Kill The Music dropped by Architects and letlive.s tour date in Orlando last Friday. To read the show review check below.
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The series "Renditions" puts letlive.'s album, "The Blackest Beautiful" in a whole new perspective for fans. In each installment of the series, the band enlists an artist to be featured in a track of the 2013 album, to open the minds of those listening. The first installment released was "27 Club" featuring Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die.
The second installment of the "Renditions" series, released today, features Dan "Soupy" Campbell of The Wonder Years, on the track "The Dope Beat"
I started this show with high expectations hoping that every band would hit it off. I felt there were more emotion from the crowd then the bands themselves. Even though it was the last few days of the tour, they should still have some energy to put on the same performance as the first few shows. I have seen all of these bands before and it just was not the same this time.
Letlive was the opening band and I had really high expectations for them for seeing them at Vans Warped Tour 2013. Quite disappointing. I paid to see a show not some monkey jumping around for a half an hour. Letlive will be coming back to Portland in May with Architects in a smaller venue and maybe Jason will feel the need to actually perform. Letlive is a humble band, but the performance was poor and the crowd was not happy with them during the show. On another note Jason does NOT care about the venues rules or anything. Jumping on PA systems and the venues sound equipment isn’t just unsafe, but can damage them. I will be surprised if letlive in a few years can even get shows in a decent venue since venues will be put up with his shit.
Issues was the only band on this tour that actually put in energy to their show and made it entertaining. I was not a huge fan of Issues until after they played. They put on an awesome show while entertaining the fans. The crowd had more of an reaction towards them compared to the other bands. They put in the same energy compared to the show they played in November with Sleeping with Sirens and Our Last Night. Issues will never let down their fans.
This was the fourth time I have seen Of Mice & Men. Since I have seen their stage performance before I had REALLY high expectations for their set. Disappointed. Since they have got their new vocalist, Aaron Pauley they have only played new songs off Restoring Force. The new album does not have the heart and the backbone of old Of Mice. It makes you wonder if another band got suckered in the music industry and will slowly deplete their talent. Why is Of mice & men using 7 strings when they are still an over rated Post hardcore band. If they wanted to become a heavy metal band, get rid of the cleans and up those screams Carlile. There is NO reason for a band like this to use 7 strings. The show they put on was disappointing.
The headliner, Bring me the horizon actually surprised me. Not with their stage presence but with the stage effects. They made use of the stage with a second stage set up for their keyboardist and Drummer. They interacted with the fans and Oliver Sykes actually didn’t sound like shit with his vocals this time. I only stayed for four songs but the crowd was enjoying them and they put on a hell of a show. Their setlist was disappointing with mostly only playing their new stuff. The actually show performance from them was disappointing only because I saw the crowd singing more then Oliver Sykes himself.
Yes, I realize this review is late. My photographer never got their pictures back to me to use for this.
The first night of the American Dream Tour was tonight in Orlando, Florida. letlive's setlist is below
BMTH announced that they will be heading out to do a headline tour of the US in February 2014! Of Mice & Men will be support on all dates, while letlive and Issues will be the openers. Tickets will go on sale this Friday. View all the dates and the tour announcement video below
2/03 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza ‘Live’ Theater
2/04 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
2/05 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
2/06 Jacksonville, FL @ Brewster’s Megaplex
2/08 Mexico City, DF @ Jose Cuervo Salon
2/10 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theater
2/11 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
2/12 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
2/13 Denver, CO @ The Ogden
2/14 Kansas City, MO @ Uptown
2/15 Sauget, IL @ Pops
2/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
2/18 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
2/21 Plymouth MI @ Compuware Arena
2/22 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
2/24 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
2/27 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
2/28 New York, NY @ Best Buy
3/02 Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory
3/03 Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Springs
3/04 Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate
3/06 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
3/07 Nashville, TN @ War Memorial Auditorium
3/08 Memphis, TN @ New Daisy
3/10 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
3/11 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
3/12 Mission, TX @ Las Palmas Race Park
3/13 San Antonio TX @ Backstage Live
3/14 Austin TX @ SXSW
