Acaro: Exclusive Tour Diary, Part One
Posted by Chris Harris on December 6, 2012 in Exclusive, Featured, Rad
We’ve been supporters of Acaro since our humble beginnings and the band’s been similarly supportive of this site in the past. That is why we are psyched to be able to bring you the first installment in the band’s tour diary, written by Chris Harrell. Of course, Acaro are currently on the road with Shadows Fall and Killswitch Engage on a must-see tour that runs through the end of this month.So to start this adventure out, we drove straight through from Boston to Gallup, New Mexico; from early Monday morning after playing a Boston show to Thanksgiving Thursday to meet up with the Shadows Fall fellers, who were kind enough to get us added to that date.
Along the way, our home away from home (we have dubbed her The Mayflower) had an alternator problem in Effingham, Illinois. The Metal Gods were definitely with us that day, for low and behold, the manager at Autozone was indeed a METALHEAD! He helped us out tremendously and won’t be forgotten!
Many miles later, we have arrived in sunny California for the California Metalfest, which was a very long, yet super fun day! With the exception of set times changing a lot, I thought the fest went very smoothly and we were able to pull quite a decent amount of people to our stage to watch a band they had never heard of before (haha); which by the way has been the overall theme of the tour so far for your boys in Acaro, which we have fully embraced. No one knows who we are yet, so that is our rallying cry: “WHO THE FUCK IS ACARO?”
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