Tuesday, July 29, 2014

[現場/心得] Royal Blood @ Taft Theatre, Cincinnati OH




Royal Blood (有空再來翻中文)(欸)

Royal Blood plays their first 2014 North America headline show this summer.  The rock duo from Brighton are bass guitarist and vocalist Mike Kerr, whose voice is described as emotive with heavily distorted bass guitar sound, and drummer Ben Thatcher pounding beats of their intensive melodic songs.  They played at the Ballroom of Taft Theathre in Cincinnati last Saturday.  Although the set was short due to the fact the band has not released their debut album, which is due on August 25, 2014.

The opening band was a local hard rock band named Valley of the Sun.  The three pieces band sounds like Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Stone Temple Pilots.  The guitarist and vocalist Ryan Ferrier sounds like a combination of James Hetfield and Chris Cornell (with the combination of these two I am not sure whether it’s a something promising for a music career nowadays.)  The bassist Ryan McAllister jumped with the rhythm as he played which was very entertaining, and the drummer Aaron Boyer was making a lots of sounds and gave audience fierce look during the song and makes it really entertaining as well.  Valley of the Sun turned to be really impressive.  Although I was half deaf at the end of the set, their music was really good.  They will be touring briefly in the states later in September, and they will be head up to Europe for some gigs.  Their newest album “Electric Talons of the Thunderhawk” is out now.  I mean seriously who name their albums with this sort of awesomeness now?!  You can find them on their Face Book page here: https://www.facebook.com/valleyofthesun

Royal Blood started their set with the song “Hole.”  And the set get better when the latest single “Figure It Out” was played.  We enjoyed the set so much we felt like time go pass by very quick, but it could also be the fact that they really didn’t have many songs to play to us.  One of the new song was called “Blood Hand” was a little bit of nagging like a sick country song but it was still cool.  I liked another new song “Ten Tonne Skeleton.”  It has a dance groove bouncing move in the song that brings you jump ups and downs.  They ended the set with “Out of The Black” and still did not successfully create any mosh pit of fighting in the audience.  Yet, the set was very enjoyable and made you feel like it’s all about rock’n’roll.

Royal Blood is on tour now, and will return in September supporting Pixies.  Their debut album “Royal Blood” is available for pre-order now.  More information can be found at http://www.royalbloodband.com/


Setlist
Hole 
Come On Over 
You Can Be So Cruel 
Figure It Out 
Better Strangers 
Little Monster 
Blood Hands 
Ten Tonne Skeleton 
Loose Change 
Out of the Black 





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