The Friday Five

[Phanto]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. Prelude/Evolution.

2. Years ago. Who knows. The album was pretty new when I heard it.

3. V.

4. Maybe I'll see them for the first time in Sweden this summer but I doubt it, don't think they'll play any of the new stuff.

5.

 

[progmetaldan]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. Inferno (Unleash The Fire)

2. Whilst in IT class back in year 11 when I should've been listening to the teacher... (From the samples on the official website)

3. The Odyssey

4. Never seen them live, and will hopefully be seeing them if they come to Adelaide, South Australia as part of their next world tour...

5. Nope, I wish...

 

[Beelzebub]

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
The Accolade

2. When did you hear it?
8th grade

3. Which was your first SymX cd?
V

4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
I've been a fan for 8 years and I haven't seen them live yet! I'll be going to the NYC show though.

5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).
No

 

[olio]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. The Accolade
2. 1998 from an InsideOut sampler cd
3. The Divine Wings of Tragedy
4. 21.03.2003 - Pakkahuone, Tampere, Finland. SymX was the supporting act to Stratovarius, I still think it should have been the other way around
5. Don't have one though after the ^gig we went to drink some beer and the SymX guys came to sit on the table next to us and ordered some food. So at least I got to meet the guys in person and even got to ask a few questions

 

[greenaxer]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. The Accolade II
2. 5 1/2 years ago at the computer lab in college
3. The Divine Wings of Tragedy
4. I've yet to see them live. But that will change when they come to Tempe in August.
5. I wish. God willing, I'll be lucky after the show!

 

[Tubbs]

HOLY CRAP I MISSED LAST WEEKS!

1. If you could retroactively erase one TV show from the history of entertainment, which one would you choose?
2. Are you more like your mother or your father?
3. If you could take a year-long vacation, what would you do?
4. Can you think of a reason not to answer this question?
5. What's the nicest thing you've ever done for someone?

1. Don't much care for tv as it is... I'd say everything except stuff on the Discovery Channel and some other important channels, and of course don't get rid of Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Metalocalypse!
2. Uhh...
3. Make music in the meantime... I wouldn't take a vacation anyway... I don't like them.
4. Damn confusing questions!
5. Don't remember

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. It was definitely something off of the Odyssey, one of my brothers played it and I thought "Woah, these guys sound like a Symphony!!1one", even though they really didn't that much.
2. About 4 or 5 years ago, maybe?
3. The Odyssey, of course... and it's the only one I still own. (although I've heard them all)
4. Never seen them but I might, my other brother knows MJR and I might be able to get backstage to one of the concerts, as he has done himself before...
5. I have one of my brother and MJR, if anyone cares. I don't know if I even have it anymore...

 

[Jax]

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
I imagine it was 'The Damnation Game', the first song on the cd by the same name, which was my first SymX cd.
2. When did you hear it?
I'm gonna guess sometime in 1998.
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
See above.
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
The infamous Pittsburgh 'blizzard show'..January 20, 2001.
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).
I have many, but this is one of my favorites..taken at the last PPUSA lunch that the band attended (Russ was sporting the Raiders jersey that I got for him when I lived in Cali, gotta love that).

 

[Horus]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. I think it was either In the Dragon's Den or Sea of Lies. I can't remember.
2. Summer of '04
3. V
4. Gigantour '05, Wantagh NY, Jones Beach Amphitheater, I was right there, at stage left.
5. If only I did.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1) Of Sins & Shadows, then the rest of DWoT
2) Shortly after release. 97-98
3) Damnation Game, because Impulse was out of stock on DWOT
4) Prog Power 1.0, down in Lansing, IL. Will be at the Mokena show, and possibly Sauget...
5) I'm in a few of the group shots from PP 1.0, as well as the luncheon shots.
Don't have anything handy to post....

 

[Matt]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. Prelude
2. I think in 2001. Not sure though.
3. V
4. Gigantour/Yes, the Sauget one
5. Nope

 

[Time-Machinist]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1- Prelude (to V)
2- Not sure, either end of 2000 or beginning of 2001.
3- V
4- I will gladly see them at any costs, if they happen to come to Turkey.
5- No i refuse to share them

 

[Sabin17]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. Through the Looking Glass

2. Around March 2005

3. The Divine Wings of Tragedy

4. Bought tickets to the Houston show this summer, it will be my first time seeing them.

5. Nope

 

[1by4by9]

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. Church Of The Machine
2. End of year 1999
3. Live On The Edge Of Forever
4. 2003 in Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland.
5. I wish I had.

