Published Monday, January 9, 2012 By amanda_caines. Under Community Corner, Editor : Amanda Caines, preview, The Money, Uncategorized, Writer: Amanda Caines Tags: Absoulute Convixtion, Akarsha, Anna Love, Autumn's Blood, Cameron Flotow, Descendants of Chaos, Eyes Down, From All Within, Heavy Metal in the Carolinas, Lifecurse, metal, Mick Brooks, Neverfall, NIHM, Rebel Vice, Searching for Sinea, Tearing Down Vegas, The Money, Uproar of Pariah, Wicked Addictions
When Rock Hill metal-head Anna Love learned that her new friend Cameron Flotow had recently received a Leukemia diagnosis and had no insurance, she immediately wanted to help him raise funds to pay the bills. The two met through Cameron’s brother Brian Flotow, who played guitar in one of the local metal bands for which Anna is the business manager. After getting her own bands, From All Within and Akarsha, on board for the show, she asked around to see who else would donate their time to a concert to raise funds for Cameron’s medical bills. With a little promotional help from Carolina metal community, Heavy Metal in the Carolinas (HMitC), the outpouring of support from bands wanting to play for a good cause was overwhelming. “… it was originally just going to be one day, but when I ended up having 14 bands interested, I decided to make it two days,” Anna says of the now two-day festival of bands.
Cameron, an honorably discharged Air Force vet, got the bad news of his diagnosis two weeks after his 21st birthday last year and is taking chemotherapy treatments. According to Anna, Cameron’s leukemia is in remission at the moment, which she attributes to his strong-willed thirst for life. Cameron has two more rounds of treatments to go before he is finished with chemo, and the money raised by this event will literally be a lifesaver for him in offsetting the expenses.
This isn’t the first charitable cause taken on by Rock Hill’s favorite hard rock and metal venue, The Money, nor is it the first benefit put on by the Heavy Metal in the Carolinas community, but both of these entities are working toward a stronger, more cooperative scene in the Carolinas for musicians and less-musically-inclined metal-heads alike. Events like this one are exactly the kind that HMitC founder, Mick Brooks, is looking to help promote. “The idea to book shows under the name Heavy Metal in the Carolinas came to me when I met a woman in the [community] that was struggling to get her kids back from her rich, BMW-driving, elitist, asshole ex-husband. So I booked my first concert as a benefit concert [for her family] and then just started booking shows for fun… but the idea of giving back to the community, as well as people in need within the community, stuck.” Mick started the group in 2011 as a way to meet and network with other musicians when he could find no similar outlet in the Carolinas, but his community on Facebook has since grown to be one of the largest metal music communities in the Carolinas. Now that this little networking startup project has grown to larger proportions, Heavy Metal in the Carolinas possesses the power to help out people like Cameron Flotow who just need a little bit of help before they fall between the cracks in an often heartless society. Put together two metal-heads with good hearts, a benevolent venue owner, a raffle for a free tattoo, and 14 bands donating their time and artistry, and you have a rockin’ good time that simultaneously helps someone in need. The schedule spans two nights at The Money, so that helps ensure that you won’t miss the opportunity to kick leukemia’s ass.
January 13 (Friday) at The Money
Uproar of Pariah – Black Metalcore. Sounds like: The Word Alive, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Chelsea Grin, Periphery, Motionless in White, As I Lay Dying, All that Remains, We Came as Romans, Artifex Pereo. http://www.facebook.com/uproarofpariah
Autumn’s Blood – Progressive Metal/Hardcore. Sounds like: Syopsis. Narratives. Labyrinth. http://www.facebook.com/autumnsbloodsc
Akarsha – Deathcore/Death Metal. Sounds like: Atrocious Abnormality, Cerebral Effusion, Blasphemer, Born of Osiris, Devourment, Coathanger Abortion, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Oceano, Impending Doom, Amon Amarth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Rose Funeral, Hatebreed, White Chapel, Carnifex, Wretched. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Akarsha/153586348049393
Tearing Down Vegas – Hardcore/Melodic/Ambient. Sounds like: UnderOATH, Hundredth, Gwen Stacy, Counterparts, Deftones, The Devil Wears Prada, La Dispute, Bring Me the Horizon, The Ghost Inside, Norma Jean, Bad Brains, Gallows, Make Do and Mend, Shai Hulud, Misery Signals, Glassjaw. http://www.facebook.com/tearingdownvegas
NIHM – Metal/Progressive/Hardcore. Sounds like: System of a Down, Sevendust, Sepultura, Soilwork, Mudvayne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus. https://www.facebook.com/officialnihm
Searching for Sinea – Experimental/Melodic Metal. Sounds like: Onward to Olympas, Oh Sleeper, Attack Attack, Lovehatehero, Four Letter Lie. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Searching-for-Sinea/285240663112
Rebel Vice – Metal/ Southern Hard Rock. Sounds like: Volbeat, Pantera, Killswitch Engage. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rebel-Vice/221811641168131
January 14 (Saturday) at The Money
Eyes Down – Heavy Metal, Alternative/Modern Rock – Just starting out, these guys are all veterans of the Charlotte scene and have the promise for a kick-ass show. http://www.facebook.com/eyesdownband
Lifecurse – Melodic Death Metal/Progressive Metalcore/ Experimental. Sounds like: Parkway Drive, The Ghost Inside, August Burns Red. http://www.facebook.com/Lifecurse
Neverfall – Rock/Metal. Sounds like: Metallica, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, Pantera, Ratt, Testament, The Sword, Green Day, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Limp Bizkit, Lamb of God, Shadowsfall, All That Remains, and As I Lay Dying. http://www.facebook.com/NeverFall
Absoulute Convixtion – Rock. Sounds like: Tool, Pink Floyd, Muse, A Perfect Circle, The Smashing Pumpkins, 30 Seconds To Mars, Coheed And Cambria, Killswitch Engage, Five Finger Death Punch. http://www.facebook.com/absouluteconvixtionband
Descendants of Chaos – Metal. Sounds like: Mudvayne, Sevendust, Pantera, Metallica, AX7. http://www.facebook.com/DescendantsofChaos
Wicked Addictions – Southern Metal/Groove Metal. Sounds like: Pantera, Slayer, Metallica, Primus, Mr Bungle, Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, Down ,Corrosion of Conformity, DevilDriver, Lamb of God, Chimaira, Mudvayne, Black Sabbath. http://www.facebook.com/WickedAddictions
From All Within – Partycore/Metalcore/Brutal. Sounds like: Asking Alexandria, Bring Me the Horizon, Suicide Silence, Breakdown of Sanity, Emmure, The Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, Whitechapel, Lamb of God, As Blood Runs Black, In Flames, As I Lay Dying, Pantera. http://www.facebook.com/pages/From-All-Within/157648550966657
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