Kerrang! Concert Review!
So I was GOING to post this in the show review section, but I guess that's kinda more for OUR reviews, and this is kinda more "official"? Anyway, here's what they had to say:
Papa Roach
Plus: Madina Lake, Heaven's Basement
Rock City, Nottingham
07.10.09
KKK/ KKKKK
Had you bought Papa Roach's breakthrough album Infest, in 2000, and then taken up residence under a rock for the rest of the decade, it's doubtful you'd even recognise the band playing tonight. This Papa Roach, all black garb, shock hair and tattoos, are closer to Motley Crue than anything you'd associate with their nu metal roots. It means one of two things: that Papa Roach have rediscovered the music they loved as kids, or that they're doing whatever it takes to avoid the fate of Alien Ant Farm.
Opener's Heaven Basement, who attack with their usual abandon, lips curled and guitars set to kill, are excellent. Madina Lake, meanwhile could virtually have co-headlined. Their set is accompanied by near constant screams ad the understandably gleeful looking pop-rockers tear into Never Take Us Alive, a song florid with melody that wastes no time in making its point. The only downside to Madina Lake’s performance is a somewhat muddy sound.
The Opener's Heaven Basement, who attack with their usual abandon, lips curled of 2009 is a lean, effective rock band led by an interestingly demented looking Jacoby Shaddix, whose redline energy and bug-eyed exuberance make him an entertaining frontman. Wherever you are in the venue, Jacoby makes you feel like he’s watching you, that you’re part of this whether you like it or not. But in a weird Invasion Of The Body Snatchers-type process, however, the frontman appears to be gradually morphing into Nikki Sixx. Bouncing from old school rap-metal Dead Cell to Nickelback-ish radio fodder Had Enough, there is something about their wild evolution that just doesn’t sit right. When it comes to the crunch, they can deliver as well as most headliners. But how much of it do they generally mean?
Opinions?
I think the remarks made about them possibly not having any meaning in their performances is total bullshit! And cimparing them to Nickelback?..I like the ML review though haha. I do think a three K review is DEFINITELY not enough. The gig was amazing!
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"I don't want a life of agony,
I won't be another tragedy,
And close my eyes while everything burns".
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