UP THE IRONS!!!!
FOREVER!!!!!!!

Maiden is just a band that never disappoints. There’s no ‘rock star’ ego there. They come out with the intention of blowing the doors off the place and playing the best gig for the fans, and they succeed marvelously. The energy that emits from the stage is indescribable unless you’ve seen them play. These guys are in top form and I can’t wait to see them again. I’m having major Maiden withdrawal now after that gig. There’s also something to be said for Maiden fans as well. They are the most loyal, yet friendly crowd I’ve ever seen.

Sorry if I’m gushing.. That was a night I’ll never forget, and I cannot wait to see them again. Up the Irons!

The only sad thing is that they no longer tour as they did back in the 80’s and 90’s, when I had a chance to catch them 5-6 times on a tour in my local area, but hey they deserve the break, and as long as they keep coming around I will be happy.

The point i am trying to prove is that i am not some school girl goth who is not going to grow up and neither are they. They are very good musicians but you just have to have the right kind of mind set. For instance i HATE hip hop and rap and pop music, but that does not mean they are bad musicians just that it is not my type of music. I do not hate the people who sing the music, i hate them for how rude they are to people like me before they even get to know us. They know nothing about us yet they assume they know it all just as you have done. I admit that i do not know a damn thing about you so i can not call you a jerk or say that you have a bad taste of music. All i can ask is that you ease up a bit on the Cruxshadows and try to know them and why they play the music they do.

Thank you very much and have a fantastic day!

This review is not written by one of my regular writers, nor is the music reflective of what we cover here on Life In A Bungalo. I was contacted a little over a year ago by the writer who was interested in contributing to the site with music reviews from the Chicago scene.

I told him that was fine, but that we really only cover garage rock, punk, and psychobilly. We went back and forth on a few bands and I allowed the Cruxshadows review because they kinda have that dark goth style that some of the bands we cover share.

He went to the show, panned it, and mocked the band. The review is slanted, but he does a good job describing the situation and the show. Is he taking some creative license with the review? More than likely. Normally, I would pull it down, but after hearing what they sound like on iTunes I can’t argue that the band does not rock. At least not in the way we feel bands should rock.

I’m going to stand by the review and leave it up. But I do want to thank you guys for singlehandedly spiking my visit rate and boosting advertiser and non Cruxshadow reader interest.

I hope you take the time and peruse the rest of the site and leave feedback elsewhere.

For the record, this writer no longer writes for Life In A Bungalo.

Take care

-g-

oh also- do you think it was right to exploit your sexuality when you started this band and you were all 15?

I’d like to propose a task. Find me another internationally known band that is hailed as the forerunners of their genre that is as humble and attentive to their fans. Before I knew who they were, I was a 16 year old girl curious about their music at a sci-fi convention in Atlanta, GA. And Rogue sat down and talked to me for near an hour. Name one band that popular who’s lead singer would take time out of his own day to spend an hour talking about his music to a young girl curious about it.

I accept the fact that not everyone is going to like their music, they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. But I agree with the poster that commented that your review was over the line of being just flat out disrespectful.

Feel free to insult the music all you want. Sure, a lot of the songs sound the same, when you’re only listening to a small portion of it. And I’m sure songs referancing Greek, Roman, Christian, Egyptian, and several other sets of mythologies could bore some people. But when you step over the bounds of reviewing the music and start insulting the people creating the music, it is no longer a review.

I wish you knowledge
dreadfully yours,
Jess

However your “review” crossed the line into disrespectful. Those people (whose music I happen to love and find inspiring, and I am by no means an angst ridden teenager listening to it in a darkened room!) are doing something that most people can’t….they successfully captivate audience and build dedicated followings wherever they play. I assume, since you feel so free to criticize their “apparent” lack of talent, that you were only there on a much needed break from your own tour?
What was your point in mentioning Rogues’s name? Do you think anyone ever thought Rogue was his given name? What he chooses to be known as is up to him, that is the persona he chooses to be on stage, and really, what right do you have to even comment on it?

And finally, I hate to be the one to tell you but, while you criticize his “whining” on stage, consider how this post makes you sound….
No one is forcing you to listen to music you don’t like, so just grow up and let other people listen to what makes them happy

I believe you went to just poke fun at the goths. This is precisely the reason that most mundanes should be banned from Goth events. They are just there to give goths a hard time

Boys well into their 20’s still acting out their 16-yr old, teenage rage and rebellion through bad music, “unique” mismatched homeless guy style, and forged egos. And somehow they’re multiplying and expanding in packs despite the amount of two-faced, back stabbing, and shit talk that seems to explode from their crooked mouths.

When did the desire to represent oneself as an over-the-top fan of redundant music and brotherly allegiance turn into this CRAP? The hardcore scene, the scene-scene – really, it is all the same. It’s a bullshit attempt by a bunch of kids to go run as far away from normality and a similar America. But on their endeavor to a new, helicopter-kicking, air-punching, and almost ostentatiously unique fad, they’ve crawled their grungy ass’s into another extremist “group” called hardcore. There is nothing distinctive or special about their so-called way of life. Their alleged loyalty can be defined as who’s the cooler “gang” (and yes, they CALL THEMSELVES GANGS HERE IN RICHMOND) with the ability to turn the newer, younger, fresh out of high-school with their strong ethics and recently healing straightedge tattoos into their bitches. A bunch of short-man syndrome, daddy didn’t love me enough, my only chance to have a family assholes. And no, this isn’t hate, it’s simply an opinion. And, of course, we all know we can have an opinion. Hell, if we didn’t, we all know you’d have no crappy scene to call your own. =)

Suzy~

Believe me when I tell you that in the life project I’m executing right now, you guys ideas and messages are the pillar of it. Please, never stop writing the songs you write and never stop spreading the message you spread in each song youguys have ever written and perform. This world needs it.

Cheers for Colombia, South America.

I find you incredibly pathetic commenting on a guy’s pants and hair style. You obviously don’t listen to music but only go to shows to check out the guys around you. Why do you care what kind of pants he wears? What do you wear, huh? You probably look disgusting yourself. Judge the book by it’s cover again. Sad.