Just won tix to the Hip show in Syracuse! Thanks @
By Eric | October 28, 2009 12:00 am
Just won tix to the Hip show in Syracuse! Thanks @livenationbuff !!
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At Easy on East checking out More Than Me!
By Eric | October 24, 2009 12:00 am
At Easy on East checking out More Than Me!
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Died in an amusement park accident I came back for
By Eric | October 21, 2009 12:00 am
Died in an amusement park accident I came back for you so you wouldn’t be alone If I go away again you can have my stereo I’m indestructible
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Rockin’ the iTunes on random at work, and “Invisib
By Eric | October 20, 2009 12:00 am
Rockin’ the iTunes on random at work, and “Invisible Kid” from St. Anger just came on. I love Metallica, but holy shit does that song suck.
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Every Time I Die! http://twitpic.com/l7d9e
By Eric | October 12, 2009 12:00 am
Every Time I Die! http://twitpic.com/l7d9e
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10/11/2009 Every Time I Die, Bring Me The Horizon, Architects (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | October 11, 2009 11:59 pm
[Oh, Sleeper was on the bill also but I didn’t catch them.]
I wandered in during a set change after getting home from the Bills game, and hit up the merch booth, only to be greeted with the site of an ETID Bills-themed shirt! I promptly scored one of those (from Jordan Buckley himself), and wandered off in search of my buddy from NT, Art. Found him, and then we met up with his friend Leo, and we parked ourselves in the back corner to watch Architects. They were fine, but I really wasn’t paying that much attention. Bring Me The Horizon was next, and while their sound/style isn’t the sort of metal I’m into, they were fun to watch, and had quite a few kids there to see them. Lots of energy for sure. And speaking of energy, Every Time I Die brought plenty themselves. Considering their “hometown” show in Buffalo was the night before, they still had a lot left in the tank for the final night of this tour. The kids down front were just as rowdy for them, which made for a great spectacle in the back. Art and I parked right in front of the soundboard and took it all in. As Art said, “I remember Andy giving me a CD-R demo of stuff back in the day, and now look at them.” Indeed. The set was slanted towards the last two albums, which is fine with me as I really, really like the just-released New Junk Aesthetic. Great to see the local boys do well.
ETID Setlist (pretty sure this is right):
Roman Holiday
The Marvelous Slut
Ebolorama
Bored Stiff
No Son Of Mine
Cities and Years
Floater
Wanderlust
Kill The Music
For The Record
Apocalypse Now and Then
I Been Gone A Long Time
The New Black
We’rewolf
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#FF @shadowsfallband @therealetid @hatebreed @jame
By Eric | October 9, 2009 12:00 am
#FF @shadowsfallband @therealetid @hatebreed @jameyjasta @chimairaband @sixpinmusic @HNWY @5TEMM @philthatremains @lambvox @SabresDotCom
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10/05/2009 Five Finger Death Punch, Shadows Fall, Otep (Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theater)
By Eric | October 6, 2009 12:19 pm
I rolled into Syracuse around 6:30, and after finally finding a parking spot (the street parking in this neighborhood is atrocious), got in line and got into the venue about 5 ’til 7. The Westcott Theater, as the name would imply, was an old movie theater converted for music (ala Showplace). A bit cleaner than Showplace, and laid out a little better. The room sounded good too. And they had Arrogant Bastard on tap! I first headed to the Shadows Fall merch booth and said hi to lead singer Brian Fair, and also scored some free swag for knowing the secret word he posted on Twitter earlier in the day! I got a Shads shot glass, a set of picks, and two buttons. All because I’m a dork and follow bands on twitter! I grabbed a beer and hung in the back during Otep. Good thing, because they did not impress me at all. They’ve been around since 2000, and they sound like they’re stuck in the year 2000. The female lead “singer” did more of a spoken word thing, which reminded me of a second rate Poe, and the band was the same nu-metal stuff everyone sounded like around 1999-2000. Oh yeah, smash the government control machine and all that. No thanks.
Anyway, their half-hour came and went, and now it was time for Shadows Fall. There were a healthy amount of people to see Shads, and they didn’t disappoint at all. The guys started out with My Demise off of the new Retribution record, and the set was fairly heavy on the new stuff. I don’t have the order completely right, but we also got Still I Rise, Destroyer of Senses, King Of Nothing (my favorite on the new one!), Eternity Is Within, A Public Execution, and the closer was The Light That Blinds. There may have been another song or two in there that I can’t remember. Anyway, the set was great, the fans were great, Jon Donais’ solos were ripping, Jason Bittner’s drumming was spot on, and it was overall a great time.
My Demise
Milled around for a bit, killing time until Five Finger came on. The crowd went nuts, and they opened with Burn It Down. Lead singer Ivan Moody was in top form, singing/screaming everything and not missing a note. They continued on with The Way of the Fist, and then a big sing-along on Bad Company. Back to the heavy stuff with Salvation, Hard To See, and White Knuckles. They kept up the ferocious pace with Bulletproof, and had a big pit for Dying Breed. A pit that I looked at and said, “Hey, I haven’t done this in awhile, lets get in the pit.” Yeah, there’s a reason I don’t go into the pit. Because I have no mass. I ran into some 250 lb. brick shithouse and ended up on my ass. End of the pit for Eric. (People helped me up, it’s all good, a bruise or two. Minor.) Needless to say, I was a mere spectator for the rest of the set, which wasn’t much longer anyway. They closed up the main set with Never Enough and Meet The Monster, and did a one song encore with The Bleeding. The band sounded excellent, the fans were really into it, and having a sold-out show in a place with a capacity of 700 makes for an intimate crowd, if you catch my drift. My only complaint is that the set was a little short. 5FDP have two albums now, and I wish they would have leaned a little more on the new one, and just plain played longer. I was kinda hoping to hear stuff like No One Gets Left Behind, My Own Hell, War Is The Answer, etc. I also thought since it was a headliner they’d play one of the slower tunes on the new album (Crossing Over, Far From Home). It’s a minor complaint at best, the show was great and well worth the drive east.
Dying Breed
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I just remembered why I don’t go into pits; I just
By Eric | October 6, 2009 12:00 am
I just remembered why I don’t go into pits; I just got LIT UP. Ouch.
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This place has Arrogant Bastard on tap?! How cool
By Eric | October 5, 2009 12:00 am
This place has Arrogant Bastard on tap?! How cool is that? And this joint is Showplace small. It’s gonna get CRAZY in here soon.
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