Tour de Force: The Legacy Tour

November has been a pretty sub-par month so far - in fact I've started referring to it as Suckvember, because it's been pretty much one sucktastic event of suckitude after another for the past two weeks.

I forecasted about 3 good days throughout the entire month. So far there's been about one day and a half, cumulative in the first half of the month. But I do know when the next full day - and probably the only full day of awesome will be and that's next Tuesday.

Luckily for me Suckvember will take a break from sucking ass on November 16th when me and the boys head down to Montreal for what I'm already declaring the show of the year. That show being The Legacy Tour featuring Darkest Hour, Veil of Maya, Periphery and Revocation.

I've never seen Darkest Hour live, but I've been a longtime fan of their music. DH is headlinging the Legacy Tour as it is celebrating their 15th anniversary as a band, and they've chosen a great set of traveling minstrels to accompany them on this late Fall tour.

I discovered Veil of Maya nearly two years ago and have been a huge fan of hem ever since. The Legacy Tour will be the second time I see them in the past year, as the same group I'll be traveling with on Tuesday caught them at the the Summer Slaughter Tour, which I shortly chronicled this past August. They definitely stole the show for me on that occasion and I expect nothing less than an awesome performance from them, especially considering the great company they'll be sharing the stage with.

Periphery is one of the first bands to launch me and other friends of mine into what I'll simply refer to as: the Djent-plosion.

I was actually lucky enough to catch them when they were in Ottawa last Spring, at a show that a friends local band (Rising City States) was opening at, along with another of my local favorite groups, Structures. Needless to say I'm excited at the fact that I'll get to see them again, but twice within such a short span is doubly awesome. This time I'll definitely prepared for Misha Mansoor's antics and the djentings that will ensue.

Revocation is the one group of the mix that I'm the least familiar with, but from what I've heard they should be a solid opener for an evening full of destructive breakdowns, djentings of doom and uber-melodic riffage.

You can check out all of the aforementioned bands on their MySpace pages, which you'll find linkage for below: 

Darkest Hour - http://www.myspace.com/darkesthour
Veil of Maya - http://www.myspace.com/veilofmaya
Periphery - http://www.myspace.com/periphery
Revocation - http://www.myspace.com/revocation

So bust out your party hats Ladies and Djentlemen, the Legacy Tour officially kicks off tonight in Worcester, Massachusetts and will be in Montreal in just 4 (hopefully) short days.

Suckvember, prepare to be annihilated - at least temporarily, which is fucking good enough for me, cause you're seriously cramping my style.

- J