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’68 Pittsburgh PA – Altar Bar
All two member of ’68 strolled onto the stage at the Altar Bar in Pittsburgh, PA. From my vantage point I could see them joking with the other bands and talking among themselves. They exchanged some laughs and comradery as they set up their equipment. The guys from Listener were there helping and joining in the banter.
Josh Scogin (formerly of The Chariot and Norma Jean) calmly strapped on his guitar and turned his mic stand to face the drum set that was perched near the front of the stage. As he tinkered with the tuning the only other member of the band took his seat behind the drums as the house lights dimmed…
The explosion of gut wrenching power and yearning that came blaring out from the stage left the uninitiated audience members with their jaws hanging open. With uncanny easy they filled the room with decadent aggression clocked in refreshing amounts of simplicity. Contrary to the typical reaction of crowds at shows of this nature, there was no mosh pit, no fist pumping, or jumping around. We all stood there admiring the sights and sound that were before us. We were all captivated in the artful expression and ferocity that sounded larger than any metalcore band playing three times the amount of instruments.
As the band wound down from the plateau of energy, Josh’s guitar was left playing an infinite looped riff from one of his peddles as he dismantled the drum set as drummer Michael McClellan continued banging away on the separate pieces before they were pulled away. (see video below)
I scanned the audience to catch their reactions. I saw amazement in their eyes and smiles on their faces. I heard “that was amazing”. “Holy fuck”, and “That just blew my mind”. I could not have said it better myself.
Check out some poor quality video from the show:
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Announcement/News
W.A.S.P. Album One Alive 2024 US Tour
Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2024) — It is 2024, and W.A.S.P. is celebrating 1984! 40 years ago, the landmark debut album from W.A.S.P. was released on August 17, 1984, and the metal world was knocked on their ass!
The W.A.S.P. “Album ONE Alive” Tour celebrates the debut album by playing the album in its entirety, from start to finish.
To give the fans something every week to celebrate W.A.S.P. is giving away…
• 10 pairs of tickets a week for the length of the US tour.
• Silver Award – Blackie is also giving away each week of the tour two personal meet and greets in his dressing room. In HIS dressing room!
• Gold Award – One lucky fan will win Blackie’s personal certified RIAA award for the debut album.
• Platinum Award – And the Grand Prize, one fan and a guest will be provided airfare and a luxury Hollywood hotel to the final show in Los Angeles, meet the band and stay for the after show, end of tour party.
W.A.S.P. can only celebrate 1984 once and they want to do it big!
To enter all you have to do is visit and enter your email address:
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It was recently announced that Armored Saint will be replacing Death Angel on the tour. W.A.S.P. issued the following statement: “W.A.S.P. is pleased to announce that Armored Saint will now be joining the “Album One Alive” Fall 2024 U.S. Tour. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Death Angel will no longer be able to be a part of this tour. We all wish them the best going forward.”
Tickets and VIP packages available at WASPnation.com/tour
THE ALBUM ONE ALIVE WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:
10/26/24 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater*
10/28/24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/29/24 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
10/30/24 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
11/01/24 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre
11/02/24 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
11/03/24 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
11/04/24 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/05/24 Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
11/07/24 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
11/08/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre
11/09/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre
11/10/24 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/11/24 Toronto, ON @ History
11/13/24 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
11/14/24 Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Capitole
11/15/24 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
11/16/24 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom At Manhattan Center
11/17/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
11/19/24 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theater
11/20/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
11/21/24 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater
11/22/24 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
11/23/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
11/24/24 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live
11/26/24 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
11/27/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
11/29/24 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
11/30/24 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre
12/01/24 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
12/03/24 Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
12/04/24 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion
12/06/24 Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL
12/07/24 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre
12/09/24 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre
12/10/24 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
12/11/24 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
12/12/24 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
12/13/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
12/14/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
* No support acts.
About W.A.S.P.
Few bands in the history of rock n roll have ever incited the love, the hate, and the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles, California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, local city councils, parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.
The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social, and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for 4 decades.
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CD Reviews
Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”
Them Damn Kings from NJ just released a new single “Shown With a Fist”.
If you like your music in your face with a touch of old school rock and roll this is the band for you. It’s got gritty vocals and pounding drums adding in some killer guitar shreds.
It’s a song that you listen to when you want to get into a bar fight or want to drive your car really fast down the highway.
It’s worth a listen, check out the lyric video below with a little bonus guitar mortal kombat shred off.
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Ashes to Omens “Feed Me More”
Ashes To Omens are a band from Georgia who’s latest single “Feed Me More” has a great sound to it. It reminds me of bands around the mid to late 2000s. They have a good mixture of sound. The song is a perfect blend of hard rock and metal with the vocals very crisp and delivered with passion.
The song “Feed Me More” has a great melody and works well with the bands style and genre of music. It also is a great title to a song because after listening to it I wanted more of the band.
Some will say that it’s very radio rock/metal and sometimes I do have issues with that but I felt that this song even though it does have that feel to it, isn’t just a radio rock song for the sake of being a radio rock song. I think this single is worth a listen to and could possibly be a track that might make your playlist.
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