Post-hardcore band Falling in Reverse plays at Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg on Nov. 22
From a press release:
It was announced today that Las Vegas post-hardcore band Falling in Reverse will perform at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. with fellow Vans Warped Tour band Set It Off and Tom MacDonald.
In April, Falling in Reverse released a new single and music video. “Drugs” features Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor and is the final track in the band’s recent trilogy of standalone songs, which includes “Losing My Life” and “Losing My Mind.” Those three videos accumulated over 35 million combined views while the band toured North America in the spring with Ice Nine Kills, From Ashes to New, and New Years Day.
Tickets, which are $25 in advance or $28 the day of the show, go on sale this Friday, Aug. 23 at 10 a.m. and will be available at the Sherman Theater box office (524 Main St., Stroudsburg), shermantheater.com, and Ticketfly.
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.
Released on April 7, 2017 via Epitaph Records, “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.
Radke 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, 2011’s “The Drug in Me Is You,” now based in Southern California.
As Revolver, Kerrang, Alternative Press, and the rest of the rock and metal press anointed him the scene’s new king on the strength of playful self-examinations-turned-anthems like “Raised by Wolves,” “Tragic Magic,” and “I’m Not a Vampire,” Radke and his crew shook up conventions once again, dropping the ironically titled “Fashionably Late” in 2013, years before the audience at large had any suspicions about what would hit them.
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.
2015’s “Just Like You” mined similar territory with even more precision, from the title track to undeniable metalcore bangers like “Chemical Prisoner” and “Guillotine IV (The Final Chapter)” to the poppy crowd-mover “Sexy Drug” and heartbreaking ballad “Brother.”
“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. Falling in Reverse continues to champion the outsider, the cast aside, and the underestimated, making music to empower and inspire life’s underdogs.
