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As It Turns Out, As I Lay Dying Put On A Good Live Show

Filed Under: Live, Video

Aug.25, 2010

As some of you may remember, I said As I Lay Dying‘s new album The Powerless Rise was their best so far, and I still stand by that statement. It also seems that I’m one of the few who thought The Cool Tour had a (for the most part) good lineup. AILD, BTBAM, Architects, and Cancer Bats on one bill? That is indeed very cool.

The point I’m getting at is that high quality performance footage for their song “Anodyne Sea” that was shot during The Cool Tour has been posted online. That is awesome, especially seeing as how the footage wasn’t overdubbed with the studio track; it’s an official and hi-def pro-shot live music video. The best part about that fact is that AILD are actually pretty damn good as a live band. Who knew!? Give the video a look-see below.

- JR

Tags: Architects, As I Lay Dying, Between The Buried and Me, Cancer Bats, The Cool Tour

Thrash and Burn Tour 2010: A Big Mess

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

May.31, 2010

2010 hasn’t exactly been kind to us. It took away James “The Rev” Sullivan, Peter Steele, Ronnie James Dio, and Paul Grey. Not only have the tragic passing of our heroes made this year one giant let down so far, some circles are calling 2010 “The Year The Festival Died,” and this year’s iteration of the Thrash And Burn Tour sort of provides evidence to the claim.

The lineup consists of headliners Asking Alexandria (wat?!) and Born of Osiris. Support comes in the way off Kittie, Stick To Your Guns, Impending Doom, Through The Eyes Of The Dead (for the first half of the tour), Evergreen Terrace (for the second half), Greeley Estates, Periphery, Motionless In White, and Chelsea Grin.

Fuck me sideways, that would be terrible. I’m not going to speak for the rest of the writers here, but I like Born of Osiris, and Periphery’s debut album is probably my favorite album of the year so far–but I’m not gonna drive for four hours to see Periphery play for fifteen minutes and sit through two or three hours of deathcore and bland metalcore to see them and BOO perform. If I already lived in a city the tour was coming to, I’d might consider going. But they aren’t.

Here are the tour dates:

Jul. 16 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners
Jul. 17 – Nashville, TN @ Rockettown
Jul. 18 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
Jul. 19 – Indianapolis, IN @ Emerson Theatre
Jul. 21 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
Jul. 22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
Jul. 23 – Las Vegas, NV @ Rock The Block
Jul. 24 – San Diego, CA @ Soma
Jul. 25 – Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse
Jul. 26 – Fresno, CA @ The Crest Theatre
Jul. 27 – Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
Jul. 28 – Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Theatre
Jul. 30 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
Jul. 31 – Lubbock, TX @ Lonestar Event Center
Aug. 01 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
Aug. 02 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
Aug. 03 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
Aug. 05 – Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
Aug. 06 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Aug. 07 – Richmond, VA @ Hat Factory
Aug. 08 – Long Island, NY @ Crazy Donkey
Aug. 09 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony
Aug. 10 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
Aug. 11 – Buffalo, NY @ Xtreme Wheels
Aug. 12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Ches Arena
Aug. 13 – Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
Aug. 14 – Detroit, MI @ Harpos
Aug. 15 – Chicago, IL @ Metro