Matt Burke Photo

And now onto some photos from TRIVIUM’s set.

The photo pit was PACKED for these dudes, it was unreal.

And there we go.

Thanks to my Ashley and her husband Matt Heafy of Trivium for hooking me up yet again with passes for Mayhem this year. For a band as massive as they are, that dude is as chill and awesome as possible…and he’s reasonably decent at playing the gee-tar. Just kidding, dude shreds.

Anywho, the day was awesome..super hot, but super awesome.

Onto the photos:

NOTE: I hate watermarking photos, but a bunch of my photos have been circulating without any credit, so I have to be annoying and mark my photos. My apologies.

I was only really stoked to shoot a few of the bands, and Suicide Silence was definitely one of them. I just recently got into them and love the singer, Mitch’s stage presence.

I will post the Trivium photos when I finish them up, just wanted to get a post on here.

I was lucky enough to have my friends in Go Radio hook me up with a ‘vip’ wrist band and a photo pass for the Atlanta date yesterday, definitely super nice of them to hook it up so nice.

To be honest, there weren’t too many bands that I really wanted to see, so I was pretty much just going to hang with some friends I haven’t seen in a while. But, on to the day:

At first, it was kind of a bummer cause I spent about an hour and a half waiting at the guestlist tent waiting on my passes cause the tickets were 1 1/2 miles away so they had to have people WALK the mile and a half there to get the tickets and then the 1 1/2 miles back…not the best plan.

After I got my passes I headed in and headed straight for the Go Radio merch tent to see them and give some super sweaty hugs.

Due to the extreme heat, I spent a ton of time at Go Radio’s mansion for the air conditioning:

I walked around the festival a whole bunch but always found myself back at the bus to chill out. It had to be a good 110 degrees standing on all that asphalt.

I went in to catch Of Mice & Men cause I love both of their records and they seemed like a fun band to photograph and I have never seen them, so it was 2 birds with 1 stone on that one:

This dude is a great front man.

I partied with this dude one day and he was super awesome. Made for a fun photo subject, too haha.

After OM&M I met back up with Mike, Erica, and Colin and we went back to the bus:

I pretty much spent the rest of the afternoon on the bus cause there were no bands I wanted to see until Go Radio, but I was super stoked on their set. Those dudes and awesome and great dudes that definitely deserve where they are at. On to the photos of Go Radio:

gotta be artsy sometimes, right?

Jason hyping up the crowd.

Jason under the amphitheater lights. like a boss.

Alex getting his posi jump on.

My boy Matty Burns taking the bass line for a walk.

Getting loud.

This is what Steve looks at every day. Not a bad job.

The Wonder Years came on directly as Go Radio was finishing on the stage next to them and A Day to Remember was playing on a different stage at the same time, and being as I wanted to shoot both bands, I stayed for a Wonder Years song and then ran over to ADTR only to be denied access…bogus.

Anywho, Soupy from The Wonder Years:

Go Radio had a signing at their tent after they loaded all their stuff up:

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was essentially my day at Warped Tour 2011 here in Atlanta.