Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Got another awesome day to spend with the band practicing; a really good way to end my spring break. Got here in California at 9 o'clock, I was traveling since 6 o'clock. I spent some time with Eli and then we went to the house. The madness began as soon as we walked in through the door.

Eli forgot his amp (poor chap) so he was really quiet, but Scarlet and Tommie were able to sound the rhythm of their guitars. They started out with their new stuff and it was so awesome!!! I love when they play Clairvoyant Infringement; it is one of my favorite new songs. I can't spill the beans on some of the other songs but they sound fricken awesome!!! Tommie, Eli, Bishop, and Mr. Riot really know how to write some pretty fricken cool stuff. Oh yeah, I swear the house was headbanging to their music and it was so much fun to feel everything pound through me.

If you watch Tommie in practice you realize that she is really funny to watch. Her faces get really really hilarious, especially when she is trying not to laugh and then she does. She tries so hard, but if you give her a weird face back she starts laughing so hard. Plus she has these power stances when she is playing that add so much character to the metalhead chick. It's so much fun to watch and really really entertaining.

If you watch Eli when he is not practicing, he does some really weird things with his body; he really does know how to move his hips. And as a lot of people has said, when he curves his back, it really does look sensual. You need to hear some of the stories about Eli's curved back. I don't know if am allowed to share details but they are so funny!

Another one to watch is Bishop Slain. He is so stern and calm while playing but every once in awhile he'll throw in some crazy face and it sends everyone who has seen it into a hysterical laughing fit. He has so many faces in his arsenal you can never know what to expect.

I really can't see Mr. Riot well, but when I can he is always making his scary faces when he screams and it's awesome. And yeah well Scarlet doesn't really do much, she just stands there and plays her bass, she's really good but like Tommie said she is like the creeper standing in the corner.

Once practice is done though everyone does their own thing. Tommie and Eli go off to the gym. Mr. Riot, Bishop Slain, Drei, and Jason (Mr. Riot's brother) go off on a long walk. And I stay behind and talk with Ashlee (Jason's wife). It really is like a family here, and I really love it. If someone is in trouble they will band together really well. It is so much fun to watch and to be apart of, well for the much that I am. OTB is not just a band it is a really great family, everyone is amazing and...yeah the atmosphere is amazing. I love OTB, not just as a band, but for the people themselves.

Signing off- muah
Talon

Practice till Your Hand Bleeds

To begin, I want to say happy birthday to Mr. Riot! Hope it was rockin (hey, I'm tired I'm allowed to use weird language) and have to be honest and say that I didn't know you were 24 (I thought you were older-but hey that's a compliment right?)

Shenanigans commencing! Let me give you a view into a time I spent with the band on a practice day. Personally, whenever I figure out that while spending time with Eli I get to see the band practice my heart drums out a happy beat. I love being able to hear their music, the house practically jumps to the beat. The beat of Slain's drums, Riot's voice screaming out terror, and Tommie's and Eli's guitars killing that rift makes a girl very happy. So in the words of the weird hamster from the movie Bolt, LET IT BEGIN!

So first off the setting. It's the high desert, near a city called Victorville. The weather is a mixture between cool/warm which to me is very pleasant. The house at this point is surprisingly quiet (music wise) but the voices carry outside. Eli and I walk up, knock twice and walk in. The amps, guitars, drums, and mic are all set up and everyone is jabbing on about something. It's nice to see them. Tommie's hair is different, but she rocks it. Now that Eli is here, they can practice. So I skip to the back corner where a pool table is hidden and listen to them for a while before I'm pulled outside to talk with Drei. A simple convo turns into a grab for the nerf guns. Except it's not funny for me because I become an immediate target. Thank you Drei! Eli joins in shooting at me, but I soon escape to grab a cat. Well I don't get to have any free time to stroke the kitty because Drei grabs me and uses me as a human hostage against Eli. And guess what, Eli doesn't even try to save me, he just simply shoots at Drei sometimes hitting me. Yeah so much fun. The poor cat is digging its claws into me, but I can't let him go because Drei has such a big grip on me. I hate being a hostage, not disclaiming the fun, but I don't like the idea of being looked like as a damsel in distress, yeah totally not me! Finally I am able to slip away from Drei and I let go of the cat. I grab the nearest nerf gun and start shooting Drei point blank, also a few below the belt shots for Eli - thank the heavens that they are foam bullets because my aim was right on! Eli leaves to write and I find myself playing pool. I am in the lead by the way, Drei has only beaten me once. I look over Slain's drums to see Tommie and Eli writing and showing off what they have already gotten. I smile at their tenacity to create such sick music. It's amazing. Their new stuff is so fricken sick! You all are going to slam and headbang all night long, trust me on this. Sadly, that time comes when I have to disappear so a good bye is said and Eli leads me back to the car. We will be back, and those times I am so excited for.

