Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix
The weekend is over, and it's back to the grind. You sit there despondent at your desk, visions of a wild weekend replaying your head, scenes from A Good Day to Die Hard -- which you caught a sick matinee showing of -- bouncing around your cranium. How can you get back to that blissful state? Go see some shows. There's plenty of them going down this week in Phoenix, from the classic old-school hip-hop of Rakim to the bluesy boogie metal of Sweden's Graveyard. Check 'em out, our Top Five Must-See Shows This Week.
Graveyard is scheduled to perform Tuesday, February 19, at Crescent Ballroom.
February 18: Every Time I Die @ Nile Theater
A successful long-term musical career is a rarity in any genre, but what does it take to be truly acknowledged as an elder statesman in heavy metal? In most rock circles, any popular musician over 40 is usually handed some token of longevity for remaining relevant (meaning young people are still the primary attendees at the show). Annoited '80s metal deities like Ozzy and Pantera are safely locked in the canon, but Every Time I Die likely will join those remembered as turn-of-the-millennium metal staples.
The group has been making melodic metalcore for 13 years and has even cracked a top 20 position on the U.S. Billboard charts. ETID is known for throwing a few stylistic shades into its honed red-and-white metalcore strut, be it math-rock left turns or, most recently, a playful banjo.
The band's newest album, Ex Lives, brings the added weight of Southern metal timbres and contemporary stoner distortion to the band's frantic hardcore template, likely due to the production of Joe Barresi who's worked with journeymen outfits like Queens of the Stone Age and The Melvins. With an established songwriting foundation that does not crack with stylistic tweaks, ETID may possess the formula for metal immortality. -- Chase Kamp
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Nile Theater
105 W. Main St., Mesa, AZ
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