Joel is a TShirtSlayer supporter and wields the mighty sword!

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Tell us about yourself?: 

I've had successful business transactions with the following TSS members:

Chaos and Metal - Bought a woven Holocaust-The Nightcomers patch from him.
DevilzForce - Bought a Blut aus Nord-"Fathers of an Icy Age" XL t-shirt from him.
Judascrust - Bought an Emperor-In the Nightside Eclipse 90s XL long sleeve shirt from him.
Boy Darwaman - Bought a woven Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos patch from him.
Grave Dancer - Bought an XL Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos t-shirt from him.
Toxik - Bought a Benediction - Dark is the Season woven patch from him.
ACES HIGH - Bought an Obituary - Cause of Death woven patch from him.
DragonAttack96 - Bought a Pestilence - Consuming Impulse woven patch from him.
Overactive Imagination - Sold him my original vintage Benediction - Dark is the Season woven patch.
eduardomr3 - Bought a Large Sadistic Intent - Resurrection t-shirt from him.
408thrasher - Bought an XL Absu - In the Eyes of Ioldanach t-shirt from him.
Longe666 - Bought an XL Abigor - Verwustung (Invoke the Dark Age) longsleeve from him.
nameless_rites - Bought an XL Sacramentum - Far away from the Sun t-shirt from him.
devilplayground - Bought a woven Entombed - Left Hand Path patch.
RavenEffect - Bought woven Angel Witch, Defender, and Trojan patches from him.
R. J. - Bought woven Enslaved, Merciless, Gehenna, Absu, and Sacramentum patches from him.
Vinnie - Bought a woven Venom patch from him.
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"Follow your bliss"

-Joseph Campbell

Name's Joel Hatton. I'm a native of Burlingame, CA on the Bay area peninsula about 17 miles south of SF. Born on 10/01/1984, currently living in neighboring San Mateo and working for a company called Pacific Rubber and Packing in nearby San Carlos, and busy being an avid CD & vinyl collector and listener, gamer, citizen of Raider Nation, zine collector & reader, merch collector, battle vest/cutoff crafter, beer drinker, and movie watcher. I love various old school (and general old school style) Heavy/Power/Traditional/Thrash/Speed/Doom Metal bands, a ton of Death Metal, and a very healthy intake of Black Metal. My first Metal shirt was a Metallica-Master of Puppets t-shirt from when I was 13 or 14 back in '98 or '99.
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What's your reason for joining tshirtslayer?: 

Making purchases, exploration, conversation, commenting, sharing my Metal collection, making friends.

Do you goto any festivals or shows?: 

YES!

Judas Priest @ the City National Civic in San Jose, CA on 11/16/2014

Onslaught, Artillery, and VX36 @ the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA on 11/23/2014

Incantation, Funerus, and Cyanic @ the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA on 01/11/2015

Testament and Exodus @ the Recency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA on April Fool's Day, 2015

Saxon, Armored Saint, Spiral Arms, and Icki Crane @ the Rockbar Theater in San Jose, CA on May 29th, 2015

Riot @ the Elbo Room in San Francisco, CA on June 19th, 2015

Motorhead and Saxon @ the Warfield in San Francisco, CA on August 24th, 2015

Deceive, Skeletal Remains, Dispirit, Morbosidad, Antediluvian, Ghoul, Dead Infection, Impaled, Autopsy, Lycus, Ritual Necromancy, Goat Torment, Loss, Pseudogod, Bölzer, Nader Sadek, Immolation and others @ California Deathfest at the Oakland Metro in Oakland, CA on October 10th and 11th, 2015

Judas Priest @ the Warfield in San Francisco, CA on October 21st, 2015

King Diamond and Exodus @ the Warfield in San Francisco, CA on November 2nd, 2015

Sadistic Intent with Dismembered Carnage, Horrid, Black Horns, Hallucinator, and Negative Vortex @ the Oakland Metro in Oakland, CA on November 21st, 2015

Death Angel, Flotsam and Jetsam, and Holy Grail @ Slim's in San Francisco, CA on December 18th, 2015

Vastum, Pale Chalice, and Cardinal Wyrm @ the Golden Bull in Oakland, CA on January 7th, 2016

Venom Inc., Necrophagia, Necrot, and Infex @ the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA on January 20th, 2016

Black Sabbath @ the SAP Center in San Jose, CA on February 9th, 2016

Slayer, Testament, and Carcass @ the Warfield in San Francisco, CA on March 22nd, 2016

Satan, Night Demon, and Hellfire @ the Elbo Room in San Francisco, CA on March 25th, 2016

Abbath, High on Fire, Skeletonwitch, and Tribulation (didn't see the latter two) @ the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA on March 29th, 2016

Power from Hell, Witchaven, Sakrificer, Black Horns, Hallucinator, and others @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on April 2nd, 2016

Absu, Xenotaph and Pale Chalice @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on April 6th, 2016

D. R. I., Hirax, Rude, Wolfpack, Hellhunter, and Isotope @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on April 16th, 2016

Pentagram @ the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA on May 27th, 2016

Metal Church @ the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA on June 8th, 2016

Venom Inc., Necrophagia, Necrot, and Sunlord @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on June 21st, 2016

Suffocation at the third annual Bay Area Deathfest @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on July 16th, 2016

Undergang, Spectral Voice, and Necrot @ the Golden Bull in Oakland, CA on July 26th, 2016

Master, Sacrificial Slaughter, VX36, The Black Order, Infernal Damnation, Hallucinator, and Aseptic @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on August 20th, 2016

Mortuary Drape, Dispirit, Gloam, and Predatory Light at the Metro in Oakland, CA on September 12th, 2016

Black Sabbath at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA on September 15th, 2016

Rotting Christ, Necronomicon, and Carach Angren at the Metro in Oakland, CA on September 19th, 2016

Blind Guardian and Grave Digger at the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA on October 5th, 2016

Deathhammer with Old Coven, Hellhunter, and Funeral Chant at the Golden Bull in Oakland, CA on October 12th, 2016.

