![]() ![]() “They’re from some backwoods place in Tennessee (Jasper), and all the songs are about raising hell. “HateStomp is a band I really like,” says Savage. This year’s lineup includes the bands Lorna Shore, Realm, The Guild, Anniversary and Hatestomp. It’s also a chance for the band to highlight favorite regional acts. Patrons are asked to donate toys, coats, sweaters, blankets or sweaters at the door for a $5 discount off of tickets. The band has turned a toy drive concert into a yearly event that gathers toys and items for kids in need. It ends with a shot of Bozeman, whose mother died in 2000, standing over his parents’ graves at a Knoxville cemetery.Īs dark as Whitechapel’s music can be, the band has tried hard to do something positive. It’s a good setting for a metal video, that’s for sure.” It’s very old and dusty and definitely creepy down there. “I think Phil shot the solo shots in the basement of the Concourse. Part of the video was filmed in Knoxville. It’s a powerful video and more affecting than songs about less personal topics. The video for the single “Bring Me Home” features Bozeman clearly singing lyrics about the 1995 death of his father when Bozeman was 10. People are talking most about the songs with (clean) singing.” … It kind of gave us a sense of direction on how to go on the next one. We’re not going to release something just to get on radio, and we’ll always release songs that have the old sound on them. “Now that we’ve taken the plunge and gone with this sound it’s given us the freedom to do more,” says Savage. The guitar work also bears a cleaner sound. The band’s new album, “Mark of the Blade,” was released in June and features a combination of traditional death metal growled and shouted vocals and “clean” singing. I think people always thought it was some kind of Confederate flag.” We actually had the Tennessee State flag and hung it up every day when we went on the Warped Tour. But it’s worked out in our favor that it has a nice circular flair to it. “People don’t know it’s the Tennessee state flag,” says Savage, “They think it’s like a Dragon Ball or something. Always proud of their background, the band features the three stars in a circle of the Tennessee state flag as part of the group’s logo. Early on, it came as a shock to some that the band came from Tennessee, a state not known for metal. With each new release, the group has found new fans. Since forming in 2006, Whitechapel has slowly but surely risen in the ranks of metal music. and then get over it about 5 p.m., ill members of the band didn’t have to carry buckets on stage when Whitechapel went on at 10 p.m. He says because members would get the illness around 5 a.m. Savage, singer Phil Bozeman and guitarist Zach Householder escaped it. Whitechapel bassist Gabe Crisp, guitarist Alex Wade and drummer Ben Harclerode all had the illness. It was like their souls were being puked out! … There was only one bathroom on the bus, so you have one person in there and one person with a garbage can or plastic bag …” “The most violent puking I’ve ever heard of. “It felt like some demon spirit flying through the bus and picking two people every night,” says Savage. The travelers began falling ill each night with a 12-hour bug. ![]() Maybe it was one of the members of Make Them Suffer, because that would have been an apt description. On the second day somebody from one of the other buses drank some of the stagnant bus water, or at least that’s the best we could figure, and then got sick.” “So it’s a double decker bus – the whole top floor is bunks. “We shared a bus with two other bands,” says Savage. In a call from Ohio, where he’s preparing to play guitar for a family member’s wedding, Whitechapel guitarist Ben Savage explains: The group headlined with opening acts Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex, Obey the Brave, Fallujah, Make Them Suffer and Polar and traveled by bus for shows in England, France, Spain, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, Poland and Belgium. The tour of Europe by Knoxville-founded death metal band Whitechapel might have featured a little more brutality than usual.
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