The News Review:
- Metal fans rock xford County Fairgrounds at day-long music festival
- Preview- Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2009
- Weekend Music Preview: Room 710′s Final Weekend
- Municipal Waste To Premier New Music This Weekend
- Music Box: The Bridge rocks for a cause this weekend
- Priestess Debut New More Metal Sound
- From opera to metal with local band Bipolar
Metal fans rock xford County Fairgrounds at day-long music festival
SunJournal.com
performs at xxfest 2009 at the xford County Fairgrounds in xford on Sunday. XFRD ? More than 3300 metal fans from across the region descended on xford County Fairgrounds for a daylong music festival jam packed with roaring riffs pounding drums lyrical angst and of course lots and lots of moshing. "Heavy metal music rocks" screamed Josh Thurlow 26 of Norway as he took a break from slamming bodies inside the pit during the New Hampshire-based Honest Eye set. "I most definitely give this event two thumbs up! That’s what we all came here for ? heavy music and moshing. "The throng of people gathered on a fairground field grew steadily throughout Sunday’s event in anticipation of headliners Papa Roach and their opening act local Maine-based favorite Dead Season. rganized by New England Concerts the event aimed to not only bring a bigger act to town but also offer big-time exposure to several smaller bands. The all-day music event featured 25 acts from across Maine and theregion on dual stages that ping-ponged bands andfans alike back and forth.
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Preview- Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2009
Examiner.com
Hot Topic & Jagermeister Stages: Plenty of major metal bands are gracing the parking lot stages this year when the festival rolls through DTE Energy Music Theatre. After a blistering performance at Rock on the Range All That Remains makes their way to their first Mayhem Fest and is still touring behind their “vercome” record. ne of the bands getting plenty of attention at Mayhem is the Polish death metal outfit.
Weekend Music Preview: Room 710′s Final Weekend
Austinist
During the interview Garber was resolute in his belief that the venue did not only cater to the punk and metal fans. And as we approach the end of an era on 710 Red River St. his words could not ring truer — Room 710’s Final Weekend features a veritable sampling of distinct genres offering patrons a final opportunity to enjoy a stellar collection of shows at the club. Friday is reserved for the hard stuff –.
Municipal Waste To Premier New Music This Weekend
Metal Underground
(0 Comments) Earache Records has issued the following announcement about Municipal Waste debuting a new song this weekend on the Full Metal Jackie show:”Richmond VA crossover leaders Municipal Wastewill debut a new track on this weekend’s episode of the nationally syndicated Full Metal Jackie Radio show. Played during the band’s recent national tour with Lamb of God ‘Divine Blasphemer’ is the kind of fist-pumping anthemic shout-along that has earned MUNICIPAL WASTE the adoration of critics and fans alike. This is your first chance to listen to the studio version of this blistering track from the band’s August 25th release MASSIVE AGGRESSIVE so make sure you stop what you’re doing get to your computers and radios and get ready to experience some major whiplash. “Listen to the debut of ‘Divine Blasphemer’ all this weekend on Full Metal Jackie Radio. For full details on how and when you can listen to the show go.
Music Box: The Bridge rocks for a cause this weekend
Maryland Gazette
; tickets just $20 but they add about a $4 "fee" so I guess the tickets are really $24). Tonight Rams Head Live gets loud with heavy metal band Beyond the Scar (8 p. Beyond The Scar was invited to be a part of the spring 2007 Jagermeister Tour where they performed with the supergroup Hellyeah. Beyond the Scar's music has been described as powerful and aggressive.
Priestess Debut New More Metal Sound
ChartAttack
Never a good sign considering most up-and-coming bands need to strike while the iron is hot. It’s not my intention to be derisive of the longer more ornate and transition-heavy compositions the group played to a surprisingly not-packed house (given the small room size and free pricetag) but the majority of the crowd moshing came during the performances of Hello Master’s better cuts. In the metal music world expanding one’s sound typically means some Ronnie James Dio-esque lyrical mythology coupled with Yngwie Malmsteen technical wizardry but most attempts at reaching metal Valhalla on a mighty steed tends to include all the cliches Spinal Tap alluded to two decades ago. Sure we all have a chuckle and air guitar to Dragonforce but Priestess are a great band and great songwriters and deserve better than to be lumped in with tongue-in-cheek metal traditionalists. It’s disturbing then that Priestess’ predilection is to turn it up to 11 and that the band played a new song entitled "Firebird. "Don’t fear the writer though ? the working man’s metal band haven’t descended into guitar-tapping Protest The Hero levels of self-parody. Their more complex dense arrangements might actually be really terrific although Foufounes Electriques is one of the worst sounding venues in the city and the guitar interplay came across as a wash of white noise instead.
From opera to metal with local band Bipolar
Las Vegas Weekly
Yes frontwoman and yes her name is Charlie (don?t ask for her real name?she?ll only cringe). A choir major who graduated from the Las Vegas Academy Charlie and drummer Brian Hanks left Vegas for California and formed Bipolar in 2003.