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(click for full-page printable poster)
GENRES
Metal
Rock
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KUFO's Metalopolis Presents The Summer Slaughter Tour
Decapitated
The Faceless
All Shall Perish
The Red Chord
Veil Of Maya
Cephalic Carnage
Decrepit Birth
Carnifex
Animals As Leaders
Vital Remains
Regiment 26
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Roseland Theater 503-224-2038
8 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR (MapQuest)
2:30pm (doors open at 2pm). All Ages.
$18.00 advance tix from TicketsWest.
$22.00 at the door.
Oakland California's, ALL SHALL PERISH, returns with their most diverse offering yet! Never one to record the same album twice, ALL SHALL PERISH has made yet another giant leap forward for themselves and the death and grind genres. Awaken the Dreamers cements the band's status as leaders in their field after 2006's milestone release, The Price of Existence, permanently secured the groups place in metal history. In a scene that is fast becoming stale ALL SHALL PERISH is here to resuscitate and breathe new life into a genre full of fly by night successes.
Death metal and technical grind have an interesting way of co-existing. While each genre shares characteristics with the other it would seem that many bands would rather stay narrow in scope and keep the two as oil and water. Formed with the intent of not being labeled with the restricting monikers of "death metal", "hardcore" or "metalcore,"ALL SHALL PERISH blasted onto the bay area scene in 2002 playing every kind of show imaginable. After recording a self titled 3 song demo, the Japanese label Amputated Vein Records released their first full length album Hate.Malice.Revenge (2003). After a ton of underground D.I.Y. touring, the band signed a world wide deal with Nuclear Blast records in December of 2004. Nuclear Blast rereleased Hate.Malice.Revenge in early '05 and ALL SHALL PERISH spent the rest of 2005 touring and writing their second record. Successful tours with the likes of SIX FEET UNDER, AS I LAY DYING, BLEEDING THROUGH, BRUJERIA, DYING FETUS and DIECAST all helped expose the band to a new and diverse audience.
Ever since then, ALL SHALL PERISH have been re-defining the death and grind genres with vibrant ideas and unrelenting delivery. Giving us brutal music that possesses a natural need to experiment and push the boundaries of the extreme underground. While Hate.Malice.Revenge. quickly gave the band a name throughout the underground, it was their second offering, The Price Of Existence, that turned the death metal and underground hordes on their collective ear. The release earned them the reputation of being one of the best young extreme acts from the United States in this new millennium. Tours with such genre leaders as AGNOSTIC FRONT, HATE ETERNAL, RED CHORD, DESPISED ICON, SUICIDE SILENCE, ARSIS and THE FACELESS would follow. Soon the band set their sites on writing a new record and just one question was on everyone's mind; could they possibly top The Price of Existence?
Jump to present day and the answer is obviously a resounding, YES THEY CAN! Awaken the Dreamers was produced and mixed once again by Zach Ohren (DECREPIT BIRTH, ODIOUS MORTEM, LIGHT THIS CITY), capturing the unbridled energy of their live shows more effectively than ever. There's even a face melting guitar solo from guitar hero Rusty Cooley on the track "From So Far Away." Vocalist Hernan Hermida proves once again why he was choosen as the bands vocalist, showcasing his earth shattering range and giving the performance of his career. Lead guitarist Chris Strorey seems to have single handedly brought melodic and shred guitar to the genre, much as James Murphy (DEATH, OBITUARY) did for traditional death metal in the early 90's. Ben Orum shows why he is one of metals most talented riff writers today, going from super technical riffing to the most gut wrenching groove imaginable. Powerhouse drummer Matt Kuykendall is no slouch either and will soon be ranked among extreme metal's elite players.
In short, ALL SHALL PERISH has proven with Awaken the Dreamers that they are no trend, and can only most accurately be described as trend setters.
"The unsettling touch of a gnarled chapped hand tugs at my wrist. A shiver of uneasiness surges through my body that is almost enough to mask the nauseating aroma that surrounds him. "Hey Mister. Got a cigarette?" I quickly pull my arm away as small black insect crawls from his sleeve and falls to ground. My imagination is flying. What happened here? How did it come to be this way? And there are millions just like him. We are all just like him. We are all clients." Taken from a passage in Clients
Forming five years ago, The Red Chord is a grind-hardcore band from the north shore area of Massachusetts whose collective goal is to push the extremes of aggressive music and to combine the best aspects of the hardcore, death, grind and metal genres. The Red Chord quickly became one of the most talked about bands in the underground and after 400+ shows across 14 countries for their first release, Fused Together In Revolving Doors, and moving approximately 25,000 CD's worldwide, The Red Chord finally found a label they wanted to call home and signed to Metal Blade Records Inc in 2004. The Red Chord then found drummer Brad Fickeisen and began to finalize new material for the debut release on Metal Blade Records.
Since the release of Fused Together in Revolving Doors, The Red Chord has been cited as one of the most influential crossover bands of the hardcore, grind and metal genres. From the time when Clients was released in May 2005, they have been referenced, featured or reviewed in the majority of pertinent music periodicals including Revolver, AP, Terrorizer, Decibel, Metal Maniacs, Hit Parader, and Outburn as well as life style mags like Wonka Vision, Chord, Impose, and Synthesis. The Red Chord has also been part of some of the best tours and festivals of 2005 including Sounds of the Underground, The New England Hardcore & Metal Fest, Every Time I Die, The Black Dahlia Murder, Converge, Hatebreed, Darkest Hour, and Between The Buried and Me. 2006 looks to be The Red Chord's biggest year yet with a secured spot on Ozzfest's infamous second stage and Clients making huge waves among music critics and fans alike being dubbed one of the most dynamic and poignant albums of the year!
So what should fans of The Red Chord's previous work expect? "It's a very different album than Fused Together in Revolving Doors. I personally think it's a lot heavier and angrier, but we'll let you judge for yourself," states vocalist Guy Kozowyk. To say Clients is thought provoking is a mere understatement as it forces you look at society's unfortunates and wonder how they became the way they did. Fans as well as fellow musicians have been waiting quite some time for the follow up to the bands highly successful Fused Together in Revolving Doors making Clients one of the most anticipated releases of 2005 and this album will in no way let anyone down. In order to capture the pure brutality of the music The Red Chord decided to record at the infamous Planet Z with engineer/producer Zeuss (Hatebreed & Shadows Fall) securing Clients as one of the heaviest releases of 2005. To accompany the massive and fierce sound of the album renowned artist Paul Romano, known for his work with bands like Mastodon, Nasum, Godflesh, and Dead To Fall, was brought on board to handle all the aspects of the artwork, which include portraits of each "client" mentioned in the album.
Highlighted on "AP's List of 100 Hundred Bands to Save You From Corporate Rock
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