do you dare... list EVERY band you have seen live?

1985

Iron Maiden / Accept – Poplar Creek
Motley Crue / Autograph (Rosemont Horizon)
AC/DC / Yngwie Malmsteen (Rosemont Horizon)

Between 1986 – 1990

Megadeth / Warlock / Sanctuary (Aragon Ballroom)
King Diamond / Flotsam & Jetsam / Annihilator (Aragon Ballroom)
Slayer / Danzig / Trouble (Aragon Ballroom)
Voivod / Vio-Lence / Anacrusis (Cubby Bear)
Ozzy Osbourne / Anthrax (Rosemont Horizon)
Anthrax / Helloween / Exodus (Aragon Ballroom)
Squadron (McGreevy’s)

Early 90s

Sepultura / Sacred Reich / Napalm Death / Sick of it All (Vic Theater)
Ministry / Helmet / Sepultura (UIC Pavillion)
Metallica / Danzig / Suicidal Tendencies (World Music Theater)
DRI / Nasty Savage / Cyclone Temple (Cubby Bear)
DRI / Anacrusis (Medusas)
Exploited / Bio-Hazard / Type O Negative (Medusas)
DRI / Pro-Pain (Thirsty Whale)
GWAR / Agony Column (Vic)

Mid-Late 90s

Manowar / Stonehenge (Jackhammers)
Metallica / Corrosion of Conformity (Rosemont Horizon)
DRI (Fireside Bowl)
Motorhead (Expo of Extreme II – Vic Theater)
Milwaukee Metalfest 1999
Iron Maiden / Monster Magnet / Clutch (Aragon Ballroom)

2000 – 2001

Danzig / Samhain / Hatebreed (House of Blues)
Motorhead / Supersuckers / Nashville Pussy (House of Blues)
Megadeth / Iced Earth (some theater in Rockford)
Metallica / Kid Rock / Sevendust (Allstate Arena)
Metallica / Stone Temple Pilots (Chicago Speedway?)

2002

Iced Earth / In Flames / Jag Panzer (Metro)
Milwaukee Metalfest 2002 (Exodus, Vio-Lence, etc)
Manowar / Immortal / Catastrophic (Riley’s Rock House)
Kreator / Destruction / Cephalic Carnage (Riley’s Rock House)
Dio / HammerFall (Rave)
Motorhead / Morbid Angel (House of Blues)

2003

Haunted / Kataklysm (Metro)
Macabre (Bottom Lounge)
Helloween / Jag Panzer / Beyond The Embrace (Vic Theater)
Opeth / Lacuna Coil / Beyond The Embrace (Rave)
Metallica Summer Sanitarium (Speedway)
Milwaukee Metalfest 2003
Kataklysm / Wherewolf / Malignancy (Bottom Lounge)
Kataklysm / Dying Fetus (Bottom Lounge)
Dimmu Borgir / Nevermore / Children of Bodom / Hypocrisy (House of Blues)
Motorhead / Anthrax (House of Blues)
Symphony X (Metro)
Six Feet Under (Metro)
Slayer / Hatebreed / Arch Enemy (Aragon Ballroom)
King Diamond / Entombed (Metro)
In Flames / Soilwork / Chaimera / Unearth (Vic)
Metal Gods (Halford / Testament / Immortal) (House of Blues)

2004

Iced Earth / Children of Bodom / Evergrey (Metro)
Queensryche / Symphony X (House of Blues)
Metallica / Godsmack (Bradley Center)
Seven Witches / Ion Vein (Penny Road Pub)
Opeth (House of Blues)
Dream Theater (Riviera)

2005

Ozzfest 2005 (Sabbath, Maiden, In Flames, Arch Enemy, etc)
Novembers Doom / Twelfth Gate / Disinter (Wheaton Grande)
Novembers Doom / Twelfth Gate (JJ Kelleys)
HammerFall / Edguy (House of Blues)
Motorhead / COC / Zeke / Brand New Sin (House of Blues)


2006

Sonata Arctica / Ion Vein / Grigori 3 (House of Blues)
Chicago Powerfest 2006 (Music Box)
DragonForce / All That Remains (Vic)
Novembers Doom (Lot 4)
Slayer / Lamb of God / Mastodon / Children of Bodom (Aragon)
Katatonia / Moonspell / Daylight Dies (Pearl Room)
Alehorn of Power Fest – Manilla Road, Slough Feg (Double Door)

