Metalsome

Unless you happen to live here in Atlanta, you've probably never heard of anything like Metalsome. Though the concept is commonly understood here now, there's still only one band I know that does anything like it in town.

Metalsome is a full rock band that allows you to become a rock start - at least for one song. They play the entire song live, and you get to sing. There are monitors showing the music video for the song behind you, and the lyrics are on a monitor in front of you...if you happen to get stage fright.

The best thing about the Metalsome experience isn't that you hear some amazing (and amazingly terrible singing) but that the energy and excitement of the person on stage can easily work it's way out into the crowd. You find everyone else signing along to a song that, in other circumstances would be aggravating background noise.

Check out this (poorly shot) clip from inside a Metalsome show last night at 10 High in the Virginia-Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta - you can see the girl on stage really getting in to signing the song, and crowd feeding off that energy (at about 1 minute into the clip) and singing along with her.



I really like the idea that people will still come out to be involved in a larger group of strangers...whether it's a concert, or poetry, or even just going out to get coffee and talking to someone new. It's so easy to get all you need through technology, without having to go out and interact with new or different people - Metalsome reminds me that technology may never be able to fill all our needs