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Overloaded
12+ albums
heavy metalPower metalUnited Statesheavy rockunder 2000 listeners
about
“Always go for the cooler name”, was the advice given from Gene Simmons backstage after a Kiss concert at DTE arena in summer of 2004. With that in mind, Overloaded formed in the outskirts of Detroit, Mi USA on August 3rd, 2004. Within a year, the band went from nobodies to the go-to band for big local shows and support for nationals on their Detroit tour stops. In 2005, Overloaded released 2 eps, both of which sold out and were re-released as a full length 11 song cd entitled Hail the Kingdom. That same year, an indie label offered to sign Overloaded. The band considered the offer, but passed and released their follow up cd Regeneration independently in August of 2007. Overloaded has been given all kinds of advice. Some of it has been good, but most is forgettable. Everyone thinks they have the answer when the reality is the music industry has been spiraling out of control for over a decade. Mainstream radio plays the same songs over and over and over. Concerts have become traveling freak shows where painted ladies and cheap trinkets are as big of an attraction as the music. Bands adhere to conservative guidelines written by industry professionals who wouldn’t be caught dead at a rock show. Punk has gone corporate, extreme metal has become a parody of itself, rap has skipped the same beat for fifteen years, and country has gone Bon Jovi. The music industry is in shambles and literally no one is buying it. Each day another record label crashes as experts try and re-invent th
