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Last Chance to Reason is on the path to becoming the most successful band in Maine. What about Nobis, you ask? Their album is advertised in metal magazines. What about Sparks the Rescue? They’re planning a tour to Florida this summer.
Last Chance to Reason has been playing shows, without fail, almost every single weekend since the fall. The rowdy five fellows of LCTR, hailing from the Belgrade, Oakland, Augusta area, returned from their third major tour last weekend. They played more than a dozen shows in nearly as many states, reaching as far south as West Virginia.
“It was our best tour yet,” said drummer Evan Sammons. “Every show was a really solid show. There were great crowd responses at a lot of them, especially the Pennsylvania shows.”
When the band isn’t on tour, they continuously play local shows for their large Maine fan base.
“We’re still having a blast doing it,” said vocalist Mike Levenseller when asked if the group is getting tired of being onstage so often. “Playing every night is just making us really, really tight. We still love all the songs as much as we did.”
LCTR currently has nine dates lined up through June 16. They will play with KillWhitneyDead, a film-sample oriented hardcore group on national label Tribunal Records, on June 2 in Melrose, MA. The June 16 appearance at The Kave will kick off LCTR’s most ambitious undertaking yet, a 22-date tour of the entire East Coast including dates in New York, Maryland, Florida, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New England.
“We’re starting to get the tour experience under our belts and some labels are starting to take interest in us. It’s exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time,” Sammons says. “This is pretty much becoming a focus of everybody’s life. We’re all dropping everything to do it. The band is showing a lot more promise as we go.”
The coming year will hold more success for Last Chance to Reason. They have definite plans to record a full-length album with Jamie King in North Carolina in January of next year. King produced both “Alaska” and the self-titled album by well-known metalcore geniuses Between The Buried and Me.
“We’re trying to do our best; we don’t want to be disappointed in it,” says Levenseller of the upcoming album. The group is planning to tone down the amount of live shows and focus on rehearsing and writing material from September to January. “We want to be really proud of what we did, when this album is done.”
The band was on their way to a show in Ashland, Mass. I sat back and looked at the facts. This is how small bands make their way up through the ranks. LCTR are using the tried-and-true steps employed by bands from America’s hottest metalcore act Unearth to the Swedish gods of melodic metal, In Flames: Write great songs, play tons of shows, maintain a hard work ethic and high level of musicianship, and get signed.
Doors will open at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10. The bill will include The Killing Moon, Zebuesk, Burning Valhalla and Last Chance to Reason.
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