Before the Fall
Exploding into the Worcester hard rock scene in 2007, Before the Fall has become one of the local acts in the area to see live! With obvious comparisons to Evanescence, Flyleaf, and Paramore, the band actually more resembles a Tool, Guns and Roses, Alice in Chains cross-over with a female soulful front. Don’t expect B4TF to go radio mainstream. They are true to the spirit of hard rock and continue…
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.Before The Fall
The Before, Before the Fall
by Rondlyn Hawthorne
1. Tell us a little bit about your band / group / solo career. Where and when did you get started; what was the driving motivation for starting, something about the band /group / solo career that most people do not know?
Michael Gendron attended U.G.A. for Music Theory and Performance and has played in all genres of bands, ensembles, and groups. Michael tends to write most of the music and/or arranges the music and produces it. Jon McGee writes a lot of the rhythmic guitar riffs and helps shape the music, Jon is an avid snowboarder. Jon and Misty are a couple. Misty Silva’s father wrote the theme song for Worcester, MA and has hundreds of jingles for TV and Radio. Misty is mom to two children. Dan Racine plays in two bands. His girlfriend Stephanie works our merchandise table at every show. Nick Brown plays in a few bands of varying genres including a hard core metal band and a jam rock band in addition to Before The Fall
2. What is your biggest achievement or major accomplishment since you have been performing?
Before The Fall has opened for Hurt, Mudvayne, Non Point. We have played 2-3 sold out shows. We headlined the Charity4Concepts event at the Worcester Palladium.
3. What were your biggest obstacles in obtaining to your goals?
Money is always the obstacle as it costs money to keep the marketing wheel going within a band. Money to buy gear. Money to buy gas, insurance, and rent trailers. Money to rent buses for fans. Money to promote shows.
4. Besides your own stuff, what music are you currently listening to?
Alice in Chains, Kings of Leon, Drowning Pool, Carnival, Unearth, linkin Park
5. What community issue or social cause is most important to yourself or the group ?
Music in our school systems – its how most of us developed our music skills by playing instruments in school
6. What have you or your group recently done to give back to the community?
We raised $3,000 for the Firechild program
7. What do you think of Concepts4Charity and our mission of engaging youth in philanthropy through sports and the arts?
We have been fans of it since Jamie Dillon with ECI turned us on to it about 6 months ago
8. Where do you see yourself or the group in Ten Years?
The group is tight, we are all friends, we all love what we do, we play for joy so we will probably be on our 7th album by then
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Support Music For Worcester Kids With BEFORE THE FALL
Support after-school music programs for kids in Worcester! The members of Before The Fall may be serious about playing music, and having a good time, but when it comes to helping kids, it's all about getting serious and helping the cause.
This past weekend, a two-night charity event call Loud & Proud VI was held, organized by ECI Productions (Jamie Dillon) and Concerts 4 Charity at the Palladium in Worcester MA, aiming to establish an after-school music program in Worcester for kids. Before The Fall headlined the event.
You can still show your support for these after school music programs now. PLEASE make your contribution to the cause. Email the band Before The Fall and pledge your donation. ALL MONEY GOES TO THIS CHARITY. The email address for your pledge/donation is band@beforethefall.net
Other bands at the Loud & Proud VI concert were: Lot 54, Hour Before Dawn, Through The Enemy, A Simple Complex.
Additional information about BEFORE THE FALL can be found at www.myspace.com/livebeforethefall or www.reverbnation.com/livebeforethefall On August 18, 2009, Before The Fall hit #1 on ReverbNation's New England Rock Charts out of 30,000 local bands. According to R.N.,B4TF is averaging over 500 music plays and video plays per day. Check out their CD reviews from Noise, Worcester, Pulse, RoughEdge, SX, Wired, JP and others.
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Loud & Proud And saving music
2-day concert At Palladium benefits kids
By Richard Duckett TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
rduckett@telegram.com
Before The Fall will headline Saturday's lineup at The Palladium.
Loud & Proud VI will start revving up at 7 tonight as a two-night benefit concert featuring 11 area bands at The Palladium, 261 Main St., Worcester.
