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Many folks identify the Trans-Siberian Orchestra as that heavy metal Christmas band. And much of the symphonic hard-rock outfit's reputation was born out of its distinctive take on holiday music, but that isn't the entire story. IN THE BEGINNING
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The Trans Siberian Orchestra rocked the Charleston Civic Center Friday night with its non-traditional Christmas celebration concert. The show successfully blends classic Christmas tunes with heavy metal and rock. One might be skeptical that the classical music form could be translated through an electric guitar, but it can.
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Defensively independent, they've never signed a record contract, and they both sport a healthy, sincere distrust of the record industry at large. "We've all read that thing [Chicago producer] Steve Albini wrote about labels. I can't remember what it's called, but I think we've all read it," says [Hall], referring to "The Problem with Music," the 1993 essay in The Baffer in which Albini wrote of major labels, "I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe 60 yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit You can't reasonably expect to be ultrafamous without being gone all the time and just making it your job all the time," says Hall, now back at home in Marion. He lives in a comfortable ranch with a two-car garage just at the edge of the Pisgah National Forest Childr...
... it would seem that finding a seven-member metal band with the peculiar name U.S. Christmas - reheaarsing in the only heavy metal recording studio in downtown Johnson City, a...
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Orchestra puts rock spin on holiday carols It's a little hard to define the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Is it a band? A concept? A Broadway road show? What it surely is is a success. In 1986, Paul O'Neill, a former rock promoter, producer and Broadway road show musician, wrote a holiday rock opera called "Christmas Eve and Other Stories." "Christmas Eve" blended elements of traditional carols with heavy metal/prog-rock guitar and orchestrations and a background story. Over the years, the Trans- Siberian Orchestra has expanded to record two more Christmas albums, a boxed set, a novel and a theatrical TV special starring Ossie Davis, Michael Crawford and Jewel. This year, two full versions of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra are touring the country; on Thursday, the eastern version of the TSO w...
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Tonight those indefatigable wild women of the blues Saffire - the Uppity Blues Women return to Rams Head Onstage (7 p.m.). They are indeed the torchbearers for the original classic blues women of the '20s and '30s, legends like Bessie Smith, Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey. This Virginia trio performs acoustic, in-your-face blues with tongue in cheek and a mind to get the job done. Watch out fellas, and get ready to shake a leg ladies! Saffire - the Uppity Blues Women are back in town. (Note: You, too, can be a star as this show is being filmed for a documentary.) Just up from Carolina, 10 years ago Keller Williams was performing with his band at Armadillo's and downstairs at the original Rams Head here in Annapolis. Not satisfied playing with less ambitious musicians he set out to e...
... performing standard vocal classics and Christmas music there are none better than regional supersta... It." Rumor has it that the band will do heavy metal takes on "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" (to the m...
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... "The Twelve Days of Christmas" into "Heavy Metal Christmas": Eight pentagrams, four quarts of...
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The countdown is on. Including Thursday, Dec. 14, and Monday, Dec. 25, there are 12 days of Christmas, a number that seems intimidating if you've still got shopping to do and holiday preparations to make.
..."On my heavy metal Christmas, my true love gave to me, a tattoo...
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Deseret Morning News staffers are humming those familiar tunes and getting ready to curl up by a fire that is so delightful as the weather outside turns frightful ... or at least dips below freezing. This time of year, it's all about the music. Goodness knows there are plenty of Christmas-themed CDs out there already -- if you do a search for "Christmas" on Amazon.com's music page, there are no less than 23,376 titles to choose from.
...Those wild guys of '80s metal, led by singer Dee Snider, have reunited for the h... if it weren't drop-dead funny, as well as "Heavy Metal Christmas (The 12 Days of Christmas)" -- "Fi...
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Andy Hall, a key player on the International Bluegrass Music Association's 2007 Album of the Year, will be heading back to the 2008 awards ceremony Sept. 30, along with his five band mates. And with good reason: He and his chums in the Infamous Stringdusters are up for Best Instrumental Group of the Year at the Grand Ole Opry-based awards show.
...Then the would-be heavy metal god received a Christmas gift from his Uncle...