Yeah, fave memories right there. Oh by the way, if you've noticed I sign off with Eli Crypt's girlfriend, but I have finally taken my own name. So I reintroduce myself as Talon. The name has a mysterious backstory that I would save for another time.

Signing off - Muah
Talon

Quick Write at 4:22 Am

Hey ya'll, yeah I can't sleep. I'm sitting here with a make shift desk (made out of a hamper basket and three books plus another laptop) and I thought I would make a quick post. So this is where I would LIKE SOME COMMENTS PLEASE!!! I want you, yes you the readers, to tell me what you want to see on this blog. Please I am open to some mending, some ideas. Please please. Yeah short post, but when you are up this earlier, you kind of get a little loopy and I don't want to be writing any possible blackmail. So....


Signing off- Muah
Eli Crypt's Angel

Don't Judge A Book by It's Cover, espcially if it's a Metal Band

One of my pet peeves is when people just look at the face value of someone. I mean seriously, when I dress in a garter skirt and a sons of anarchy tank top with knee high socks and heels I get the worst kind of looks. I certainly don't look like a slut, but that's the kind of treatment I get or that I am some emo chick or something not good. But when you get to know me you'll realize that I am far from the face value, I'm actually quite nerdy and quirky. But I know that I am not the only one who gets treatment like that, metal bands are quite popular for proving people wrong with who they truly are. I want to introduce the members of Order Through Blood and show you how they are ones who prove people wrong. They are some really cool people so lets unravel this paradox, by giving you a face value look and then showing you who they truly are. LET US BEGIN! (BY THE WAY, ALL PICTURES OF THE PROPERTY OF ORDER THROUGH BLOOD! CHECK ALL THEM OUT ON THEIR INSTRAGRAM! ORDERTHROUGHBLOOD_OFFICIAL)

Let us begin with MR. RIOT!

 
  When I first met Mr. Riot the first thing that I did was gulp. He is huge! I mean muscle huge. He's the kind of guy who I would want on my side in a fight, but if I saw him on the "enemy" side, I would push someone else in front of me and be like "Yeah you can take him". Not only that, but he has a very big commanding nature when he gets on stage I mean its not like "oh he's there" it's more like "OH HE'S THERE!". Oh yeah and the faces he makes when he screams...well, they can be practically terrifying (insert anime sweat drop here). According to the lead guitarist many think of him as some "A-hole muscle man who is itching to punch someone in the face". Well let me unveil him, "he's actually just a weird and somewhat shy nerd". (DISCLAIMER: MR. RIOT SIR IF YOU ARE READING THIS SIR PLEASE NOTE THAT IT WAS TOMMIE WHO STATED THAT AND NOT ME!)

 

Now for TOMMIE SCYTHER! 

 Eli told me a lot about her before I met her but when I actually met her I have to be honest my mouth dropped. Well first off, she's gorgeous, she rocks the tattoos, the thick black make up, the lip piercings, band t-shirts and can shred the guitar better than any girls I know, and actually better than a lot of the guys I know. She is the lead guitarist, but I have to be honest, I don't think a lot of people expect that. When it comes to the solos most will look to Eli first but when she steps forward with that commanding stance, mouths drop and I do believe some hearts stop. She commands that stage with all authority and sometimes it can be intimidating. But she, like Mr. Riot, is a huge nerd, plus she is a massive fitness buff and an artist (you have to check out her stuff it's sick). She's also a tell you how it is kind of female and doesn't do drama. Awesome right?

 

Introducing ELI CRYPT!

According to Tommie he's the "most metal out of all of us with the long head banging skull of hair". And like I have stated before he is 6'4 and hardly ever smiles, well he does, but not when he's acting metal, but he does around me...sorry confusing haha. (SORRY HONEY BUT YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE) He definitely looks like he's into his music. But to honest, Eli never really cared about metal music until OTB was made. He's always been into classical music (like Nobou Uematsu) and like the top two, he's pretty nerdy. I mean I should know, he's my man. Though it's still debatable whether or not he's more of a nerd than me, maybe on videogames (excluding Halo that's my territory), but certainly not on comic books.

 

Here is SCARLET LACE.