The goal is to raise $5,000 to $10,000 to help establish a guitar program called FireChild for students in Worcester schools. The organizers and bands are donating their efforts gratis — and everyone seems proud about it.
“The performers are donating their time. There’s not even a guest list. They’re paying for their girlfriends to go to the show,” said Kaleem Clarkson, national director of Concepts4Charity, which is putting on the shows as part of its Concerts4Charity program in conjunction with ECI Productions.
Saturday’s lineup features Before The Fall, Lot 54, Hour Before Dawn, Through the Enemy and A Simple Complex.
Concepts4Charity already operates a FireChild program in Sacramento schools that arranges guitar instruction and provides instruments. The organization’s other projects include a Hip Hop Culture program that has been implemented at University Park Campus School and South Community High School in Worcester.
The roots of the concept go back a bit in time and place — although the place was always The Palladium.
In the late 1990s some friends living in Worcester who all worked at The Palladium had the idea of producing concerts to raise money for good causes. Clarkson was one of the founders of what has now become Concepts4Charity. He was a student at Worcester State College and worked in security at The Palladium.
Early beneficiaries of these efforts included the American Red Cross, the Audio Journal, and the People in Peril shelter. 2001 saw the first Loud & Proud concert — intended at the time to help raise money for the families of victims of 9-11.
Concepts4Charity officially became a nonprofit organization in 2002. None of its administrators is paid and several founding members have moved — Clay Nutting to Sacramento, for example (and helping to implement FireChild there), and Clarkson to Georgia, where he works in college administration. So the organization has developed a national scope along with projects and concerts and events to help fund them. “We’ve spread out and done some great work,” Clarkson said. But the organization’s official base is still Worcester, The Palladium is very much still in play, and the volunteering and playing of local bands remains an important part of the whole context and concept.
“Without the local bands we would not be able to exist over the years,” Clarkson said during a telephone interview from Atlanta. “It’s really all the local bands playing for free. It’s just remarkable. We can’t thank them enough, actually.”
Loud & Proud has not revved up every year since 2001. There have been breaks, and the beneficiaries have changed. And it is doubtful there would have been a Loud & Proud this year had not Jamie Dillon, owner of ECI (East Coast Image) and a promoter and event manager, stepped forward to volunteer to help manage the event, Clarkson said.
“I really wanted to do something,” Dillon said about supporting FireChild and highlighting local bands. In recruiting bands she was looking for people who would be behind the benefit’s goals as well as being a good fit for the Palladium. “Everyone has to be on board 100 percent for it to work — from the music to supporting the cause,” she said. In the end, “I actually had to turn away bands after it had been booked. The interest is there.”
In the past, Loud & Proud had been a one-day event with lots of bands and the emphasis on heavy metal. The very first concert was “one long, long day” with 32 bands on two stages, Clarkson recalled.
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"Slow Descent" (Self-released; 2009)
Reviewed by R. Scott Bolton
For a band with a female lead vocalist, Before the Fall sure has some balls.
"Slow Descent" is probably unlike anything you've ever heard before. The songs are basically driving rhythms heavy with raw, rough-edged guitar riffs that are paired with powerful, passionate female vocals. What's interesting is that, if you heard the two separate from each other, you'd swear they would never work together. Put them together, however, and you've got an impressively heavy yet soulful collection of tunes that you can't help but get caught up in.
Comparisons to bands like Evanescence are unavoidable, yet Before the Fall are bolder in their songwriting style and performance. The lyrics are genuine and emotional and the songwriting style daring and unique. Throughout the 12 track CD, the band provides an impressive, non-repetitive collection of killer riffs and leads and vocalist Misty Silva has a voice that means business.
If there's any complaint about this CD it's that the production is a little sterile. With the right producer (or perhaps the right equipment), "Slow Descent" would have benefitted from a little more depth in sound. It isn't bad as is; it could have just used a little more punch and some smoothing.
It will be interesting to see where Before the Fall goes in the future. With a CD as promising as "Slow Descent," things could get exciting for the band very quickly.
