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PERIPHERY // 04.28.2012 @ Amoranto Stadium, Manila x PH Photo by Kara Bodegón

TONIGHT: Telle vs Zack + Tony of The Word Alive! Wanna know why? 

PIERCE THE VEIL x Misadventures A Visual Review by Kara Bodegón

RATING: 4.5/5

カラス the Fender Strat

This is カラス (Karasu), my Fender Stratocaster I got in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. He’s insanely handsome, isn’t he? I saw a guitar just like him (black paisley and all) in London two years ago, but I didn’t have the money to get it back then. Later on, I discovered that Fender doesn’t produce this line anymore, and you can’t even find it on eBay, so I thought I’d never get my hands on this until last Monday, when I saw him and immediately decided to take him home with me.

PULP SUMMER SLAM 16 // 04.30.2016 @ Amoranto Sports Complex Lacuna Coil Photos by Kara Bodegón

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PULP SUMMER SLAM 16 // 04.30.2016 @ Amoranto Sports Complex Veil of Maya Photos by Kara Bodegón

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PULP SUMMER SLAM 16 // 04.30.2016 @ Amoranto Sports Complex Act of Defiance Photos by Kara Bodegón

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PULP SUMMER SLAM 16 // 04.30.2016 @ Amoranto Sports Complex Protest the Hero Photos by Kara Bodegón

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PULP SUMMER SLAM 16 // 04.30.2016 @ Amoranto Sports Complex I Killed the Prom Queen Photos by Kara Bodegón

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I Went on My Own VOLITION

Protest The Hero's crowdfunded record VOLITION is special to me. It's the first album I ever contributed to and it's the album that made me fall in love with PTH even more (and I didn't think that was even possible). I just had my copy signed, but how does one even explain the ~feels~ when you hear the deepest form of sincerity in four simple words? “Thank you so much,” Luke and Timmy told me. There were sparks in their eyes, possibly reflecting the same sparks I had in mine. 

PULP SUMMER SLAM 16 // 04.30.2016 @ Amoranto Sports Complex Volumes Photos by Kara Bodegón

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Chasing Veil of Maya and Protest the Hero Across the Globe (and here, finally at THE SLAM)

I always say that 2014 was my year. I got to fly out to see Protest the Hero in London, but thanks to a public transportation strike, I missed a huge chunk of the show, except for PTH’s last 2 songs. A few months later, I went to California for Knotfest and got there just before Veil of Maya’s set, where they first revealed Lukas Magyar as their new vocalist. 

This year, I got to see both of them in my homeland. At the same festival. 

Way before the first band blessed the stage, I watched Timmy Millar run around the venue in the intense summer heat like it was nothing. I had a pleasant chat with Sam Applebaum and VoM’s tour manager, Thaddeus. And then meet and greets happened where I finally got my copies of Volition and Matriarch signed (sans Rody, because he was sick). It didn’t take long before I was drenched in sweat and flipping out to these two bands—these two bands that I absolutely adore—as they took on the PULP SUMMER SLAM stage.