Alter Bridge – 2019 – Walk The Sky
By Eric | October 19, 2019 6:00 pm
Artist: Alter Bridge
Title: Walk The Sky
Label: Napalm
Released: Oct 18, 2019
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#One Life
#Wouldn’t You Rather
#In The Deep
#Godspeed
#Native Son
#Take The Crown
#Indoctrination
#The Bitter End
#Pay No Mind
#Forever Falling
#Clear Horizon
#Walking On The Sky
#Tear Us Apart
#Dying Light
Review:
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09/27/2019 Shinedown, Papa Roach, Asking Alexandria (Buffalo NY @ KeyBank Center)
By Eric | September 28, 2019 6:13 pm
This show ended up being even more fun than I thought it was going to be! I rolled in from Rochester, got in, and made plans to meet up with Pete and Kiersten between sets, as they were on the floor, and I was in Section 106. All well and good, and then concert buddies come through – they text me the QR code for one of their floor tickets! Apparently the employees downstairs just glanced at the “ticket” on the phones, but didn’t scan it, and just put on the wristband. Not one to pass up an opportunity, I show the folks downstairs the “ticket”, and they didn’t scan it for me either! There was zero issue getting my wristband, getting on the floor, and frankly, “Getting Away With Murder”! *groan* I quickly found Pete and Kiersten, and settled in for Asking Alexandria. They’ve got to be one of the most popular bands that I just have no idea about, as I couldn’t name a single song, and I didn’t recognize any of the hits. They were okay, there were a good number of people there for them, but they still didn’t do anything for me.
Asking Alexandria
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The Violence
Into the Fire
Where Did It Go?
The Death of Me
Vultures
Moving On
When the Lights Come On
Alone in a Room
By this time, Chip had gotten in and met us (I forgot he had floor also; I have no idea what I was thinking getting seats!) and we joked about coming out of mosh retirement again, just like the last time we saw Papa Roach, in 2018 at the Armory (no, we didn’t come out of retirement this time). We probably couldn’t have anyway, as this was definitely a Shinedown crowd. That is to say, younger, and not really down to mosh. PRoach came out, started with Who Do You Trust?, which I’d consider a banger, and no one really moved much. Maybe it was better up front, but we were halfway back and didn’t get touched. They sounded really good, Jacoby was all over the place, he wandered through the crowd for one of the songs, and he sounded great too. The relative youth of the crowd was evident when PRoach switched from the newer stuff to the OG stuff – not the huge pop I would have expected for Between Angels and Insects, and that went back-to-back with Blood Brothers, which is always great live, but that got even less of a reaction. They probably knew it too, as Last Resort was NOT the closer, but rather third from last. They sprinkled in a couple more tunes and closed with To Be Loved. All us oldsters thought they were great, and couldn’t understand the lack of carnage on the floor, but it is what it is. It didn’t dampen our enthusiasm any!
Papa Roach
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Who Do You Trust?
Help
Elevate
Getting Away With Murder
Gravity
Between Angels and Insects
Blood Brothers
Come Around
Forever
Scars
Drum Solo
Last Resort
Born for Greatness
…To Be Loved
So I had seen Shinedown the previous July, however they were opening for Godsmack, and it was right after Attention Attention came out, so seeing them headline on this album and play more stuff from it was pretty cool. They opened with Devil (it was the closer last year!) and other than the new songs it was pretty much a greatest hits set, but damn if they don’t do it well. The stage setup was really cool, they used the video screens well, the band sounded great as always, and Brent sounded good too. I was glad to hear Monsters off the new one, and Cut The Cord was a highlight too. It was a super solid arena rock show, made even better by getting a floor hookup and hanging with awesome concert friends! It also never hurts when you can retreat from the arena to 716 and have a nightcap with your buds!
Shinedown
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Devil
Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)
Enemies
Monsters
I’ll Follow You
Attention Attention
Bully
State of My Head
How Did You Love
Unity
45
Second Chance
Simple Man
Cut the Cord
Get Up
Sound of Madness
Brilliant
Monsters
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09/22/2019 Hatebreed, Ringworm (Rochester, NY @ Anthology)
By Eric | September 24, 2019 9:41 pm
A Sunday night show that I got there a little late for, so I missed the openers. I would have liked to have seen Amigo The Devil, as I’d heard good things, but it was not to be. I’d always heard a lot about Ringworm, especially since Florida Frank used to play with them. And they were okay, not my cup of tea as far as hardcore goes, but then again I’ve always said it’s not really my genre. Definitely some folks there that were into them though!
Seeing as it was a Sunday night, Anthology could have been a bit more full, but it was still a good showing for Hatebreed. And likewise for the band, it was your typical Hatebreed headliner. Super solid, a nice spread across the entire catalog (we got Doomsayer!), the entire band was on point – always a good time. Not too much more in the way of a review on this one, other than to say it was as fun as it always is!
To the Threshold
Looking Down the Barrel of Today
Empty Promises
Honor Never Dies
Under the Knife
Doomsayer
Not One Truth
Destroy Everything
As Diehard as They Come
Seven Enemies
Perseverance
Proven
Smash Your Enemies
Before Dishonor
Last Breath
Tear It Down
Driven by Suffering
Live for This
A Call for Blood
I Will Be Heard
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Papa Roach – 2019 – Who Do You Trust?
By Eric | September 15, 2019 6:00 pm
Artist: Papa Roach
Title: Who Do You Trust?
Label: Eleven Seven
Released: Jan 18, 2019
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#The Ending
#Renegade Music
#Not The Only One
#Who Do You Trust?