Before the Fall: Michael Gendron, Jon McGee, Misty Silva, Dan Racine, Nick Brown.
For more information, check out http://www.myspace.com/livebeforethefall or http://www.beforethefall.net.
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B4TF after much anticipation is playing Church of Boston the first show after taking the summer off to write new material.
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We will be announcing a special show in Worcester, MA at the Palladium in September
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GRADUATE
Before the Fall
By Rebecca Carter
When The Pulse first met up with Before the Fall, they were a local alt-metal band on the rise, having just completed their first EP “In the Garden.” And now, just under one year later, Before the Fall has released their first full length album, Slow Descent, and enjoyed a stint opening for Mudvayne and Nonpoint. Lead singer Misty Silva filled us in on where the band has been and where they’re going.
What makes Slow Descent different from your EP?
The first demo was to be used for promotion and we gave it away to people, the whole album was recorded in a day, there was no mix or mastering. Our latest work, Slow , is an actual album although the band wishes we had more time to record, produce, fix and master more. We were under a time constraint to meet our CD release at Hard Rock on April 10, 2009.
What was the inspiration behind the album?
The music behind the vocals was written over the last 2 years by Michael Gendron and Jon McGee. Jon was inspired by darker times and bouts of depression. The music forced him to rethink the fundamental ideology of “What is life” while Michael struggled to balance Jon’s metal influence with a more rock and radio style of writing. [It’s] a true duel personification of blending genres and decades of influences into a structured package, while Michael writes … with formal theory training, Jon writes from pure, deep, and poetic emotion.
Have you done any touring outside of New England?
After opening for Mudvayne/Non Point, we were invited to perform at the Indie Metal / Rock Showcase in Chicago, IL where we played at the Portage. We were to get a music mideo, interview footage and professional photography by Mark Goles with BangupTV, but according to promoter PapaG Productions, Mark Goles took off with the footage and we have not heard anything since April 2009. It is a shame because the place was awesome and there were like 4 HD cameras going and a few thousand people there. It would have been an awesome video. We also toured to Detroit’s legendary iRock show bar and Pittsburgh’s Lighthouse, wrapping up the tour at Boston’s Hard Rock Café playing to a full house.
And what do you have in the works right now?
Presently, we are looking at a charity show at The Palladium in September for concepts4charity.org. We play our last show of the summer at Middle East on 6/5 with Lionel of Onslaught Entertainment.
We won’t record our next album until spring of 2010, unless we get some form of financial sponsorship. We are also working on a tour to Atlanta, GA. Since we are taking the summer off from shows, we have been working on our marketing system.
For more information, including music samples and tour dates, check out myspace.com/livebeforethefall
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BEFORE THE FALL
Slow Descent
12-song CD
The voice of Misty Silva is that of a passionate, empowered woman who strives to make her voice heard, with a burning desire (or need, rather) to tell her story to the masses. Slow Descent, the band’s latest release, is expressed in the form of a highly energized, alternative assault. With a formula similar to that of Evanescence, (just one of their many influences) intense, emotive lyricism is paired with hard-hitting guitar solos and infectious melodies. Hard rock enthusiasts will take pleasure in the riffs of the album’s opener, “Vicious,” and the way in which each song to follow is as equally passionate as it is edgy, electronic and full of depth. Darkness is demonstrated through the doom and gloom of “Save Me,” as well as “Vein,” and is kicked up a notch (if that was even possible) through “Brutal,” which is well… brutal. A band such as this, a self-proclaimed “soundgasm the likes of which you’ve never heard,” surely does have something for every individual, and every musical taste. (Julia R. DeStefano)
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
WORCESTER MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Before the Fall
Written by Doreen Manning
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Original rock with a feminine touch
By Doreen Manning
Before the Fall has been through several incarnations, but at the heart of this rock ensemble are two founding members, Michael Gendron on lead guitar and Jonathan McGee on rhythm. For the past two years the band has solidified its Goth-tinged heavy rock with their original tunes, and along with the recent addition of Worcester native Misty Silva, their new CD Slow Decent has brought them to Ralph’s Chadwick Diner to share some new tunes on May 22.
