Whitechapel

Inciting Mayhem with Whitechapel - An Interview From the Road

Submitted by M. Drew on Tuesday, Aug 7th 2012

Storming out of the country-dominated southern United States, Whitechapel has been on a mission to carve themselves a niche and a name in the greater heavy metal universe. Signed to Metal Blade Records and ready to take on all comers, the band is included with the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, supporting their new self-titled album. Guitarist Ben Savage took the time to answer some of our questions backstage after the band’s set.

M. DREW: Generally, when you’ve got a musician who releases a self-titled album in the middle of their career, either you’re trying something new or going back to basics. Which one was it for you?

BEN SAVAGE: I’d say just trying something new. We did it because no other title would fit the vibe of the record. It was more of a coming together. Through the years you know the band members…stuff happens, you drift apart. This was more of a coming together. We couldn’t think of another name to title it.

Concert Review: Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival – The Jagermeister Stage.

Submitted by M. Drew on Friday, Aug 3rd 2012

The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is an event practically out of its time. A traveling commercial, musical carnival in the era when all merchandise is available online and every conceivable form of entertainment, from live performances to shocking freakery, can be accessed by those with a broadband connection. Beyond that, it is also one of the last of the dying breed of road-bound music festivals, surviving in the post-Ozzfest, re-created Lollapalooza era.

Album Review: Whitechapel - "Whitechapel"

Submitted by M. Drew on Wednesday, Jun 6th 2012

This is not your father's heavy metal band. Whitechapel has always been labeled as a deathcore band, but there's more to it than that. They stem from a short-lived but extremely popular splinter of heavy metal that recalls the kind of brassy, grinding sound that dominated the years immediately following the change of millennium. This splinter gave rise to a burst of musicians such as The Red Chord, Nile and Converge, but then sank back into the background.