Sounds Of The Underground preview

Sounds Of The Underground
Congress Theatre, Chicago
Monday, July 23, 2007

Hoping to go to the Sounds Of The Underground festival when it stops in Chicago? Have a job? Go to school? Need to watch your kid(s) during the day while your wife/husband is at work/school? If you answered yes to any of these, it’s going to be darn tough to make the show’s 12:45 p.m. start time.

With 15 bands on the bill, though, it’s not like they can start at 7 p.m. It’s just a shame Chicago couldn’t have received a weekend date. Oh well. If you are able to get to Congress Theatre before 1 you’ll likely see 2 Cents, This Is Hell, Goatwhore, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Heavy Heavy Low Low, and The Devil Wears Prada. Though their low spot on the totem pole doesn’t necessarily prove it, The Number Twelve Looks Like You might have the strongest buzz of the tour. Their third record, Mongrel (Eyeball), came out in June and has earned a surprising amount of mainstream attention for such an extreme band (they mix death metal and grindcore with emo and jazz). Job For A Cowboy have also gained some critical acclaim for the genre-bending ways on Genesis (Metal Blade), but they’ll play toward the top of the bill, which is co-headlined by the mighty GWAR and Shadows Fall.

Chimaira, Every Time I Die, rapper Necro, Darkest Hour, Amon Amarth, and The Acacia Strain also play.

– Trevor Fisher

Click here to download GWAR’s “School’s Out.”

Click here to download Job For A Cowboy’s “Embedded.”

Click here to download The Number Twelve Looks Like You’s “Like A Cat.”

Category: Stage Buzz, Weekly