3/15 Grand Prairie, TX @ Quik Trip Park
3/16 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
3/18 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
3/21 San Francisco, CA @ Regency Grand Ballroom
3/24 Seattle, WA @ Showbox at the Market
3/25 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theater
3/26 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
3/28 San Diego, CA @ Soma
Every Time I Die announces US tour with letlive & Code Orange Kids. It’ll be the last tour of the Ex-Lives album cycle. Dates/cities are below
11/21 Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class
11/22 Columbus, OH – The Basement
11/23 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
11/24 Chicago, IL – Reggies Live
11/25 Des Moines, IA – The Vaudeville Mews
11/26 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
11/27 Columbia, MO – Mojos
11/29 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
11/30 Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
12/03 Los Angeles, CA – Roxy Theatre
12/04 Camarillo, CA – Rock City
12/05 Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
12/06 La Jolla, CA – Che Cafe
12/07 Scottsdale, AZ – Pub Rock
12/09 Lubbock, TX – Jakes Sports Cafe
12/10 Oklahoma City, OK – The Conservatory
12/11 Springfield, MO – Outland Ballroom
12/12 St Louis, MO – Firebird
12/13 Indianapolis, IN – Emerson Theatre
12/14 Huntington, WV – V Club Live
12/15 Lancaster, PA – Lancaster County Convention Center
12/16 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
12/17 Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Lanes
12/18 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
12/19 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street
12/20 Buffalo, NY – Waiting Room
12/21 Buffalo, NY – Waiting Room
Stray From the Path are known for their Hardcore Punk sound, but their seventh studio album is their most mature and hard-hitting release yet, only paving way for further excellent future releases.
Anonymous kick-starts its aggressive assault on the senses with the ball-gripping ‘False Flag’. Taking you from the get-go, it attacks you with furious power and grips you, never letting you go. Furious Punk Metal inspired guitar riffs and face-smashing drumming is only filled together by the consistent, ever-present bass-lines that fill the track. Drew York provides you with some of the greatest Hardcore Punk vocals known to mankind. It’s one heck of an opener and the album only ever seems to get better. Moving into the second single from off the album, ‘Badge & A Bullet’ grips you with some intense stuff that just seems to pour out of the guitars and bass whilst the drums apparently just seem to get pounded. Not the fastest song on the album but filled with some great riffs and truly severe amounts of ass-kicking drumming, it is a brilliant track filled with Drew’s hard-hitting and aggressive vocal style. It also contains some great hooks that make the song
strangely catchy.
The album aggressively drives forward its fast and brutal onslaught with tracks ‘Radio’, ‘Black Friday’, ‘Tell Them I’m Not Home’ and the title track ‘Anonymous’. It feels like you’re taking a hammer to the face but yet you can’t help enjoy it as Williams provides a shed load of truly great Punk Metal riffs, filled by the ever-present bass-lines that Anthony just seems to pour. Not to forget Dan Bourke’s fast, furious beating of his drum kit as he spreads endless amounts of destruction throughout the album, making it seem so easy. And as for the vocals by Drew… they’re simply wow. Aggressive in his approach, Drew grips you from your private parts and pounds your face in with the astonishing force that his vocals provide. You can’t help but smile as he screams and shouts catchy hook after catchy hook, controversial line after controversial line directly into your face. Everything in this album is great and not one track can be considered for even being slightly weak. All of them powerful and dealing with strong lyrical subjects such as politics, freedom and friendship (may not seems strong but Drew makes sure that it is), you can’t argue with the power of the album.
Not to forget the great ending to the albums other single, ‘Landmines’, which leads into the final track (the album’s title track) of the album. Along with the great amount of power, aggression and force that the album portrays, it is apparent that a lot of thought has gone into the production of the album. Production is often over-looked when people listen to music but yet it is more important than the songs themselves. Seeming as production is about how the track/album is mixed and the audio quality of the tracks, it is highly important. Luckily, Anonymous doesn’t suffer from the bad production and is helped along with the great mix and quality of its tracks. With the production keeping the aggression in place and making everything so free-flowing and
consistent, it is time to mention the two guest vocal contributions on the album.
As mentioned before, there are two appearances on the album and they come from Jesse Barnett (Stick To Your Guns) and Jason Aalon Butler (letlive). Jesse is featured on the third track on the album, ‘Radio’ and Butler makes his appearance on the albums fourth track entitled ‘Scissor Hands’. The contributions on the album are easy to spot and help add a bloody good punch to the tracks. The appearances are something which people can enjoy and adds a little more to the album as a whole. It is safe to say then, that this album is downright bloody great.
