内蒙古九宝乐队首次美国巡演进入尾声：11月5日唱进休斯顿、11日Nashville收官
来自中国内蒙古的九宝乐队（Nine Treasures）正在进行乐队成军以来的首次美国巡演。这轮名为「The Soul of a New War Machine Tour」的巡演与Mushroomhead、Fear Factory同行，10月13日从康涅狄格州New Haven起跑，如今进入最后一周，剩余七站依次为：11月3日肯塔基州Lexington、11月5日德克萨斯州Houston、11月6日Austin、11月7日Corpus Christi、11月8日Dallas、11月10日伊利诺伊州Sauget，11月11日在田纳西州Nashville收官。
七站的场馆分别是：Lexington的Manchester Music Hall、Houston的Scout Bar、Austin的Come And Take It Live、Corpus Christi的Brewster Icehouse、Dallas的AM/FM、Sauget的Pop's与Nashville的Basement East。其中德克萨斯州连占四站，是这轮巡演收尾段最密集的一段。
九宝乐队2010年由主唱兼吉他手Askhan在内蒙古组建，把重金属与蒙古传统音乐熔于一炉：Askhan本人兼主唱与呼麦，Nars拉马头琴，托布秀尔、巴拉莱卡等民族乐器与吉他、贝斯、鼓正面相撞，歌词多取材蒙古神话与传说——乐队名字本身就出自蒙古古代诗歌中咏唱的九种宝物。乐队常年在亚洲巡演，每年演出超过100场，单场观众最高达5万人。
本次巡演为乐队专辑《Seeking the Absolute》而跑，这是九宝加盟Metal Blade唱片后的首张专辑，也是他们第一张面向全球发行的LP。Askhan这样谈这张专辑：「我们想抓住那些真正从内心深处让我们兴奋的东西——那些让思绪向无限可能敞开的、难忘的瞬间。」乐队在巡演声明中说，美国有着深厚的摇滚与金属文化，许多启发过他们的乐队都来自这里，能把自己的音乐和文化带给美国观众，乐队感到非常兴奋和感激。
Inner Mongolia's Nine Treasures Brings First U.S. Tour to Its Final Leg: Houston on Nov. 5, Nashville Finale Nov. 11
Chinese Inner Mongolian band Nine Treasures is on its first-ever U.S. tour. The run, titled The Soul of a New War Machine Tour and shared with Mushroomhead and Fear Factory, began Oct. 13 in New Haven, Connecticut, and now enters its final week. Seven dates remain: Nov. 3 in Lexington, Kentucky; Nov. 5 in Houston, Texas; Nov. 6 in Austin; Nov. 7 in Corpus Christi; Nov. 8 in Dallas; Nov. 10 in Sauget, Illinois; and a Nov. 11 finale in Nashville, Tennessee.
The venues, in order, are Manchester Music Hall in Lexington, Scout Bar in Houston, Come And Take It Live in Austin, Brewster Icehouse in Corpus Christi, AM/FM in Dallas, Pop's in Sauget and Basement East in Nashville. Texas hosts four of the seven remaining stops, the densest stretch of the tour's closing leg.
Formed by vocalist and guitarist Askhan in Inner Mongolia in 2010, Nine Treasures fuses heavy metal with traditional Mongolian music: Askhan delivers both conventional vocals and Mongolian throat singing, Nars plays the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), and the tovshuur and balalaika collide with guitars, bass and drums. Their lyrics draw on Mongolian mythology and fairy tales, and the band's name itself comes from nine precious objects celebrated in ancient Mongolian poems. The band plays more than 100 festival and headlining shows a year in Asia, to audiences of up to 50,000.
The tour supports Seeking the Absolute, the band's first album for Metal Blade Records and its first LP with a worldwide release. "We tried to capture the things that truly excite us deep inside; those unforgettable moments when your mind swings wide open to infinite possibilities," Askhan says of the album. In their tour statement, the band said the United States has such a deep rock and metal culture, and many of the bands that inspired them come from there, and that they are excited and grateful to bring their music and culture to American fans.
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