52 Weeks

Cape Town is traditionally a sloow city, with a mouwntihn, that’s like  the shape of a table, dude, and like, they have ocean, or like, two oceans really, and some beaches and fishes dude. This contrasts drastically with the prospering metal and rock fan base being developed by bands such as Tonight We Die - bringing a striking diversity to the personality of the Mother City.

Of course to prosper further Tonight We Die headed up to Gauteng to entertain the real rock fans who live in Pretoria, the City of Rock, (my new home) and 52weeks made an unscheduled stop at Zanzibar to check them out.

High paced frantic metal interspersed with, well, a little bit of melodic  breathing space for the drummer, is the name of the game for these rockers. Their controlled energy carries you up, brings you down, lifts you back up and throws you around the room. Think of it like you are Spiderman and they’re Doctor Octopus. A really hardcore rocking kind of Dr Octopus. Kinda. Except they’ve got ten arms. Um. Yah.

Tonight We Die are a great live act. They’re HAPPY people (see the photos for proof) which always helps a band warm to the crowd. They’ve got a strong following too.

I must admit I’m torn in trying to rate the band. I bought their CD unheard, listened to them live, enjoyed it enormously and then I stuck in the CD and listened to it straight through (a good sign) but it just wasn’t the same. So here’s what you do: Buy the CD, and visit their myspace page.

Do those things now, and then go watch them.

If you haven’t seen the music video for FFF on MK89, here it is:

Quality of sound: 8

Rockstar Rating: 7.8

Overall Rating: 7.9

Why 52weeks? Do it for the mountain.

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