Another band confirmed their appearance at the Metal Hammer Festival that will take place on the 12th August in Spodek Hall in Katowice (Poland). The US hardcore group BURY YOUR DEAD will share the stage with Tool, Chris Cornell, Dir En Grey, Fair To Midland, Coma and Delight.

Another band confirmed their appearance at the Metal Hammer Festival that will take place on the 12th August in Spodek Hall in Katowice (Poland). 

The US hardcore group BURY YOUR DEAD will share the stage with Tool, Chris Cornell, Dir En Grey, Fair To Midland, Coma and Delight.

The old saying goes, "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger." That adage certainly applies to Bury Your Dead. The Massachusetts band, featuring drummer Mark Castillo, vocalist Mat Bruso, guitarists Slim and Eric Ellis, and bassist Bubble, have broken up, gotten back together, gone through 14 band members and 9 tour vehicles but they're still together. In the Bury Your Dead tradition, the music is heavier than granite, but the band's approach and collective attitude is light, fun and carefree. That's what sets BYD apart from their peers, the fact that they do things you don't expect. They keep you guessing at every turn, either making you bob your head to their catchy melodies or making you mosh your brains out to their ferocious, infectious breakdowns.

While 2004's "Cover Your Tracks" featured song titles named after Tom Cruise movies, "Beauty And The Breakdown" from 2006 doesn't name its song titles after Nicole Kidman movies, nor does it sound like its predecessor. Here, BYD named all their songs after fairytales, like "Mirror, Mirror," "House Of Brick," and "House Of Straw." The album's artwork is laid out like a storybook, as well. Despite having such light, fun titles, the music contained on the moshable "Beauty And The Breakdown" is pummeling, vivid, and fast, and it'll knock the wind out of you. But it's also smart and tightly written.

Fun is an essential ingredient to the BYD sound, and they definitely strike the balance. "You can hear us having a good time," Slim points out. "When kids come to see us, we're having a good time. Our whole thing is what did Motley Crue do? A lot of people these days are paying their hard earned money that they saved up to see a show, and be entertained. We're not Lord Of The Dance or the circus, but when you leave a Bury Your Dead show, you've never seen it done by a band like you see it done by us." Indeed, if you've ever witnessed a BYD show, when they play the song of the same name, there are massive pile-ons on stage, with kids clamoring for a chance to scream "Bury your fuckin' dead" with Bruso. "Having a good time is as important as the quality of the music, absolutely, 200 percent. I don't care if I break my guitar or whatever," Slim says.

Metal Hammer Festival 2007
12.08.2007 - Katowice, Spodek
TOOL
CHRIS CORNELL
Dir en grey
Fair to Midland
Coma
Delight
Bury Your Dead

Doors open: 14.30
Starts: 15.30