uncle Allans Black Easter playlist

Trap Them: Darker Handcraft

Gaza: He Is Never Coming Back + I don't Care Where I Go When I Die.

Electric Wizard: Black Masses

Red Fang: Red Fang + Murder The Mountains

Ghost: Opus Eponymous

Graveyard: Hisingen Blues

Kvelertak: Kvelertak

Purified In Blood: Under Black Skies

Burzum: Fallen

To end this blog post of evil, here is a little video.

Tattoos...ehh!

I guess it is about this time where I nedd to feed you guys a coupke of tattoos to keep you watching.

This post is dedicated to Canadians.

Our awesome friends Liam and Marika came to visit. We met them last year when Cancer Bats played at the Roskilde Festival and they stayed with us the whole weekend. Luckily we weren't the only once having a blast back then so they decided to drop by for some more hang time. This time without having to go or play at a festival. Good food was eaten, 2nd season of True Blood was watched (SOOOOKIE!!), fleamarked was visited and great times were had!
Tattoos were done. I know there will be a few people thinking, "he always say that he won't do it just black and grey and that it need a bit of colour". That is true, I usually try to put a few drops of colour in the mix but if you only have black tattoos already then that's how it's gonna be so...here is some black tattoos. I really liked the look of it and I have been playing around with the idea of doing more heavy black pieces lately so it might happen again.

Liam's terrible mysterious Octapyramid...of U.A.

Marika's skull with a rose right in the eye!

It was really cool to have friends coming over like that. We work so much on either the shop or tattooing that we rarely have time to hang out with anyone in Denmark so it is awesome when good peeps comes visit like that. So nice house guests too. More praise to the Canadian friends in a post coming soon.

While Liam and Marika was here I also had a customer from Canada. They had even met each other before. Funny. Anyway. She got the head of Marie Antoinette...without the body. Kinda dead...like eyes rolled back in the head dead. Fun piece!!

She be dead!

Today is the first of 4 drawing days I have pencilled in! AWESOME!!! We have some room on the walls at the shop that needs to be filled and some empty frames to go with it. I also have plans for a little photo shoot with my skating customer Mads. You know his pieces and I will remind you when we get to that. Now...drawing time.

Hail Destroyer

2004 was the last time Amalie and me went to the Roskilde Festival but this year ouf friend Stan hooked us up with free tickets incl. fancy Media tickets which gives you free pass to better toilets, shortcuts, shorter lines for bars and food and a bunch of asskissers. Stan was on tour with Cancer Bats who I really like so that was perfect!

Stan our Roskilde dealer

We didn't want to do the whole camping thing so we decided to go back and forth every day with Wookie as our driver. The band ended up doing the same. Half of them stayed with Wookie and the rest with us. It was fun having new friends as house guests.



Friday was maaaad busy but fun...and hotter than hell. We got to see Isis, Faith No More, Down 2 songs of Satyricon, and I ended the day with Nine Inch Nails. Sooooooo goood!!!
Amalie has a better report of the day and more pictures HERE.




Saturday started a bit late. Wookie had to fix something with his car so I missed Dawn Of Demise where my buddy Jacob was gonna sing along on the last song. BUT we made it there in time to see our new friends Cancer Bats play a really awesome show!!








Since we had the fancy passes we could see the show from the stage but we quickly decided to go in front of the stage so we could see and hear them better.

Uuuhhh...Fancy Pass!!

After kicking ass for an hour in the summer heat we all chilled in the promised land called backstage where the drinks are cold and free and there is food and cake for free as well. There wasn't anything any of us wanted to see that day anyway so we hung out there for a few hours. Later I some how got talked into going to see Slipknot. I hate them and wasn't planing on going anywhere near the stage where they were playing but everyone was going and after hearing rumours about their show (spinning drums and fire) I was tricked into going anyway. Well...I actually think I hate them more now! There was spinning drums and A LOT of fire (that we could feel waaaaay back where we stood) but I just can't stand clowns and gimmick bands like that...and the sounds sucked sooo bad too.



We hung out a bit after that and then went over to try to see Fever Ray. There were way to many people so we just went home instead.

More Amalie stories from saturday HERE.


Sunday started with brunch in Copenhagen before going back to Roskilde for the last (and busy) day. After sitting in a traffic Jam for a looong time we just made it in time to see Neurosis. We had to go before the show was over to go see Eagels Of Death Metal. Thay Rocked hard as always and the Band and Co. came and saw most of the show before they had to leave so it was a good goodbuy (or See you later).
Before EODM was done we had to run to the next stage to see M ward. MMMMMM.....Ward! Sooooo goood! We got some good spots right in front of the stage a bit to the side so there was no one behind us. Good show!! After that we were starting to feel full. We went to see the end of The Bronx, who I had heard so many good things about but I couldn't focus on listening to new music. While we looked for food we listened to the last song from Madness before we went over to see Yeah yeah yeahs. We were all just way to warn out by this time so even though they rocked out like nobodies business then we were to smashed to enjoy it and that was the end for our Roskilde Festival.

One thing is for sure...we need to find a new band to tack along next year because going to Roskilde this way is the only way now.

Thanks Stan for hooking us up and hanging out and thanks to Cancer Bats & Co for some great days!

More Amalie report HERE.