Taking Back Sunday will bring their high-octane drumming and blazing syncopated riffs to the Taco Bell Arena on March 17, 2007 at 8pm. Taking Back Sunday’s latest CD “Louder Now” bottles the lightning that this powerful, melodic hardcore band generates whenever they hit the stage. It is faster, darker and harder than the 2004 best-selling “Where You Want To Be.” The album’s first single “MakeDamnSure” relies on classic Taking Back Sunday Influence, with singer Adam Lazzara’s yowling vocals mixed with Eddie Reyes’ and Fred Mascherino’s slashing guitars. The twin guitar assault and emotional point/counterpoint lyrics are still the lynchpin of their sound. The lyrics illuminate Louder Now’s overall themes of discontent and uncertainty. After releasing Where You Want To Be, the band played around “a bazillion” shows, by Mascherino’s reckoning (“You seriously forget your address and home phone number”), including the 2004 Warped Tour, British rock festivals Reading and Leeds, and a sold-out headlining tour. Things did not let up in 2005 when they did a co-headlining arena tour of North America with Jimmy Eat World and performed two sold-out shows in June at Britain’s Milton Keynes National Bowl with Green Day, each band playing to the biggest audiences of their careers. Combined, “Tell All Your Friends” and “Where You Want to Be” have scanned more than 1.4 million copies and the latter debuted at Number Three on the Billboard Top 200, selling more than 163,000 copies its first week of release in July 2004. It has sold over 700,000 copies to date. They have remained a staple on both MTV and Fuse; and in 2005, the band was tapped to record a theme song for Reed Richards, the lead character for the video game and hit movie Fantastic Four. “Error Operator” appears in the game, on the film’s soundtrack and a revamped version is also on “Louder Now.”
On Sale Date: Saturday, December 9, 2006, at 10am
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