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- Metal is back — but for the Staten Island faithful it never went …
- Music as a Weapon tour makes a stop at BJC
- Minireview: Guitar Hero Metallica
- Dagon drops a new CD at Saturday gig
Metal is back — but for the Staten Island faithful it never went …
Staten Island Advance – SILive.com
on a recent Saturday. If you’ve seen pictures of Tranchina’s numerous hairstyles as the frontman of the band Deceiver you know the 43-year-old is not talking about the mullet. He’s talking about the metal. Tranchina has been around long enough to see metal music both push the boundaries and be the butt of jokes. Anyone who has seen the classic 1984 mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” knows that fashion fads a strict adherance to epic solos and druid-peppered lyrics rendered the genre both unique and comical. That’s what makes its survival — and current mainstream revival — so unlikely. But Tranchina’s increasingly popular Saturday showcase at L’Amour (2354 Arthur Kill Rd.
Music as a Weapon tour makes a stop at BJC
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Fans interested in getting tattoos can do just that. “You can actually book appointments with those guys on the day of the show” Brown said. Disturbed which first formed in 2006 created the first Music as a Weapon tour in 2001 to showcase hard rock-metal music. The band is one of the most successful hard rock groups in recent years. According to the tour’s press release Disturbed is one of only seven “rock groups” to release three consecutive No. 1 albums the others being Dave Matthews Band Pearl Jam Van Halen U2 Metallica and Staind. Previous Music as a Weapon tours have featured a number of high-profile bands in the genre including Adema Drowning Pool Chevelle Taproot Stone Sour and Flyleaf.
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Minireview: Guitar Hero Metallica
San Jose Mercury News
This is what Guitar Hero should be: the game without all that non-metal music. The tracks are naturally great. The animated sequences have a very.
Dagon drops a new CD at Saturday gig
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features major-label acts like Underoath Anberlin and Haste the Day. “They get around 25- to 30000 people every year and it’s a huge music community hungry to hear new music and see new bands” Batterbee said. When asked why metal fans are among the most loyal of any genre Batterbee says “there’s an emotional connection with metal music. “”There’s always something heavy and dark in everybody’s life and I think metal confronts that stuff – unabashedly confronts it. People know that when those tough times come along there will always be this unapologetic brand of music that tells it like it is. ” phpBB : Critical ErrorCould not connect to the databaseDetails• Dagon CD release also featuring Michigan bands The Yellow Sign The Amante Curse Besieged and f Pure Blood• 6 p.