Black Friday: Do NOT Deny the Sun

Friday, May 29th, 2009 | musiX

I’m sitting inside a Starbucks, battling writer’s block, people watching, shoveling chocolate-covered espresso beans in my mouth, waiting for inspiration to come walking through the door and … good God of Thunder, it just walked in …

… and by it, I mean he. A heavier-set man—long, curly mane tucked under a red, white and blue bandana. Aside from the Stars and Stripes wrapped tightly around his skull he’s clad head to toe in black, which matches his tresses and sunglasses. He’s wearing a T-shirt with a fluorescent-green logo on the front—”Deny The Sun,” it says. On the back, the words “Gothic Romance.” Oh yeah, this guy’s in a band. A quick Google search reveals that Deny The Sun is, indeed, a band from Erie, Penn., but does not include this gent, who’s now sipping a grande caramel Frappuccino at a window table … still, this is too good to be true.

Deny The Sun has songs like “She Bleeds,” “Sad Song” and their “hit single”—”Night of the Lycan.” They’ve performed at a number of clubs as well as “private parties, and have appeared as special guests at haunted houses during the Halloween season.” Apparently this motley crue has won two, that’s two, RockErie Music Awards for Favorite Metal Band, and their music has been dubbed “Gothic Romance” by its female fans—and according to the band’s MySpace “where the ladies are, the men are sure to follow.” I’m not sure exactly what that means.

Because I have writer’s block, and I’m hopped up on espresso beans, I’ll let the video of Deny The Sun at its first RockErie Awards tell the story. I think these guys are going places.

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