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Rock fest will test his metal
Toronto Star – Aug 19, 2007
"Betty Dworatschek president of Metal Queen Management says she brought the festival back to the city after the inaugural event in the bush last year; three days of heavy riffing and camping didn’t really work. Dworatschek says this year’s shift toward rock bands is a reflection of how the genre is making a resurgence in the city since the metal scene never fizzled out. Blade says some death- and black-metal acts would deem his band mere hard rock. "To those guys we’re totally a pussy band" he laughs. He explains that while they may have the growl voice they don’t look the metal part ? there needs to be leather and big hair instead of short locks and regular clothes. "They’d almost be embarrassed to sit through one of our sets but I love playing to them because they get so irate. " Metal nerds who know the music inside out but are sans big hair and leather keep the vibes flowing at an Ash Lee Blade show he says… He explains that while they may have the growl voice they don’t look the metal part ? there needs to be leather and big hair instead of short locks and regular clothes. "They’d almost be embarrassed to sit through one of our sets but I love playing to them because they get so irate. " Metal nerds who know the music inside out but are sans big hair and leather keep the vibes flowing at an Ash Lee Blade show he says. But to attract a bigger base Blade says the band is going after the all-ages crowd especially the teenagers inundated with emo acts sharing identical sounds and haircuts. When they play on bills with emo acts he says the crowds often appreciate a fresh sound. It helps that he looks the part too even if he has some other not-so-metal nicknames. "I’m often called Jennifer Lopez because I’m glamorous and I have a big ass.
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MTV.com – Aug 20, 2007
Stradlin and Rose plowed through several outfits that went nowhere (Hollywood Rose being one) before hooking up with fellow streetwise rockers Slash (guitar real name Saul Hudson) Duff McKagan (bass) and Steven Adler (drums). After slugging it out on the Sunset Strip and honing their act the newly christened. Their full-length debut Appetite for Destruction was released a year later and at first the public didn’t know what to make of the album or the band.
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Toronto Star – Aug 19, 2007
This isn’t to say the band wasn’t taking any risks when it emerged from 15 months in the studio this year with several new beards and a third album that values power ballads and stadium-seducing sweep and swell over the upfront angst-ridden (if always resolutely radio-friendly) roar rendered internationally familiar by 2000’s Hybrid Theory and 2003’s Meteora. Messing with the sort of formula that sells 35 million records worldwide can yield unpredictable results. Co-frontman Mike Shinoda raps on just two songs on Minutes to Midnight while only the reasonably rampaging album opener "Given Up" could be considered heavy metal. Singer Chester Bennington meanwhile holds his clenched scream largely in check and lets the more feminine side of his register burble emotively over strings and percolating drum programming. "The next record could be a hip-hop album. Who knows?" offers Bennington from backstage at one of Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution festival-tour stops in Cleveland.
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