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22 from ’22: The albums that Rawked Rock And Roll Fables in 2022

20 December 2022 By jesse 1 Comment

Maybe in 2030 we’ll stop doing these lists featuring a number corresponding to the given year and make it a little easier for us but for now we’re still finding it hard to whittle down the artists and albums that kicked ass for us so if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it, y’know? And 2022 delivered yet again!

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: 96 Bitter Beings, Abrams, Atomic Fire, Bad Omens, Bait, BESVÄRJELSEN, Blood On The Dance Floor, Brandon Ashley, Bush, Caitlin Stokes, Chasing Ghosts, Chk Chk Chk, Chris Jericho, Cool Thing Records, COP International, Corlyx, Deron Miller, Devin Townsend, Fozzy, Gavin Rossdale, He Is Legend, Immutable, In The Blind, In The Dark, Jasan Stepp, Lauren Hart, Lightwork, Logan Mader, Magnetic Eye Records, Meshuggah, Michael Webster, Nothing Is Real, Once Human, Out Of Line Music, Pelagic Records, Profiler, Razor To Wrist Records, Rich Ward, Rock And Roll Fables, Scar Weaver, Sea Change, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Small Stone Records, SOM, Stabbing Westward, Sumerian Records, Tears For Fears, The Death Of Peace Of Mind, The Endorphins, The Mysterines, The Shape Of Everything, The Tipping Point, This Sceptred Veil, Underoath

Boston! Combichrist loves you. Now die! (Live at Paradise, 4/8/14)

24 July 2014 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Editor’s note: Running a blog by yourself can be hard. Especially coming up with new content to compete with every other Tom, Dick, & Jane out there. Sometimes you can’t cover everything you want and in some cases, by the time you get around to covering something you really, really want to time and relevancy pass you by.

This was the case with a write-up I started on Combichrist’s Boston stop of the “We Love You” tour in April of this year. Life just got in the way. I covered the album release in advance along with “From My Cold Dead Hands” before that but by the time I got to finishing this piece, the first leg of the tour was just about done and I felt the late show review was irrelevant.

But I digress.

Yesterday Combichrist announced the second North American leg of the “We Love You” tour (No MA date. Obviously because I didn’t post my piece!) with openers Blood On The Dance Floor as direct support. If you know the history of the allegations about this band and its front “person” then you can imagine the uproar it caused from longtime supporters of Combichrist. In a bold move and a rare show of integrity in this day and age, Combichrist listened to you and subsequently released this statement on Facebook.

I was a fan of the band before but a move like this guarantees I’ll be a fan for life along with countless others already in their legion. As a “thanks”, I felt it was appropriate to share what fans will bear witness to this fall with my account of the show back in April. If you thought Combichrist showed balls yesterday, just wait ’til you see them live:

“For a band that makes hyper aggressive industrial music like Combichrist, the band were anything but on Tuesday evening at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club. They were quite the opposite, actually, as smiles were shining from ear to ear despite chants of “Hate! Dishonor! Love Destroy!” Combichrist having fun as a band? How very un-industrial!   Appearances by Unearth’s Ken Susi during “Follow The Trail Of Blood” and Nick from support act  New Year’s Day (who got “hazed” during encore “What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?”) only added to the fun vibe. Joe Letz proved to be a real monster behind the kit bringing to mind the Ginger Fish poundings on Antichrist Superstar but less mechanical, more maniacal. Andy LaPlegua is the definitive front man commanding the audience from the second his masked lit up face makes an appearance during “We Were Made To Love You”. And who doesn’t love a good reprise? That’s right, kiddies, Combichrist brought it back to the beginning as a chant of “Hate! Dishonor! Love! Destroy!” reared its’ ugly little industrial head at the tail end of closer “Sent To Destroy”.”

All in all, a show not to be missed and one which I can only imagine will be ten times greater when they return stateside this fall.

Catch Combichrist on the second Blood On The Dance Floor-less leg of The “We Love You” tour here, We Love You is, of course, is out now through Metropolis Records.

Now die.

Filed Under: Live Shows, Music, New Releases Tagged With: Andy LaPlegua, Another Reybee Production, Blood On The Dance Floor, Combichrist, Joe Letz, Ken Susi, Paradise Rock Club, The We Love You Tour, Unearth, We Love You

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