With Silva’s girrl power infused vocals, comparisons to Evanescence are sure to follow, but the band feels that their sound is a blend of many various influences. “We … add a lot of chordal progressions, music theory, structure and rhythmic qualities” says Gendron. “Our songs have a lot of moving pieces melody, sub melody and counter melody. Some of our songs are radio potential while others are for ‘live’ shows, and as a group we are okay with that.”
Check out Before the Fall over at Ralph’s on May 22, or listen to a few tunes yourself at myspace.com/livebeforethefall.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
CD Review: Before The Fall’s Slow Decent Is Anything But Slow
Fellow New Englanders, Before The Fall, have released their latest hard-rockin' album, "Slow Decent". Before The Fall have been hailed as one of the premier Boston bands to see live. Their buzz-saw guitar sound rips through heavy drum beats with lead singer Misty Silva’s singing pulling it all together.
Their latest release is a 12 song attack that rocks. Silva's voice on the opening song "Vicious" grabs hold of you and pulls you in. Once inside, you'll be subject to deep lyrics, pounding drums, and grinding guitar solos. The songs are sung with a passion that goes to the brink of a scream before sustaining the notes. The dual guitars on the song "With You" keeps the band's edginess while hitting the solos. "Control" has the band running on all cylinders with its pulsating drums and bass groove. The dark lyrics of "Save Me" and "Vein" give way to the heavier sounding "Brutal" and closing song "Shut Up And Take It".
Before The Fall's formula is similar to Evanescence with its hard rock sound and sultry singing. If you're in the Boston area, be sure to catch their live show. The band's next show is April 24 at Maximum Capacity in Chicopee, MA. For more information about the band and song samples, please visit www.beforethefall.net.
http://jpsmusicblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/cd-review-before-falls-slow-decent-is.html
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Before The Fall / Blog
Charity4Concepts Featured Artist... Before The Fall
Before the Fall Exploding into the Worcester hard rock scene in 2007, Before the Fall has become one of the local acts in the area to see live! With obvious comparisons to Evanescence, Flyleaf, and Paramore, the band actually more resembles a Tool, Guns and Roses, Alice in Chains cross-over with a female soulful front. Don’t expect B4TF to go radio mainstream. They are true to the spirit of hard rock and continue… more .Before The Fall The Before, Before the Fall by Rondlyn Hawthorne 1. Tell us a little bit about your band / group / solo career. Where and when did you get started; what was the driving motivation for starting, something about the band /group / solo career that most people do not know? Michael Gendron attended U.G.A. for Music Theory and Performance and has played in all genres of bands, ensembles, and groups. Michael tends to write most of the music and/or arranges the music and produces it. Jon McGee writes a lot of the rhythmic guitar riffs and helps shape the music, Jon is an avid snowboarder. Jon and Misty are a couple. Misty Silva’s father wrote the theme song for Worcester, MA and has hundreds of jingles for TV and Radio. Misty is mom to two children. Dan Racine plays in two bands. His girlfriend Stephanie works our merchandise table at every show. Nick Brown plays in a few bands of varying genres including a hard core metal band and a jam rock band in addition to Before The Fall 2. What is your biggest achievement or major accomplishment since you have been performing? Before The Fall has opened for Hurt, Mudvayne, Non Point. We have played 2-3 sold out shows. We headlined the Charity4Concepts event at the Worcester Palladium. 3. What were your biggest obstacles in obtaining to your goals? Money is always the obstacle as it costs money to keep the marketing wheel going within a band. Money to buy gear. Money to buy gas, insurance, and rent trailers. Money to rent buses for fans. Money to promote shows. 4. Besides your own stuff, what music are you currently listening to? Alice in Chains, Kings of Leon, Drowning Pool, Carnival, Unearth, linkin Park 5. What community issue or social cause is most important to yourself or the group ? Music in our school systems – its how most of us developed our music skills by playing instruments in school 6. What have you or your group recently done to give back to the community? We raised $3,000 for the Firechild program 7. What do you think of Concepts4Charity and our mission of engaging youth in philanthropy through sports and the arts? We have been fans of it since Jamie Dillon with ECI turned us on to it about 6 months ago 8. Where do you see yourself or the group in Ten Years? The group is tight, we are all friends, we all love what we do, we play for joy so we will probably be on our 7th album by then
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WXLO 104.5 Worcester's Radio Station