Stray From the Path have crafted a Hardcore Punk Metal masterpiece here with Anonymous. Fast, aggressive, consistent, intense and gripping, it is an album that grabs you from the start and only intensifies as it progresses, letting go of its grip at the end but making sure that it still remains within your head. Featuring ground breaking drumming, intense and consistently aggressive guitars, supportive, ever-present bass-lines and ferocious, intense and head-crushing amounts of vocal power, Anonymous is an album rammed to the brim with awesomeness. This is like a modern day Rage Against the Machine album only more aggressive.
This is an album that feels like it is what Violent Delight could have done if they progressed with their career. Yet this is somehow more than just that too. This is more than just your usual modern day album. It is a downright statement on what our world has become that will grip you with every bass drum beat (which there is a lot of!) for months on end. It will make you think, it will make you want to rebel, it will even make you want to just destroy stuff and break everything within your sight. But yet in a good way. This is pure, relentless aggression and is the bans finest effort to date. This is an album that is as powerful as it is enjoyable.
This isn’t considered being just the one of the best albums so far this year because it IS the best album so far this year. It beats Black Sabbath, Asking Alexandria, Megadeth, DevilDriver and
Avenged Sevenfold by a pretty longshot. If you want something aggressive, something that has meaning and something that is downright bloody amazing to listen to, then pick this up. I must admit, it isn’t something everyone is going to enjoy but it is like that with every album. So be sure to check out one of the singles first (either ‘Landmines’ or ‘Badge & A Bullet’) but if you like what you hear then you must pick this up. If you like Punk, listen to this. If you like Hardcore, listen to this. Screw it, if you just like Metal than give this a listen because it is guaranteed that you’ll like something about this. Astonishing, powerful and beautiful, all at once. The best album so far this year. Give it a try.
10/10
- Asa
Stray From the Path have premiered a new song from their upcoming record Anonymous, called “False Flag”, which you can listen to below along with the tracklist.
01 – “False Flag”
02 - “Badge And A Bullet”
03 – “Radio” (Feat. Jesse Barnett from STYG)
04 – “Scissor Hands” (Feat. Jason Aalon from letlive)
05 – “Black Friday”
06 – “Counting Sheep”
07 – “Slice Of Life”
08 – “Tell Them I’m Not Home”
09 – “Landmines”
10 – “Anonymous“
THE CHARIOT announced their decision to call it a day last week in a highly viral YouTube video titled, “All’s Well That Ends Well.” The band announced the news via their social media outlets causing the video to quickly rack up over 100,000 views. Founding member and frontman Josh Scogin offers his own words:
"Having enjoyed 10 wonderful years of playing shows, it just feels like the right time to cross that finish line. The Chariot was never put on this earth to "overstay our welcome." I believe we did exactly what we came to do, and now it is time to move onward. Thank you."
The band will do one last farewell tour, which is set to span October 10 through November 16. Additional acts playing the farewell tour include Glass Cloud, Rebuker, Birds In Row and To The Wind
10/10/13 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern*
10/11/13 Charlotte, NC - Milestone*
10/12/13 Greensboro, NC - Greene Street*
10/15/13 New York, NY - Santos Party House
10/16/13 Worcester, MA - Palladium (Upstairs)
10/17/13 Philadelphia, PA - The Barbary
10/18/13 Richmond, VA - Kingdom
10/19/13 Annapolis, MD - Knights of Columbus
10/20/13 Jeannette, PA - Gators
10/21/13 Buffalo, NY - Waiting Room
10/23/13 Cleveland, OH - Peabody’s
10/24/13 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme
10/25/13 Columbus OH - The Basement
10/26/13 Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
10/27/13 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
10/29/13 Denver, CO - Marquis Theater
10/30/13 Salt Lake City, UT - The Shred Shed
10/31/13 Boise, ID - The Shredder
11/1/13 Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
11/2/13 Portland, OR - Branx
11/3/13 Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk
11/4/13 San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
11/6/13 Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
11/7/13 San Diego, CA - Epicentre
11/8/13 Mesa, AZ - Underground
11/9/13 El Paso, TX - Open Gate Church
11/10/13 Dallas, TX - The Door
11/11/13 Austin, TX - Red 7
11/13/13 Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbit’s
11/14/13 Orlando, FL - The Social
11/15/13 Tampa, FL - The Orpheum
11/16/13 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
* = Chariot only