#Elevate
#Come Around
#Feel Like Home
#Problems
#Top Of The World
#I Suffer Well
#Maniac
#Better Than Life
Review:
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Trivium – 2017 – The Sin And The Sentence
By Eric | September 15, 2019 6:00 pm
Artist: Trivium
Title: The Sin And The Sentence
Label: Roadrunner
Released: Oct 20, 2017
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#The Sin And The Sentence
#Beyond Oblivion
#Other Worlds
#The Heart From Your Hate
#Betrayer
#The Wretchedness Inside
#Endless Night
#Sever The Hand
#Beauty In The Sorrow
#The Revanchist
#Thrown Into The Fire
Review:
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Korn – 2019 – The Nothing
By Eric | September 13, 2019 6:00 pm
Artist: Korn
Title: The Nothing
Label: Elektra / Roadrunner
Released: Sep 13, 2019
Packaging: Jewel Case with Slipcover
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#The End Begins
#Cold
#You’ll Never Find Me
#The Darkness Is Revealing
#Indiosyncrasy
#The Seduction Of Indulgence
#Finally Free
#Can You Hear Me
#The Ringmaster
#Gravity Of Discomfort
#H@rd3r
#This Loss
#Surrender To Failure
Review:
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Cold – 2019 – The Things We Can’t Stop
By Eric | September 13, 2019 6:00 pm
Artist: Cold
Title: The Things We Can’t Stop
Label: Napalm
Released: Sep 13, 2019
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Limited Edition
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Intro
#Shine
#Snowblind
#The Devil We Know
#Run
#Better Human
#Without You
#Quiet Now
#The One That Got Away
#Systems Fail
#Beautiful Life
#We All Love
Review:
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Tool – 2019 – Fear Inoculum
By Eric | September 13, 2019 6:00 pm
Artist: Tool
Title: Fear Inoculum
Label: Tool Dissectional
Released: Aug 30, 2019
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Limited Edition
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Fear Inoculum
#Pneuma
#Invincible
#Descending
#Culling Voices
#Chocolate Chip Trip
#7empest
Review:
Special limited edition. It includes a CD in a trifold digipak video brochure, as well as a rechargeable 4″ HD screen with exclusive video footage, a USB charging cable, a 2-watt speaker, a 36-page booklet and a digital MP3 download card.
Package Manufactured by Mediafast in China. Discs Made In Germany. Assembled In the USA.
Special limited edition has three (3) variant packaging available (this is Variant 1):
Variant 1 – Priest Upright: – Full glossy cover with 7-sided geometric pattern on back, points of pattern ends in 14 solid circles.
Variant 2 – Priest Bowing: – Matte finish with 9-sided geometric pattern on back, no solid circles at points, sides have a gloss geometric repeating pattern.
Variant 3 – Danny’s Drum Kit/Adam’s Mural: -Glossy cover with dark elements in matte and 6-sided fractal star on back, eyes centered in star points, silver on black geometric repeating pattern on sides.
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09/04/2019 Cold, Awake For Days, University Drive (Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo Iron Works)
By Eric | September 6, 2019 9:23 am
After a long hiatus for the band, and a 9+ year gap for me between shows, I finally got to see Cold again! Fittingly, this was show number 13, and in an incredible fact I discovered while reminiscing, including this show I’d never seen the band in the same venue twice! Thirteen different venues. Kind of amazing,
Which is a good way to describe this show as well. It was pretty cool to see that the band still has a following after all these years, and equally cool to see the age spread. There were quite a few younger people in the crowd, meaning there’s still some discovery going on, and the hype for the just-about-to-be-released new album was working. Plenty of us old people there too, but a bit of a lack of older shirts. No matter, as per usual I got to talking with people about which shows we’d seen the band at and swapping stories. Always a good time.
After University Drive (all the way from Italy!) had their time, everyone migrated to the front for Cold. Scooter has put together a brand new band, including guitar player Nick Coyle, who was the front man for Lifer (whom I saw open for Cold at Water Street back in 2001!) and in a surprise, Sam was drumming! He had not been a part of the recording process and apparently was a last minute addition to the touring lineup. I was glad to see him though! They came out on stage and started all the way back at the beginning… Everyone’s A Devil off the Grundig album! It was sort of a sign of things to come, as they played a lot of back catalog (It’s All Good, Ocean, The Break), although the hits got their due as well. As for my favorites, they played Remedy, Suffocate, Confession (still my all-time favorite) and Give. We got three new songs (Without You, Snowblind, Shine), and interestingly the closer was Feel It In Your Heart. The show was fantastic, the crowd was great and singing along to everything, the band was super dialed in and interacting with everyone, especially Scooter. It was everything I wanted from this show after not seeing them for nine years, and it conjured up a lot of good memories of seeing Cold over the last 20 years!
Everyone’s the Devil
Remedy
Without You
No One
The Break
Suffocate
It’s All Good
When Angels Fly Away
Happens All the Time
Give
Confession
Ocean
End of the World
God’s Song
Stupid Girl
Snowblind
Shine
Just Got Wicked
Feel It in Your Heart
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08/31/2019 Sirens & Sailors, Such Gold, Nightmares (Rochester, NY @ Anthology)
By Eric | September 1, 2019 3:20 pm
Intro
Never There
Go For the Throat
The Chosen One
I’m Not Sorry [Live Debut]
Undefeated
Chorus of the Dead
Straightjacket
You and Die
Mirror for My Medusa
Encore:
Fear No Evil
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