I can't say I know her well so I will just say everything that Tommie said. "Scarlet while on stage always makes faces and stands relatively still like the creeper in the shadows (it's true I've seen it with my own eyes-this is me talking), but she's kinda shy in real life. Doesn't say much unless she knows you well (probably why I don't her know well haha), but she's cool. Absolutely amazing bassist and musician, but she never gives herself enough credit. She's relatively new to being a metalhead, she mainly listened to hard rock until a few years ago." Well there you have it.

 

Last but certainly not least BISHOP SLAIN.

Um...well...what can be said about Bishop. Well upon first look I was actually fairly scared of him, at times I still think I am. Yeah he is huge, but that's not it, it's the faces he makes. He makes like these weird rape faces that freak me out! He is the master of faces, well making them. Though you would never see these faces while he's behind the drums, he's actually quite emotionless and pretty calm; which I will never understand. He is a ridiculously sick drummer but also doesn't give himself much credit. But like I about his faces, when he's not drumming he's well...HE'S DEMENTED! He will always find a way to mortify and disgust you but no matter what he will always make you laugh with whatever his sick brain comes up with. Tommie certainly claims him as her best friend.

 

So there you have it, Order Through Blood's members. They are pretty cool aren't they? Proving them people wrong.

 

Signing off - Muah

Eli Crypt's Angel

 

 

Introduce yourself

Okay to be honest when you first see Eli, I have to admit he does look really scary, and of course metal. That long hair, those aviators, the 6'4 stature, the big hands that easily glide along the neck of the guitar, and that small smile that could almost be looked at like a smirk, yeah he could very well be someone very intimidating to approach.

  Well lucky for you, he may as well kill me for sharing this little secret, Eli is actually just a really really big teddy bear. Haha, he's definitely a good example of don't judge the book by it's cover. Well actually, the whole band is. :) Well let me give you insight to the teddy bear side of my man.

1. He's amazing with animals. Meet Mr. Muggles, our new Pomeranian; and yes he is named after the Bennet's Pomeranian from the tv show Heroes. Mr. Muggles absolutely loves Eli, he has even tried to tongue him (yeah I won't be kissing him for a while-just kidding though he will have to totally use mouth wash religiously).

 2. He's a "take a funny picture on roller coasters" kind of  guy which is so fun for me because I love keeping those as keepsakes. Here's my favorite from Space Mountain, please ignore my stupid face, I was trying my hardest to think of something snazzy but that certainly didn't come out as I wanted.

3. He's extremely romantic. For our 1st valentines date, we went to castle park and he made me feel like a princess. And look at his shirt!!!! WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY!!!! RING DING DING! Sorry, I bought that shirt and there is a funny story as to why I bought it.

 

4. He's a really big geek like me. We recently went to Wondercon and it was so much fun! We met Doug Jones (for those of you who don't recognize the name he is Silver Surfer from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Abe Sapien Hellboy, the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth, and Cochise from Falling Skies. I would recommend all of those movies and one tv show with total confidence that those of you out there who are nerds, that you will love them!

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So yes, in the real world, metal playing Eli Crypt is actually a teddy bear that is comprised of a love for animals, is goofy on roller coasters, is completely romantic (but you really don't know the fullness of what that actually means), and a big geek. So yeah, here's a fun lesson for you about the rhythm guitarist for OTB, don't judge a book by it's cover, you just may just find something interesting. But remember, HE'S MINE!

 

signing off - muah

Eli Crypt's Angel

 



A Big Ship, Lots of Smoke, and a whole lot of HEADBANGING!

There's nothing like hearing your boyfriend say that his band will be playing in a festival on a huge ship, the Queen Mary in Long Beach to be exact. Though personally, I will be honest the first thought that came to mind was a mixture between, HOLY SHOOT THAT'S FRICKEN AWESOME BABE and A BOAT??? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! Yeah if you can't tell I have the worst fear of boats, blame Titanic. No teasing, I don't trust cruise ships because of that movie, yet Eli still wants to drag me onto a cruise ship for a trip. I'll go, but I will not be looking over the edge or be doing anything that will push me near the edge. Nope, I don't care if the pool is cool, if I can see the edge of the boat, there is no way I am going in it. So we are getting way off track here, lol.

To prepare myself, I went shopping for a nice...well...actually, a sexy dress. I found one, a cute lacey red body-con dress that was really short, the shortest I have ever worn. I do love it though, but wearing it to an Anatomy study session with people who have never seen me in anything so...well provocative. Haha that was so funny. But soon I found myself at the ship.

