Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ The Metro 1/8/2010
August 8th 2010 09:45
Sideshows are the best when you couldn't make the long road trip up to this year’s Splendor In The Grass festival. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club took to the stage in front of a packed house in The Metro. With a new album in tow, early songs played were off the new record. Opening cut 'Beat The Devil’s Tattoo' and personal fave 'Aya' rocked the sold out crowd. But, as is the case when a band has early success in their career, the biggest responses came from older material like 'Love Burns’ of the their debut.
What BRMC did well was build each passage of songs. Each block built to a climax before a change of pace and the process was repeated. It was hard to not get drawn into their heavy blues soaked rock with a big warm fuzzy sound and rolling bass riffs that harked back to the early days of Black Sabbath. Like a thunderstorm, they built it up to a crescendo in their classic ‘Whatever Happened to My Rock N Roll’ before some slower, acoustic numbers before raining down again with enough strobe lighting to cause a epileptic fit. A modest encore and it was over. The clouds cleared and the band left the stage.
I've never really appreciated BRMC’s sound. There's a real heavy sound that is based on 70's riff masters and dropped down to give layers to the simplicity in their music. In the end it's good heavy rock you expect to hear out of a dirty mid west American bar. It won me over.
What BRMC did well was build each passage of songs. Each block built to a climax before a change of pace and the process was repeated. It was hard to not get drawn into their heavy blues soaked rock with a big warm fuzzy sound and rolling bass riffs that harked back to the early days of Black Sabbath. Like a thunderstorm, they built it up to a crescendo in their classic ‘Whatever Happened to My Rock N Roll’ before some slower, acoustic numbers before raining down again with enough strobe lighting to cause a epileptic fit. A modest encore and it was over. The clouds cleared and the band left the stage.
I've never really appreciated BRMC’s sound. There's a real heavy sound that is based on 70's riff masters and dropped down to give layers to the simplicity in their music. In the end it's good heavy rock you expect to hear out of a dirty mid west American bar. It won me over.
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