J2112YYZ

They had to cancel the last two shows of their South American tour and fly back home due to whatever the health issue is that one of them is dealing with. Supposedly it's Ale who's sick according to some things that have been seen/heard. The good news is that whoever is sick is well enough to fly home. Chile to Monterey isn't a short trip either.

They had to cancel the show in Santiago, Chile tonight. I guess one of them is sick. The statement they put out was in Spanish and translated to "health issues" as the reason.

They are in South America right now. They played their first shows ever in Brazil opening for The Offspring. Now they're finishing up with some headlining shows. As always, the crowds in Argentina are something else.

This guy's reactions to The Warning seem to be getting a lot of love in the fan community. I haven't watched any of them since music reactions almost always annoy me 😄

It turns 25 this year. We're old 😄

Hey, I'm a Megadeth fan who loves the Marshall Mathers LP.

How the hell did you remember all of that 😄

New Machine Head album out April 25th

They've done this with a number of songs on this Mexican tour. They did a little drum intro to Sick, they play the opening riff to Sharks an extra time over, the intro to Consume is longer and they extended the outro for Automatic Sun. While most fans like KMF, one of the main criticisms is that the songs are too short. Most of them barely go over 3 minutes. Most fans get it. They're on the cusp of becoming bigger so they had to write more accessible songs. They were also on a tight time frame at the end of 2023 when they were recording KMF in between tour dates. So they pretty much had to get in there and record as fast as possible and there wasn't much time to do anything extra. All these songs extensions seem very natural and like they should have been part of the songs to begin with. There was some real pressure from the label to make everything shorter and more accessible. The label wouldn't give them the money to record unless they provided them with 3 singles first. That's how More, HYCAD and Sick came to be. So, we definitely know what the record label wanted out of them. I think the extensions on these songs may have been what the band originally wanted to do but the label made them shorten things up. Because even though they've always written short songs, on their other albums it still feels like they gave them more room to breathe musically then they did with KMF.

I haven't revisited anything from the Mangini albums in a while but Portnoy's first era will always be my favorite. My top albums from the band are Scenes, Images and Words, Six Degrees and Awake. It's been that for 20 something years so it's unlikely to ever change for me.

So even the normally quiet Ale is getting involved with crowd interaction at these big shows in Mexico.

My only issue with Shadow Man is that they should have done the chorus one more time. The first half of the song is better than the second half. That chorus could have elevated the later part of the song.

The band needs to fire whoever is in charge of picking the singles. They choose the "worst" songs on the album. After hearing the chorus to Siege, my first thought was that this is already better than everything we've heard so far. Why wasn't this a single? The singles do sound better in the context of the album. I'm definitely enjoying it more than I thought I would since the singles did nothing for me. I Wish You Were Dead should have been released earlier than it was. That song has some hit potential for sure. Scarecrow is fantastic!

I wish we could have gotten the chorus to Shadow Man one more time in the song. That melody keeps getting stuck in my head.

Here's another video of Consume. This one follows Pau through the whole song.

They had to cancel their show in Atlanta tonight. James is sick.

No, she is not going to give up playing the drums. They would need to always have an extra member on tour for that to happen. I don't think that's in the plans/budget right now. The drummer for the opening band, Holy Wars, came out to play so she could do something special for the big shows. She did the same thing for the Teatro Metropolitan show a couple years ago. Her drum teacher played during Narcisista and she went out front for that one.

I still can't believe that at 70 minutes how fast this album goes by. Not a single second wasted on it. Everything played means something.

To change the email address do we type in the password for this board or the password we have for the email address? Edit: nevermind, I figured it out.

This is a really good album. Night Terror really needs Morpheus as the intro in order to make the song hit like it should. I like Dead Asleep a lot. That main riff is so good. Unlike the last couple of albums with Portnoy that left me saying "when will this end?" This album flew by and it didn't fell like 70 minutes at all. It's strange to say that an album this long doesn't overstay it's welcome but it really doesn't. They hit everything they needed to just right on it.

So a couple other things happened at this show. Dany did a guitar solo for what I think is the first time ever live and it was a very David Gilmour kind of solo. The other is for Consume. The drummer from the opening band, Holy Wars, came out to play and Pau was able to be the front woman for a song.

Muse is their biggest influence and they have opened for them. Matt Bellamy even gifted Dany a custom made Manson guitar. If you ever see Dany playing a yellow guitar that's the one Matt gave her. She's also been gifted a Gibson explorer from Lzzy Hales and Orianthi gave Dany one of her custom made PRS guitars which is Dany's main brand. Yeah, their path to becoming big has been a bit different with them starting out so young and being an all female independent rock band from Mexico for their first two albums. I kind of see similarities to Metallica with their rise. Their third album is the one that really introduced them to many people. Their fourth album widened their audience significantly and hopefully, like Metallica, it's the fifth album that makes them huge.

This was their first arena headlining show. It was at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. They have another show there tonight and another one on the 11th. The arena fits 10,000 and they sold out all three nights. They also have big venues coming up in Guadalajara and Monterrey. A production this size will not be with them on tour. They are not playing big enough places yet in other parts of the world. It's easier to do in Mexico since they are from there and can draw huge crowds. They're still only drawing a few thousand people per show outside of Mexico. For some reason the rest of the world is slow to catching on to them which I still don't understand three years into being a fan. They are so easily marketable. It boggles my mind that they're not an arena band everywhere yet.

Ozzy can't walk anymore because of his Parkinson's. Both him and Sharon have mentioned this recently. So I don't know how much he can do or how he will do it. Maybe they'll just have him sit on a throne in the middle of the stage and sing?

Excellent song. I remember the video being on MTV all the time when I was a kid. It was such a huge song. Certainly a song I appreciate a lot more as an adult than I did as a kid.