Una piccola menzione è stata fatta da Loudwire, secondo il quale nel 2005 tra il 30° anniversario dei Motorhead, i 10 anni di In your Honor dei Foo Fighters, quello da ricordare maggiormente è appunto l’uscita di City of Evil:
http://loudwire.com/sounds-of-summer-chang...pe-heavy-music/Summer 2005: fear, war, America divided. Record stores as we knew them were vanishing quickly, replaced by the toxic combination of file sharing and a pocket-sized device called the MP3 player. MP3 players were such a novelty that at the turn of the millennium it seemed like they were embedded in everything. Buying a new toaster? Get the one with the MP3 player.
Only the fittest survive, though, and musical toast wasn’t the killer app. The big winner was Apple, whose iTunes would soon become the biggest record store in the world. Within a year Tower Records as we knew it was out of business.
That summer the mighty Motorhead celebrated their 30th anniversary and the Foo Fighters celebrated 10 years by releasing In Your Honor. Dream Theater released Octavarium and summer 1975 veteran Alice Cooper was back with Dirty Diamonds.
But what was blasting in most of those white earbuds spotted at the Tower Cafe was Avenged Sevenfold‘s major label debut, City of Evil.
So here we are, summer 2015, fifty summers of heavy music behind us. Muscle cars are back, and there’s a record store across the street again from where I sit beneath the palm tree outside of Tower Cafe. Hard rock and heavy metal have never been bigger. No matter where you live, chances are there’s a festival coming to a site near you.
Read More: The Sounds of Summer: The Changing Landscape of Heavy Music |
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