The First Week of March ROCKS! at Meridian March 1, 2008

MARCH


1 ALL THAT REMAINS
With Special Guests: Chiamara, Black Tide, Light This City
Rock/Heavy Metal: ?People have a certain idea of what this band is, and when they hear the new stuff...it?s a new approach to our style,? vocalist Phil Labonte says. ?It?s almost like a new way to look at an old friend." With a desire to continually evolve, yet retain the trademark heavy and technically-skilled sound that All That Remains has established with the band?s breakthrough album, 2004?s This Darkened Heart, Labonte and company have done just that with The Fall of Ideals. Where the last record found the band intertwining heavy music, virtuoso solos, and unmatchable melody, All That Remains? current collective goal is to build on elements that the last album only hinted at. ?Everything we did on This Darkened Heart, we are turning up a notch,? Labonte says. ?This disc will have some of the most aggressive, and some of the most friendly, pieces of music All That Remains has ever written.? The Fall of Ideals is the culmination of the original ideals, ideas, and elements that All That Remains was initially founded upon. Combining the grinding riffs and unrelenting rhythms of death metal legends and the tandem fluidity of Martin and Herbert?s shredding, alongside Labonte?s ever-expanding vocal repertoire of soaring notes and guttural growls, the band has now become everything it has been striving for since its inception.
5 THROWDOWN
With Special Guests: Soilwork, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, War Of Ages
Post-Thrash/Straightedge Metalcore/Rock/Heavy Metal: Throwdown is a straight edge metalcore and post-thrash band from Orange County, California. They have toured as part of Ozzfest, Sounds of the Underground and Warped Tour, as well as with bands like In Flames, Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Sick of It All, Norma Jean, Soulfly, and Hatebreed. The songs "Forever" and "Burn" have been staples on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball and Revolver Magazine called them part of "The Future of Metal" after hearing the album Vendetta, which the band has stated they found humorous as they are more rooted in Hardcore than in Metal. Their most recent album Venom and Tears has taken more of a metal direction, with critics likening the bands current sound to that of Pantera.
6 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Alternative Rock/Indie/Pop: They Might Be Giants (commonly abbreviated to TMBG) is an American alternative rock duo consisting of John Flansburgh and John Linnell. Formed in 1982, they are best known for an unconventional and experimental style of alternative music. Combining a knack for infectious melodies with a quirky, bizarre sense of humor and a vaguely avant-garde aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk underground, They Might Be Giants became one of the most unlikely alternative success stories of the late '80s and early '90s. Musically, the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell borrowed from everywhere, but their freewheeling eclecticism was enhanced by their arcane, geeky sense of humor. They would reference everything from British Invasion to Tin Pan Alley, while making allusion to pulp fiction and President Polk. Flansburgh and Linnell met when they were children in Lincoln, MA. During high school, they began writing songs together, yet they never officially formed a band. By 1981, the pair had reunited, deciding to move to Brooklyn to pursue a musical career. Although they were building a cult following, they had a hard time getting a record deal, so they set up Dial-A-Song ? a phone line that played songs on an answering machine ? as a way to get their songs heard. The gimmick worked. Not only did it lead to a deal with the indie label Bar/None, but over the years it was a successful venture; at one point, the service was receiving hundreds of calls a day. Through their string of indie releases and constant touring as a duo, They Might Be Giants built up a huge following on college campuses during the late '80s, switching to a major label in the early '90s. With support from MTV, 1990's Flood became a gold album, and with it, the band began to reap commercial rewards, moving into the status of one of the most popular alternative bands before grunge.
7 SILVERSTEIN
With Special Guests: The Devil Wears Prada, A Day To Remember, Protest The Hero
Emo/Hardcore/Screamo: Silverstein (pronounced Silver-steen) is a band from Burlington, Ontario. The band name was taken from the famous children's author Shel Silverstein.

In 2005 the band performed on the Never Sleep Again tour with bands such as Aiden, Hawthorne Heights and Bayside?a tour where Bayside's drummer John "Beatz" Holohan would be killed. In January-February 2006, they toured with the band Simple Plan in Europe. They then toured Canada with the Taste of Chaos Tour, and also toured Europe, Japan, and Australia.
The band toured on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour, in support of their current studio album Discovering the Waterfront and an EP compilation 18 Candles: The Early Years. The Early years compiles the band's first two self-financed EPs with some acoustic and live material as well as single remix of the Discovering The Waterfront hit "Smile In Your Sleep". Discovering the Waterfront was re-released in September 2006 with an extra song, the band's cover of Lifetime's "Rodeo Clown" and a DVD.
In 2006, Silverstein was nominated for a Juno Award in the "Best New Band" category, but lost to Bedouin Soundclash.
In Fall 2006, they headlined The Never Shave Again Tour, along with Aiden, It Dies Today, and He Is Legend. Following completion of their third CD, the band played a few shows in the spring, and then engaged in an all-summer tour with Rise Against. The band toured the United States in Fall 2007 with From Autumn to Ashes and is currently on a month-long European tour with blessthefall.
Recently, Silverstein announced that, following tours of Australia and Japan, they are going on their first "Cross-Canada" headlining tour starting in late January and ending in early February with Protest the Hero, Ill Scarlett and The Devil Wears Prada. They will follow that up by a U.S. Tour.
8 TEXAS METAL FEST WITH DEVILDRIVER
With Special Touring Guests: Napalm Death, Walls Of Jericho, 36 Crazy Fists, Asesino, Divine Heresy, Invitro
& Special Regional/Local Guests: PinHed, Burnt Face Jack, Necrofaith, Lycophile, Paegan, Dead Trip, Last Rosary, Dimished, To Scale The Throne, Bloodvoid, Lao Tzu, Cain Was Able, Sever The Silence, Cryptic, Lone Star Massacre, Vehement, Seven Year Itch, Subourne, Roar Shot Blind, Bludstream, Lay To Waste, Chais With A Smile, Cerebral Rot, Krank Shaft, 28th St., Burn The Wicked, & Blood Requiem.
Metal/Grindcore/Death Metal/Black Metal: An all-day festival of loval and regional metal bands from Texas. For more details CLICK HERE For bands interested in playing, please contact Luis Matos at [email protected].

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