 

[HackerX]

A SymX related Five:

1. What was the first SymX song you heard?
2. When did you hear it?
3. Which was your first SymX cd?
4. When and where did you see the band for the first time? If you haven't seen them yet, will you be seeing them at any of the upcoming shows?
5. Have a photo with any of the band members? Share it here (just one photo, please).

1. Of Sin And Shadows
2. A couple of years ago? Can't remember
3. The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
4. When they come to aussieland I will
5. Nope

 

[Jax]

Friday the 13th Five:

1. Are you superstitious?
2. Do you think you have good luck or bad luck?
3. Ever broken a mirror? (allegedly this causes 7 years bad luck)
4. Ever done any traditional 'bad luck' things (black cat cross your path, open an umbrella indoors, etc.) and actually had bad luck afterwards?
5. Tell us about one time you were really lucky.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Friday the 13th Five:

1. Are you superstitious?
2. Do you think you have good luck or bad luck?
3. Ever broken a mirror? (allegedly this causes 7 years bad luck)
4. Ever done any traditional 'bad luck' things (black cat cross your path, open an umbrella indoors, etc.) and actually had bad luck afterwards?
5. Tell us about one time you were really lucky.

1. No
2. Don't care
3. Yes
4. Many, but no.
5. Death is always trying to get me, and he keeps messing up.

 

[Horus]

Friday the 13th Five:

1. Are you superstitious?
2. Do you think you have good luck or bad luck?
3. Ever broken a mirror? (allegedly this causes 7 years bad luck)
4. Ever done any traditional 'bad luck' things (black cat cross your path, open an umbrella indoors, etc.) and actually had bad luck afterwards?
5. Tell us about one time you were really lucky.

1. No, but it's fun to act like I am and overexaggerate the superstitions.
2. I don't really believe in luck so much as I do in Karma.
3. Yep.
4. Nope.
5. I was walking with my buddies down 8th Ave. in New York City on a hot summer day, and I was completely spaced out. I get to an intersection and I just keep walking, all the sudden, my friend pulls me back really hard and a cab just flies right in front of my face. And after that, I was still completely zoned out. Only later did I realize just how lucky I was.

 

[claudeRichard]

Friday the 13th Five:

1. Are you superstitious?
2. Do you think you have good luck or bad luck?
3. Ever broken a mirror? (allegedly this causes 7 years bad luck)
4. Ever done any traditional 'bad luck' things (black cat cross your path, open an umbrella indoors, etc.) and actually had bad luck afterwards?
5. Tell us about one time you were really lucky.

1. No, but sometimes I like to read my horoscope for the hell of it.
2. The only luck I have is the good luck of being me, because I'm awesome.
3. No
4. Is skateboarding one of these things? Because almost every time I tried to do a kickflip, I got the bad luck of falling down on the pavement. That's why I don't use my skateboard anymore.
5. I can't remember one... but I remember once when I was like 9 years old, I threw a handful of gravel at my brother due to me being momentarily stupid, and all of the rocks missed him; some to the left, and some to the right. He got lucky that time!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Friday the 13th Five:

1. Not really...
2. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all....
3. A few
4. Undetermined
5. Being shot at, but not hit, happened more than once too!

 

[Earth Breather]

Friday the 13th Five:

1. Are you superstitious?
2. Do you think you have good luck or bad luck?
3. Ever broken a mirror? (allegedly this causes 7 years bad luck)
4. Ever done any traditional 'bad luck' things (black cat cross your path, open an umbrella indoors, etc.) and actually had bad luck afterwards?
5. Tell us about one time you were really lucky.

1. Not really, if I do not see it, I do not believe it.
2. I don't know, I guess a good mix of both.
3. Never
4. Actually yes, I walked under a ladder, then it fell down and hit my head.
5. I guess when I saw Dragonforce a couple weeks ago. Killswitch was headlining, and I cannot stand them, so I went to the lobby when Killswitch was playing, and I met Herman Li and Sam Totman.