05/24/2013 Hollywood Undead, American Fangs (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
By Eric | May 31, 2013 4:29 pm
[Stellar Corpses, Beware of Darkness also on the bill, didn’t see them.]
I’m not the world’s biggest Hollywood Undead fan, but I like them well enough, had the time and energy on the Friday night of a long weekend to go, so I said “what the hell”. I was taken quite aback as I rolled up on the Armory, seeing as there was no line outside, plenty of parking behind the Auditorium Theater (and for free!), and no real evidence there was a show happening. Definitely no hassle getting in, and I’d say the place was about half full. Probably more people than would have fit at Water Street, so it’s not like there was nobody there, in fact it was a pretty healthy crowd I’d say, but the Armory kinda looked empty. (Not sure there’s a good in-between venue anymore (Harro East isn’t really doing shows I don’t think).) Anyway, first time ever at the Armory with no beer lines! Walk right up to the counter? UNHEARD OF. This was probably also due to the fact that Hollywood Undead has a much younger audience than most of the stuff I go see, so while there were a good number of adults, there were a TON of kids at this show (read, teenagers). I guess I didn’t realize just how young their fanbase skewed.
So American Fangs opened; they’re a pretty straight-forward hard rock band, and were decent. None of the songs were particularly memorable, but they had a lot of energy, got the crowd riled up a bit. A solid opening band.
HU came out to a fairly raucous response, and started with Undead, which got everyone into it right off the hop. They spread the set out over the three albums, and sounded pretty damn good doing it. During Comin’ In Hot they brought up some young kid to sing with them, and while you could tell he was a little nervous, he wasn’t *that* nervous, and busted out a good deal of the lyrics! Kudos to that kid. The lead singer for American Fangs came out during Another Way Out to sing along too. They had a ton of energy, the kids in the crowd were having a good time, and like I said when I saw them at K-Rockathon a couple years ago, the fact that there’s live instruments, and everyone takes turns playing stuff, impresses me. They could easily just put 5 guys out in front of a backing track and call it a day, but they don’t. Plus their drummer was none other than Darren Pfeiffer, he of Goldfinger fame! It was a decently long 16-song set, for me, something to go see on a Friday night, and an all-around good time.
Hollywood Undead setlist:
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Undead
Tendencies
Been to Hell
Dead Bite
California
City
Comin’ in Hot – with the little kid
My Town
Bullet
Sell Your Soul
Paradise Lost
Another Way Out – with American Fangs lead singer
Young
Hear Me Now
Encore:
Everywhere I Go
We Are
Undead
Dead Bite / Been To Hell / Tendencies / Undead (the sound sucks, and he spliced the songs together in backwards order for some reason)
Comin In Hot – with the little kid
Everywhere I Go
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05/18/2013 Korn, Mindset Evolution, Love and Death (Big Flats, NY @ Tag’s Summer Stage)
By Eric | May 23, 2013 8:49 pm
My second show at Tag’s, and my second show with Tiff’s cousins and their friends. Talk about a good time. Nu-metal heaven… Korn, and HEAD’S BACK! We tailgated through most of Love and Death (Head’s other band), and all I could think of was “these guys sound like Adema”. From the parking lot they didn’t sound bad, just generic. We filed into the place during set change, and parked ourselves in a nice center spot, probably 20 people deep, for Mindset Evolution. These guys weren’t too bad either, pretty much your standard hard rock band that you’d hear on XM-Octane. Nothing particularly stood out, but its not like I was praying for it to end either. A good opener.
Mindset Evolution – Hopeless
Of course, the natives are getting restless by this point. Time for our trip down nu-metal nostalgia lane. as the unmistakable cymbal hits of Blind started. ARE YOU READY??? The place went predictably nuts. 16-year-old Eric came out of hiding, as the first four tunes were Blind, Ball Tongue, Twist, and Chi! Right about this time, one of the girls in our crew had made it up to the front with her boyfriend, then retreated back to us. She wanted to head back to the front. BF wasn’t enthused, and I never need a second invitation to “head for the barricade”… So up front we went! Spent the rest of the show, about 1 or 2 folks off the barrier. Really good crowd, everyone into it, lots of singing/screaming along, no idiots (around us anyway), and we had fantastic sightlines. As for the tunes, the balance of the set was a good spread of hits from the entire catalog, but still leaned old-school (Shoots & Ladders, Helmet in the Bush, No Place to Hide, Need To, Lies). Nothing from Korn III, Untitled, and only Coming Undone from SYOTOS. Not that this guy is complaining. I’ll take the old stuff any day. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Korn sound bad live (this was Korn show #6), and this was no exception. Jon was all over the place, the rest of the guys looked like they were having fun up there, and the crowd was loud. Recipe for a great show.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a little anecdote from the end of the show… We’re milling around waiting to gather the whole group together, and the guitar player for Mindset Evolution walks past, so I told him good show, fun to see you guys, etc., he’s talking to us for a second when some obviously drunk guy stumbles up to him and practically yells “GIMME A DRUMSTICK MAN!”. Beyond the hilarity of his, er, directness, asking the guitar player for a drumstick usually ain’t getting you too far! A pick, sure, but a drumstick? The poor kid is trying to explain that he’s the guitar player, but the guy doesn’t give up that easily; he finally ambles away, muttering “I just wanted a f#$%ing drumstick man…” Good luck with that!
