Walls of Jericho (USA)
As if anyone's really uncertain anymore, here's another brutal readjustment of the stone-age misconception: a female vocalist can and will suit at the front of a metal band at least as tightly as her male colleagues. A loud reminder of this fact is served at this summer's Ilosaarirock Festival by Walls of Jericho, coming straight from the USA and frontwomaned by Candace Kucsulain.
Walls of Jericho crystallised from the ashes of two other Detroit-based bands in 1998. Their early years were characterised by a steady upward rise and a number of gigs with such names as Earth Crisis, Skinlab and In Flames, but an increasing friction caused by many changes in the line-up finally forced the band to retire from the scene until 2003. Since then, the band has been toiling relentlessly and spitting out full-length albums with an even two-year recovery period in between.
Walls of Jericho has been touring the world and gaining field experience by the side of Stone Sour, whose vocalist Corey Taylor (also known from one Slipknot) has produced for Walls of Jericho an EP where even the rock standard House of the Rising Sun gets covered in a unique acoustic hard rock style. This is a fine example of how this band is not going to watch the city fortifications tumble down in a too stony-faced or puritan manner, no matter how raw their own field of expertise may sometimes sound.
The band's metalcore has been bringing the walls down in small punk rock joints and sizeable concert halls alike, and an indefatigable audience that constantly cries for more and for louder can only feed more diesel to this engine. This gig is sure to leave you with endorphins running and smiles going through the ceiling. But not before we have spurred the Midwest five into throwing us the performance of their lives.
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