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Red Acoustic Tour Pittsburgh Show Review

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On February 8th the Crafthouse bar and grille in Pittsburgh hosted one of the 14 dates on this limited and very special tour. The acoustic tour. Keith Wallen of Breaking Benjamin fame opened the evening. Keith has also performed with Adelitus way and has written songs with Brian ‘Head’ Welch’s of Korn fame with his solo band Love and Death. He has also written saving abel and Pennsylvania natives Fuel.
The 8 song acoustic set covered 5 songs from his latest solo album, This world or the next, 2 former singles and his unique and chill Roxette Cover of the Look. Wallens vocal range peaked and grabbed the audience attention when he performed wildfire. The crowd was all in after that. He closed with Dream Away, (reached #32 on the rock charts) and his most played song on spotify. Not as hard hitting as the recorded version but a beautiful rendition on acoustic and showcasing the vocal power of this one man show. Do not miss the opportunity to see Keith solo or with Breaking Benjamin going on tour this summer with Seether, starset and Lacey sturm.


After a short intermission the Headling Christian Rock band and fellow western Pennsylvania natives hit the stage with candles and the color Red coming down from above. Twin Brothers Randy (Bass) and Anthony Armstrong (guitar) along with vocalist Micheal Barnes started this band in Linesville Pa Just 90 miles north of Pittsburgh. In 2002 they relocated the band to Nashville and have written 9 studio albums with several different drummers and guitarist. In 2006 their single Breathe into me reached Gold status and was nominated for and won christian rock album and song of the year. In 2011 the band Red appeared on Connan O’Brien and Jay leno. Now with a million monthly listeners on spotify and as many followers on Facebook this band has a solid following that fied the venue and was singing along to every song. On this acoustic tour they stripped down the heavy tones of the electric guitar for acoustics. Fill in drummer Brian Medeivos and Guitarist Lucio Rubino joined Red on this tour for a full sound. Michael’s vocals cut threw everysong beautiful and is another great vocalist who in my opinion may not get enough credit for his range of singing and occasional screams. Not as intense as regular Red tours but the intimacy of this tour and the songs being stripped down was a unique and awesome experience for the Red Fans who have been coming to their shows for 20 years now. The band played 15 songs from 4 of their 9 albums. 2011’s untill we have faces had the most songs performed on this tour. At one point the band left Micheal and Anthony on stage to perform a very personal version of Pieces from the 2006 end of silence album. The rest of the band returned and performed a beautiful cover of another Pennsylvania band, Fuel. Red made Hemorrhage their own. It was a fantastic cover with Micheal killing it on vocals again. Keith Wallen came returned to the stage and swapped vocals on the dong Sever. In between songs Randy would tell stories about the past 20 years and being from western Pennsylvania. The band ended the night with everyone singing along to Breathe into me. This show was worth every dollar. As a fan of Red I will continue to urge people to go to a Red show. They really are incredible

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

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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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Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”

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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” 

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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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