While the rest of the NY-based MS staff was partying it up at the MetalSucks / Metal Injection / 1000 Knives CMJ showcase featuring A Life Once Lost, Car Bomb, This or the Apocalypse and Last Chance to Reason [pictures taken by BBG here], photo master Jacqueline Cheng trekked across the East River to the airy Hammerstein Ballroom, where Black Label Society, Children of Bodom and Clutch were busy rocking Manhattan. Her photos after the jump!