Report - SHADOWS FALL: On The Road To Retribution
September 16, 2009, 15 years ago
Attention Deficit Delirium has issued the following report from Bryan Reesman:
Massachusetts metal monsters SHADOWS FALL are still going strong eleven years into their recording career. The melodic thrashers from the Northeast have just released their new album Retribution, which blends belligerence and beauty into a potent sonic brew. The group has stuck to their hardcore metal roots while branching out into more classic metal territory, unleashing a hailstorm of powerhouse riffs and raucous rhythms, all united by Brian Fair’s growling and singing, which he is doing more of this time out.
While their last album, Threads Of Life, found Shadows Fall graduating to the major leagues through a deal with Warner Bros., they have renegotiated the terms so that they now are releasing their music through their own label, Everblack Industries, while retaining distribution through Warner Bros.
For the group it’s the best of the worlds - major label retail power with more creative and personal control and a better royalty rate.
ADD caught up with fierce frontman Brian Fair outside of Looney Tunes, a Babylon, New York-based indie music store, where soon after the quintet - Fair, guitarists Jonathan Donais and Matt Bachand, bassist Paul Romanko and drummer Jason Bittner -— unleashed a six-song set on a small stage for dozens of pumped up fans that proved they could tear it up even in the most confined of spaces.
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