If you've been looking for more shred in your life, you would have found it in spades at the Hawthorne Theatre on Tuesday night. The Fall of Troy , about halfway through its farewell tour, blazed through an incendiary 70+ minute set of guitar wizardry and rock star theatrics. Led by singer and guitarist Thomas Erak , the Washington state based post-hardcore power trio fed a hungry crowd of worshiping fans exactly what they have been anticipating since they found out the group would break up. With his black metal hair ever flowing, Erak sped [...]
Tapes 'N Tapes - The Iliad (live) Wenn einer einen Krieg führt, dann kann er was erzählen. Das gilt ganz besonders für die alten Griechen. Und so bastelte der gute alte Geschichtenonkel Homer 1 aus dem Trojanischen Krieg flugs ein weltbewegendes Epos: Die Ilias. In 24 Gesängen wird darin von den letzten 51 Tagen des Krieges der Griechen gegen die Trojaner erzählt. Die Handlung ist ziemlich kompliziert und verworren, meist geht es darum, dass irgendjemand wütend auf irgendjemand anderen ist. Im Mittelpunkt steht Achilleus, der mächtigste [...]
It saddens me to hear that the Fall of Troy has decided to call it quits. Although the latter half of the trio's career didn't produce any really good albums (with the exception of the final version of the Ghostship demos, Phantom on the Horizon ), the band had released what for me were some hardcore classics when I was a young lad back in high school. Their self-titled debut introduced me to the spastic, calculated side of hardcore music, showing me that even loud, catastrophic music can be reined in using unconventional song structures [...]
Twin Atlantic are about to head out on the road for their first US tour, and it's a big one! Things kick off on March 6 at House Café in Rockford, IL, and the band pretty much stay on the road for the entire course of two months. The band don't find their way to New York City until almost the very end when they play The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza on April 24. The entire lineup for Twin Altantic's tour (which will also have The Fall of Troy and Envy on the Coast [...]
Fall of Troy Doppelganger (Equal Vision, 2005) Brimming with teenage angst and engorged will self indulgence, Fall of Troy's sophomore album proves the band is talented enough to pull off both on this proggy post-hardcore juggernaut. This record is probably the biggest on the guilty pleasure of any on this list, but Fall of Troy are so incredible on Doppelganger that the pleasure far outweighs (and outranks as it were) any embarrassment. -Thistle
Almost an hour and a half of WIN! Movie reviews and bono bashing! Tracklisting: Neko Case – People Got A Lot Of Nerve The Mountain Goats – Genesis 3:23 Drive-By Truckers – Everybody Needs Love Craig Wedren – Sherlock Holmes Daddy Lion – Appearance Daylight – You're Not My Father Sole – If I Had Won Ol' Dirty Bastard = Say NO Kool Keith – Drugs Del The Funkee Homosapien – Weapon x Militiant Don Hellions – Unrequited Like The Broken Wings – Squeeze For The Pulitzer [...]
Twin Atlantic announce headline tour for the new year Plus: In-store appearances and tracklisting details for 'What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?' Acclaimed Glaswegian rock band Twin Atlantic are set to release the latest cut from their recently released 'Vivarium' mini-album on the 30th of November, in the form of "What Is Light? Where Is Laughter?" . Buy Music: Twin Atlantic [...]
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Since its inception, Mukilteo, Washington's very own progressive power trio The Fall Of Troy has attempted to blaze its own infernos of musical wizardry. Their key to success? They use different lighters each time. Each of the band's earlier albums (2005's Doppelganger and 2007's Manipulator ) offered some things unique from most other bands. This is the same case for the trio's newest slice of post-hardcore prophecy, In The Unlikely Event . The Fall Of Troy's trademark erratic guitar shredding, combined with off-tempo and brutally abrupt changes, secures these prog-rock and King Crimson descendants [...]
The Fall of Troy on Ryan's Rock Show This week's instalment of Ryan's Rock Show features The Fall of Troy . Andrew Forsman and Frank Ene discuss the band's new album "In The Unlikely Event", the recording process with producer Terry Date, and their take on fan reactions to the record. Check it out here .
