Why I’ll be at Pedal to the Metal at MetroCentre and how to win free CD
July 24th, 2009 at 09:59am Georgette Braun
My general interest in heavy metal music has been waning, maybe because I’m finally admitting to getting older and less energized by the genre.
But because I’ve never seen Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society in concert, I decided to buy a ticket to see the band and others Aug. 8 at the MetroCentre. Granted, I’ll be away from the madding crowd on the floor. My daughter and her boyfriend and I will check out the goings-on from a suite with a dozen other people. So, we’ll enjoy the show without being jostled — to put it mildly — about.
(Zakk Wylde, photo at gibson.com)
Anywho, the lineup includes headliner Mudvayne, whom I saw at Ozzfest several years ago. I dig them, too. Static X, whom I saw at Ozzfest and again maybe five years ago at Forest Hills Lodge in Loves Park, is one of my faves. You can almost boogey to their hard riffs.
Oh, in case you hadn’t heard, Chicago-based Dope dropped off the lineup. The band didn’t provide an explanation to the MetroCentre. I saw Dope once in Chicago.
I haven’t seen the rest of the bands, nor had I even heard of them until the concert was announced. They are: Suicide Silence, Hellzapoppin and Bury Your Dead. Bury Your Dead’s publicity people sent me five copies of the death metal/black metal/hardcore punk band’s “It’s Nothing Personal” CD to give away. I’m keeping one, but I’m giving four away.
Here’s how to get one: Tell me in the comments section here by 5 p.m. Aug. 3 why you like heavy metal music. I’ll pick the four comments I like best and let you know via my blog and e-mail if you’re a winner.
And if you want to “review” the concert by posting your comments online after the show, be watching at go.rrstar.com for a thread to do so.
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9 Comments Add your own
1. hokumboy | July 26th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I’m game.
I like Heavy Metal Music because:
it makes my taste in music even classier than it already is.
p.s.
if I win I have some head-banger neighbors who’d love it if I gave them the CD
2. andi | July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I love the shrieking guitar solos. The double bass drum beats. The lyrics on topics that most bans wouldn’t touch or are afraid of. There is an emotional base that only Metal taps into, anger, fantasy, fear, destruction, insanity all tied up with an amazing guitar and knee wobbling metal growls.
What’s not to love.
3. Georgette Braun | July 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Readingeagle.com reviews the Tuesday Pedal show, and tells about Hellzapoppin, which isn’t a band, but a sideshow:
“The Hellzapoppin sideshow revue composed of barely clad sword swallowers, men who shove sharp instruments through deep tissue and a man who balances a ball on his body in ways that defy gravity added the finishing touch of weirdness to the night.”
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=150184
4. CJohnson | July 31st, 2009 at 9:55 am
I don’t like heavy metal - I guess it’s my age.
However, did you know Matt McDonough, drummer for Mudvayne was born and grew up in Rockford.
5. Evan York | July 31st, 2009 at 12:58 pm
There are many reasons why I am a metalhead. Heres a list.
1.) Metal is much more artistic than other forms of music, barring Jazz and Classical. Metal has always been unrestrained art form. the artistic value of Darkthrone and Sunn o))) has never been met by any art rock bands, who are all wrapped up in there pretensions and unable to make a good statement. All art needs to have a point, an excellent idea, and art rock bands almost never have it.
2.) Metal is against what everyone else is for, and I dig that. Not just thematically, which I don’t really care about, but musically. Wheras popular music (Which in my humble opinion includes every band going to the concert, none of which i think are metal) is overproduced, whiney, uncaring, boring, and unartistic, metal is raw, energetic, fun , and artistic.
3.) Metal is a release. We go to concerts and bang our heads. we thrash. We mosh. We dress in denim and leather and spikes and bulllet belts. Why? Because life is boring and tedious and mosh pits are not.
4.) Metal is the most fun. There are no bands more fun than Venom, except maybe the Ramones.
5.) Metal is more varied than every other kind of music, barring vague terms like Avante-garde and experimental. There are absolutely zero similarities between Sunn o))) and Sir Lord Baltimore, yet both are clearly Metal.
6.) I am insanely obsessed with metal. I sleep, eat, and breath heavy metal. If thats not a good reason to like it, nothing is.
7.) Metal creates atmospheres that are amazing. from the gloomy, dark atmospheres of Black Sabbath to the raw evil of darkthrone to the epic battles of Manowar, metal ahs it all for me.
Seven being a lucky number, I’ll stop there.
6. Howard Layman | July 31st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
At the age of 7 my older couisins got me into HEAVY METAL music. While others my age were listening to kiddy music, I was jammin out to Black Sabbath, KISS, Ted Nugent, Etc. I am now 42 and HEAVY METAL is my main music. I’m a big fan checking out the local Metal bands in the surrounding area. Rock on!!!!
7. Howard | August 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
When I was 7 years old my older cousins intoduced me to Heavy Metal music. While others my age were listening to kiddie music. I was jammin ot to Black Sabbath, KISS, Ted Nugent, etc. I am now 42 years old and Heavy Metal music is still part of my life. I like checking out local Heavy Metal bands in the surrounding area. ROCK ON!!!!!!!!
8. Georgette Braun | August 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
CJohnson: Do tell more about what you know about Matt McDonough when he lived in Rockford. Vampirefreaks.com says he was born here but grew up in Peoria.
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:FhhRt0IsNdMJ:vampirefreaks.com/cult/–MuDvAyNe–+matt+mcdonough+and+mudvayne+and+rockford&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
9. Georgette Braun | August 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
Evan York, because he says “Metal is against what everyone else is for, and I dig that.”
Andi, who likes the “knee-wobbling metal growls.”
Howard Layman, who checks out local metal bands.
And hokumboy, who’s going to pay it forward by passing along a CD to a neighbor who likes metal
I’ll be emailing you all individually to let you know how to get your Bury Your Dead CD.
See some of you Saturday at the concert.
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