Metal night! (@ Montage Music Hall for Shadows Fal
By Eric | February 16, 2012 8:41 pm
Metal night! (@ Montage Music Hall for Shadows Fall w/ 2 others) http://t.co/PzrgbmJZ
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11/29/2011 Five Finger Death Punch, All That Remains, Hatebreed (Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre)
By Eric | January 6, 2012 10:12 am
[Rains was on the bill, but we didn’t get there in time.]
Phill and I drove down from Rochester, and got there right before Hatebreed was about to start. Perfect! Met up with Adam, and I was kind of amazed at how the Rapids Theater was packed to the gills, there wasn’t a lot of room to move at all. Popular show or something… Anyway, we got the standard balls-to-the-wall Hatebreed opening set, running through the favorites, a couple old classics, and all with full energy from Jamey and the boys. Always a good time, tons of singalongs, fist pumping, moshing, and everything else you’d expect from a Hatebreed show. They never disappoint!
Hatebreed
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To the Threshold
Never Let It Die
This Is Now
Everyone Bleeds Now
In Ashes They Shall Reap
Live for This
Proven
Destroy Everything
Smash Your Enemies
As Diehard as They Come
Last Breath
Empty Promises
I Will Be Heard
Everyone Bleeds Now
All That Remains was up next. I really like this band, however I feel like the last couple times I’ve seen them its been more of the lighter songs, and less of the heavy. I’ll still complain any time a band completely disavows their first album, but for this show, Hold On, Forever in your Hands, The Last Time, and Two Weeks? Ugh. You’re with Hatebreed and 5FDP, bring the pain!
All That Remains
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Hold On
This Calling
Forever In Your Hands
Dead Wrong
The Air That I Breathe
Now Let Them Tremble
Six
The Last Time
Some Of The People, All Of The Time
Won’t Go Quietly
Aggressive Opposition
Two Weeks
And now, it was Death Punch time. The crowd popped huge as they started with Under and Over It, worked in Salvation, and then American Capitalist. And that was it for the new songs. Kind of surprising, I thought they’d play a couple more considering the album had just come out. A decent mix of stuff from the first two though, and the crowd ate it up. But this bring me to my other 5FDP complaint, SET IS TOO SHORT! 13 songs and an encore, for three albums? MORE MUSIC! They have a ton of songs that bring it live, and yet they don’t play them. It’s too bad, because they’re a really tight live band, and fun to watch.
Five Finger Death Punch
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Under and Over It
Salvation
American Capitalist
Hard to See
The Way of the Fist
No One Gets Left Behind
Bad Company
(Bad Company cover)
White Knuckles
Far From Home
Bulletproof
Never Enough
Burn it Down
Encore:
The Bleeding
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11/20/2011 Kid Rock, Ty Stone (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
By Eric | January 6, 2012 9:55 am
Kid Rock did a short tour of clubs (as opposed to the amphitheaters he’s been playing for the last umpteen years) with a bunch of the proceeds going to his CARE foundation, supporting various charities in the various cities the tour hit. Buffalo was one of the cities chosen for the tour, and needless to say, it wasn’t the easiest ticket to get, but get one I did. While I’ve always loosely remained a Kid Rock fan, I hadn’t seen him since before he really blew up, that being Warped Tour 1998 and then at Water Street in March of 1999, right before Bawitdaba was released as a single. Anyway, fandom came full circle seeing him in a little place again! Opener Ty Stone was just a dude and an acoustic guitar, but he sounded pretty good. After much crowd anticipation, Kid Rock and the band came out, and started old-school with Devil Without a Cause. There was a decent mix between old and new songs throughout the set, and it was pretty easy to see that the crowd was singing along with everything. They were into it all night, not surprising considering that only the diehards would go through the trouble to get the tickets. Made for a fun night, and I think Kid Rock himself had a blast on this tour in general, let alone our stop, being able to actually see everyone in the crowd and interact with them. I certainly came away with a newfound appreciation for him and his band after this one.
Kid Rock Setlist
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Devil Without a Cause
Rock Bottom Blues
Forever
Cocky
All Summer Long
Purple Sky
I Got One for Ya’
Midnight Train to Memphis
Wasting Time
Slow My Roll
Cowboy
Lay It On Me
God Bless Saturday
Care
Roving Gangster (Rollin’)
Fuckin’ Forty
So Hott
Bawitdaba
Encore:
Rock N Roll Jesus
Only God Knows Why
Born Free
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11/12/2011 Chimaira, Skeletonwitch, Molotov Solution, A Thousand Shades of Cold (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | January 6, 2012 9:53 am
Back to the Montage for a second night, with a hell of a lot more people in attendance this time around. I got there in time to catch the local openers, one of my favorite Rochester bands, A Thousand Shades of Cold. A solid set of stuff from Darkenthedaylight, and a new song as their closer. I have to admit I only half paid attention to Molotov Solution and Skeletonwitch, as I was talking at the bar with some various people. But I was right back down front and center for Chimaira! This was the 9th time I’d seen them, and would be the last tour with Matt and Rob playing guitar, as both would be leaving the band at the end of the year. As always, a Chimaira show is a fun show, and this was no exception. The new songs sounded great live (lead singer of Molotov Solution came out to do the guest vocals on Born in Blood), the older songs still rip, and honestly, considering they played Power Trip, Pure Hatred, and Resurrection, everything else was gravy.
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ATSOC setlist
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Bullet Train to Tokyo
Suddenly
Sweet In November
Flatline
It’s A Goddamn Suicide
New Song (The Fall of Rome?)
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Chimaira Setlist
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The Age of hell
Clockwork
Losing my mind
Power trip
Nothing remains
The Flame
Pure hatred
Destroy & Dominate
Severed
The Sun disappears
year of the snake
Born in blood
The Venom inside
Secrets of the dead
Resurrection
Resurrection
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Sad news from opposite ends of the spectrum: Kodak
By Eric | January 4, 2012 5:00 pm
Sad news from opposite ends of the spectrum: Kodak filed for Chapter 11, and Howard Jones is no longer in Killswitch Engage. #sadtrombone
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Violet Mary is ripping it up! (@ Dinosaur Bar-B-Qu
By Eric | December 9, 2011 11:44 pm
Violet Mary is ripping it up! (@ Dinosaur Bar-B-Que w/ 8 others) http://t.co/PZnb8PJm
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TRUTH: “Im butthurt that people dont like the musi
By Eric | December 1, 2011 8:45 am
TRUTH: “Im butthurt that people dont like the music that I like, which I like BECAUSE other people dont like it.” (from StuffYouWillHate)
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I’m at Rapids Theatre for All That Remains, Five F
By Eric | November 29, 2011 9:07 pm
I’m at Rapids Theatre for All That Remains, Five Finger Death Punch, Hatebreed, Rev Theory and 1 more http://t.co/AKeH1QPK
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Has it been established yet that there’s no way in
By Eric | November 28, 2011 9:26 pm
Has it been established yet that there’s no way in hell that j-Lo would ever be caught dead in a Fiat?
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CANNOT hear Carol of the Bells anymore without sin
By Eric | November 25, 2011 10:17 am
CANNOT hear Carol of the Bells anymore without singing “Ding Fries Are Done”. Out loud. In public.
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