Sherburt 3/29/24 Sherburt 3/29/24

SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 006

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The sixth pack has my favorite edit of the first set, Alkaline Trio.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
- ALKALINE TRIO at their headliner at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI March 2024
- DRAIN supporting Neck Deep at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI February 2024
- KOYO at the triple headliner at Edgemen Screenprinting in Clinton Twp, MI March 2024
- UNABOMB at the Small’s Bar 25th Anniversary Shows in Hamtramck, MI January 2024

Sherburt 3/29/24 Sherburt 3/29/24

SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 005

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The fifth pack has one of my favorites, Drug Church.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
- ANXIOUS at the triple headliner at Edgemen Screenprinting in Clinton Twp, MI March 2024
- DRUG CHURCH supporting Alkaline Trio at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI March 2024
- MACHO at the Small’s Bar 25th Anniversary Shows in Hamtramck, MI January 2024
- ORBIT CULTURE supporting Machine Head at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, MI February 2024

Sherburt 3/28/24 Sherburt 3/28/24

SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 004

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?

Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.

See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.

Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The fourth pack is eccentric.

Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.

Six packs of four every quarter.

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The fourth pack is eccentric.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
- FEAR FACTORY at their co-headliner with Machine Head at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, MI February 2024
- HIGHER POWER supporting Neck Deep at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI February 2024
- LAMB OF GOD supporting Pantera at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI February 2024
- WORRIERS opening for Alkaline Trio at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI March 2024

Sherburt 3/26/24 Sherburt 3/26/24

SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 002

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?

Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.

See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.

Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The second pack is stacked.

Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.

Six packs of four every quarter.

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The second pack is stacked.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
- BEARINGS supporting Neck Deep at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI February 2024
- CHILD BITE opening for Pantera at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI February 2024
- MACHINE HEAD headlining at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, MI February 2024
- NEGATIVE APPROACH at the Small’s Bar 25th Anniversary Shows in Hamtramck, MI January 2024

Sherburt 3/25/24 Sherburt 3/25/24

SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 001

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?

Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.

See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.

Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The first pack has a few locals and a couple of international bands.

Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.

Six packs of four every quarter.

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The first pack has a few locals and a couple of international bands.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
Graders from their reunion set at New Way Bar in Ferndale, MI March 2024
You Dirty Rat at their comeback show at Small’s Bar in Hamtramck, MI January 2024
Neck Deep at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, MI February 2024
Pantera at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI February 2024

Sherburt 2/27/24 Sherburt 2/27/24

Pantera Pays Homage to the Abbott Brothers in Grand Rapids Alongside Lamb of God and Child Bite

I have to preface this with; it meant a lot to me to do this because the 3 guys I grew up listening to this band with in high school are all dead. RIP Joey Bags, Hansen, and Dolsen.

I have to preface this with; it meant a lot to me to do this because the 3 guys I grew up listening to this band with in high school are all dead.
RIP Joey Bags, Hansen, and Dolsen.

Pantera brought their headlining tour to Michigan and I drove my ass almost 3 hours to Grand Rapids to photograph it. I was 1 of only 6 photographers approved for this show and it was my 2nd arena gig ever. It felt like a hometown show right off the bat with a couple of photographers from Detroit being in the media pool, but the main reason was because Detroit’s Child Bite opened the gig. It was a helluva warm-up show for their appearance at the Garden this past weekend in New York City. Gimme some salsa ya weird metal cowboys. Anyway, the direct support for the show was Lamb of God and despite having to share the pit with 30+ VIPs, I still had no issue photographing them. I always found it weird that bands do this, and also making us sign a photo release just sends a pretty wild message. I think this might’ve been my last time photographing LOG tbh.

PANTERA NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Rad to see Child Bite go from small Detroit shows to playing the Garden a few days after I took these. That was a big deal for me when I signed up to potentially do this show. Considering Phil has not one but multiple bands from Detroit on his Housecore Records label, it’s no surprise he would be sidestage for their set in Grand Rapids.

Everyone takes pride in their city’s culture, or at least in my head, everyone does. Detroit is incredibly tight-knit and supportive of one another, even outside of our genre lines. Escaping this city is no easy task, even nowadays when things are perceived to be much better than it used to be. Woof, that is for an entirely different conversation and I am not doing that again here today. Instead let’s just check out the galleries below from the show!

