I Have An Idea: Machine Head, Biohazard & Hatebreed Tour

This past weekend the Milwaukee Metal Fest made its triumphant return. The lineup was stellar all around and after watching all the video clips from the 3 day festival (4 if you count the Thursday Pre-Party), it really made me think I should’ve gone. While checking out a ton of clips of so many bands it got me thinking, what if out of this fest a rad tour package came out of it and here’s my idea. Now, this is just hypothetical but, would be seriously awesome if it did happen, a Machine Head, Biohazard and Hatebreed tour. You could even throw on an up and coming band on the bill to open the whole thing like Dying Wish, Creeping Death or someone else. Think about this, Biohazard is back and their set was straight up fire from what I saw. Machine Head’s new album is a banger and those songs really need to be played live. And then you have Hatebreed to bring it all together and just murder out of the gates. I don’t know about you but, I would be at that tour in a heartbeat.

The Breakdown:
Machine Head- 100 min set
Biohazard- 90 min set
Hatebreed- 60 min set
Opener- 30 min set

Have it at a place that holds about 2,000-4,000 people.

Tickets: $40

This could and should totally happen! Just imagine how awesome this tour would be!

Alternate Versions: New Order- Senses (Cargo Demo)

Over the past couple days, I went on a bit of a Joy Division/New Order binge. It’s truly amazing how many bands have been influenced/inspired by these two bands. New Order’s debut album Movement, is one of those albums that is truly special. It’s part continuation of where Joy Division left off but, there’s new ground being explored in a subtle manner that will eventually lead to where New Order wound up. One of the songs off of this album that stands out in a really great way is “Senses.” One of my best friends loves this song so, I thought I’d dig up an alternate version of it and see if you can tell the difference between the two.

New Order- Sense (Cargo Demo):

New Order- Senses (Album Version):

Dream Tour/Set List: Thrice, Every Time I Die & Cave In

It’s been a while since I did one of these and this one is pretty damn awesome. Earlier this year, this dream tour came to me when Two Minutes To Late Night started their series where 2 bands cover each other. The first one was Every Time I Die taking on a Cave In song (Youth Overrided from Antenna) and Cave In taking on an Every Time I Die song (Moor from From Parts Unknown). When that was announced it got me thinking that those two bands should tour together. Then I started seeing comments from other bands and Riley Breckenridge from Thrice was super stoked on these covers and that’s when I had the idea. Dream Tour and Set List featuring Thrice, Every Time I Die and Cave In. Imagine the possibilities of these three awesome bands on one bill for a whole tour! So much awesomeness happening with this line up. Now the set lists are where it gets interesting and tricky. And as always I set up some parameters to make it more fun.

1: Where would you want to see the show

2: What is the order/set lengths of the bands

3: What line up of the band would it be (If necessary)

4: Set List (In order of how the set should go)

1) Hollywood Palladium

2) Headliner= Thrice
Direct Support= Every Time I Die
Opener= Cave In

3) All Current Lineups of each band

4) Set Lists:


Cave In:

01) Juggernaut
02) Lanterna
03) Trepanning
04) Halo Of Flies
05) Joy Opposites
06) Retina Sees Rewind
07) Big Riff
08) Youth Overrided
09) Dark Driving
10) Sing My Loves

Every Time I Die:

01) Dark Distance
02) I Suck (Blood)
03) Depressionista
04) Glitches
05) Planet Shit
06) Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space
07) Wanderlust
08) Bored Stiff
09) INRIhab
10) White Void
11) C++ (Love Will Get You Killed)
12) Post-Bordem
13) It Remembers
14) AWOL
15) The Coin Has A Say
16) Romeo A Go-Go
17) We’rewolf
18) Ebolarama
19) Thing With Feathers
20) Map Change

Thrice:

01) The Color Of The Sky
02) Scavengers
03) Under A Killing Moon
04) The Grey
05) Hurricane
06) Silhouette
07) All The World Is Mad
08) Promises
09) Don’t Tell And We Won’t Ask
10) Like Moths To Flame
11) Summer Set Fire To The Rain
12) In Exile
13) Just Breathe
14) Blood Clots And Black Holes
15) Robot Soft Exorcism
16) The Long Defeat
17) The Earth Will Shake
18) Paper Tigers
19) The Artist In The Ambulance
20) Come All You Weary
21) Yellow Belly
22) Hold Fast Hope
23) Red Sky
24) Beggars
25) Black Honey

Ultimate Set List & Tour: Killswitch Engage w/ Jesse & Howard and Darkest Hour

The first Dream Tour and Ultimate Set List I made was pretty amazing. The line up of Mastodon, Neurosis and O’Brother would be a tour for the ages. After that, I made a list of others that I thought would be pretty amazing. What I present to you is a dream tour that would be absolutely awesome. Imagine if this ever did come to fruition… Killswitch Engage tours with Jesse Leach AND Howard Jones. Each singer gets their own set of songs from the albums they were on, and then at the end they join each other for a few songs. Well, here is the set list that I came up with, the one I’d want to see, along with Darkest Hour as their opener and their set list. Enjoy!!