Common Existence Tour pushes Thursday to a whole new level. Not many bands can perform after 12 years the same way they did at their first show. Thursday hit the New Jersey scene in 1997 and released 6 full length albums since, including their most recent album Common Existence . Although the album has been out since the band toured on the Taste of Chaos tour, any Thursday fan could agree that the Taste of Chaos tour didn't feel like a Thursday show. Common Existence Tour [...]
Congrats to the winners of last week's funny photo caption contest, each of whom will receive a copy of Revolver's all-Slayer special edition issue in the mail. The winners and their captions to the photo at right: LEGIONS:iron and steel: "Varg Vikernes is exonerated when Euronymous' real killer is revealed to be Chris Benoit." \m/Eluveitie\m/: "This is [...]
1. Headlights - "Get Going" (from their colorful and poppy new album, Wildlife out now) Download: http://www.polyvinylrecords.co m/shared/uploads/media.php?dow nload=1&folder=media&secure_fi lename=00179_Headlights-Get_Go ing-192.mp3 2. Fall of Troy - "Panic Attack!" (from their progressive new album, In The Unlikely Event out now) Download: http://media.equalvision.com/e vr159/audio/panic_attack.mp3 3. Octoberman - "Trapped In The New Scene" (raw Canadian folk [...]
A little over a week ago, the modern day prog-rock warriors The Fall Of Troy touched down upon the Bottom Lounge here in Chicago. After belting out heavier than hell tunes such as "Laces Out, Dan!", "Semi-Fiction" and their newest epic number "Panic Attack," the incendiary three piece led by guitarist/vocalist Thomas Erak blew speakers off the stage left and right. While dutifully serving as the opener for emo legends Thursday , without a question The Fall Of Troy stole the show following performances by Michigan quintet La Dispute and Louisville rockers Young Widows [...]
Proving that talent and success aren't just proven in record sales – Thursday stands among the best performance acts around. As the Jersey-based band entered the stage to a fully excited and cheering Chicago audience, front man Geoff Rickly raises his left arm in confidence. Shadowed in the darkness of the Bottom Lounge, all sit in anticipation for those first harsh and abrasive tones ("For the Workforce, Drowning") to clamp down our ears and drag the audience through an hour and a half of hell… And so begins [...]
They're our favourite young British band around at the moment and they're going on tour with Alexisonfire this autumn, they're The Ghost Of A Thousand and they have a spanking new video to celebrate all of this with. 'Knees, Toes, Teeth' is the second single to be lifted from their bloody brilliant second album, New Hopes, New Demonstrations and it's a belter. The video sees the Brightonians dressed up in black and white playing the song in a mineshaft while shit blows up [...]
Thursday has been on five labels in the past 10 years. Eyeball, then Victory, then Island, then back to Victory for a live album, then to Temporary Residence for a split EP with Envy, and now they're ... Continue reading "Incoming: Thursday at the Granada, October 2" >
I kind of get why Young Widows is hitting about a dozen dates on Thursday 's upcoming tour (also with The Fall of Troy and some other folks) - except I don't. It's like when your mom bought you that Adidas Firebird tracksuit, which slayed. Except that she also bought you a pair of Asics Ultima 81s to wear with it. You can tell she kind of got it - except she didn't. That's how I feel. But I'll still be at Headliners for it. [...]
The terrifying and somewhat dangerous Middlesbrough, UK band Drunk in Hell have put up their demo for free download. These are soaked in fury and feedback. This is a band that will kick you in the balls and laugh. Download here. Former Silver Jews frontman David Berman has written a book of cartoons called The Portable February . For some reason Drag City Records thought that was reason enough to print it up. The band [...]
The first half of 2009 has brought us a recession, due to people trying to live beyond their means, a pandemic, due to people living too close to those beyond their species and a slew of decent releases. Of those releases only one, Taking Back Sunday 's New Again , was apart the list of anticipated albums that I tacked on to the end of my Best Of 2008 review back in December. So, at this half way point, with some new information, let's take a look at a few albums that are going [...]
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