AP Tour: Miss May I, The Ghost Inside, Like Moths to Flames, The Amity Affliction & Glass Cloud

October 24, 2012 in Shows by Justine

  Last Thursday, October 18th, 2012 I had the privilege to attend the Alternative Press Tour (AP Tour). The bands performing on this tour from opener to headliner included: Glass Cloud, The Amity Affliction, Like Moths to Flames, The Ghost Inside and Miss May I. Where oh where do I even begin? I guess I will begin with the location of this show, Royale Boston Nightclub. It is a large venue that is perfect to host shows like the AP Tour. It has a dance floor directly in front of the stage where kids often get rowdy, and then around the edges of the room are chairs, tables, couches, and plenty of room to stand back from the screaming and thrashing crowd, not to mention that for guests over 21, Royale has a huge bar. The venue is large enough so you don’t feel crowded, the sound quality is great, and if you’re standing in the back of the room you can still hear the concert and see it quite well! Moving on. Glass Cloud was the opener for the AP Tour; a beginner metal core band from Virginia signed to Equal Vision Records who released their debut album, The Royal Thousand, just this year on July 10th! I’ve never seen Glass Cloud before but I was very impressed with their stage presence. They had amazing energy and really kept the crowd engaged. Next up came the Amity Affliction from Australia! This post-hardcore band just released their third album, Chasing Ghosts, on September 18th, 2012 in the United States. It debuted at number one on the Australian albums chart, a huge success for the band. Their clean vocalist, Ahren Stringer, sounded just as good, if not better than he does on their albums which doesn’t happen too often. The Amity
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Mayhem Fest Recap

August 14, 2012 in Featured, Shows by Marisa

Written by: Marisa Young Photos by: Corey Tilton  The Comcast Center in Mansfield has been home to several different types of music festivals this summer, one of them being metal-filled Rockstar’s Mayhem Fest.  Created by Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, it’s no wonder the similarities between Mayhem and Warped exist.  The main differences lie in the size—Mayhem occupying much less space— and the genres involved; Where Warped Tour focuses on varieties of alternative rock ranging from electronica and poppy rock to metalcore, Mayhem focuses in on strictly metal acts.  This year, headliners of Mayhem Fest included Slipknot, Slayer, Motörhead, and Anthrax.  Other notable acts included The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying, and Whitechapel. Joey Belladonna of Anthrax Phil Bozeman of Whitechapel On August 3rd in Mansfield, doors to Mayhem Fest opened around 1pm. Fans were allowed to wander throughout the sectioned off parking lot and picnic area where a side stage and local stage were set up.  The amphitheater didn’t open until roughly 5pm when the headliner acts were to take the stage. Metalcore acts The Devil Wears Prada (TDWP) and As I Lay Dying (AILD) performed on the side stage back-to-back, keeping the teenaged crowd satisfied. TDWP opened with “Born To Lose”, their first single off their latest album Dead Throne.  Despite the lack of enthusiasm displayed by the crowd, due to either the oppressive heat or saving their energy for later acts, TDWP plowed through oldies “Danger: Wildman” as well as tracks off their 2010 Zombie EP.  As I Lay Dying took the stage directly after, blasting the crowd with one of their heaviest tunes “Condemned” right off the bat.  The rest of AILD’s set was filled with fan favorites such as “Nothing Left” and “Confined”. Mike Hranica of The Devil Wears Prada Tim Lambesis of As
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Interview: As I Lay Dying

August 14, 2012 in Music by Marisa

Interview by: Marisa Young Photos by: Corey Tilton WRBB caught up with Josh Gilbert, bassist / vocalist of San Diego metal band As I Lay Dying at Mayhem Fest August 3rd.  Check out the interview below! Josh Gilbert You guys have been on Mayhem Fest for a while now and you only have a couple days left— Yeah it’s been almost a month, actually over a month now… What’s been the best date you’ve played so far? Well I was separating it into two best days: for the side stage the best date was Albuquerque because there was a crazy storm. The rain and wind were crazy and it tore up the stage and tore up a lot of the merch tents; we thought they were going to cancel the show.  But we were the first band to play after the storm was kind of finished, and by then people were just so amped up that the show didn’t get cancelled so the crowd just went nuts. And then on the main stage the best one was probably Chicago because, you know a lot of the time the way the amphitheaters are, I haven’t seen this one yet, but there’s…a really small pit area and a TON of seats and then there’s a lawn area. Usually we don’t get much going on in the very front because it’s people who paid more money, like the older people who came to see the bands they wanted to get real close to, and they had to pay $120 bucks for their tickets. So they’re not going to be like moshing the way our normal crowd would be. But the lawn, we always address the lawn while we’re on the stage and this specific show we do a song where we do a
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