MUSIC - Smoking Popes, "At Metro"

Their first performance after seven years, Smoking Popes’ At Metro is a reunion tour, a fast-paced and energetic live performance, a best-of collection, and a reason for the group to stay together. I’d never heard this Chicago-based band before, so I can’t compare this performance to their recorded tracks, but this DVD/CD makes it clear even to newcomers that Smoking Popes should stay in it for the long haul. Three brothers, three guitars, a drummer, and a cocktail of classic adrenaline-pumping shreds coupled with pop lyrics make for songs that will satisfy those in it for the music as well as those in it for the soul.

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