Sevendust to Rock the Venue this Week

This Thursday (Dec. 3), Sevendust, of Atlanta, is bringing its bulldozer-strength rock music to Gainesville for one night of head-banging, ear-thrashing madness. The band has been steadily releasing albums and singles since it dropped onto the nu metal rock scene with its 1999 album Home, which featured the hit single, "Denial."

They scored a pop hit with the emotional ballad "Angel's Son" off Animosity, the band's 2001 album. The song was a tribute to the lead singer of 90s band Snot, who died in a car accident.

The band's latest album, released in 2008, is called Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow and features guest appearances from Chris Daughtry and Alter Bridge members Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti. The album produced the hit track "Prodigal Son" which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard rock charts.

Sevendust is known for its high-energy live shows, and The Venue is the perfect place to see a band with such a huge sound. This show could potentially melt your face off with pure rock glory.

--Jon Silman

Thrash rock band takes over CGs

Don't know how this one got by us... Just got word that Valient Thorr is playing Common Grounds tonight. The sludgy punk metal band from North Carolina is stopping by to inflict some of its gritty rock thrashing on our quiet little town as it spreads its constant "peace with a catalyst of hard and fast Rock n Roll" across the world.

The Thorrs, together since 2001, claim to hail from the planet Venus and on Earth are signed onto Volcom Entertainment, also home to Goons of Doom, Gutter Mouth and Year Long Disaster. We would suggest you pull out your old denim vest, bandannas, proceed to splatter some motor oil in your hair and go ready to really rock out at CGs tonight. From what we hear these guys don't take "no thrashing" for an answer, and will expect you to be on full-on Thorrior behavior. Word is they left a wake of destruction last time they were in Europe—if the Scotts can't keep up, we don't know who can.

Doors open at 9 p.m. with Early Man opening the show. Cover is $10.

—Stephanie Granada