Victor D. Infante from telegram.com attended the Rock and Shock horror convention over the weekend. Earlier today, he published an article about Twiztid and GWAR‘s performances at the event.

Victor wrote a rather positive review about Twiztid and most of the Juggalos in attendance. You can check out the part about Twiztid below.

From telegram.com:

Among the Juggalos

Sunday night at The Palladium belonged to the Juggalos — the often-controversial and frequently rowdy fans of the horror-core band The Insane Clown Posse and associated acts, including that night’s headliners, Twiztid — and from the reactions people had when they found out I was going, you’d think I was headed to Syria. Seriously: Friends wondered out loud for my safety, evidently forgetting that I grew up in the era of skinheads and mosh pits where people mostly left bruised and bleeding. And for the most part, the scary clown-make-up wearing concertgoers were actually rather like the audience of any other loud, aggressive brand of music, and more polite than some — the venue was so crowded that it was difficult to move around without bumping into people, a phenomenon that was met with surprising courtesy. One girl, when bumped, spilled her drink, but rather than getting mad, she accepted the apology with grace.

The only exception was a skinny young man in a Mohawk, who (presumably seeing me scribble) walked up to me and extended his middle finger into my face, leaving before I could react. I guess I should be upset, but he was trying so hard to seem dangerous that it was kind of adorable.

Get it Twiztid

I’d meant to catch four bands, but an unannounced schedule change moved everything forward, and I came just in time for the penultimate act, rapper Kung Fu Vampire. Like most of the horror-core and horror-core-related acts on the bill, Kung Fu Vampire meshes hip-hop vocal stylings with rock instrumentation, the raps scaling the sides of live bass and percussion.

Vampire’s an interesting rapper, with a great deal of presence but a relaxed delivery style, leading the audience through songs such as “Nightmare Walkin'” and the over-the-top “Dead Girls Don’t Say No.” The lyrics — those that could be caught, although the sound was much better than it was Saturday — seem pulled sometimes from the worst horror movies imaginable, but they were so ridiculous that it’s hard for any sensible person to get offended. And when he performed a cover of Sister Sledge’s disco classic “We Are Family” — “I’ve got all my Juggalos and me” — it was hard not to smile at the sight of the rough-hewn room singing joyously.

Clown-faced horror-core duo Twiztid closed out the night, and it was clear this was the band the audience was there to see. The pair took a more aggressive stance than Kung Fu Vampire, barreling through a set with an almost frenetic propulsion.

It was a defiant and bracing set, which had the audience chanting lines such as “We don’t care” and “I hate everybody” with gleeful abandon. And of course, it’s hard not to think the Juggalos protest too much when apathy is proclaimed that aggressively, but there’s no denying it was a cathartic moment, and the pair had the crowd well in hand.

You can check out the full article by clicking the link below.

GWAR, Twiztid lead high-intensity Rock and Shock concerts

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