As
The Summer Burns
Sounds
of the Underground is a true fans festival.
by Jeff Brinn / Schwegweb.com
With summer officially just around the corner music fans across
our mighty country will bore witness to one of the most furious
traveling packages ever assembled to date. Where Europe has
always seemed to be well educated in giving fans historical
festival style shows with little conscious effort the U.S.
has just never seemed to be able to pull it off with as much
sincere honesty. Well maybe now with the creation of the Sounds
of the Underground tour this just might be what brings real
underground music
Bands
Lamb of God
Clutch
Poison the Well
Opeth
From Autumn to Ashes
Unearth
Norman Jean
Every Time I Die
Chimaira
Throwdown
Strapping Young Lad
High On Fire
Madball
Terror
A Life Once Lost
All That Remains
DevilDriver
The Red Chord
Full Blown Chaos
The Black dahlia Murder (only on 6/28)
NORA (only 6/25)
With very special guests GWAR |
to the next level in the United States. A real meat and potatoes
style festival that fans so rightly have deserved is what
this festival is hoping to accomplish and it looks like it
might just have a damn good chance. This ominous traveling
musical circus features some of metal and hard core’s
most elite and well respected acts with out a doubt. Not only
is the mighty Lamb of God grabbing the reigns as headliner
across the states they will be joined as well by a slew of
other killer bands including Clutch, Opeth, Gwar, High on
Fire, Poison the Well, From Autumn To Ashes, Strapping Young
Lad, Chimaria, Devil Driver, and Unearth to name but just
a few. Now if that ain’t enough to please even the most
fickle underground fan what actually possibly could.
Where other touring festival style packages seem to be corporate
business ventures only concentrating on capitalizing on the
thin pockets of the youth of America Sounds of the Underground
seems very different in their purpose. They honestly seem
willing to give kids a much more bang for their buck. Low
ticket costs as well as low priced merchandise have been one
obvious attempt to present this tour as a show created honestly
for the fans and this really seems to be perfect timing. We
can only hope that with these lower priced incentives that
the $10.00 pizza slices, $5.00 waters, and $7.00 beers will
as well be more price friendly then many other popular tours
that seem to only care about sucking your wallets dry.
“It’s a great tour….we’re very
proud of how it came together” Mark Morton of Lamb
of God proudly states. Lamb of God are no strangers to the
touring trenches by any means. After appearances on such
prestige’s tours as Ozzfest, Slipknot and numerous
other traveling battle fronts who better to give us a little
insight on to what can be expected then one of the new leaders
of the metal front. Lamb of God’ s Mark Morton further
assures us “ The lineup is incredibly diverse and
really features some of the best hard core and heavy metal
acts around. I think it will provide a pretty killer alternative
to some of the more corporate festivals you’re used
to seeing. With lower ticket prices and lower merchandise
it's a fan friendly festival.”
When asked about what this tour will offer fans and how
important is it for this tour to be a success Opeth vocalists/guitarists
Mikael Akerfeldt states “I guess a decent mix of some
new metal bands of today…..For us it’s not so
important. Obviously we wanna gain some  new
fans, have a blast and play to 1000’s of people. Still
we have our fans regardless of the out come of this tour.”
When asked if he felt proud to be a part of this tour Mikael
states kindly “Proud is probably not the word, I’m
intrigued to be a part of it as I think we are the most
Off the wall band on the bill. It’s going to be cool
to win a few fans over.”
Vagrant Records own From Autumn To Ashes Guitarist, Jonathan
Cox, sees things a little bit different when it comes to
the question of being proud to be apart of the tour. Jonathan
excitedly states “Of course, to be on the same bill
as Lamb of God, Gwar and Clutch, that is an honor”.
When it comes to what the Sounds of the Underground tour
has to offer for the fans, Jonathan adds, “It offers
them a chance to see the heaviest bands in the world. I
look at it as the heavy metal version of The Warped Tour.
Like I said, it’s all about heavy music and the scene
needs something like this right now. Kids need to see these
bands, they are the future of heavy music.”
As the first kick off date quickly rears its ugly head
the Sounds of the Underground festival tour actually seems
like it may work. Only time will quickly tell but if the
bands can all pull together along with the promoters this
should be one hell of a festival. So by all means get your
crusty little fingers on tickets to what will easily be
a summer tour to remember.
For more info goto www.soundsoftheundergroundtour.com
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