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Aug 1 (Sat) - Black Pyramid, Presley [Last show ever!], The Modern Voice, Easter Bloodhounds - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA)

8/1 - Black Pyramid, Presley [LAST SHOW EVER], The Modern Voice, Easter Bloodhounds @ O'Briens in Allston

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[Jun 26,2009 12:56am - RichHorror ""]
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[Jun 26,2009 3:29pm - badsneakers ""]
yuh good
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[Jul 12,2009 7:37pm - RichHorror ""]
http://www.myspace.com/blackpyramidkills
http://www.myspace.com/presley
http://www.myspace.com/themodernvoice
http://www.myspace.com/easterbloodhounds
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[Jul 13,2009 5:29pm - RichHorror ""]

W3%20nli said:intense
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[Jul 15,2009 10:40pm - RichHorror ""]
yuh
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[Jul 16,2009 5:12pm - RichHorror ""]
Finally….Finally…FINALLY!!! SOMEBODY GETS IT!!! As a purveyor of all things doom and stoner metal, I’ll be the first to admit that the scene is waaaay overcrowded with sloppy bands that think that the key to a good doom record is lots of bong hits and playing…real…slooooooow. And then a band like Black Pyramid comes along and gives me renewed hope for the genre and for metal in general. The band’s self titled debut combines all of the best elements that you could hope for in a doom album - heavy, rhythmic, groovin’ songs that are both well written and well performed.



A power trio from the great state of Massachusetts, Black Pyramid has not only studied diligently from the great book of Black Sabbath, but from bands like Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Cathedral, and Pentagram as well. There’s definitely an old school doom vibe here that’s immediately recognizable and welcomed. Warm, analog tones and thick fuzzed out guitars are the order of the day here, enveloping the 9 songs on the disc in a smoked out embryo of heaviness. As I listened to the album (again and again), I kept feeling that the riffs, song structure and overall performance here are very Sabbathian, circa MASTER OF REALITY and VOL. 4. But the band manages to capture that classic vibe without sounding plagiaristic - and that friends, is a beautiful thing.



“Voices of Gehenna” is the first track after a brief intro, setting the mood just right. Drummer Clay Neely keeps the swinging beats going (a la Bill Ward in his prime) beneath vocalist/guitarist Andy Beresky’s bellow and bass player Gein’s low end distortion. “Mirror Messiah” could have easily been a Cathedral leftover, while “No Life King” has almost a folksy, Celtic inspired gait to it. “The Worm Ouroboros” could possibly be the spiritual successor to “Into the Void,” opening with some jazzy, wah wah drenched hooks before settling into the main groove of the song. “Wintermute” is by far my favorite cut on the disc; a little bit of “Planet Caravan” mixed with a little bit of the Obsessed’s melancholy, the tune is a gut buster that ends in a crescendo of punchy riffs.



Like the classic Sabbath albums of the day, BLACK PYRAMID will please a wide audience. Sludgy enough for the staunchest of doom stalwarts, the album has enough rockin’ in general to satisfy more mainstream fans as well. Rather than reinventing the wheel, Black Pyramid has opted to build upon an existing blueprint and make it their own. A solid debut all the way, I can’t wait to hear how the band follows this up.

http://www.metal-rules.com/review/viewreview.php?month=July&year=2009&pos=3
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[Jul 16,2009 5:26pm - badsneakers ""]
yes! very excited for this show!
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[Jul 16,2009 5:28pm - RichHorror ""]
This show is in or around bong hits.
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[Jul 19,2009 2:12pm - RichHorror ""]
top 4 smoking drugs
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[Jul 19,2009 2:23pm - markrichardsmobile  ""]
Hopefully I'll be able to get work off for this. Damn the man.
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[Jul 19,2009 2:25pm - RichHorror ""]

markrichardsmobile said:Hopefully I'll be able to stop smoking drugs long enough to go to this. Damn the pusherman.
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[Jul 19,2009 2:26pm - markrichardsmobile  ""]
Yeah that's more like it. I need to stop lying to myself. :(
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[Jul 21,2009 7:51pm - RichHorror ""]
grav hits khed
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[Jul 22,2009 10:52am - RichHorror ""]

quintessence said:This show will fucking rule.
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[Jul 22,2009 2:42pm - RichHorror ""]
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[Jul 22,2009 2:48pm - SkinSandwich ""]
So, I see you have a few shows going on.
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[Jul 22,2009 2:55pm - RichHorror ""]
With more in the works.
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[Jul 24,2009 3:49pm - badsneakers ""]
up
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[Jul 24,2009 7:13pm - RichHorror ""]
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[Jul 27,2009 12:42pm - RichHorror ""]
This Saturday!
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[Jul 27,2009 1:39pm - badsneakers ""]
yes!
should be interesting...Presley hasn't played together in four months
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[Jul 27,2009 2:49pm - RichHorror ""]
Random 80's hardcore amidst stoned jamming plz
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[Jul 27,2009 7:03pm - badsneakers ""]