 Here is the ship by the way for all you heathens (just kidding)

 

 Soon I was reunited with my rockstar. I was so happy. Here's my favorite photo. One of my friends said that it personified us well. Him being the introvert, with that simple smile and the glasses (don't get me wrong, I think it's totally sexy) and me kissing him on the cheek being the extrovert. Well moving on, it was pretty eventful. We had to wait for the others to get there so he and I (plus the fam bam) enjoyed the other bands. My favorite was a DJ which I danced to, but it got really awkward when a She-male started dancing on me. I walked away so fast it wasn't even funny. Eli and I still debate on whether or not that it was a he or a she. I think he, he thinks she. We shall never know. Once the bandmates arrived we all headed down to our stage. I was so excited for the concert. I really love their music, it's so unique, so different, so perfect. Yeah I'm a big fan of their music, and no, it's not just because Eli is in it, I really do love metal, well misfit metal in their area of the corner. When they started playing, of course I was in the front near the speakers, my ears are probably going to broken by the time I am sixty, but I don't care, I want to support my man and the band. It was really dark, so it was kind of hard to take pictures but the music sounded amazing. And yeah there were girls who were watching Eli closely, but there were also girls who were talking about how hot Tommie is...so yeah there was a lot of weirdness going on in that floor of the ship. When the music was all done Eli took me on a tour of the engine room of the ship. Not only were we the only ones in there, Eli decided it would be a good time to tell a horror story about the engine room and it went a little something like this

"We wander into the bowel of the ship, and as we creep back deeper into the engine room all the sound mysteriously ceases from just one step to the next. The lights suddenly cut out a few steps later, and all we can see is a faint red glow - a faint red glow from boilers that had not been aflame for many years. As our gazes are fixed on the flickering red light, shadows dance around our fields of vision; they swirl around us faster and faster until they close in on us and all we can see is black, and then - we are back in the middle of the ship's underbelly, left with only lost time and the memory, burned in our minds."

The worst part is, is that the lights suddenly were turned off and the red glow of the engine was all that could be seen. Then it became super duper quiet. I think Eli and I ran out of that room so fast, it was so horrible. My heart was pounding so hard I thought it would burst out of my chest. Once out of there we began exploring other places on the ship. At the end of it all, I helped to bring all the equipment back (which was really difficult because some of those things are heavy as fudge and being a small girl of 5'4 they nearly dwarfed me). Then I was surprised by a sleep over at Eli's house (in the guest room people in the guest room, we are good people, saving for marriage) and that ended the day perfectly.

My First Incident of Territory Intrusion

It was my first concert, I was so excited and happy. Actually to be completely honest I was extremely nervous and had actually made myself sick with a headache and a stomachache (not to mention I had just finished eating at Denny's so that didn't really help either). As we drove closer and closer to Whiskey a GoGo, I started shaking and I couldn't understand why. Was I afraid? Well, I was told that it could be a possibility that an 18 year old couldn't get into the venue, so that did freak me out, so besides that...no I didn't have anything to be afraid of. So why, as I was holding the tickets was I shaking like a dog?

 By the way, here's the neon pink tickets that I was holding, aren't they awesome.

 

Okay back to the story, once we parked outside the venue, my headache began to rage for a minute that I quickly walked away and leaned against the wall to catch my breath. I then found myself walking with the rest of the group (if I haven't clarified I was with a friend and Eli Crypt's family) and we checked into the venue with no problems (thank heavens). I almost thought the bathroom was going to be my best friend but then the headache stopped completely. It was a surprise but then it was understandable to why the headache was gone and why it was there. It was nervousness (for what reason I am still trying to figure that out) and the cure I needed was the arm of my man around my shoulder. Yeah kind of cheesy, but it really did work as a cure. And then it was time for the concert and I was super duper excited (no lying this time). I immediately became a paparazzi and took bunches of pictures, especially of my man. Here's some of them.

Eli Crypt and His Angel

 Tommie Scyther, the lead guitarist

 Mr. Riot, the lead singer

 Recognize this picture?

 

So during the performance I noticed two girls standing very near the front staring at my man. They were watching his every move and they were whispering to each other. At first I thought it was just me being funny, but when he moved off stage, they tried to get closer to him. Yeah well, here was my first opportunity to be the better girlfriend, but also still not complete harness the lioness in me. I just walked up to Logan and planted a kiss right on his lips. Yep, I was marking my territory in the nicest way and also congratulating my amazing man, cutting two carrots with one knife. Yeah I really absolute hate the bird and stone one, so I use a nicer one. The girls immediately backed off, and I sent a smile at their backs. Yeah, strategic and nice; he's my man, better remember that. :)

 

Signing off - Muah

Eli Crypt's Angel <3