PANTERA

LAMB OF GOD

CHILD BITE

Sherburt 2/5/24 Sherburt 2/5/24

The Slaughter The Martour with Machine Head and More @ St Andrew’s Hall in Detroit

Machine Head brought the Slaughter the Martour to Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit Saturday night. Packed to the gills alongside friends in Fear Factory, Sweden’s Orbit Culture, and my favorite on the lineup Gates to Hell. As a precaution, I brought two King Palm Slims and tried to stay as covert as possible. At the moment I am experimenting with inadvertantly overhearing aging music fans and their casual opinions about Detroit. Before we get to the negative, let’s get to the positive. This show was sold out. The bands all ripped. I didn’t have a single boring moment at all, no matter where I was in the venue. Staff is mostly welcome to me except for the other newer middle-aged dudes who just haven’t figured me out yet. They’ll get there.

The most thrilling part of all of this is that it’s the first new article on the newly launched site. After years of using branded sites, I peeked into the production world with the most non-press work last year. This led me to today where I am just going for it full bar all on me and not behind a brand or company idea. With that being said, I Like Their Old Stuff will live on with Anniversary Features on the site and Time Is A Circle Pit will be the Podcast presented by Sherburt. Fun times.

The Slaughter the Martour

There were a few cool moments about getting this to photograph this gig. For starters, I loved seeing Gates to Hell play to a new crowd. That band is one of my favorites coming from Louisville’s bustling intertwining hardcore and metal scene alongside the likes of Knocked Loose, Inclination, World Of Pleasure, Belushi Speed Ball, and a ton of others.

Getting to see Orbit Culture and their Swedish Melodic Death Metal onslaught kept my brain in functioning ADHD mode. I blame the double bass that was on a level only to be rivaled by Tomas Haake himself. Not a set to be missed.

The best part of the night wasn’t getting Fear Factory for the 2nd time in a year but getting Machine Head for the first time. Machine Head co-headlined my first show at Harpo’s with Coal Chamber. The openers for that show were Amen and Slipknot. 1999. 25 years later Robb Flynn is spitting on me at Saint Andrew’s Hall. It’s really hard not to think about how much has changed since that show in 99, typing on a computer like this was unheard of outside of Doogie Howser and the original blog sites like Angelfire or Homestead. I was barely 16 years old when I first saw them and now I’m staring at a bottle of Baby Aspirin.

I will say this. Over the last decade, I have gone to 100s of shows. This was a perfectly booked tour. I loved every minute of the show and had a blast working it with a bunch of pretty rad Detroit photographers and some newcomers. Dodging tour managers with cell phones and VIPs invading the photo pit was hilarious to me. I am so inundated with DIY shows and the things that happen there, I forgot a little bit, of just how ridiculous metal as a whole is. I prefer my punk and hardcore shows for sure but metal is always a very close third for me.

If you’re anywhere in the path of this tour, check it out and get tickets. It was worth all the trouble and welp, I kept hearing folks talk about this being their first time at this venue.
A venue that just celebrated 116 years since opening…
WITH THAT BEING SAID I HAVE TO SAY THIS…

METRO DETROIT, STOP BEING AFRAID OF DETROIT. IT IS 2024. IT IS NOT ROBOCOP TIME ANYMORE. YES, SOME AREAS AREN’T THAT GREAT BUT YOU’RE NOT GOING THERE ANYWAY. ALL THE VENUES YOU WILL GO TO, ARE DOWNTOWN. IT’S OKAY. STOP STAYING AT HOME AND WATCHING THE SAME NETFLIX RERUNS. LIVE A LITTLE. GO TO SHOWS.

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Pantera Pays Homage to the Abbott Brothers in Grand Rapids Alongside Lamb of God and Child Bite

The Cowboys From Hell in Grand Rapids

PANTERA NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

PANTERA

LAMB OF GOD

CHILD BITE

The Slaughter The Martour with Machine Head and More @ St Andrew’s Hall in Detroit

The Slaughter the Martour

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