With Avenged Sevenfold as a controversial headliner, veterans Deep Purple and Brazilian acts from smaller stages could steal the show this Sunday
Rock in Rio celebrates its Rock Day this Sunday (15/9), bringing together classic bands and representatives of the most recent metal.
Controversial Headliner
Compared to past events that featured well-known heavy metal names, Avenged Sevenfold’s casting as headliners has divided opinion among fans of the genre, meaning tickets sold out just the day before the show. Without a strong identity, the Californian group emerged in 1999 playing metalcore, but on their third album they completely abandoned the heavier style to move closer to the more commercial elements of hard rock and progressive metal. This evolution continued on subsequent albums, with a more progressive sound, a turn towards thrash and even the incorporation of country music, which caused many purists to criticize the band for not having their own style and, moreover, for not being metal enough.
Poorly chosen Brazilian bands
But before moving on to the noise, Palco Mundo begins the presentations in a pop-rock rhythm, with Paralamas do Sucesso, a formation out of place among the long-haired guys dressed in black. They are not the only Brazilian musicians out of tune for the evening. Also performing on the Sunset stage are Barão Vermelho (or the cover band with the original members) and the rap-rock of Planet Hemp, with a special appearance by Pity. They are all very light compared to Avenged Sevenfold and the other two members of the 90s alternative metal present in the lineup, Evanescense no Mundo and Incubus no Sunset.
The highlights are on the smaller stage
Interestingly, one of the night’s alternative stages, Supernova, dedicated to Brazilian bands without much commercial appeal, features a lineup much more in line with the evening’s highlights, with an emphasis on the female band from São Paulo The Mönic, who make heavy alternative rock of extreme quality (and will perform with the thrash group Eskrota), and also for the Minas Gerais band Black Pantera, one of the best recent revelations of national rock, which combines accessible pop rock vocals with heavy instruments and is one of the few bands with black members of your style.
Online polls have shown that the two bands’ shows are more anticipated than Avenged Sevenfold’s this Sunday. However, Rock in Rio has crowned its organizational blunder by placing the artists on a stage without television coverage. None of Supernova’s shows will be televised. The other rockers who won’t be on the air are the noisy new São Paulo death metal band Crypta and the veteran Espírito Santo hardcore band Dead Fish.
Classic rock in original and cover version
Also performing on the two largest stages are white-haired rockers known for classic albums that have marked the history of rock, but who come to Rio in a very different way, the band Journey, whose hits have recently been re-proposed by series such as “Glee” and “Stranger Things”. , is basically a cover band like Barão Vermelho, with only guitarist Neal Schon as an original member. However, keyboardist Jonathan Cain has been part of the group since the band’s seventh and most successful album, 1981’s “Escape”, which includes the classic “Don’t Stop Believin'”. Cain and Schon are also responsible for keeping the band’s backstage noisy. Both elaborate on each other while playing.
Headlining the Sunset stage, Deep Purple arrive in better shape. One of the pioneers of heavy metal, the English group formed in 1968 includes classic members, such as founding drummer Ian Paice, as well as bassist Roger Glover and singer Ian Gillan, who arrived in 1969 and defined the heavier sound that identified the genre. band. This lineup was present on the band’s best albums, including “Machine Head” and the live album “Made in Japan”, released in 1972. They also returned to play together in the 1980s, after Gillan began a solo career and continued to play together. Black Saturday.
The original lineup lost keyboardist Jon Lord, who passed away in 2012, and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, who fell out with the other members in the 90s – and prefers to focus on his other band, Rainbow. He was replaced by the virtuoso Steve Morse and, for the last two years, by Simon McBride, who participated in the new and, surprisingly, good album, “=1”, released last July. Given the overall context, the veterans of Deep Purple should steal the night from Avenged Sevenfold.
Rap can surprise on Rock Day
But not everything is rock this Sunday at Rock in Rio. A curious detail of the lineup is the inclusion of artists extremely popular at Espaço Favela, such as rappers MC Hariel and MC Pose do Rodo. In addition to being more successful than some Brazilians who performed last Friday, they would make more sense than the English-Americans 21 Savage on the main stage of Trap Day. One of the most popular artists in Brazil today, MC Pose do Rodo in an alternative space is simply bizarre. And the result could be unexpected: rap steals the metal scene on a smaller stage, in full Rock.
On television
The shows will be broadcast live on the Multishow (Palcos Mundo and Sunset) and Bis (Espaço Favela and New Dance Order) channels, and on the Globoplay platform. Check the show times.
World stage
4.40pm – Paralamas do Successo
19:00 – Travel
9.15pm – Evanescence
0h – Avenged Sevenfold
Sunset stage
3:30 PM – Red Baron
5.50pm – Planet Hemp invites Pitty
8.10pm – Nightmare
10.45pm – Deep Purple
New stage of the dance order
10:00 PM – Ruback
23:30 – Binaryh
1h – Thousand Days
2:30 – Artbat
Space Favela Stage
4:00 PM – St.
19:00 – MC Hariel
9:00 PM – MC Poze do Rodo
Global village phase
19:15 – Anees
5.30pm – Terra Celta invites the Refugi Orchestra
3:30 PM – Larissa Luz
Supernova stage
15:00 – Mönic invites Eskrota
5:00 PM – Black Panther
7:30 pm – Crypt
8:30 PM – Dead fish
Source: Terra
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