Red Bull Snowscrapers Music Acts

Red Bull Snowscrapers music stage will feature Anthrax, Black Gold and Valiant Thorr for a one-of-a-kind event. Red Bull hosts a never been seen before winter event, infusing the worlds of extreme sports and music amid the backdrop of the liveliest city in the world, New York City.

Anthrax

Anthrax is a New York City-based heavy metal band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with rap music. The band has sold over 10 million albums worldwide, and is classified as one of the "big four" of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer.

Black Gold

From the infectious analog synth strut of "Detroit" to the soaring, alluring charge of "Run," New York City's Black Gold have crafted what may be the warmest and most charming indie pop offerings in recent memory with Rush, their debut album due out February 2009.  At the helm of this duo are Eric Ronick and Than Luu, the two Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalists who first met on the set of the Craig Kilborn Show while working with different bands.  From there, they quickly forged the allegiance that reaped the sonic riches that are now in your clutches.  The keenly constructed and superbly delivered "Plans & Reveries" and the glistening "Shine" both assert that Ronick and Luu's collective strength comes from an eagerness to draw on an array of styles and eras.  If Rush is an affirmation of that notion, its unique sonic outlook was alive early on.  "It was like a secret jam," Luu says of Black Gold's first interaction. "Very secret," Ronick agrees. "I had a Wurlitzer set up, and Than was on the kit, and it was great."

Valient Thorr

Planet Earth in the year 2008 must look like a pretty strange. messed-up place to an outsider. From election-year sensationalism, global warming hysteria and widespread warfare to reality show overload and the latest celebrity meltdowns caught on film, it may seem to some that The End is imminent.  But there's hope for the human race. Just ask the extraterrestrial members of Valient Thorr, the rock n' roll saviors from Venus who crossed the solar system to warn Earthlings about the error of our ways, delivering a message of redemption wrapped in rock n' roll, with pounding drums and shredding guitar licks. The grizzled time-space travelers may look like a chapter of the Hell's Angels, but there's much more to this band than meets the eye. Their combination of heavy rock n' roll and thought-provoking lyrics gives their legions of fans-dubbed the "Thorriors"- food for thought through their staggeringly productive output. The group has averaged close to 250 tour dates a year, and is currently polishing up their fourth album in five years, Immortalizer, set for release on June 17 on Volcom Entertainment.