Setlist:
Blind
Ball Tongue [Lodi Dodi / It Takes Two insert]
Twist
Chi
Falling Away from Me
Narcissistic Cannibal
Dead Bodies Everywhere
Coming Undone
Did My Time
Shoots And Ladders / Somebody Someone
Here To Stay
Helmet In The Bush
No Place to Hide
Need To
Lies
Another Brick In The Wall
Encore:
Get Up!
Got The Life
Freak On A Leash
Blind
Another Brick In The Wall
Get Up
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So this happened last night! @hatebreed VIP! @Wate
By Eric | April 19, 2013 12:25 pm
So this happened last night! @hatebreed VIP! @WaterStreetNY http://t.co/5mNAzMMyt0
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04/18/2013 Hatebreed, Every Time I Die, Terror, Job For A Cowboy (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | April 18, 2013 11:59 pm
[This Is Hell was the first band on, but I missed them.]
I walked in pretty much just as Job For A Cowboy were ending their set, so I barely saw them. Not enough to form an impression. But for the rest of the night, one word: ENERGY. I’d seen Terror once before (2007 with Chimaira) and enjoyed them then, and same thing here. I don’t know any of the songs, but there were a bunch of people that sure did, and they looked to be having quite the time. A fun half-hour warmup for what was to come.
Terror – Live By The Code
My hometown boys in Every Time I Die were up next, and it was the usual mayhem you’d expect. The kids went berzerk, and there was a good size pit in the middle of the floor for most of the set. A good spread over the last couple albums, with some oldies thrown in for good measure, and a cool little Pantera medley with Domination and This Love. I neglected to write down the setlist, and it doesn’t look like anyone else did either, so I don’t have the track-by-track breakdown. I got to chat with Andy for a second before the set, so it was cool to say hi and talk some old-school NT backyard wrestling too!
ETID – Underwater Bimbos From Outerspace
I somehow managed to walk right up to the barrier during the set change, dead center. Fine by me! Hatebreed came out and launched into Put It To The Torch, then went to the old stuff with Empty Promises and A Call For Blood, and we were off and running. Another sprint through the “hits” (if you can call them that) of the HB catalog, tons of fun, great crowd for the most part (Jamey admonished some kids fighting behind us at one point), and per usual, the band sounded great. After we all went hoarse during “I Will Be Heard”, I got to stick around after the show and do the VIP meet and greet. Always fun to get to say hi to the band, and in this case get some cool swag to go with it! All the guys were super nice to everyone, laughing and joking, and made it worth the time and money to do the VIP. Another great Hatebreed show!
Hatebreed setlist (it’s not in complete order, and I didn’t write it down 🙁 Boo.)
Put It to the Torch
Empty Promises
A Call for Blood
Doomsayer
Tear It Down
Everyone Bleeds Now
In Ashes They Shall Reap
Last Breath
Indivisible
Smash Your Enemies
Dead Man Breathing
As Diehard As They Come
Perseverance
Honor Never Dies
This Is Now
Live for This
I Will Be Heard
Hatebreed – Put It To The Torch / Empty Promises / A Call For Blood
As Diehard As They Come
Hatebreed – Everyone Bleeds Now
Hatebreed – In Ashes They Shall Reap
A bunch of pics on the After Dark facebook page here.
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Help make it happen for ‘Chimaira *CROWN OF PHANTO
By Eric | April 18, 2013 4:00 pm
Help make it happen for ‘Chimaira *CROWN OF PHANTOMS* Fan Edition CD-DVD’ http://t.co/hGDCvCTMlI #indiegogo via @indiegogo
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To tie that up nicely, here’s my review of the @Wa
By Eric | April 18, 2013 7:41 am
To tie that up nicely, here’s my review of the @WaterStreetNY show with @hatebreed and @chimairaband from July 2009! http://t.co/9keZZJYMlK
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Tonite is VIP for @hatebreed and @everytimeidie at
By Eric | April 18, 2013 7:11 am
Tonite is VIP for @hatebreed and @everytimeidie at @WaterStreetNY, and then @chimairaband starts following me! Definitely #MetalThursday m/
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RT @Maffewgregg: R.I.P. Chi Cheng, Deftones bassis
By Eric | April 14, 2013 11:03 am
RT @Maffewgregg: R.I.P. Chi Cheng, Deftones bassist. http://t.co/sUUmKVZ6NI
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Seen at lunch: girl with Yo! MTV Raps cap. Difficu
By Eric | April 4, 2013 1:15 pm
Seen at lunch: girl with Yo! MTV Raps cap. Difficulty: show was off the air before she was even born. #WatchedItAtShortDog’sHouse
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So I just bought the new @hatebreed CD while jammi
By Eric | March 19, 2013 11:19 am
So I just bought the new @hatebreed CD while jamming the new @jtimberlake album… I’m not sure what that means.
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