Recent ORDAINED Updates
March 4th - Pics from the annual New York City New Years Eve trip are now online. These pics were taken the day before the ball dropped.... except for the 2nd to last pic. That was taken after 10 #10 Valiums, 7 Somas, a fifth of Jack Daniels straight and a fall down a two story escalator. Just another day in the life of The Reverend...
March 1st - SINterview from Headache zine in Holland has been posted. The SINterview was conducted back in late November/early December and was printed in Dutch, however the English version is posted here in our "SINterviews" section.
February 26th - A new SINterview has been posted. Metal Forever out of Germany has put it up on their site, and we have posted it in its SINtirety in our "SINterviews" section on this site. There have been two new links added in our "Metal Sites" section as well.
February 19th - The Reverend has added 4 new tats to the back of his neck. Two on each side of the ankh that is dead center. The suits from a deck of playing cards are the newest additions. Each is slightly larger than a quarter. They are (from left to right): Club, Heart, Diamond and Spade. As always, Jerry Thomas up at Toucan Tattoo did the work.
February 16th - Thank you to all of you who sent in your hate mail concerning "The Reverends Rant" section on this site. If you don't like it, too fucking bad. We do appreciate the comments and feedback from all of you, no matter if what you have to say is positive or negative. THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES AMERICA SO GREAT.... FREEDOM OF SPEECH! For all of you who have sent in supportive e-mails, have a drink on me. Keep those letters coming in! Fuck the bullshit, everybody knows what the fuck is going on. When was the last time you heard someone say "I am moving to China"? Exactly, motherfuckers.
January 10th - Grasshopper, one of our good buds and on call roadie, has gotten his orders from President Bush and will be shipping off Saturday January 11th for Iraq. He is a United States Marine stationed at Camp Lejuene, NC. All I can say is, all you fuckheads over there in the desert better watch your sorry asses, 'cause the Motherfucking United States Marines are on the way!
January ?? - For those of you located in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, pick up a copy of the new Ninevolt magazine. There is a small piece on ORDAINED and the recording of our new album "Altar Ego".
December 29th - January 1st - All eyes were once again on New York City for the New Years celebration. Dean, Worker, Teresa, Christy & The Reverend made the trek up to Times Square. Big John, Kathy & Brandon were kind enough to let us stay at Brahma Limo HQ again. We will be posting pics of the day before the celebration, as we went around The City. Without naming names, someone with the initials "T.M." left the camera New Years Eve, so there will be no crowd pics from the Times Square festivities posted this year. Security was tight, and they started closing the streets down at about 4 pm. For those of you who were watching, we were the only ones out of the entire crowd who had a Confederate flag. If you saw that flag, that was us. After the ball dropped, and the crowd was cleared (The Reverend had to be carried out of the crowd), we all got on the train to go back to crash out. The Reverend fell down two flights of escalators, breaking his collarbone in the process. Plans are already being made to return next year, this time hopfully returning home intact, without any crippling SINjuries. Thanks again to Big John, Kathy & Brandon for putting up with us for four days.
The November 16th - Skinart update: The Reverend has added a custom piece to his right forearm. The Egyptian God Thoth. He is the scribe, who taught the alphabet, and reading and writing. The tat is from Revs wrist up to his elbow. Jerry Thomas did the work at Toucan Tattoo, as usual.
November 11th - The Reverend totaled his 1988 Ford F-150 pickup truck today. Cruising through downtown Norfolk, VA to meet up with a friend for a real estate showing, The Reverend smashed into a Chevrolet Suburban at an intersection. The Suburban was t-boned on the drivers side. The Rev was rushed by ambulance to the hospital with facial cuts and fractures, as well as busted ribs. The occupant of the other vehicle was not hurt.
October 31st through November 3rd - The ORDAINED Heavy Metal Revival Crusade rolled into North Carolina with a vengeance. The Halloween performance went over well. Lots of new congregation members and plenty of familiar faces. Massive people showed up back at our hotel rooms afterwards to party. ORDAINED had two one bedroom suites booked, so there was plenty of room for everyone. The aftershow bash on Halloween night went on until 6 am. There were people drinking, wrestling, smoking, arm wrestling, videotaping and raising Hell. The next night was basically the band, crew and a few female friends. That party went on until 6 am also. The night culminated in Mike & Diesel taking a bed from one room across the hotel parking lot to another room so Mike wouldn't have to pass out on the couch or floor. The next day, they had to sneak the bed back across the lot. The Revival on Saturday went over well, and ORDAINED added to our congregation ranks. The afterbash at the room went on (again) until 6 am, with The Reverend not going to bed at all until 11 pm SUNDAY night. All in all it was 4 days & 3 nights of liquor, beer, nudity, illegal substances, and rock & roll. All hail ORDAINED! All hail Metal!
October 5th - Mike Pagan went under the needle today at Toucan Tattoo. Jerry Thomas inked "SINNER" across Mikes stomach in Olde English script. The new addition is black (naturally).
Sept. 30th - The Reverend added to his skinart today. Jerry Thomas of Toucan Tattoo inked in a full color custom piece of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the underworld from Revs wrist to his elbow on his left forearm. The tattoo was done in about 2 hours.
Sept. 17th - 24th - The Reverend, Evil Ernie (from Reign Of Terror) & Jerry Thomas took Sin City Las Vegas by storm as soon as they stepped off the plane. Scoring round trip non-stop plane tickets for $200 apiece, the trip was off to a great start. Picking up the rental car, KOMP (the GREATEST station in the Nation) kicked "Wild Side" by Motley Crue as soon as we started the car. The Reverend then proceeded at 80 miles an hour to the closest liquor store (inside Terribles Hotel/Casino) and 2 fifths of Jack and a bottle of rum were purchased. The rule of the trip was "a fifth a day in the room and/or car, a fifth a day on the casino floor". Concerts (George Thorogood at Mandalay Bay Hotel/Casino, Rush at MGM Grand Hotel/Casino & Jack Russell of Great White at Pink E's Niteclub), gambling (baccarat, slots, craps, blackjack & video poker), free drinks in every casino, porno, naked bitches in peep show booths, naked bitches live on stage, go-go bars that actually sell liquor, liquor stores that NEVER close, go-go bars that LET YOU BRING YOUR OWN LIQUOR IN, roller coasters, Heavy Metal on the radio 24 hours a day (we're talking DIO "Holy Diver" at 6 am, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Scorpions, Ratt, Judas Priest, Ozzy.... ALL DAY EVERY DAY!), monorails, Liberace's house, tigers, sharks, moray eels, comped hotel rooms, comped restaurants, pockets full of won money and drunken debauchery were the norm for the "Three Vegas Kings No Bar Too Far Tour". The Reverend (King Of Vegas), Jerry Thomas (King Of Free Drinks), & Evil Ernie (King Of Conversation) have all agreed to return soon. If you ain't never been there, you just don't know how it is.....