Stemm -- Buffalo, NY -- September 23rd, 2011

[Indestructible]

Stemms Cross Roads CD release show.
Stemm played the Town Ballroom to celebrate the release of their new album Cross Roads. Local band from Niagara Falls called It's A Dinosaur played, I didn't see them though. I came just as local Tennessee band DownSlave was beginning their set. Another band that played before Stemm are well known among the local metal fans in Buffalo is called His Name Was Yesterday. His Name Was Yesterday is breaking so this was their last time playing on stage. Too bad their breaking up some of the best times I have at metal shows is when His Name Was Yesterday and Stemm share the stage.

Here are the setlists.
DownSlave
Cost Of Freedom
The Unamed
Pit Approve
1930: A New Plan

His Name Was Yesterday
Where It Ends
Beneath The Lie
Face The Truth
No More Tomorrow
For What It's Worth
Echos Of The Past
Goodbye To Yesterday
The Ghost Of John Wayne
Again And Again
KILLSHED

STEMM
Before The Storm(Intro)
Smile And Wave
The Devil Walks Among Us
Til I Die
Monster(new version)
Face The Pain
Awake
Salvation
Fleur De Lis
Supernaut(Black Sabbath Cover)
Dead Inside
What Do You Think Of Me Now?
Blood Soaked
Beneath My Skin
Left Behind
After The Tide
Wish (Nine Inch Nails Cover)
House of Cards

[HackedUpForBBQ]

Being from the area, I've given Stemm many, many chances and I just can't get into them. I know they're a local band, but I still can't understand why they're as popular as they are

[Indestructible]

Originally Posted by HackedUpForBBQ

Being from the area, I've given Stemm many, many chances and I just can't get into them. I know they're a local band, but I still can't understand why they're as popular as they are

They use to be rap metal so if you knew them in the beginning that could have turned you away. You said you have giving them many chances so I assume you have heard stuff from the past three albums? Because they did change their sound.

[treghet]

This shit is so underground. I bet they played at a tiny bar.

[HackedUpForBBQ]

Originally Posted by Indestructible

They use to be rap metal so if you knew them in the beginning that could have turned you away. You said you have giving them many chances so I assume you have heard stuff from the past three albums? Because they did change their sound.

They have gotten better, I'll definitely give you that, they're just not my cup of tea. I wish there were more metal bands coming from this area, but fuck, the local scene is shot. At least more people show up at Buffalo metal shows than metal shows in Rochester. How full was the Ballroom?

[Indestructible]

Originally Posted by HackedUpForBBQ

They have gotten better, I'll definitely give you that, they're just not my cup of tea. I wish there were more metal bands coming from this area, but fuck, the local scene is shot. At least more people show up at Buffalo metal shows than metal shows in Rochester. How full was the Ballroom?

I want to say there were about two hundred people there last night. There were more people there back in 2008 when I saw them for the Blood Scent CD release show than last night. Stemm and His Name Was Yesterday are two of the four local Buffalo bands that are good.

[Magson13]

No Bring the Pain?

[Indestructible]

Originally Posted by Magson13

No Bring the Pain?

They did that one. And it's Face The Pain