Black Stone Cherry
Almost exactly four years later, everyone’s favorite southern rockers from Kentucky, Black Stone Cherry, return to Budapest.
Their career rises triumphantly from the challenges of recent years with the monumental album Screamin’ At The Sky (Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group), which they will finally present live on a Hungarian stage at Dürer Kert.
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The four-piece rock band’s eighth studio album bursts in with surprisingly emotional pop-rock choruses, heartfelt lyrics, and of course, riffs that make you want to headbang. The 12-track release is also BSC’s biggest-sounding and most expansive album to date. Produced by the band themselves, the LP was recorded in a classic Kentucky theater and sounds as monumental as if “the hammer of the gods” were swinging above our heads. “The main theme of the record is adaptation and moving forward. In recent years, a lot of what I knew from my childhood has disappeared. I lost my father, and now I’m the oldest male in the family,” says vocalist-guitarist Chris Robertson. He adds: “There is a lot of darkness on this album — I completely opened up — but there’s always the promise of light at the end of the tunnel.” Guitarist-vocalist Ben Wells adds: “There’s something beautiful about letting the pain out — you come out of it a better person.”
Over the past twenty years, Black Stone Cherry have set a new standard in southern rock. Their albums regularly debut at the top of the rock charts. The album has reached 50 million streams worldwide, and the track Again alone has surpassed 20 million.
Throughout the years, the band has filled numerous 12,000-capacity arenas as headliners or co-headliners and has taken the stage with major acts such as Alter Bridge, Theory of a Deadman, Def Leppard, Gov’t Mule, Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company, Motörhead, Halestorm, Stone Temple Pilots, The Darkness, and ZZ Top. In 2018, they played in front of 100,000 people at the Download Festival, directly before Guns N’ Roses. In 2021, they performed at the legendary Royal Albert Hall, documented on the 2022 concert DVD Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’All.
Dürer Kert
Dürer Kert, which moved from the City Park to the vicinity of Kopaszi Dam, is one of the hangouts of Budapest's surviving peripheral subcultures, but it's also worth visiting if you just want a perfect garden spot. That is, starting in spring. Until then, let's keep rockin'! And after that, too.