THE DAILY COLLEGIAN The Bus Stops tk 01 Here! („Qt. , • ' MEM . _ = Value Meals Every Day ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Brewery to host metal night By Mark Maurer COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I mgmso2s@psu.edu The dawn of a metalocalypse will set itself upon State College at 9 tonight at The Brewery Monstruo, The Chaos Method and Helios Eternus, will kick off the first metal night of the semester for Cher ry Darling Productions. Tickets for the over-21 show are $3. Cherry Darling promoter Meredith Rebar said metal-themed shows "have been some of the best nights we've had" and have compensated for the dearth of other sufficient metal related events in the area. "There are metalheads in State Col lege that have no other, place to go," Rebar said. "They're really excited about it." The Brewers 233 E. Beaver Ave, will typically hold metal nights every third Tuesday of the month, excluding this show. The themed Cherry Darling con certs will continue in two weeks with 'Bos Night, while the other music themes include folk-acoustic, garage rock and punk "The bands I work with the most play in these different genres, so it worked out well," Rebar said. Rebar worked with local metal band Monstruo several times this summer and developed a strong bond with them, crowning them permanent headliners of the metal season. She The Bus Stops 1 41. Here! -• • !, L - 'A..54 4 1 CORNER Value Meals Every Day , ROOM Corner of Colle•e &Allen St. ° decided each metal show would fea ture Monstruo, in addition to two local bands, one selected by her and anoth er selected by the members of Mon struo. "We've been playing shows for her for a while and finally she got us a full time show," said Mike Potter, guitarist and vocalist for Monstruo. "She gets us in whenever we want, basically" The Monstruo band members jump around and comes offstage to meet and greet the audience, Rebar said. The crowd involvement has even extended to unusual habits, such as when audience members run on stage and do push-ups. "We'll try to do push-ups with them while we're playing our instruments if we're not playing something too hard, or we'll stand on their back," Potter said. "Little quirky things." Additionally, the opening act chosen by Rebar, The Chaos Method, is on the brink of resurgence. The State College-based band will be playing one of its first shows this "There are metalheads in State College that have no other place to go. They're really excited about it." Meredith Rebar Cherry Darting promoter OPEN DAILY 0 7 Advertise! 814-865-2531 TUESDAY, SEPT. 9, 2008 17 If you go What Cherry Darling Metal Night featuring Monstruo, The Chaos Method and Helios Eternus When: Tuesday at 9 p.m. Where: The Brewery, 233 E. Beaver Ave. Details: Over 21, tickets are $3 year. The band took time off after its original singer died in summer 2006, but they are now getting back into the swing. Josh Zong (junior-kinesiology) of The Chaos Method said the band will be playing two new songs and restruc turing certain older tracks. Zong said his band wants to hone in on its writing and composing of music to avoid sounding like prototypical shouting head-bangers. "The more material we write, the better our composition skills," Zong said. "The songs are sounding a lot better to us, but we're still playing hard." Potter hopes his band's new head lining gig will help resuscitate the ail ing rock metal scene in State College. He said he hopes it will potentially prompt bigger bands to perform and giving die-hard metal fans a wider menu to choose from. "Pretty much we're the only ones doing it right now, - Potter said. 118 S. GARNER
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