For those unfamiliar with the concept of “Silent Discos”, they were initially invented so festivals like Bonnaroo and Glastonbury could go on late into the AM and not get shut down due to “waking the neighbors.” Sound familiar?
In an strange last-minute cancellation, originally-scheduled grungesters Navaeh had to unfortunately cancel their opening slot for us tonight. Springing up out of the shadows to rescue their spot, however, comes ONE EYED SUICIDE!
Five year vets in the Charlottesville Metal who haven’t played out locally since maybe Outback Lodge was revving it’s engines. One Eyed Suicide joins newcomers OUR BLIND SOCIETY, and headliners AFTER COLONY for a night of ALL AGES METAL MADNESS at RANDOM ROW BOOKS.
Make sure to snag a copy of After Colony’s EP “The Collective”, since this is their Release Party. A free disc will be given to everyone who attends. Doors are at 7:30, showtime will be around 8pm. See ya soon!
It’s spastic intensity. It’s singers brandishing vocals like weaponry; their words blasting growls, melody. It’s guitar licks spiraling down down into the mayhem of rapid fire rhythm.
Since The Rose closed to the untimely unveiling of the attic once housing The Pud. Since IS quickly went WAS and silence now wafts from the dormant Outback Lodge. And since apparently, “ashes to ashes” DUST is dust, Charlottesville might have slammed its fist and shouted “DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN where can all ages rawk still be found?!?”
Gifts From Enola are going for it. And The Great Eastern is too for that matter. I remember when instrumental rock couldn’t draw a stick-figure, much less a crowd. It was too brainy, too “soundtracky” when people just wanted to be told what to think. Continue reading
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