E-mail This Page | Print This Page Support Music For Worcester Kids With BEFORE THE FALL Support after-school music programs for kids in Worcester! The members of Before The Fall may be serious about playing music, and having a good time, but when it comes to helping kids, it's all about getting serious and helping the cause. This past weekend, a two-night charity event call Loud & Proud VI was held, organized by ECI Productions (Jamie Dillon) and Concerts 4 Charity at the Palladium in Worcester MA, aiming to establish an after-school music program in Worcester for kids. Before The Fall headlined the event. You can still show your support for these after school music programs now. PLEASE make your contribution to the cause. Email the band Before The Fall and pledge your donation. ALL MONEY GOES TO THIS CHARITY. The email address for your pledge/donation is band@beforethefall.net Other bands at the Loud & Proud VI concert were: Lot 54, Hour Before Dawn, Through The Enemy, A Simple Complex. Additional information about BEFORE THE FALL can be found at www.myspace.com/livebeforethefall or www.reverbnation.com/livebeforethefall On August 18, 2009, Before The Fall hit #1 on ReverbNation's New England Rock Charts out of 30,000 local bands. According to R.N.,B4TF is averaging over 500 music plays and video plays per day. Check out their CD reviews from Noise, Worcester, Pulse, RoughEdge, SX, Wired, JP and others.
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Worcester TELEGRAM & GAZETTE 9/4/09
Loud & Proud And saving music 2-day concert At Palladium benefits kids By Richard Duckett TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF rduckett@telegram.com Before The Fall will headline Saturday's lineup at The Palladium. Loud & Proud VI will start revving up at 7 tonight as a two-night benefit concert featuring 11 area bands at The Palladium, 261 Main St., Worcester. The goal is to raise $5,000 to $10,000 to help establish a guitar program called FireChild for students in Worcester schools. The organizers and bands are donating their efforts gratis — and everyone seems proud about it. “The performers are donating their time. There’s not even a guest list. They’re paying for their girlfriends to go to the show,” said Kaleem Clarkson, national director of Concepts4Charity, which is putting on the shows as part of its Concerts4Charity program in conjunction with ECI Productions. Saturday’s lineup features Before The Fall, Lot 54, Hour Before Dawn, Through the Enemy and A Simple Complex. Concepts4Charity already operates a FireChild program in Sacramento schools that arranges guitar instruction and provides instruments. The organization’s other projects include a Hip Hop Culture program that has been implemented at University Park Campus School and South Community High School in Worcester. The roots of the concept go back a bit in time and place — although the place was always The Palladium. In the late 1990s some friends living in Worcester who all worked at The Palladium had the idea of producing concerts to raise money for good causes. Clarkson was one of the founders of what has now become Concepts4Charity. He was a student at Worcester State College and worked in security at The Palladium. Early beneficiaries of these efforts included the American Red Cross, the Audio Journal, and the People in Peril shelter. 2001 saw the first Loud & Proud concert — intended at the time to help raise money for the families of victims of 9-11. Concepts4Charity officially became a nonprofit organization in 2002. None of its administrators is paid and several founding members have moved — Clay Nutting to Sacramento, for example (and helping to implement FireChild there), and Clarkson to Georgia, where he works in college administration. So the organization has developed a national scope along with projects and concerts and events to help fund them. “We’ve spread out and done some great work,” Clarkson said. But the organization’s official base is still Worcester, The Palladium is very much still in play, and the volunteering and playing of local bands remains an important part of the whole context and concept. “Without the local bands we would not be able to exist over the years,” Clarkson said during a telephone interview from Atlanta. “It’s really all the local bands playing for free. It’s just remarkable. We can’t thank them enough, actually.” Loud & Proud has not revved up every year since 2001. There have been breaks, and the beneficiaries have changed. And it is doubtful there would have been a Loud & Proud this year had not Jamie Dillon, owner of ECI (East Coast Image) and a promoter and event manager, stepped forward to volunteer to help manage the event, Clarkson said. “I really wanted to do something,” Dillon said about supporting FireChild and highlighting local bands. In recruiting bands she was looking for people who would be behind the benefit’s goals as well as being a good fit for the Palladium. “Everyone has to be on board 100 percent for it to work — from the music to supporting the cause,” she said. In the end, “I actually had to turn away bands after it had been booked. The interest is there.” In the past, Loud & Proud had been a one-day event with lots of bands and the emphasis on heavy metal. The very first concert was “one long, long day” with 32 bands on two stages, Clarkson recalled.
