{"id":52015,"date":"2016-07-14T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=52015"},"modified":"2016-07-13T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T03:23:59","slug":"on-the-road-with-dischordia-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/on-the-road-with-dischordia-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Road With Dischordia: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hails from the road, nerds. Dischordia<\/strong> is currently on The Doorkeeper Tour, and within these hallowed pages of my diary I hope you experience all the sweat, farts, BO, and terrible inside jokes that make tour special<\/span> profound<\/span> neat<\/span> definitely something.<\/p>\n

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Some of you are fans of The Dark Tower, Stephen King\u2019s sprawling Western\/sci-fi\/fantasy series, and you may have guessed that it partially inspired our band name. We\u2019ve also used it to name all of our tours: The Waystation Tour, The Speaking Ring Tour, Under the Mountain Tour, The Beginning\u2019s End Tour, The Western Sea Tour, The Prisoner Tour, and here we are on The Doorkeeper (Dork Keeper) Tour. Our guitarist has gotten good at booking tours, but we can always rely on the metal community to screw something up for us. The day before we left, we found out that our two New York shows (Buffalo and Syracuse) fell through because the dude helping us with the shows turned out to be a giant jabroni. More on that later. Here we go!<\/p>\n

Amarillo, TX \u2013 July 1st
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Our first show was Amarillo, TX, a regular stop for us on tour. This was our 6th<\/sup> or 7th<\/sup> billionth time playing Amarillo, but our first time playing Zombie\u2019s Bar and Grill. The venue was great, we got a free dinner of awesome food, and we played with some longtime friends to a good crowd. After the show, the plan was to hang at a dude\u2019s jam space for some food and beverages, then head to another dude\u2019s house to crash. Well, we hung at the practice space into the wee hours of the night without hearing back from dude #2, and right around 4:00 AM we came to terms with the fact that his place was out of the picture. Luckily, dude #1 had a mega cute dog that we got to hang out with all night. The dog was a sweetheart, and would occasionally lose her mind and sprint in giant, hilarious circles around the parking lot out back. We eventually got some terrible sleep and got back on the road, smelling as horrible as we slept. That\u2019s as good a start as any for tour, I guess.<\/p>\n

Albuquerque, NM \u2013 July 2nd<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This. Drive. Sucks. I\u2019m not yet back into the tour swing, the one that allows you to zone out for hours while huge interstate drives slip by without notice. It really doesn\u2019t help when you\u2019re surrounded by flat, boring nothingness the entire time. But we finally got to a buddy\u2019s house in ABQ and took some much-needed showers, washing off the fart-stench of the van and the boredom of that drive. Now I know a lot of you have been asking me which venue on our tour has the most animal bones on the wall. Well I\u2019ve got your answer. The Armory is the dark and very satany jam space of one of the bands we usually play with here, and the walls easily take the honor of most animal bones. Behold the grim.\"IMG_4056\"<\/p>\n

The show itself was a fun mix of styles (although I could have done without the NON STOP PIG SQUEALING WHY GOD WHY of the opening band), one of the highlights being Marsupious<\/strong><\/a>. It\u2019s really difficult to describe their style, so I\u2019d advise you to just take a look at the drummer\u2019s setup and check them out for yourself. Their rippingly good bass player certainly doesn\u2019t hurt. Their super rad singer let us crash at his place with his two adorable dogs and his spaghetti-making girlfriend, and we had an excellent time\/spaghetti. The next morning we hit an Irish brewpub on the way out of town for bangers and mash and a growler of beer to take on the road.<\/p>\n