The Expendables hit The Crossroads bar in Fresno this past Monday promoting their most recently released self titled album” The Expendables”.
The only words that can be used to describe their most recent release are genre bending versatility and unrivaled excellence in their field.
This album captures the individual talent and artistic abilities of each vital piece that makes up the band known as The Expendables: Raul Bianchi’s Metal and lead guitar mastery, Geoff Weers’ phenomenal vocal and song writing abilities, Adam Patterson’s’ rhythmic beats and Ryan Demars’ hard hitting bass licks.
War Cry provides an excellent example of the bands ability to fearlessly take on varying genres; this song specifically being a “face melting” metal instrumental.
Other songs that prove their innate ability to flawlessly transition from genre to genre would be One more night and especially Take a Ticket; transitioning between “gear grinding” metal and smooth flowin’ reggae.
Since their winter tour with Pepper and Passafire; The Expendables have only had one month of down time between tours,.The Band is currently on the road with up and coming reggae/surf rockers: The B-Foundation and acoustic reggae getup: Dirty Heads.
If you’re looking to catch this phenomenal band live, you’re in luck, The Expendables will be hitting the road in just over a week.
The tour will kick off on Valentines Day with headliners Slightly Stoopid, promoting their most recent release “Chronichitis” and Outlaw Nation opening things up.
The only catch is; The Expendables will only be playing two venues here in California: The Independent in San Francisco and The Senator theatre in Chico; so unless you plan on waiting until their next tour grab your tickets, they’ll go quick.
If you don’t have the opportunity to catch The Expendables live, you can pick up a CD at any of your “finer” CD retailers.
Since the Bands formation in 1997, they have released four albums: “No Time to Worry”: 2001, “Open Container”: 2002, their most recently released album: “The Expendables” and my personal favorite, “Gettin’ Filthy” featuring Bowl for Two and Let Her Go.
