SHADOWS FALL Frontman Issues Update

Vocalist Brian Fair of the Massachusetts metallers SHADOWS FALL has posted a lengthy update on the band's official web site. An excerpt follows.

"It has been a worldwide whirlwind for SHADOWS FALL over the past two weeks. It all began with a long flight to Korea to co-headline the second night of the Busan Rock Festival. The set up for this show was unreal. The stage was right on the sand of a beautiful beach facing the water. The view was spectacular and the crowd was unreal!! It was a very eclectic bill featuring all styles of music so we were a little unsure of how the metal was going to go over with the crowd. We were definitely overwhelmed by the crazed response from the Korean fans!! We were greeted with huge circle pits, crowd suffering and lots of sing-alongs. This was also the first show that we ever had pyrotechnics before!! The only scary part is that we didn’t know that were had pyrotechnics until the walls of fire erupted at the front of our stage during the set!!! Talk about a surprise. I had been standing right by where they went off the song before. We were only a few feet away from some fried dreadlocks. It was one hell of a show.

"The next day, we returned to Seoul to film a set for TV at the EBS Space. I am pretty sure we were the first metal band recording at the national network and I don’t know if they were prepared for the volume that we were about to unleash!! After a few tweaks of the PA and a dramatic reduction in stage volume we had everything sounding nice. Sometimes filming for TV can be difficult if it is just the band and a bunch of cameras, but EBS did it right and brought in around 200 crazy fans to help bring up the energy level. The show was a blast and should be airing on Korean TV sometime next month."

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HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with Brian Fair backstage in June 2008 at the Heavy MTL festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Watch the nine-minute chat below.

SHADOWS FALL received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Metal Performance" category for "Redemption", the first single from the band's newest release, "Threads of Life". This marked SHADOWS FALL's second Grammy nomination in the category, following the group's nod at the 2006 awards for "What Drives The Weak" off the Century Media release "The War Within".

The band's overview of its years as a Century Media recording act (before signing with Atlantic for the U.S. and Roadrunner for Europe),"Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits", was released in October 2007.

SHADOWS FALL reissued its Century Media debut, "Of One Blood", on April 15.