2007

Trouble / D-Connect / Heaven and Hell (Nite Caps)
Chicago Powerfest 2007 (Pearl Room)
Heaven & Hell / Megadeth / Machine Head (Allstate Arena)
Trouble / Judas Rising / Urn (Legends)
High on Fire / Russian Circles (Wicker Park Summerfest)
Marilyn Manson / Slayer / Bleeding Through (Allstate Arena)

2008

Trouble / Kataklysm / Smoke / Rival (House of Blues)
Trouble / Icarus Witch (Doug’s Bar and Grill)
Iced Earth – Chicago Powerfest (Pearl Room)
Candlemass / Daylight Dies (Pearl Room)
Iron Maiden / Lauren Harris (Allstate Arena)
Judas Priest / Heaven and Hell / Motorhead / Testament (First Midwest Bank)
Sigh / Unexpect / Novembers Doom (Pearl Room)
Helloween / Gamma Ray (Pearl Room)
Kamelot / Edguy (Pearl Room)
Iced Earth (Metro)
 
ohh christ man this is hard

prince
van halen (x2)
metallica
symphony x
megadeth
exodus
the faceless (x2)
psycroptic
whitechapel
warbringer
children of bodom (x2)
slayer
lamb of god (x2)
mastodon
thine eyes bleed
in flames
amon amarth
dimmu borgir (x2)
behemoth (x2)
necrophagist
sonata arctica
into eternity
cryptopsy
decapitated
trans-siberian orchestra (x3)
black dahlia murder (x2)
at the gates
aborted
cattle decapitation
cephalic carnage
opeth
beneath the massacre
dethklok
darkest hour
municipal waste
toxic holocaust
between the buried and me
despised icon
devildriver
unearth
goatwhore
ensiferum
tyr
eluveitie
gojira (x2)
heaven shall burn
kataklysm
vader
born of osiris
job for a cowboy (x2)
suicide silence
trivium
machine head

and im only 15, fuck yeeaahhh
 
Amon Amarth
Behemoth
Blind Guardian (Thanksgiving ftw)
Cannibal Corpse
Children of Bodom - X4
Chimera
Devildriver - X3 - Not by choice thanks Road Runner :puke:
Dimmu Borgir - X3
Dragonforce
Dream Theater - X5
Eluveitie
Ensiferum
Evergrey
Fear Factory
Finntroll
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Iron Maiden
Liquid Tension Experiment
Moonspell
Necrophagist
Nevermore
Nile
Opeth -X6
Porcupine Tree
Strapping Young Lad
Trivium......
Tyr


Plus - Sounds of the Underground and Gigantour
 
damn, I am old, I have been to so many shows since 1986.

KISS (9x)
Judas Priest (3x)
Dokken (2x)
Iron Maiden (4x)
King Diamond (2x)
Iced Earth (3x)
Into Eternity (5x)
Symphony X
Fates Warning (2x)
Dream Theater (2x)
Dixie Dregs
Nevermore (2x)
Metallica (3x)
Ozzy (2x)
Anthrax (2x)
Megadeth (3x)
Slayer
Alice In Chains
Annihilator
Testament (2x)
Confessor
Suicidal Tendencies
Aerosmith (2x)
AC/DC
Badlands
Bon Jovi
Brooks & Dunn (2x)
Kenny Chesney
Chick Corea
Def Leppard (2x)
Demonic Christ
Al DiMeola
Dio (2x)
Evergrey
Children Of Bodem
Guns N Roses
Hurricane (2x)
Leatherwolf
Lynch Mob (2x)
Motley Crue (2x)
Nile
Montgomery Gentry (2x)
Tobi Keith
Obey Bizar
Overkill
Ace Frehley
Queensryche (3x)
Rush
Sanctuary
Warlock
Savatage
Shadows Fall
Shuddersome
Scorpions
Van Halen
Kingdom Come
Skid Row (2x)
Ted Nugent (3x)
Stuck Mojo (2x)
Trans Siberian Orchestra (2x)
Steve Vai
Flotsam & Jetsam
Nuclear Assualt
Danger Danger
Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Soundgarden
Opeth
Stryper (2x)
Neil Diamond
Diamond Rio
Tesla (3x)
Great White
Joan Jett
Cheap Trick



I know there are a bunch of other bands that I have missed.
 
ok. timeline.


bands before 2007:

The Leningrad Cowboys
Die Fantastischen 4
Guadalajara (2x)
The Uptown Monotones
Perishing Mankind (ca. 5x)
Ars Moriendi (ca. 5x)
Iron Maiden
Die Ärzte
Audioslave
Beatsteaks
In Extremo
Marilyn Manson
Nightwish
The Prodigy
Soulfly
Weezer
Wir Sind Helden
Metallica
Motörhead
Alice In Chains
Unheilig
Bullet For My Valentine
Avenged Sevenfold
Trivium
Stone Sour
Placebo
Sisters Of Mercy
Apocalyptica
Seeed
Die Krupps
Opeth (2x)
Guns 'n' Roses
Subway To Sally
Steve Vai
Eventide (2x)
System Of A Down
Amon Amarth
Hypocrisy
Jon Olivas Pain
Nevermore
Dimmu Borgir
Testament
My Dying Bride
Soilwork
Heaven Shall Burn
Kreator
Kataklysm
Mando Diao
BulBul

bands in 2007:

Arctic Light (2x)
Ars Moriendi
Noisebazooka
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Perishing Mankind (3x)
Outrage (2x)
Before The Fall
Lords Of Decadence
Septic
Eventide
Darkfall
Sindustry
Cremation
One Man Army & The Undead Quartet
Dead Soul Tribe
Sepultura
Vreid
Deadlock
Disillusion
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Korpiklaani
Dismember
Doro
Pain
Satyricon
Eluveitie
Ensiferum
Motörhead
Staub & Schatten
Sodom (2x)
Blind Guardian
Immortal (2x)
Megadeth
Embryo
The Dubliners
Blitzkrieg
Saxon
Amorphis
Napalm Death
Therion
Possessed
Chthonic
Iced Earth
Samael
Dir En Grey
Destruction
Cannibal Corpse
Rage
In Flames
Heaven Shall Burn
Secrets Of The Moon
Turisas
Benedictum
Lyfthasyr
Aborted
Behemoth
Kataklysm
The Everblacks

and in 2008:

Obituary
Holy Moses
Thanasyris (2x)
Chimaira
Maroon
The Sorrow
The Smashing Pumpkins
Seven Deadly Sins
The Everblacks
Davidian
Perishing Mankind (2x)
Einstürzende Neubauten
Alkbottle
Tito & Tarantula
Badhoven
Aural Climax
Gü-Mix
DJ Edgar
DJ SMJ
XRS ft. Drumagick
Mix Hell
Solution
Hot Pants Road Club
In Flames
Carcass
Six Feet Under
Wintersun
Amon Amarth
Apocalyptica
Iced Earth
Meshuggah
Finntroll
Helloween
Opeth (2x)
Behemoth
Outrage
Morbid Angel
Arch Enemy
Volbeat
Onslaught
Cremation
Fleshless
Sinister
Urgehal
Desaster
Marduk
Grave
Satyricon
Kollegium Kalksburg
BulBul (2x)
Neigungsgruppe Sex, Gewalt und Gute Laune
Iron Maiden
Chamber Music Ensemble Pragensis
Lauren Harris
Odeville
Blix
Cynic
La Sonora Matansera
Living Colour
Benighted
Excrementory Grindfuckers
 
geezzzz



OK here is my huge list.

Metallica
Godsmack
Solitude Aeturnus
Cannible Corpse
In Flames
Nevermore
Throwdown
Evergrey
Amon Amarth
Disturbed
Goatwhore (billion times because they always opened up in texas, i've learned to hate them now)
Helstar
Ensiferum
Turisas
Job For A Cowboy
Tyr
Eluveitie
Testament
Iced Earth
The Red Chord

Damnit i don't remember an entire tour....not many good bands but there was a bunch....fuck

and whoever else was in powerfest/paganfest....im thinking of the rest ill update.
 
amon amarth
children of bodom
trivium
sigma (3x)
kataklysm
blinded by faith
ashes of eden
dark tranquillity
behemoth
beneath the massacre (2x)
martyr
quo vadis
job for a cowboy
the last felony
darkest hour
at the gates
I forgot some.. like a popular band in france, which begin with a ''G''
(a lot of local bands..)
 
geezzzz



OK here is my huge list.

Metallica
Godsmack
Solitude Aeturnus
Cannible Corpse
In Flames
Nevermore
Throwdown
Evergrey
Amon Amarth
Disturbed
Goatwhore (billion times because they always opened up in texas, i've learned to hate them now)
Helstar
Ensiferum
Turisas
Job For A Cowboy
Tyr
Eluveitie
Testament
Iced Earth
The Red Chord

Damnit i don't remember an entire tour....not many good bands but there was a bunch....fuck

and whoever else was in powerfest/paganfest....im thinking of the rest ill update.

hehe...you saw turisas? up there?