As mentioned here a couple months ago, the Heavy Metal Kings tour will be hitting Rochester this week. For me when I started branching out musically at the beginning of the last decade, Jedi Mind Tricks (and later most of the AOTP camp) took the place of a lot of hardcore I had been previously listening to. The Heavy Metal Kings/Hardcore Hip-hop hybrid is a very sensible pairing for someone with my background. This is one of the best and most original hip-hop lineups to hit Rochester in years. It only makes sense that they would play at Dub Land Underground, where other great hip-hop acts such as Slick Rick, Afu-Ra, Sean Price, Louis Logic, Reef The Lost Cauze, Cut Chemist, and many others have graced the stage in recent years. This will be a great set I am sure and I hope the crowd is as diverse as the music."Don’t miss ILL Bill and Vinnie Paz performing live as Heavy Metal Kings this spring in support of their new album which hits stores April 5, 2011. The Heavy Metal Kings Tour is a unique opportunity to catch ILL Bill and Vinnie Paz performing live together as Heavy Metal Kings with a setlist that will feature songs spanning more than a decade’s worth of indie hip hop classics from their combined catalogs, including songs from their solo albums as well as tracks from Jedi Mind Tricks, Non-Phixion, La Coka Nostra, Army of the Pharaohs, and their new Heavy Metal Kings album."
