Heavy Metal band question
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A friend of mine is the lead singer for a band (Fatalis) opening for Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie's brother's band). There are some other local Seattle heavy metal bands playing that night as well - Betty-X, Windowpane and Temperedcast. Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review? Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
Tom Archer - MSFT wrote:
Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review?
They came through town a few years back; i missed 'em at the time, but a few friends caught it. "Nothing special" was the general consensus; no worse than most of the heavier rock coming out at the time, but not really rising above it. Personally, i've never heard more than a couple of the singles - they're decent drinking songs, but Spider's no Zombie. Reminds me a bit of Clutch for some reason, though maybe just because they both got a lot of radio play around the same time.
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A friend of mine is the lead singer for a band (Fatalis) opening for Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie's brother's band). There are some other local Seattle heavy metal bands playing that night as well - Betty-X, Windowpane and Temperedcast. Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review? Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
I don't know anything about Powerman 5000, but allow me to get nostalgic for a minute... I saw White Zombie open for Anthrax in about 1996 or so (maybe '95) at a skating rink in suburban Boston. I was a huge Anthrax fan at the time, and hadn't really paid attention to Zombie, but they absolutely stole the show. Which reminds me, I gotta buy more of Rob Zombie's stuff. Thanks for the memory jog. :)
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Tom Archer - MSFT wrote:
Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review?
They came through town a few years back; i missed 'em at the time, but a few friends caught it. "Nothing special" was the general consensus; no worse than most of the heavier rock coming out at the time, but not really rising above it. Personally, i've never heard more than a couple of the singles - they're decent drinking songs, but Spider's no Zombie. Reminds me a bit of Clutch for some reason, though maybe just because they both got a lot of radio play around the same time.
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A friend of mine is the lead singer for a band (Fatalis) opening for Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie's brother's band). There are some other local Seattle heavy metal bands playing that night as well - Betty-X, Windowpane and Temperedcast. Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review? Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
I remember they played in Ozzfest a few years back. I just listened briefly to the newer CD, and it's sounds like they lean towards Rage Against the Machine/Limp Bizkit/Marilyn Manson/Zombie. Newer stuff is more towards rap metal than the older, from what I can tell. BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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I don't know anything about Powerman 5000, but allow me to get nostalgic for a minute... I saw White Zombie open for Anthrax in about 1996 or so (maybe '95) at a skating rink in suburban Boston. I was a huge Anthrax fan at the time, and hadn't really paid attention to Zombie, but they absolutely stole the show. Which reminds me, I gotta buy more of Rob Zombie's stuff. Thanks for the memory jog. :)
Zombie has a new album, just out. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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A friend of mine is the lead singer for a band (Fatalis) opening for Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie's brother's band). There are some other local Seattle heavy metal bands playing that night as well - Betty-X, Windowpane and Temperedcast. Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review? Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
You hang out with musicians? Wow, there goes the neighborhood... :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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A friend of mine is the lead singer for a band (Fatalis) opening for Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie's brother's band). There are some other local Seattle heavy metal bands playing that night as well - Betty-X, Windowpane and Temperedcast. Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review? Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
I took my brother-in-law (who was seventeen at the time) to a Korn concert about 6 years ago and Powerman 5000 openned for them (as well as Papa Roach, which had just released Infest). It was pretty uninteresting... I felt myself forgetting what they had played five minutes after they played it. Papa Roach was slightly better and Korn was much better. I don't want to say that PM5K was boring, but they didn't bring anything. Of course, that was 6 years ago so they may have gotten better since.
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I remember they played in Ozzfest a few years back. I just listened briefly to the newer CD, and it's sounds like they lean towards Rage Against the Machine/Limp Bizkit/Marilyn Manson/Zombie. Newer stuff is more towards rap metal than the older, from what I can tell. BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wrightbrianwelsch wrote:
rap metal
there are few things more foul than rap metal. Do the chickens have large talons?
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You hang out with musicians? Wow, there goes the neighborhood... :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Seems like practically everyone at Microsoft is a musician :) Well except me, but I do the other extremely popular thing - I ride my bike everywhere I go. Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
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A friend of mine is the lead singer for a band (Fatalis) opening for Powerman 5000 (Rob Zombie's brother's band). There are some other local Seattle heavy metal bands playing that night as well - Betty-X, Windowpane and Temperedcast. Anyone here know or seen Powerman 5000 and can give a quick review? Hit & Run Poster Warning: If you want me to reply, you'll need to email me directly as I rarely have time to continually check back for responses. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager - Windows SDK Headers, Libraries & Tools MICROSOFT
Yeah, I saw em' back in the 90s at a Kid Rock/Mettalica concert. Kid Rock beat em as a showman, but Powerman 5000 held their own. They do a good show, but its mostly for the music. Although the singer seemed quite animated. Fairly standard industrial metal. I liked it. Nothing too innovative though.
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