BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, ALL THAT REMAINS TO PUT ON TOUR THAT WON’T BE ATTENDED BY AXL ROSENBERG
I don’t know what to say about this tour that you wouldn’t be able to guess I’d say if you read this site on a regular basis. Black Label Society are boring and all their songs sound the same and Zakk Wylde seems to be going out of his way to prove my thirteen year-old self wrong and demonstrate that, yes, there is such a thing as too many guitar squeals. And Phil LaBonte can’t sing, and that’s a problem when half your songs require you to do just that. So, uh, yeah.
What I can tell you that I’ve never told you before is that Hail the Villain, the world’s 72-millionth Verb the Noun band, are pretty bad, too. Take, for example, their song “Runaway.” Now, this would be a fairly generic radio-friendly alt-metal song one way or the other, but it happens to be doubly offensive because it proves that Hail the Villain (who will hitherto be known as “H the V” for the sake of my developing CTS) do not know how to spell good. The spelling of the song’s title would suggest that the band is concerned about the fate of someone who has fled his or her home, but the words to the chorus are, “When I say ‘Go’/ run away, run away” — “run away,” in this instance, being two words, because you don’t “runaway” from someone, you “run away” from them.
Also, I dunno if they’re all wearing contacts in the video for the song, or if whatever is going on with their eyes was done after the fact in post-production, but either way, it’s dumb.
In any case, if you recently pledged a frat and would like to attend one of the stops on this tour, dates are after the jump, courtesy of Metal Injection. It looks like Rev Theory are playing some of these shows, too, just to make them extra-not-worthwhile.
05/04 San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
05/06 Los Angeles, CA- House Of Blues
05/07 Tucson, AZ – KFMA radio show (Black Label Society only)
05/08 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
05/10 Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
05/11 Houston, TX – House Of Blues
05/13 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
05/14 Kansas City, MO – KQRC radio show (Black Label Society only)
05/15 Des Moines, IA – KAZR radio show (Black Label Society only)
05/17 Buffalo, NY – The Town Ballroom
05/18 Wallingford, CT – The Dome at Oakdale Theatre
05/22 Columbus, OH – Rock On The Range (Black Label Society only)
05/23 London, ON – Cowboy’s
05/24 Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
05/26 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium (no All That Remains)
05/27 Madison, WI – Majestic Theater (no All That Remains)
05/28 Minneapolis, MN – 93X radio show (Black Label Society only)
05/29 Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma (Black Label Society only)
05/31 Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
With Rev Theory in place of All That Remains:
06/01 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
06/03 Atlantic City, NJ – House Of Blues
06/04 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
06/05 Richmond, VA – The National
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