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| Otep, The Boardwalk, Orangevale: Generation Doom tour |
One of the things I love most about
Otep tours--apart from
Otep's own performance, of course--is that I'm always introduced to at least on superb band, who, without the
Otep tour, I might not be lucky enough to hear, or find out about.
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| Sydney Dolezal, Doll Skin, at The Boardwalk, Orangevale |
A couple of
years or so back, it was One-Eyed Doll (who will be back at the Boardwalk themselves soon). Last year,
Downfall 2012 were new-to-me and memorable. Seeing
Otep in 2014 is memorable for another, sadder reason--Wayne Static was headlining, and it was only a few months before his untimely death. But this week, at the Boardwalk in Orangevale again? Otep introduced us to
Doll Skin, and they put more hard rock musicianship, energy and sheer musical presence into less-than-an-hour onstage than most grown-up dudes do in a lifetime of garages. Sixteen, seventeen and nineteen years old, these young ladies have a long and successful career ahead of them. It's not gone unnoticed: they are under David Ellefson's (Megadeth) wing, and released their debut album, In Your Face, on Megaforce in October last year.Doll Skin are Sydney Dolezal (16), vocals; Alex Snowden (16), guitar; Nicole Rich (17), bass; Meghan Shea Herring (19), drums.
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| Nicole Rich, Doll Skin |
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| Alex Snowden, , Doll Skin |
Look out for
Doll Skin. They are stealing the show.
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| Meghan Shea Herring, Doll Skin |
Also on the bill on Tuesday was
September Mourning,
seen last year at Aftershock festival in Elverta, with the unique mix of graphic-novel caricature and hard rock, It will be interesting to see what this band develops into over the next couple of year; how will the characters and music grow?
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| September Mourning, The Boardwalk, Orangevale |
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| September Mourning |
Main support for Tuesday's show was Lacey Sturm, previously lead singer with Flyleaf (and with her fellow Flyleaf band member, and husband, playing guitar in her band. Her
first solo album, Life Screams, is available now, and includes a really nice, different, cover of the
Police's Roxanne. Also in Lacey's setlist: Flyleaf's Chasm and All Around Me, plus songs from Life Screams, the entire album being well worth attention. Lacey will be supporting Otep on several more, but not all, of the
tour dates--check here.
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| Lacey Sturm, The Boardwalk, Orangevale |
And then
Otep! Leading up to tomorrow's release of
Generation Doom (Friday 15th April), the album
has been streaming this week on Billboard; some very recognizable Otep-metal-poetry-song, some more melodic, even a cover of
Lorde's Royals... Generation Doom, in its entirety, a much-awaited, anticipated and worth-the-wait follow-up to 2013's
Hydra. (I'm eagerly awaiting my colored vinyl which arrives tomorrow, release day, while listening to the streamed version while writing this... it's good. It's very, very good!)
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| Otep, Generation Doom |
From the emotion and melody of In Cold Blood to the poetic fight of Equal Right Equal Left,
Generation Doom is both provocative and memorable. Otep Shamaya's voice, one moment a screaming banshee, the next, as beautiful as sunrise. Yes provocative. Yes, memorable. Yes, articulate indeed.
Articulate, activist,
Otep, in the house at the Boardwalk. Very good show; very good tour. Catch a date if you can:
its a long tour, across most of the USA. And it's only just begun!
Photo galleries:
Otep: (seriously, seriously low light):
http://www.alisontoon.com/-/galleries/music/otep/otep-boardwalk-apr-16
Lacey Sturm:
http://www.alisontoon.com/-/galleries/music/lacey-sturm
September Mourning: (seriously low light):
http://www.alisontoon.com/-/galleries/music/september-mourning/september-mourning-apr-16
Doll Skin (lights!!! thank you!!!):
http://www.alisontoon.com/-/galleries/music/doll-skin
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| Otep, The Boardwalk, Orangevale |
(Otep: "He called me a dyke, I called him an ambulance.") I'm still laughing about that one.
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