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Join Incubus as they celebrate 20 years of Make Yourself and Beyond... with special guests le butcherttes at the Ritz in Raleigh on Saturday, May 16th.
The fine line between genius and insanity, self-seriousness and self-deprecation, implosion and explosion: that is the phantom zone where Falling In Reverse thrives.
Falling In Reverse founder, frontman, and Machiavellian heroic supervillan / villainous superhero Ronnie Radke is the walking, talking, breathing, spitting, screaming, singing, fighting, loving, hyper-confident, sensitive, and vulnerable embodiment of a generation’s id. He’s the ego and super-ego in the classic Freudian sense, “slipping” all over the place with vicious bite and playful innuendo. With his music, art, and life, he is the living embodiment of broken homes, the frustrated contradiction of self-destruction, and everyday single-minded defiance against a world gone mad.
Coming Home is his latest reinvention, coming full-circle back to the start, reinvigorated as mad scientist conductor of soaring, transcendent, engaging alternative pop-rock with massive radio hooks and a still-beating heavy metal hardcore heart. ‘Broken,’ ‘Loser,’ ‘Hanging On,’ ‘I Don’t Mind’ and ‘Coming Home’ are shocking in their epic scope, vibrant authenticity, and unrelenting dedication to personal truth.
He shoved the world of Warped Tour kicking and screaming into the vintage decadence of the hard rock scene with the band he formed with his childhood best friend in Las Vegas. Then, even as countless bands followed in his wake, he was on the stylistic move, dominating the social media conversation and crowd sing-alongs with Falling In Reverse’s debut album, The Drug in Me is You, now based in Southern California.
What began as the “worst music video of all time” (according to media tastemaker VICE) turned into another 20 million YouTube views (for a band closing in on roughly 100 million views total) in ‘Alone.’ Like many parts of the eclectic album, it’s a rap-metal hybrid with a forward thinking step into modern electro beats. Like the best of Radke’s work, the song serves as both hyper masculine anthem and anxiety confessional. The press and fans followed the band’s every move, documenting each twist and turn.
Coming Home is the most focused Falling In Reverse album, thematically and artistically. Crafted once again with Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Alter Bridge, Slash, Trivium), who has worked on every one of Radke’s records going back to the now-classic debut album from Escape The Fate, the record sees the group at their most atmospheric. It’s the latest bold step for a frontman who has defined himself by a mixture of courage and vulnerability, of bravado and introspection. He’s tightened his personal inner circle and withdrawn from the antics of the past as he’s poured even more of himself into his art.
Coming Home is the album Radke dreamed about making as a kid, teaching himself to play guitar with Blink-182 and Green Day songs, rapping along to Dr. Dre and Eminem, skipping school, going to shows, and doing whatever it took to redefine his life beyond the hardscrabble circumstances of his upbringing, even when the obstacles were of his own design. Now it’s time to get Coming Home to as many people as possible.
Falling In Reverse continues to champion the outsider, the cast aside, the underestimated, making music to empower and inspire life’s underdogs.
The Metal Tour of the Year, Megadeth and Lamb of God with Trivium and In Flames, is coming to Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on Sunday, June 14th!
Slipknot is bringing their Knotfest Roadshow 2020 with A Day To Remember, Underoath and Code Orange to PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte on June 17th!
Nickelback is bringing their All The Right Reasons Tour with Stone Temple Pilots and Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown to Coastal Credit Union Music Park Raleigh on Friday, June 19th. Playing the #1 album cover to cover and more!
Its their debut album's 30th Anniversary! Hear the Black Crowes play the album in its entirety and all the hits July 4, 2020 at Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh!
Join Motley Crue w/ Def Leppard, Poison & Joan Jett at The Bank of America Stadium In Charlotte July 11th.
Sammy Hagar & the Circle are bringing their 2020 tour with Whitesnake and Night Ranger to Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh on July 15th!
Dead & Company is bringing their Summer Tour to Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh on Saturday, July 18th!
Jimmy Eat World's Criminal Energy Tour with The Front Bottoms and Turnover is coming to Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on Saturday, August 8th!
Breaking Benjamin is bringing their tour with Bush and Theory of a Deadman, & Cory Marks to Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh on Tuesday, August 18th!
The Hella Mega Tour Is HERE! Feat. Green Day, Fallout Boy & Weezer! Catch it Live August 21 2020 At Nationals Park in DC
The Black Keys are bringing their tour with special guest Gary Clark Jr to Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh on Sunday, August 30th!
Its the final tour ever for KISS! Their bringing their End of the Road World Tour to Coastal Credit Union Music Park in Raleigh on September 9, 2020!
Parkway Drive is bringing their Viva the Underdogs North American Revolution Tour with special guests Hatebreed, Knocked Loose & Fit For a King to Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre in Charlotte on Friday, September 11th!
Sublime with Rome comes to the Azalea Festival in Wilmington! Check out the show on Friday, October 16th!
