GALLERY: Unleash The Archers, Striker & Helion Prime Live at Reggie's, Chicago

Not much sounds sweeter than a sold out, Friday night metal show at Reggie’s in Chicago. I have a feeling this is going to be a recurring theme for me since settling down in the Chicago land suburbs – I can only hope. Last week, after weeks of being teased with photos and video of the Unleash the Archers tour as it scooted around North America, I finally caught the tour along with a blissfully excited packed house on Friday, October 5th at Reggie’s.

Here are some of the coolest moments of the evening:

Mattie Jensen

Mattie Jensen is Metal Wani's Power Metal Chick. She is the master, looking down from the edge of space and time, flesh and steel intertwined. Living in a land of grace and glory, if only in her mind, she often envisions epic battles of studly long haired men gleaming from sweat, with the wonderful soundtrack of axes and shields clashing when steel meets steel. Swords drawn, held high, their whips and armor shine, and in the last hour they become a slave to the power of death... She could go on, but this of course, is the end of a tale that wasn't right.