Avenged Sevenfold & Buckcherry
Featuring Papa Roach & Saving Abel
Friday, February 6, 2009
Time: 6:30p
Memorial Coliseum
On Sale: Friday, December 12th @ 10am
Tickets can be purchased at the Rose Quarter Box Office, participating Safeway &
TicketsWest outlets, by phone at 877.789.ROSE (7673) or online at ComcastTIX.com.
Ticket Price*: $39.75 (GA floor & GA bowl). Day of show pricing: $42.75 (GA floor & GA bowl)
*Plus applicable service charges.
Parking: $10
Camera Policy: Personal cameras are ok, professional (SLR Lens), video and audio recording are not allowed.
The Memorial Coliseum’s first rock concert of 2009 will be have the fans wanting more. Avenged Sevenfold and Buckcherry featuring Papa Roach and Saving Abel will rock the “Glass Palace” on Friday, February 6.
Avenged Sevenfold (or A7X), the metal core outfit, were still attending high school in Huntington Beach, CA, when they formed their band in 1999. Nevertheless, it didn't take long for M. Shadows (vocals), Zacky Vengeance (guitar), Synyster Gates (guitar), the Reverend (drums), and Johnny Christ (bass) to make an impression with their aggressive hybrid of metal and punk-pop. The band made its official debut in July 2001, releasing Sounding the Seventh Trumpet on the Good Life label before moving to the Hopeless roster for 2003's Waking the Fallen. Warner Bros. took interest in the band's aggressive sound and issued its breakthrough release, City of Evil, in June 2005. The album reached number 30 on Billboard's Top 200, propelled in part by the Top Ten success of the single "Bat Country." The accompanying music video was heavily rotated on MTV and Fuse, where live appearances also helped boost Avenged's growing profile. The band ultimately won the Best New Artist Award (though they were hardly newcomers) at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.
As demand for their music increased, Avenged Sevenfold boasted a grittier sound than previous releases, the self-titled/self-produced disc appeared in October 2007, debuting at number four on the Billboard Top 200 and spinning off the radio single "Almost Easy." Avenged Sevenfold helped support the release by touring North America on the Taste of Chaos tour.
Buckcherry, dubbed the “Next Great American Rock Band,” has evolved from playing in front of 200 people to sold-out crowds of tens of thousands in just two years. Buckcherry will be touring in support of their latest album, Black Butterfly, which was recently named iTunes Rock Album of the Year. The album produced iTunes choices for the #2 Rock Song of the Year, “Too Drunk…” and the #8 Rock Song of the Year, “Rescue Me,” as well as critically acclaimed songs such as “A Child Called It” and “Don’t Go Away.” The album debuted at #8 on Billboard’s Top 200, giving the band their first Top 10 album debut. Black Butterfly follows the platinum success of 15, and hit songs like “Lit Up,” “Everything,” “Crazy Bitch” and the mainstream crossover smash “Sorry.” Black Butterfly was also recently ranked #1 on Stephen King’s Top 10 albums of 2008 for Entertainment Weekly, stating, “Black Butterfly was the best hard-rock album I heard this year.” The video for “Don’t Go Away” can be seen on VH1.
Papa Roach pierced the record industry in 2000 with their triple-platinum, major label, Grammy Nominated debut album, Infest, on Dreamworks SKG. Two years later Lovehatetragedy debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200. In 2004, the band released the hook-heavy album, Getting Away With Murder, once again affirming the band’s platinum status around the globe. Their fourth major label album was the next step in their evolution with The Paramour Sessions on Geffen Records (2006) receiving five out of five stars from Rolling Stone establishing Papa Roach as a consistent alternative rock force. Numerous Top 10 Billboard singles add to the bands list of accolades including “Last Resort”, “Forever”, “Getting Away With Murder”, “Scars” and “To Be Loved”. Papa Roach is currently completing their fifth album Metamorphosis, which will be released in early 2009.
Saving Abel was formed in 2004 by vocalist Jared Weeks and guitarist Jason Null; they combine riff-heavy hard rock with sexually charged lyrics and Southern rock influences. The quintet took root in Corinth, Mississippi, where Weeks and Null cut their teeth in different bands before merging their songwriting talents. In early 2005, the duo's music attracted attention from producer Skidd Mills, who invited Weeks and Null to record in his Memphis studio. Juggling day jobs and regional gigs, the two began driving back and forth between Corinth and Memphis, sporadically recording their self-titled EP with Mills while assembling a full lineup comprised of guitarist Scott Bartlett, bassist Eric Taylor, and drummer Blake Dixon. Within a year, the EP had earned Saving Abel a contract with Virgin Records, and Mills returned to helm their full-length debut. Combining new material with the EP's best songs, the self-titled album was issued in March 2008. |