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The team of Guns and, former Girl singer, Phil Lewis have sold 6 1/2 million records, including 1988's L.A. Guns and 1990's Cocked and Loaded, both of which were certified Gold. Cocked and Loaded contained the hit single "Ballad of Jayne" that went to #33 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #25 on the Mainstream Rock charts.
From the mid-'90s to the mid-2000s, the L.A. Guns continued to tour and release new music. Following their successful performance at SiriusXM's Hair Nation Festival in May of 2016, L.A. Guns went into the studio to record the album, The Missing Peace, which was released in October of 2017 and quickly became the highest selling release of 2017 for Frontiers Records. L.A. Guns are currently in the studio recording the follow up album to " The Missing Peace ". “The Devil You Know” is the band’s twelfth studio release, featuring the new singles “Stay Away” and “Rage”. They will begin touring for the album beginning in the spring of 2019.
The current lineup features founding member, and lead guitar player, Guns, who has reunited with Lewis on vocals, along with Shane Fitzgibbon on drums, Johnny Martin on bass and Ace Von Johnson on guitar.
Originally comprised of singer Bobby Liebling and guitarist/drummer Geof O’Keefe in 1971, by 1972 Pentagram consisted of Liebling, guitarist Vincent McAllister, bassist Greg Mayne, and Geof O’Keefe on drums. This lineup would prove to last six years during which time the band underwent numerous name changes including Virgin Death, Macabre, and Stone Bunny. The 7” single “Human Hurricane” arrived in 1973 lending influences from Blue Cheer and the Groundhogs, before Pentagram made their debut performance in December that year. Second guitarist Randy Palmer joined in 1974 however departed by 1976 following which the group struggled with raising its profile and courting labels.
In 1978 Liebling became acquainted with local drummer Joey Hasselvander and the two began a fruitful musical relationship. Bassist Martin Swaney joined shortly afterwards and Pentagram returned to performing live and writing new material. After almost 15 years of Pentagram’s existence, the band issued their debut, self-titled full-length album in 1985, the style of which was heavily indebted to Black Sabbath. Despite Pentagram’s doom metal follow-up, 1987’s “A Day of Reckoning”, the group was unable to generate any momentum and failed to acquire another recording deal until 1994. Issued by Peaceville Records, the group released “Be Forewarned” in 1994, however with the rise of grunge, the record failed to find an audience anywhere.
In 1998 an unauthorised collection of rarities and bootlegs arrived, leading Libelling and Hassalvander to capitalise by issuing “Review Your Choices” in 1999 and “Sub-Basement” in 2001. The releases led to an upsurge in popularity for the group who finally received their due as pioneers of the heavy metal genre. An authorised collection of long-lost recordings arrived in 2001 entitled "First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection)", after which the band rereleased their earlier albums including “Relentless” and “Day of Reckoning”.
Trust me on this, there is far more to this band than just that single. In fact, Alien Ant Farm is one of the true originals on Nu-Metal, coming together the year after Korn changed the face of heavy metal with their self-titled debut album.
The band was something pretty unique within the scene itself, a band that had a sense of humour about themselves. For one, their band name came to original lead guitarist Terry Corso through a surprisingly existential thought.
He wondered whether all life on Earth had come from an experiment done by, in his words “entities from other dimensions”, and that we were being monitored by those same creatures like we were living in some kind of Alien Ant Farm.
I’m sure it was a train of thought that had nothing to do with certain smokeable substance whatsoever. At all. Anyway, they stood out at a time when Nu-Metal was a mainstream concern, so of course they were going to be big. It was at that point that “Smooth Criminal” was released; in the lead up to their first major label release “ANThology”.
It went to number one in Australia and New Zealand, top three in the U.K and topped the Modern Rock charts in the U.S. If you were alive and not living under a rock in the summer of 2001, you definitely heard it many times.
Since then the band has released a handful of albums. The band toured solidly through the 2000s as well, performing shows with the likes of Hoobastank, Fuel and on the Vans Warped Tour. There are fewer bands around with more live experience than them. And a night out with Alien Ant Farm, will surely be a night to remember.
L.A Guns have always been known as one of Los Angeles’ best supergroups ever formed. They formed in 1983, put together by Tracii Guns. It almost seems like a rite of passage for some of rock and rolls biggest names to at one point be a member of this band, alumni includes, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagen, Slash. (Basically all of Guns N’ Roses). Even Nikki Sixx has been in this band! This band has also had 14 studio albums, 6 live albums, 5 EPs and 4 singles. They take to this huge stage tonight to perform some of their biggest songs over the years. Opening with “It’s Over Now”, the band walk out on stage, with guitars over their shoulders and egos on their sleeves, taking their places as though it’s the way nature intended. There is some epic music played before hand to roil up the audience. “Kiss My Love Goodbye” is a worthy mid set peak that keeps this audience of all ages extremely excited; “The Ballad of Jayne” is the song that closes the set in a great style.
Any fans of rock or metal will know the name Pentagram as one of the earliest pioneers of doom rock and a huge influencer thus far on Sabbath inspired death metal. Still touring over 40 years after their formation in 1971, three original members remain and they perform with the same passion as back then partly due to their undying love of their music and the amount of energy their crowds give them back.
From the squealing pitches of 'Too Late' you know you're in for an evening of mayhem as Booby Leiblings conducts his crowd of doom rockers to mosh, thrash and lose their minds to the heavy sounds the band create onstage. Fan favourite 'Forever My Queen' makes an early appearance in the set and leaves crowds cheering immensely for the veteran rockers. Regaled by tales of years past, the band never lose the rock edge as Leiblings scream to the crowd to 'fucking mosh you mother fuckers' before finale 'Nothing Left'.
Despite the blood, sweat and screams, the audience are baited and begging for more as the band confidently swagger back out for their encore of 'Be Forewarned' which closes the night off perfectly. A fantastic live act who don't appear to have lost that grungey spark that first ignited all those years ago.
The Armored Saint show was awesome. The band delivered hands down! Saint will always be #1. From the start to the finish the band performed with high energy and perfection.
Anybody who only knows Alien Ant Farm for their classic cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ back in 2001 - that’ll be most people, then - might be surprised to know that they’re still a going concern; the truth is, though, that they’d already carved out a significant cult fanbase long before one of them decided it’d be a good idea to record a version of the King of Pop’s classic that would pay tribute to him and parody him in equal measure. After forming to play live in 1995, their first record, the cheekily-titled Greatest Hits, was an underground success four years later, by which time they were already deep into the kind of nu metal sound that would define their second, DreamWorks-released album, Anthology, a global success. In keeping with the tone of their songs, and indeed music videos, Alien Ant Farm live shows are lighthearted affairs, with bassist Tye Zamora taking on the role of class clown and proving that the bassface was alive and well long before the girl from Haim took it to the masses. They haven’t toured the UK in a while - a Manchester show in their 2002 heyday met with a one-star review from The Guardian - but with Always and Forever, their first record in eight years, slated for later this year, a long-overdue return could be on the cards.
Sanctuary basingstoke has been connected. Lovecore hard rock with straightforward riffage. Energy and presence throughout Boyhitscar lead the way with tracks from very successful self titled debut album. Going onto blend in some strong and layered tracks from there four album strong catalogue. Anyone present will not forget this in a long time. Near no perfect.