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[Review] A Few Simple Reasons Why You Have To Go To The 2012 Decibel Magazine Tour
With all the metal tours going on throughout the year, it’s hard to determine which are the ones that are worth your time. After all, you can’t be expected to attend them all, right? Well, BD’s Lauren Taylor just got back from checking out the 2012 Decibel Magazine Tour, which features In Solitude, The Devil’s Blood, Watain, and headliners Behemoth. Check below for her thoughts on the show!
The average fan generally does not receive an epic, theatrical stage show from their favorite musician. Luckily black metal fans are blessed with not only insane music – but amazing visuals to accompany it. Monday, April 16th marked the first show of the Decibel Magazine Tour that Swedish band Watain performed – having been forced to pull out of the first four shows due to delays in obtaining visas. The band is known for a stage emblazoned with candles and rotting, severed animal heads on stakes. Perhaps due to the delays of entering the US, their set was subdued with only skulls and inverted crosses yet their costuming still remained brilliant. Singer Erik Danielsson crept the stage like a zombie on a nautical adventure through hell as they pounded out tuneage.
Headliners Behemoth took the stage with the intense blastbeats of Ov Fire and the Void shortly after. If you’ve never had the pleasure, lead singer Nergal (aka Adam Darkski) – who battled leukemia a few years back and was thankfully saved with a bone marrow transplant – alone is worth the show. He is quite the ominous creature. Picture Pinhead having a love child with a Polish businessman and raising said child in the Thunderdome. I mean that with the utmost respect. He is incredible to look at.
While the music is entertaining in the pitch dark, the theatrics of this genre, again, add an element that everyday Joe cannot comprehend. Fans should rejoice in this gift we are given. I know I did. I honestly had an epiphany of how grand life is during Watain’s epic Waters of Ain. Seeing a sea of individuals in the harmonious union that is black metal. With a mindblowing lineup of Behemoth, Watain, The Devil’s Blood, and In Solitude, the Decibel Magazine Tour of 2012 is not to be missed.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical officially kicked off on Broadway last month, and Deadline now reports that the show’s Broadway run has been extended into next year.
The show was originally set to run through November, but Deadline reports that The Lost Boys: A New Musical “has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 2027.”
The news comes in the wake of The Lost Boys: A New Musical becoming the most Tony-nominated musical of the season with twelve nominations including Best Musical.
Additionally, “The Lost Boys will launch a North American National Tour in Spring 2028, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced later.”
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is of course an adaptation of the 1987 horror classic from director Joel Schumacher, with the cast including Ali Louis Bourzgui as lead vampire David (originally played by Kiefer Sutherland), Maria Wirries as Star (originally played by Jami Gertz), and LJ Benet as the soon-to-be-turned Michael (originally played by Jason Patric).
The horror musical’s cast also includes Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson, Benjamin Pajak as Sam Emerson, Paul Alexander Nolan as Max, Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog, Miguel Gil as Edgar Frog, Brian Flores as Marko, Sean Grandillo as Dwayne, and Dean Maupin as Paul.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is Directed by Michael Arden, featuring Music and Lyrics by The Rescues, Book by David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, Story by James Jeremias & Janice Fischer, and Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait & Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.
When a mother and her two teenage sons move to Santa Carla in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family’s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging.
As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality: When night falls, Michael’s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.
Joel Schumacher directed the original The Lost Boys vampire movie in 1987, wherein two brothers move to a new town and discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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