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Lacuna Coil live review Baltimore MD 2016

Published

9 years ago

May 27, 2016

Ron

Lacuna Coil live review Baltimore MD 2016

RAMSHEAD LIVE BALTIMORE MAY 23^rd 2016
By Ron Senyo

When you combine beautiful, dark, and eerie with depression, anger, love and compassion, then you have Lacuna Coil. Lacuna Coil has been a band for nearly 20 years. They have a total of eight albums, the latest being released on May 27^th. Lacuna Coil is fronted by the gorgeous and vocally talented Christina Scabbia and the charismatic and vocally gifted Andrea “Andy” Ferro.

Lacuna Coil came to The Ramshead in Baltimore to deliver a show that you will remember for a lifetime. This band loves their fans and the fans reciprocate that love. Every member plays to the crowd, during their set both vocalist walk to the edge of the stage to shake hands and bump fists multiple time to build that bond between fan and musician. Bassist, Marco Zelati was handing picks to the crowd and at one time flung a few dozen of them into the crowd.

During the show at Ramshead they played a long and amazing set, with most of the songs coming from the last album to be released Broken Crown Halo and Dark Adrenaline. The rest of the set was an even mix of their previous albums. They also played two songs from the new album Delirium. Lacuna Coil kicked off the night with “Nothing Stands in our Way”, which is the perfect song to start the show and makes a clear and bold statement that Lacuna Coil is here and you better be ready.
As the set progressed they began mixing one older song with one new. They ripped through “Die and Rise,” “Kill The Light,” “Victims”, and “Spellbound” which is always a crowd pleaser. When you see all the fans singing along with the band you know you are doing something right.

They jumped into the first track to be released off the new album “The House of Shame”, this song has been described by the band as a perfect example of what to expect from the new album. This track is brutal and very hard, yet still has that Lacuna Coil sound. The band launched into “Heaven’s A Lie” one of the bands most popular songs, got the crowd into more of a frenzy. I believe this is my favorite song from Lacuna Coil. I love the sound and the way both vocals work together.

As the set was winding down they played “Enjoy the Silence” originally by Depeche Mode, but Lacuna Coil nail this cover and put their own mark on it. Christina asked the crowd to help by singing along and of course the crowd obliged. As the finished the Depeche Mode Cover, the stage fell silent and the band exit the stage. After a few moments they returned to preform three more songs as their encore. The did “Trip In The Darkness,” “Zombies,” and ended the night perfectly with “Our Truth”. Making the crowd lose themselves one more time for the night, banging heads and jumping up with every bit of energy they had left.

Following the show Lacuna Coil went to the merch. table and signed autographs for the fans, solidifying that this band is here for the fans and knows that without them they couldn’t do this. You could see the honestly and how genuine they are to their fans.

I have seen Lacuna Coil many, many times since the release of Comalies. They have never disapointed and always put on an amazing show. I’ve always had a soft spot for this band because I lived in Italy for 4 ½ years and just love everything about the culture, the accents, and the humble nature of this band. If you’re into having a good time at a show, you need to see this Lacuna Coil.

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Ron has keen eye for new talent, a love for the underground, and a tremendous passion for music of any genera. You’ll probably bump into him at a horror convention or some seedy club checking out the next need-to-know band.

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W.A.S.P. Album One Alive 2024 US Tour

Published

4 months ago

August 21, 2024

Josh Drespling

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 WASPnati on.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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Josh is the Publisher and creator of Empire Extreme and it’s sister publication Kingdom Extreme Magazine. He is an accomplished writer, photographer and graphic designer. He is always conjuring up new ideas and has a amazing passion for the music industry and all the things that surround it.

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CD Reviews

Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”

Published

7 months ago

May 20, 2024

Ron

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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CD Reviews

Ashes to Omens “Feed Me More”

Published

8 months ago

May 8, 2024

Ron

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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