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Heavy weights
Brooklyn metal band brings punchy sound to Gowanus
The heads that wear the crowns: The metal band Unbroken will play songs from its debut “Human Crown” at Lucky 13 Saloon in Gowanus on March 20. Photo by Caroline Ourso
By Rose Adams They’re breaking new ground!
A Brooklyn band is breathing
fresh air into the heavy metal
genre, combining a Metallica-inspired
sound with high-tech post-production.
The Unbroken, performing as part of the
“March Metal Beatdown” at Gowanus’s
Lucky 13 Saloon on March 20, uses downtuned
instruments and slick technology to
create “punchier” songs, said the band’s
drummer.
“Modern sound has a different tuning,
with newer sounds on the instruments, as
well as using today’s technology to create a
fresher, cleaner ‘modern’ feel to the overall
sound,” said Tamas Vajda.
The band — whose hit song “Suffering
in Silence” has racked up more than
170,000 views on Youtube — got its
start in 2017, when Vajda and lead singer
Chester Oszustowicz decided to combine
forces.
“We’re old friends,” said Vajda. “We
met through the metal circuit 15 years ago
or so.”
The pair recruited two more members
of the scene and called the group, “The
Broken Co.” — until a new band name
came to Vajda in a vision, he said.
“I had a dream which gave me a very
positive sign,” he said. “There’s nothing
wrong, it’s not broken therefore it’s
Unbroken.”
The Unbroken plays “groove metal,”
a sub-genre that features raspy shouting,
guitar riffs, and syncopated beats, Vajda
said. The group has quickly gained a loyal
following, but expanding its audience has
been difficult in Brooklyn’s small heavy
metal community.
“It’s pretty underground,” Vajda said.
“I can’t say New York has as much of a
metal scene as it used to.”
To expand its reach, the band created
an online experience to accompany its
debut album, “Human Crown.” Rather
than buying the collection, fans can
sign up to receive one song from the
album each day, along with its music
video and behind-the-scenes footage.
According to Vajda, the band began the
multimedia project to amp up its online
presence and give listeners an original
experience.
“You’ve got to give them something
new, something special,” he said. “That’s
our specialty.”
At the show, the band will play songs
from “Human Crown,” along with some
new tunes they are preparing for a new
album, which the group hopes to finish by
the end of the year.
The Unbroken at Lucky 13 Saloon 644
Sackett St. between Third and Fourth
avenues in Gowanus, (718) 596–0666,
www.lucky13saloon.com. March 20 at 11
pm. $12.
Your entertainment
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BY BEN VERDE
The number of confi rmed
coronavirus cases continue to
climb in Kings County as fears
mount about how the novel virus
will impact the lives of
Brooklynites.
“It’s going to be a long battle,
undoubtedly — months,” said
Mayor Bill de Blasio at a Monday
press conference. “That’s
what’s on everyone’s mind.
There’s a lot of fear out there.
There’s a lot of anxiety, there’s a
lot of confusion.”
Since an 80-year-old woman
became the fi rst confi rmed patient
in Brooklyn on March 5, at
least a half-dozen more patients
with ties to the borough have
tested positive for the virus, according
to the mayor.
A New Jersey man who serves
as a healthcare at the King David
Nursing Home on Cropsey Avenue
in southern Brooklyn contracted
the virus late last week,
according to local Councilman
Justin Brannan, who said that
all the seniors who came in contact
with the infected individual
have been tested and show no
signs of the virus.
Citywide, more than three
dozen patients have contracted
the virus, the mayor said on
Tuesday.
In an effort to stop the spread,
BY ROSE ADAMS
A number of Kings
County private schools
have opted to close as a
precautionary measure
to prevent the potential
spread of coronavirus
— such as Brooklyn
Friends School, which
announced class cancelations
in a letter to
parents on March 9.
“Out of an abundance
of precaution and care, we
are cancelling classes,”
wrote the school’s principal,
Crissy Cáceres.
The ritzy private
school joins Brooklyn’s
Poly Prep Country Day
School and Saint Ann’s
School, as well as a growing
list of educational institutions
in the city that
will be temporarily shuttered
out of virus fears.
New York City public
school administrators
currently have no
plans for wide-ranging
closures, according to
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who
conceded that some individual
schools may need
to temporarily close.
“We would only consider
closing any particular
school for very specifi
c reasons and for as
brief a period of time as
possible,” Hizzoner said.
Part of the concern
is weighing proactive
safety measures with
the needs of parents who
rely on schools to care
for their children during
the workday.
“There’s a lot of parents
that don’t have a
place for their child if
the schools are closed,”
he said. “So there’s a
balance that has to be
struck.”
In the meantime,
schools will be adding
additional staff to ensure
early detection of
symptoms.
“Nurses are being
added this week to every
public school building,”
the mayor said.
Infected number goes up
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