With all that in mind, here are the guidelines for this now expanded category.

1: Where would you want to see the show

2: What is the order/set lengths of the bands

3: What line up of the band would it be (If necessary)

4: Set List (In order of how the set should go)

 

Venue: 

The Worcester Palladium in Massachusetts

Order: 

1) Darkest Hour (45 mins), 2) Killswitch Engage (45 mins for Jesse, 45 mins for Howard, plus 15 mins for the Encore)

Line Up:

Darkest Hour: John Henry, Mike Schleibaum, Ryan Parrish, Kris Norris, Paul Burnette

Killswitch Engage: Jesse Leach, Howard Jones, Adam Dutkiewicz, Joel Stroetzel, Mike D’Antonio, Justin Foley

Set Lists:

Darkest Hour:

01) Doomsayer
02) No God
03) Convalescence
04) Timeless Numbers
05) So Sedated, So Secure
06) Knife In The Safe Room
07) Eclipse
08) Pay Phones and Pills
09) The Sadist Nation
10) For The Soul of the Savior

Killswtich Engage:

Jesse Set:

01) Numbered Days
02) Beyond The Flames
03) We Carry On
04) Life To Lifeless
05) You Don’t Bleed For Me
06) Cut Me Loose
07) Self Revolution
08) Fixation On The Darkness
09) In Due Time
10) Strength Of The Mind
11) Always
12) My Last Serenade
13) Vide Infra

Howard Set:

14) Daylight Dies
15) A Bid Farewell
16) A Light In A Darkened World
17) When Darkness Falls
18) World Ablaze
19) The Arms Of Sorrow
20) Breathe Life
21) Reject Yourself
22) My Curse
23) Rose Of Sharyn
24) The End Of Heartache

Jesse and Howard Together (Encore):

25) Irreversal
26) Soilborn
27) Take This Oath

Ultimate Set List & Tour: Mastodon with Neurosis & O’Brother

I had an idea recently to expand upon the Ultimate Set List category. I thought that if I were to put together a “dream tour” scenario into the aether, that maybe, just maybe, it might come true. The first one I came up with involves Mastodon, Neurosis and the very awesome, O’Brother. All three of these bands have released fantastic new albums. Mastodon’s Emperor Of Sand is well on it’s way to my album of the year for 2017. O’Brother put out Endless Light, one of the top 5 albums of 2016 and, Neurosis, well they continue to put out quality albums with their newest, 2016’s Fires Within Fires.

With all that in mind, here are the guidelines for this now expanded category.

1: Where would you want to see the show

2: What is the order/set lengths of the bands

3: What line up of the band would it be (If necessary)

4: maximum 25 songs (In order of how the set should go)

 

Venue:

The Fonda Theatre- Hollywood CA

Order/Set Length:

1) O’Brother- 45 mins, 2) Neurosis- 75mins, 3) Mastodon- 100mins

Set Lists:

O’Brother:

1) Slow Sin
2) Your Move
3) Absence
4) Bloodlines
5) Endless Light
6) Complicated End Times
7) Ascension
8) Burn
9) I Am (Become Death)

Neurosis:

1) Through Silver and Blood
2) Bending Light
3) We All Rage In Gold
4) Under The Surface
5) Left To Wander
6) Belief
7) Stones From The Sky

Mastodon:

1) Sultan’s Curse
2) Crystal Skull
3) Iron Tusk
4) Steambreather
5) Oblivion
6) Chimes At Midnight
7) Ancient Kingdom
8) Colony Of Birchmen
9) Dry Bone Valley
10) Andromeda
11) Ember City
12) The Czar: Usurper/Escape/Martyr/Spiral
13) Roots Remain
14) Sleeping Giant
15) Asleep In The Deep
16) Crack The Skye (with Scott Kelly)
17) Jaguar God

Encore:

18) Blood And Thunder
19) Crusher Destroyer
20) Mother Puncher
21) March Of The Fire Ants