My wife and I attended the first three cruises and then we had our son who was born on the day the fourth cruise left so we've been away for a bit....We are happy that we will be attending the cruise next year and will be bringing him along, he will be turning 3 a few weeks before the boat leaves. D...
3rd cruise for me...I've come to totally expect the slow annoucments, it's part of the fun that is the wacky world of UMC..:) I've just decided that barring a total change of philoposhy on UMC's part I'll be going every year sao I take the slow annoucments in stride. One thing that has helped to rel...
I just got done reading Mark Evan's "Dirty Deeds" book. Mark was the original bass player in AC/DC and this is really the first time someone inside the AC/DC camp has spoken about the band. Mark tells a good tale and it's interesting to read about Bon and how the other guys in the band wer...
I've actually got some cool gigs on the horizon, Morbid Angel, Deicide, Accept/Kreator, Moonsorrow, Nightwish...man, September is going to be crazy busy!
This being my third cruise I'm taking a much more laid back attitude and (trying) not to sress over the lack of announcments..it's just the way UMC rolls. Anybody that's been on this forum from the beggining will remember the early days when we weren't sure if this whole thing was even real or scam ...
Someone needs to print up shirts that say "Soon" on them and hand them out to the UMC staff to wear on the cruise as that word seems to be what they live by..haha
I totaly hate DragonForce but agree that they are a band that may draw new people to the cruise, I always run into young kids that like them because apparently one of their songs was the hardest to play on guitar hereo or whatever....I just can't stand that type of guitar playing, super fast and ove...
Yeah...when I saw people smoking in the theater and putting them out on the carpets and seats the first thing that popped into my head was this is exactly how the cruise will be ruined...people disrepecting and damaging the ship. If you remember around the second or third day they put down something...
Even though I'm very anti smoking I'm ok with there being smoking areas inside the ship, I do think though that all the concert areas should be non smoking... what I found very disappointing last cruise was that the Theater is supposed to be non smoking but I still saw people lighting up, I also saw...
I'm one of the biggest Cmass fans out there, in fact I help write a fanzine called "The Candlemass Chronicles" and I know some of the guys in the band. I've seen Robert with the band a few times before the cruise and their set on the deck was certainly not his worst. He forgot some lyrics,...
no no....I spoke to Leif on the phone a few moments ago and the first thing I said was..."Why didn't you tell me"..haha..he said they were only asked a couple days ago to do it and sworn to secrecy.
Absolutley amazing news!!!! Candlemass...I can't believe it...I'm texting back and forth with Leif right now chewing him out for not telling me sooner....haha....YES YES...what a killer final announcment!!!
Hmmm...so in order to avoid sea sickness I need to convince my wife to cover her naked body in bacon and or chocolate...or have I misunderstood something in this thread...I don't actually read the words in any of these things I just look at the pictures..
I'm honestly not expecting anything major for the final announcments...any heavy weight band would have been booked way in advance and probably announced earlier on to attract more ticket sales...but then again this is UMC and they seem to play by their own rules so who really knows...just announce ...
I don't remember who were the last few bands to be announced last cruise but I do remember for some reason we were all thinking that they would be a few "Headliner" type bands and none of them were...I would really imagine that any heavy weights that are on the roster would be announced by...
I didn't take any medicine last time but I did find the constant uneven ground feeling very annoying, the only time I thought I might get sick was the night of Cozumel as it really felt like the boat was rocking back and forth, in fact, I remember the hangers banging in our closet. That same night I...
If anyone out there is from Germany or going to the festival, my band Sinister Realm will be playing at the Metal Assault Festival II January 14th 2012 at Würzburg Posthalle along with Sanctuary, Heir Apparent, Satan, Pagan Altar, Ram and a bunch of other cool bands. I'm the bass player in the band ...
Yes...Pentagram was the band that I was talking about having dropped out a few weeks back, I ran into someone who works with them and he told me, I was starting to get worried though that people were going to think I made it up so I wasn't hanging around the forum much lately, so in a strange way it...
Does anyone remember when the forum first went up last year and the cruise was just in it's infancy?...there was a lot of worry that the cruise might be a scam or hoax....I'm trying to remember how wrong we were with those worries to calm myself down and not start thinking of worst case scenarios wi...
Being the nervous/glass half empty type of person that I am...I noticed that the last announcment was before the first cut off for refunds...I'm starting to wonder if there was a rash of cancellations that happened not long after the Bodom announcment and it's causing some problems. I know the chart...
Sorry I can't say who it is, I promised not to tell till it was officially announced...I will say this, that it's not what most people would consider to be one of the "big" bands.
This long delay in announcments is indeed puzzling...what's making it all the more frustrating for me personally is that the last official announcment was a big bummer for me....and the suspected rumored bands are not exciting me much either...oh well...just some news of any sort at this stage would...
There was a exercise room on the ship but I didn't go in...I do remember seeing someone one morning jogging around the outside walkway which seems like a good idea as it went all the way around the ship and I would imagine would equal a fair distance.
I thought for sure a Halloween announcment was a lock so I'm not expecting anything anymore...would make sense to do a 11/11/11 metal day annoucment but does UMC's band announcments ever follow any form of logic?
Congratulations and awesome pics!! Love the headbanging at the reception and the fact that everyone wore a metal shirt underneath their tux shirt..very cool
The smoke in the Spectrum lounge was a great disappointment for me...as someone who has health issues I even contacted UMC before we booked the first cruise to make sure there would be no smoking, I don't remember what they said but it was something like "Smoking only in designated areas" ...
If this announcment is that they are going to just be hitting the road and playing the same set list as they did over and over the last time around I'll be really disappointed. Sabbath is my all time favorite band but if I never hear "Iron Man" or "Paranoid" live again I'm ok wit...
I was disappointed in the food. For some reason before the cruise after talking to other people who had done things like this I somehow got the impression that there would be food (and lots of it) available 24 hours a day. It was frustrating that it seemed like I was always catching the very end of ...
Maybe their waiting till national metal day on 11-11-11 to make a bunch of big bombastic announcments that will blow the whole worlds minds....then again...maybe not.
I paid somewhere in the $125 range for mine but it was about 10 years ago so maybe that has gone up. If your in a concert setting inside a club then 10db is not enough I go with the 25. If I'm at an outdoor concert, like for instance when I was on the upper deck at 70,000 I was using the 10db filter...
I wear earplugs to every show I go to, I also play in a band and use them everytime we practice and play live, in my opinion it's easier to hear what is going on when I have my earplugs in, the sound is clearer and not as distorted and smashed together. I also can't stand the sound of ringing in my ...