26-11-2010 Taste Of Chaos

Venue: Eishalle, Winterthur (Switzerland)
By: Nina Mende

The tour of the year is taking over Europe at the moment, causing chaos wherever it passes by. Four awesome bands touring together throughout Europe, rocking all fans of good music. Halestorm, Buckcherry, Papa Roach and Disturbed rocking venues all over and share their music with the kids, all sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink.

First band of the night was Halestorm. The venue was filled with kids all ready to rock. Halestorm is an American hard rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The group’s self-titled debut album was released on April 28, 2009 through Atlantic Records. Their show lasted for about half an hour. The female singer had an awesomely strong voice and rocked around on stage while playing guitar. She and the rest of Halestorm got the audience pretty warmed up for the bands yet to come. Halestorm is a very energetic live band. You should check them out.

The second band of the night was Buckcherry. Buckcherry is a hard rock/glam metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1995. The band released two albums, “Buckcherry” (1999) and “Time Bomb” (2001), before dissolving in the summer of 2002. In 2005, lead vocalist Josh Todd and lead guitarist Keith Nelson reformed Buckcherry and released a new album on April 16, 2006, “15”. It contained Buckcherry’s biggest crossover hits to date, “Crazy Bitch”, and their first Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit, “Sorry”. Their fourth album “Black Butterfly” was released in September 2008. Their fifth album “All Night Long” was released on August 3, 2010. Unfortunately Europe did not get a whole lot of Buckcherry in the past but the people still seemed to enjoy the music. Buckcherry whirled around on stage, rocking out to their songs. They played old and new songs, getting the audience rocking out and prepared for more.

Now it was time for Papa Roach. Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California. Their first major-label release was the triple-platinum debut album “Infest” (2000). The group’s success continues with their gold album “Lovehatetragedy” (2002), their platinum album “Getting Away with Murder” (2004), “The Paramour Sessions” (2006), and “Metamorphosis” (2009). The band’s seventh album “Time for Annihilation” was released on August 31, 2010. Papa Roach has sold more than 10 million album copies worldwide, and are known for their hits “Last Resort”, “Scars”, “Forever”, and “Lifeline”, among others. As the intro set in, the audience was going wild, cheering, clapping and screaming for the band. As the guys came on everyone was going insane rocking out to the music. Jacoby went down to the pit during the third song, to be close to the fans and sing to as well as with them. Papa Roach rocked out for an hour playing old and new hits, going crazy on stage and getting the audience go off just as insane, rocking and singing along to the songs, doing everything the band asked them to do. There were moshpits going on in the audience. The band as well as all of their fans had a blast.

Last band of the night was Disturbed. Disturbed is a heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois, formed on October 24, 1995 when musicians Dan Donegan, Steve “Fuzz” Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired David Draiman as their singer. Since the band’s formation, they have sold over 11 million albums worldwide, making them one of the largest grossing rock bands in recent years. The band has released five studio albums, four of which have consecutively debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200. All the metal fans went wild with Disturbed on stage. The band pulled of their show with not too much talking to their fans but nobody seemed to care. Disturbed played for little over an hour. The audience seemed like an army fighting together as one for Disturbed. Amazing to see. Disturbed played all their hits. It was an awesome night at Taste Of Chaos. Make sure you don’t miss out on it!