The News Review:

- When: July 21 | metal stage one – Entertainment – CRegister.com
- Just a bit shorter…
- Going Where Electrons Lead
- VIVA LA SWEDES

When: July 21 | metal stage one – Entertainment – CRegister.com
CRegister – Jul 22, 2007
Months ago thousands of metalheads signed up for tickets with event sponsors such as J?rmeister and Monster Energy eventually taking spots in a queue to download gratis passes to the rock show. Not a bad deal right? That depends on who you ask. To the average heavy music fan looking to have a good time it’s an almost unbelievable deal. Yet under the surface there were a lot of things wrong with “Freefest. ” For starters not everyone (certainly not me) might have realized that parking would run $20 to $30. Forget other costs like food and drink or a T-shirt shelling out that much to park is ridiculous especially since parking has sometimes been free at Hyundai in the past. And what about the talent willing to stack the lineup of a free show? It’s safe to assume this wasn’t a big payday for the acts that played early on the second stage nor was it a particularly deep bill… The list of no-name bands goes on and on only a few worth discovering. n the second stage Nick liveri and Mondo Generator cranked out a swift punchy mix of cowboy swagger and pure metal muscle heavier stuff than what liveri assisted in his previous stint thumping bass for Queens of the Stone Age. Polish black metal outfit Behemoth was another favorite thanks to its choreographed head-banging guitar segues and singer Adam Darski’s incomprehensible screaming. All of it came together in an enthralling cacophony of punishing rock ‘n’ roll. None however was more engaging than Connecticut hardcore unit Hatebreed which headlined the side stage. Lead singer Jamey Jasta wanted “this whole entire field to look like it was hit by a nuclear bomb” and he got his wish as numerous circle pits left many fans battered some even bloody. Running through old and new material Jasta established himself as one of metal’s most potent frontmen something he visibly strives to be.

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Krakow Post – Jul 22, 2007
It is not an arrogant or pretentious film and at the same time it touches what is important in youngsters? lives. Pearl Jam Linkin Park head to PolandKrzysztof SkoniecznyStaff Journalist Rock music legend Pearl Jam will play along with the nu-metal band Linkin Park on Wednesday June 13 at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzow. The event seems more like a little festival than a single concert as the Polish bands Coma and Gutierez will also perform. The concerts promise a minimum of 5 hours of open-air rock. Avocado Jam Pearl Jam needs no introduction. As one of four of the most important grunge rock bands of the early 1990s they have outlasted the other three ? Nirvana Soundgarden and Alice in Chains ? and become perhaps the most successful alternative rock group in history.

Going Where Electrons Lead
New York Times – Jul 22, 2007
I was in high school in the mid-1960s. It was cold installing garage door openers in unheated garages so I wanted something I could do indoors. When a friend needed new drumsticks I went with him to Gracin’s Music in Freeport N. After looking at the electronic amplifiers I told the owner I could make a more powerful one that cost less. He told me that if I could do that he’d order 100. I converted the basement so I could manufacture these amplifiers and went to work… I started Napco after I heard that the metal shop making the U. housings I was using was constantly being been broken into. Thieves wanted the tools and dies.

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New York Post – Jul 22, 2007
"Next thing you know everyone starts recognizing [the music] they do research and find out that they're rockin'. Less than a year later the quartet of young unknowns – who look like refugees from an '80s hair-metal video – are opening for Poison and Ratt at Jones Beach on Tuesday. Lead singer Lizzy Devine admits that he was hesitant to sign with the untested Filthy Note but common sense won in the end. "Bam's such a huge person in the U. and in the whole world kids really look up to him" Devine says… "Maybe sleaze rock is going to be the next emo and he's a prophet. If not he's just a dude who has this huge pulpit from which to proclaim his love for these completely strange bands. " In case he is some kind of music savant Margera's staying mum about the next five bands (from Scandinavia of course) that he's trying to sign in case some "jerkoff" from a major label tries to outbid him. "I hope that Warner Bros. and Island don't catch on to my plan. I don't want them flying to f- – - ing Finland and stealing my thunder – I'm going to have to start buying more plane tickets if they do.