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Friday April 16^th was a crazy night at Coasters Lounge for the 6^th of 11 Santa Cruz/Monterey YMO preliminaries. KEVEL brought out the fans before 9:00 with a heavy west coast rock/grunge based on early Black Sabbath. THIRTY9FINGERS woke up the room with some deadly fast metal courtesy the dueling thrash vocals of Ritchie & Jen. Russian Metal band HELL I FEEL brought the competition to the competition. I didn’t want to mention Rocky 4 but Hell I feel is looking as big and bad-ass as a freshly oiled Ivan Drago. They now have the #3 slot in the preliminary vote totals! Last band of the night was the ugliest band in Santa Cruz A BAND OF ORCS! I have never seen a more brutal pit at Coasters as the Orcs summoned the great Gzoroth. These Orcs are definitely learning the ways of the human metal gods so watch your ass. A Band of Orcs are tied at 4^th with SONIC DECAY.

Saturday April 17^th was the YMO “Vocal Solo” event @ The Britannia Arms.  We had 10 YMO vocalists compete as the front man for cover band THE DEAD RINGERS.  All the singers were really good and we always acknowledge the courage it takes to get up without your band and sing an unrehearsed song with a totally unfamiliar band.  Congratulations to:

GOLD = James Durbin – HOLLYWOOD SCARS

SILVER = Danny – RAPID FIRE

BRONZE = Gogog – A BAND OF ORCS

4^TH = Morgan Pax – PARIAH FACTION

As of 4/19/2010 the current top 10 vote earners are:

1) MORDOR- 112

2) ALMOST CHAOS -53

3) HELL I FEEL -44

4) (Tie) SONIC DECAY / A BAND OF ORCS - 40

6) (Tie) 3UPFRONT / MOON CADILLAC- 34

8) (Tie) CULO A BOCA / SWILLBILLY-32

10) BEVER FEAVER -26

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