RichHorror said:Random 80's hardcore amidst stoned jamming plz


load an ipod up!
or I'll have christian do it up..
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[Jul 27,2009 7:04pm - RichHorror ""]
I meant like the time you played a Negative Approach song in the middle of your set.
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[Jul 27,2009 7:11pm - badsneakers ""]
OH
haha!

i doubt we'll be doing anything like that..we'll be lucky to get our own songs down!
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[Jul 27,2009 7:13pm - badsneakers ""]
you know what
I don't think we did Negative Approach before, i know ichabod has
we've done black flag nervous breakdown
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[Jul 28,2009 1:23pm - badsneakers ""]
up
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[Jul 28,2009 1:25pm - RichHorror ""]
Yeah, the Flag cover was what I was thinking of.
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[Jul 28,2009 5:56pm - badsneakers ""]
cool
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[Jul 29,2009 1:05am - Eyehatehippies ""]
Psyched for it.
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[Jul 29,2009 9:06am - badsneakers ""]
yes
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[Jul 29,2009 12:43pm - RichHorror ""]
From the fall of 2005...in the Noise Around Boston....

Presley – If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause


"Classic" rock will continue to be hailed as such because of its adventurous nature and willingness to continually push the boundaries of songwriting and performance. Somewhere along the way the music lost its footing on the path carved out by bands that played the Fillmore Auditoriums in the 60s and 70s like The Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, Deep Purple, Santana, and Chicago, and started to sound like…well, the worst aspects of those bands, i.e. the parts where the players forgot about the song. Revisionist history has made improvisation a dirty word in rock 'n' roll, which has made too many bands put themselves into easily classifiable boxes. Musical freedom has become a road seldom traveled by the multitude, which is why I find myself getting antsy after five songs and/or 20 minutes of most sets. What strikes me most about Presley is that their continually shifting tempos, rhythms, dynamics, moods and textures can hold my interest while they play what seems like one song for 40 minutes. They have a similar approach to electric-era Miles Davis in that they'll take pre-arranged parts and work them together through jams that'll have them sounding psychedelic, ambient, metallic and funky at any given moment. If I were to classify them I'd say that they're a psych/stoner rock band that holds equal appeal for potheads, beer drinkers and hell raisers. Christian Campagna's heavily effected and often droning guitar lines are augmented by Aarne Victorine's melodic bass and Breaux Silcio's drumming, which ranges from subtle cymbal splashes to near blast beat pounding. To cop a line from their third and latest release, ***Elizabeth***, they're musicians with deep record collections who're "Stuck in fuckin' Providence with the Memphis blues again" somewhere between Dylan and ***Daydream Nation***, Husker Du and Hawkwind.

"I guess the fact that we generally don't use a setlist," says Campagna on what sets Presley apart, "and have been playing a good amount of shows where we just string songs together without stopping. We have a number of songs written that don't have endings for the purpose of opening them up and trying to go somewhere else completely different. My roots will always be in traditional rock concerts, but after spending a good amount of time at shows where stretching out songs and creating music through group improvisation is normal, we wanted to try to adopt that aesthetic to more of a loud rock sound than most bands improvising on stage that I go see live. My influences come from all over the place. Some of my favorite guitar players are Adrian Belew, Jerry Garcia, Robin Guthrie from Cocteau Twins, and Richard Thompson. I love their approach to music and probably think of them when I'm sitting around at home playing. At one point at the beginning of this band we accidentally stumbled upon stretching out songs and improvising. Certain songs started getting longer in rehearsal and we discussed trying this on stage in front of an audience and have pretty much done it at every show we've played. One goal was to never play the same set, and to have every show be completely different from the last one. This has worked great for us so far and we're happy with what we do. I guess what we've set out to do with this band is frustrating and rewarding, frustrating in the sense that we have a hard time fitting in with many bands we play with, rewarding in that we can play a show with no real idea of what is going to happen. Granted we run the risk of alienating audiences, but I think the day we get on stage and play a bunch of four-minute songs that are all written with strict beginnings and endings it won't be rewarding anymore.

"Coming from a musical family, music has always been a huge part of my life," he continues. "My dad worked for A&M in the 70s and 80s and we got to see a good amount of concerts at a pretty young age. Seeing KISS as a kid made me want to play music. Later on, my cousin Al inspired me to actually go through with it; he was a founder of Boston's SSDecontrol and his drive in that band was intense. The three of us have a great understanding of each other when it comes to playing music. When we originally got together the ideas were pretty loose and miles away from what we do now. I remember thinking it would be a great idea to sound like Sunny Day Real Estate meets My Bloody Valentine. We played together for almost a year before playing our first show. We had a second guitar player for a while who recorded our first two records with us, and our sound definitely changed when he joined, and again when he left in 2003. I don't like the first record at all. It was the first record I ever recorded where I was actually singing and the results are pretty weak in my opinion. The vocal tracks were all pretty much done in one take, as our engineer wasn't interested in having us. I think where it was our first batch of songs our sound was still developing. We do play one song off of the record still, 'Donald Fagen.' Our second record we did with Steve Austin of Today is the Day and that was one of the most amazing experiences we all have had in the band. He was great to work with, a super nice guy, and ended up playing keyboards on a good chunk of the record after coming up with some parts he thought would add some depth to the record. That experience and record are something I will always look back on with pride. The most recent one we recorded with our friend Jason is our current favorite. Jason had seen us live a number of times so he was able to capture our sound as close as anyone has. The songs are pretty straight forward and all in a normal tuning as opposed to the DADABE tuning the majority of our songs are in, yet we were able to stretch them out a little live right there and we all agreed that for improvising in the studio in most of the songs in one take came out pretty close to what we do live."