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8/13/09 RoughEdge.com R. Scott Bolton
"Slow Descent" (Self-released; 2009) Reviewed by R. Scott Bolton For a band with a female lead vocalist, Before the Fall sure has some balls. "Slow Descent" is probably unlike anything you've ever heard before. The songs are basically driving rhythms heavy with raw, rough-edged guitar riffs that are paired with powerful, passionate female vocals. What's interesting is that, if you heard the two separate from each other, you'd swear they would never work together. Put them together, however, and you've got an impressively heavy yet soulful collection of tunes that you can't help but get caught up in. Comparisons to bands like Evanescence are unavoidable, yet Before the Fall are bolder in their songwriting style and performance. The lyrics are genuine and emotional and the songwriting style daring and unique. Throughout the 12 track CD, the band provides an impressive, non-repetitive collection of killer riffs and leads and vocalist Misty Silva has a voice that means business. If there's any complaint about this CD it's that the production is a little sterile. With the right producer (or perhaps the right equipment), "Slow Descent" would have benefitted from a little more depth in sound. It isn't bad as is; it could have just used a little more punch and some smoothing. It will be interesting to see where Before the Fall goes in the future. With a CD as promising as "Slow Descent," things could get exciting for the band very quickly. Before the Fall: Michael Gendron, Jon McGee, Misty Silva, Dan Racine, Nick Brown. For more information, check out http://www.myspace.com/livebeforethefall or http://www.beforethefall.net.
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Before The Fall
B4TF after much anticipation is playing Church of Boston the first show after taking the summer off to write new material. 21 and up $10 Boston, MA We will be announcing a special show in Worcester, MA at the Palladium in September
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Pulse Magazine Worcester, MA
GRADUATE Before the Fall By Rebecca Carter When The Pulse first met up with Before the Fall, they were a local alt-metal band on the rise, having just completed their first EP “In the Garden.” And now, just under one year later, Before the Fall has released their first full length album, Slow Descent, and enjoyed a stint opening for Mudvayne and Nonpoint. Lead singer Misty Silva filled us in on where the band has been and where they’re going. What makes Slow Descent different from your EP? The first demo was to be used for promotion and we gave it away to people, the whole album was recorded in a day, there was no mix or mastering. Our latest work, Slow , is an actual album although the band wishes we had more time to record, produce, fix and master more. We were under a time constraint to meet our CD release at Hard Rock on April 10, 2009. What was the inspiration behind the album? The music behind the vocals was written over the last 2 years by Michael Gendron and Jon McGee. Jon was inspired by darker times and bouts of depression. The music forced him to rethink the fundamental ideology of “What is life” while Michael struggled to balance Jon’s metal influence with a more rock and radio style of writing. [It’s] a true duel personification of blending genres and decades of influences into a structured package, while Michael writes … with formal theory training, Jon writes from pure, deep, and poetic emotion. Have you done any touring outside of New England? After opening for Mudvayne/Non Point, we were invited to perform at the Indie Metal / Rock Showcase in Chicago, IL where we played at the Portage. We were to get a music mideo, interview footage and professional photography by Mark Goles with BangupTV, but according to promoter PapaG Productions, Mark Goles took off with the footage and we have not heard anything since April 2009. It is a shame because the place was awesome and there were like 4 HD cameras going and a few thousand people there. It would have been an awesome video. We also toured to Detroit’s legendary iRock show bar and Pittsburgh’s Lighthouse, wrapping up the tour at Boston’s Hard Rock Café playing to a full house. And what do you have in the works right now? Presently, we are looking at a charity show at The Palladium in September for concepts4charity.org. We play our last show of the summer at Middle East on 6/5 with Lionel of Onslaught Entertainment. We won’t record our next album until spring of 2010, unless we get some form of financial sponsorship. We are also working on a tour to Atlanta, GA. Since we are taking the summer off from shows, we have been working on our marketing system. For more information, including music samples and tour dates, check out myspace.com/livebeforethefall
