HE IS LEGEND IN CONCERT:
Since returning from hiatus in 2011, North Carolina metalcore outfit He Is Legend has been a nonstop force of primal screams, face-melting riffs, and hammering drums. Leading the charge at the band’s live shows is frontman Schuylar Croom, whose dynamic voice is an exercise in split personality—one minute he’s Dr. Jekyl, delivering soaring melodies that temper the band’s onslaught with a ray of light, and the next he’s Mr. Hyde, growling with a savage ferocity that hurls the band’s heavy songs into delicious darkness. The band backs him up with scorching guitar riffs and insane technical drumming, and ticket buyers love every second of it, thrashing around to high-octane anthems like “Attack of the Dungeon Witch” and “Everyone I Know Has Fangs” as if the apocalypse had arrived. Fans looking for an adrenaline-fueled mix of jaw-dropping musicianship and sheer unadulterated aggression won’t want to miss He Is Legend any time they kick out their hard-hitting tunes on tour.
BACKGROUND SNAPSHOT:
He Is Legend was formed in 2003 by a group of Wilmington, NC friends who had been playing in bands together since high school. They signed with Solid State Records on the strength of their first EP 91025, and in 2004 they released their debut album I Am Hollywood. After nearly two years of heavy touring, they followed up with their 2006 sophomore album Suck Out the Poison, an acclaimed effort that landed on the Billboard 200 and sent them out for the Peanut Butt Tour ’07. The band’s next chapter began in 2008 when they retreated to the forest surrounding their North Carolina studio for a musical sabbatical. The result was 2009’s It Hates You, a critical success that once again landed the band on the Billboard 200. Internal pressures led to an indefinite hiatus shortly after the record’s release, but He Is Legend made a triumphant return to the stage in 2011 for a hometown show at the Satellite Bar and Lounge. After several years of sporadic performances the band returned to the studio for 2014’s Heavy Fruit, a decibel-shattering collection of epic metalcore anthems that forms a perfect addition to their powerful live shows.