Campagna has an addictively readable Livejournal site, and this revealing entry a few years ago: "With the huge amount of jazz mp3s from the 20s, 30s, and 40s I'm loading on to my hard drive I'm bored with rock music again. I bought that Cure record last week and it's about as exciting as me getting up a few minutes ago and taking that sip of water, just boring guitar and vocals music, too wordy. How many obsessive love songs can you hear before you need to listen to someone who's dead now blowing a horn for ten minutes instead? That shit excites me. These shitty sounding recordings from 1932 with a simple little melody and a solo or two have so much more power and energy than anything anyone is going to release this year. My friends, coworkers, people I know on the net, etc. will keep eating all of this garbage up though, never looking back to see where all of this began. All of this is having an effect on writing lyrics now. I don't want to sing. I fucking hate writing lyrics. I drag my feet with this process, and the results are always awful. I can't read them, or listen to my voice singing them without wanting to go deaf and blind. I'd like to turn the band into a band that just goes on stage and improvises for an hour and leaves. We're at the point where nobody really cares anymore anyway, so why now? I don't think any of us have any ideal to impress anyone at this point. I could certainly care less about the 'rock scene' or whatever you want to call it."
To what does he attribute the marked drop-off in club attendance in recent years? "The short obnoxious answer would be because there's nothing really worth going to see, but I guess the whole world of music is different from where it was in the 80s and 90s. Back then there was no internet, and things were generally slower. You would have that one friend that would come to your house and say, 'Check out this record, this is The Wipers' – now everything is so fast and people have shorter attention spans and you can buy something on the internet and find out that 'If you like this, you'll also like this Avenged Sevenfold record or whatever…' People are so taken with celebrity now. They spend all their money to see these bigger acts and have no idea that there is this whole underground music scene going on, especially in Boston. I would think the average person going to see someone like Meatloaf or Sting wouldn't know what to do with themselves at a real rock show. I saw Eric Clapton for the first time a few years ago and it was the most boring concert I ever saw. The crowd was just sitting there listening to him plod through his hits. Galaxie 500 live was more exciting than that show. Although the scene is frowned upon in most musical circles, the jam band scene is doing a great job of keeping up the tradition of what a rock concert was like when I was younger, at least in terms of sheer energy."

(Mike Baldino)
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[Jul 30,2009 11:52am - RichHorror ""]

bennyhillifier
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[Jul 30,2009 11:11pm - badsneakers ""]
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[Jul 31,2009 12:02pm - RichHorror ""]
Psyched
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[Jul 31,2009 2:28pm - Eyehatehippies ""]
Tomorrow. It's gonna rule.
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[Jul 31,2009 3:47pm - badsneakers ""]
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[Jul 31,2009 4:25pm - W3 nli  ""]
will be at
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[Jul 31,2009 4:39pm - RichHorror ""]
Let's get facken tanked.
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[Jul 31,2009 9:13pm - W3 nli  ""]
yuh
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[Jul 31,2009 11:14pm - RichHorror ""]
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[Jul 31,2009 11:22pm - markrichardsslamtrak  ""]
Rich, shall I bring the Insect Warfare shirt to you? I'll probably be there around 9:30 or so if I'm even able to get there before work.
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[Jul 31,2009 11:23pm - RichHorror ""]
Yes sir. If you can't make it we'll figure something else out.
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[Jul 31,2009 11:25pm - markrichardsslamtrak  ""]
Word up son.
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[Aug 1,2009 8:06am - badsneakers ""]
this picture!
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[Aug 1,2009 12:02pm - RichHorror ""]
I thought it was pretty fantastic, myself.
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[Aug 1,2009 12:16pm - MarkFuckingRichards ""]
Doesn't look like I'll have time to make an appearance Richard. Let me know when you want to do some PayPalage.
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[Aug 1,2009 12:20pm - RichHorror ""]
Sure. Might not be for a week or two. Are you going to the show on the 14th with young David's other band?
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[Aug 1,2009 12:23pm - MarkFuckingRichards ""]
I'm hoping so, but alas, I'll most likely be stuck working. :(
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[Aug 1,2009 12:23pm - RichHorror ""]
If so, give him the shirt and I'll give him the money to give to you at the show?

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