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The Noise Magazine
BEFORE THE FALL Slow Descent 12-song CD The voice of Misty Silva is that of a passionate, empowered woman who strives to make her voice heard, with a burning desire (or need, rather) to tell her story to the masses. Slow Descent, the band’s latest release, is expressed in the form of a highly energized, alternative assault. With a formula similar to that of Evanescence, (just one of their many influences) intense, emotive lyricism is paired with hard-hitting guitar solos and infectious melodies. Hard rock enthusiasts will take pleasure in the riffs of the album’s opener, “Vicious,” and the way in which each song to follow is as equally passionate as it is edgy, electronic and full of depth. Darkness is demonstrated through the doom and gloom of “Save Me,” as well as “Vein,” and is kicked up a notch (if that was even possible) through “Brutal,” which is well… brutal. A band such as this, a self-proclaimed “soundgasm the likes of which you’ve never heard,” surely does have something for every individual, and every musical taste. (Julia R. DeStefano)
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WORCESTER MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 WORCESTER MAGAZINE ARTICLE Before the Fall Written by Doreen Manning Wednesday, 20 May 2009 Original rock with a feminine touch By Doreen Manning Before the Fall has been through several incarnations, but at the heart of this rock ensemble are two founding members, Michael Gendron on lead guitar and Jonathan McGee on rhythm. For the past two years the band has solidified its Goth-tinged heavy rock with their original tunes, and along with the recent addition of Worcester native Misty Silva, their new CD Slow Decent has brought them to Ralph’s Chadwick Diner to share some new tunes on May 22. With Silva’s girrl power infused vocals, comparisons to Evanescence are sure to follow, but the band feels that their sound is a blend of many various influences. “We … add a lot of chordal progressions, music theory, structure and rhythmic qualities” says Gendron. “Our songs have a lot of moving pieces melody, sub melody and counter melody. Some of our songs are radio potential while others are for ‘live’ shows, and as a group we are okay with that.” Check out Before the Fall over at Ralph’s on May 22, or listen to a few tunes yourself at myspace.com/livebeforethefall.
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CD Review - Slow Descent 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009 CD Review: Before The Fall’s Slow Decent Is Anything But Slow Fellow New Englanders, Before The Fall, have released their latest hard-rockin' album, "Slow Decent". Before The Fall have been hailed as one of the premier Boston bands to see live. Their buzz-saw guitar sound rips through heavy drum beats with lead singer Misty Silva’s singing pulling it all together. Their latest release is a 12 song attack that rocks. Silva's voice on the opening song "Vicious" grabs hold of you and pulls you in. Once inside, you'll be subject to deep lyrics, pounding drums, and grinding guitar solos. The songs are sung with a passion that goes to the brink of a scream before sustaining the notes. The dual guitars on the song "With You" keeps the band's edginess while hitting the solos. "Control" has the band running on all cylinders with its pulsating drums and bass groove. The dark lyrics of "Save Me" and "Vein" give way to the heavier sounding "Brutal" and closing song "Shut Up And Take It". Before The Fall's formula is similar to Evanescence with its hard rock sound and sultry singing. If you're in the Boston area, be sure to catch their live show. The band's next show is April 24 at Maximum Capacity in Chicopee, MA. For more information about the band and song samples, please visit www.beforethefall.net. http://jpsmusicblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/cd-review-before-falls-slow-decent-is.html
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