Nuclear Assault, Razor, Brujeria, Revenge, Blood Incantation, Usurper, Exhumed, Demilich, Angelcorpse, Necrosic, Demoncy, Hooded Menace, Vastum, Black Breath, Squash Bowels, Spectral Voice, Rites of thy Degringolade, Violation Wound, The Ruins of Beverast and many others at the second annual California Deathfest at the Oakland Metro in Oakland, CA on October 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2016.

Demilich with Hooded Menace, Vastum, and Ulthar at the Elbo Room in San Francisco, CA on October 20th, 2016.

Helstar at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland, CA on October 28th, 2016

Diamond Head at Slim's in San Francisco, CA on November 2nd, 2016

Vektor with Black Fast at the Elbo Room in San Francisco, CA on November 14th, 2016.

Death Angel @ Slim's in San Francisco, CA on December 17th, 2016

Horrid, Xenotaph, Gloriam Draconis, and Funeral Chant @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on December 29th, 2016

Rude, Skeletal Remains, Demon Hammer, and Chemical Slaughter @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on January 7th, 2017

Grave Ritual, Ascended Dead, Mortuous, and Black Horns @ the Golden Bull in Oakland, CA on January 12th, 2017

Udo w/ Hellhunter @ Slim's in San Francisco, CA on January 21st, 2017

Mayhem & Inquisition with Black Anvil @ the Social Hall in San Francisco, CA on February 6th, 2017

Overkill & Nile with Mystic Rage @ Slim's in San Francisco, CA on February 24th, 2017

Archgoat & Valkyrja with Hellfire Deathcult @ the Elbo Room in San Francisco, CA on February 26th, 2017

U. F. O. & Saxon with Jared James Nichols @ the Independent in San Francisco, CA on March 15th, 2017

Kreator @ the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA on March 26th, 2017

Asphyx with Skeletal Remains & Mortuous @ the Metro in Oakland, CA on April 27th, 2017

Gruesome & Extremity @ the Golden Bull in Oakland, CA on May 6th, 2017

Testament at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA on May 19th, 2017

Destruction at the Metro in Oakland, CA on May 22nd, 2017

Candlemass at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA on May 25th, 2017

Behexen, Demoncy, Volahn, and Gloam at the Blue Lagoon in Santa Cruz, CA on May 31st, 2017

Atomic Aggressor with Demon Hammer and Raped God 666 at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland, CA on June 3rd, 2017

Vader at the Metro in Oakland, CA on June 6th, 2017

Blood Incantation, Vastum, and Qrixkuor at the Golden Bull in Oakland, CA on June 14th, 2017

Undergang and Necrot at Thee Parkside in San Francisco, CA on June 30th, 2017

Repulsion at the Warfield in San Francisco, CA on July 2nd, 2017

Iron Maiden at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA on July 5th, 2017

Exodus at the Chapel in San Francisco, CA on July 7th and 8th, 2017

Necrot and Undergang at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland, CA on July 29th, 2017

Profanatica, Dispirit, Black fucking Cancer and Black Horns at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland, CA on August 5th, 2017

Barbarian at RS94109 in San Francisco, CA on August 11th, 2017

Inquisition at the Oakland Metro in Oakland, CA on September 3rd, 2017

Venom Inc. at Slim's in San Francisco, CA on September 18th, 2017

Witchtrap and Witchhaven at the Metro in Oakland, CA on September 21st, 2017

Skeletal Remains at RS94109 in San Francisco, CA on October 12th, 2017

Merciless, Samael, Demolition Hammer, Siege, Lord Gore, Sadistic Intent, Mortem, Drawn and Quartered, Nunslaughter, Morta Skuld, Brodequin, Ascended Dead, Diocletian, Tsjuder and others at California Deathfest III at the Metro in Oakland, CA on October 13th and 14th, 2017

Belphegor and Cryptopsy at the Metro in Oakland, CA on November 25th, 2017

Killian on Command - An evening of Vio-lence (Sean Killian benefit) featuring Chuck Billy, David White, Zetro Souza, Tom Hunting, Eric Peterson, Harald O., Will Carroll, Ted Aguilar, Matt Harvey and many others at the Midway in San Francisco, CA on January 20th, 2018

Kreator (not very good and a waste of most of my money spent) at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, CA on February 10th, 2018

Exodus (always reliable) at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA on February 25th, 2018

Incantation with Exhumed, Phobia and Deathgrave at the Metro in Oakland, CA on March 3rd, 2018.

Whipstriker at RS94109 in San Francisco, CA on March 17th, 2018.

Udo at Slim's in San Francisco, CA on March 21st, 2018.

Judas Priest and Saxon at the Warfield in San Francisco, CA on April 19th, 2018.

Favourite album ?: 

More like albums. Stained Class, Strong Arm of the Law, Hall of the Mountain King, Powerslave, Bonded by Blood, Darkness Descends, Human, Left Hand Path, Nightside, Vikingligr Veldi, Death Penalty, Nespithe, Tara, Far away from the Sun, Fimbulvinter etc.

Which bands are you into?: 

Just Look At The Photos Of My Cutoffs And Vests If You Want A Good Idea Of What Kinds Of Metal Bands I Typically Listen To.

How did you find out about TShirtSlayer? : 

Looking for patches, t-shirts, and jackets/vests/cutoffs on Google and I noticed that the majority of all the search results on Google Images were coming from TSS.

The human porcupine approves.

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