MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/19/18 - KMSU FALL PLEDGE DRIVE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/19/18
KMSU FALL PLEDGE DRIVE

HOUR 1
MY ZERO - "can't lose control" // can't lose control - single
FOUR FISTS - "dork court" // 6666
WOLF ALICE - "your love's whore" // my love is cool
WITHIN TEMPTATION feat JACOBY SHADDIX - "the reckoning" // resist
AVERAGE MAMMALS - "steal me swiftly" // petrichor
DIAMANTE - "coming in hot" // coming in hot

DIVIDING EDEN - "giants" // giants (PICK OF THE WEEK)
DIVIDE THE FALL - "stay" // stay - single
THRICE - "just breathe" // palms
AMARANTHE - "inferno" // helix
JUSTIN COURTNEY PIERRE - "sooner" // in the drink
BOB'S BURGERS - "fun! fun! fun! fun!" // the bob's burgers music album
RAD OWL - "hannah barbera" // madison beast
PEARL JAM - "rearviewmirror" // vs.

HOUR 2
ALL THAT REMAINS - "everything's wrong" // victims of the new disease
ALL THAT REMAINS - "this calling" // the fall of ideals
ALL THAT REMAINS - "wasteland" // victims of the new disease
BABES IN TOYLAND - "he's my thing" // painkillers
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "nothing to lose" // jousthouse
TRIVIUM - "the sin and the sentence" // the sin and the sentence

AVATAR - "king's harvest" // avatar country
LIGHT THE TORCH - "virus" // revival
BURIED BY HOPE - "dissolution" // dissolution demo
NUISANCE - "ashes of empires" // 10 or 10,000
SLIPKNOT - "all hope is gone" // all hope is gone
HATEBREED - "honor never dies" // the divinity of purpose

R.I.P. OLI HERBERT from ALL THAT REMAINS

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MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/12/18 - RAD OWL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/12/18
GUESTS :: RAD OWL

HOUR 1
JUSTIN COURTNEY PIERRE - "sooner" // in the drink
JUSTIN COURTNEY PIERRE - "shoulder the weight" // in the drink
AMARANTHE - "countdown" // helix
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "pull me in" // shanaska
ALIGN - "worth 3 scene points" // some breaking news
RAD OWL - "sometime before april" // madison beast
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "nordeaster" // city of champions

RAD OWL - "hannah barbera" // madison beast
TECHNICIAN - "crimson chord" // crimson
RAD OWL - "grape mister misty" // madison beast
CASANATRA - "i do not care" // death ride
TURNSTILE - "real thing" // time and space

HOUR 2
FIGHT THE FURY - "my demons" // still breathing
COMMON CHOIR - "lower roads home" // lower roads home - single
IN SEARCH OF SOLACE - "recognize" // regression|progression
METAL ALLEGIANCE feat JOHAN HEGG - "king with a paper crown" // volume II: power drunk majesty
CANE HILL - "lord of flies" // too far gone
LET IT BREATHE - "bucket of bullheads" // let it breathe
SKYHARBOR - "ethos" // sunshine dust

SOULFLY feat RANDY BLYTHE - "dead behind the eyes" // ritual
LAMB OF GOD - "inherit the earth" // legion XX
BY THE THOUSANDS - "visions of inner depth" // visions of inner depth
REAPING ASMODEIA - "of talons and teeth" // impuritize
MACHINE HEAD - "aesthetics of hate" // the blackening
MACHINE HEAD - "elegy" // through the ashes of empires

**SPECIAL THANKS to JEREMY from RAD OWL for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!! RAD OWL's new album Madison Beast is out now!

Catch RAD OWL live for an ALL AGES show and signing at TUNE TOWN in Mankato at 6pm and then across the street at The What's Up Lounge in Mankato for a 21+ show with CLASS OF '86 and DEBLITZED on Sat, Oct 20!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/05/18 - DESSA

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/05/18
GUESTS :: DESSA

HOUR 1
ATMOSPHERE – “jerome” // mi vida local
RAD OWL – “aladdin’s castle” // Madison beast
DIVIDE THE FALL – “stay” // stay - single
DESSA - "fighting fish" // parts of speech
DESSA - "5 out of 6" // chime
DESSA - "shrimp" // chime

DESSA - "half of you" // chime
DESSA - "fire drills" // chime
BRING THE SUN - "truth" // ghost
TREMONTI – “take you with me” // a dying machine
SEETHER – “let you down” // poison the parish
SIMS x AIR CREDITS x ICETEP - "hollogramme" // arteria vertie

HOUR 2
RAD OWL - "hannah barbera" // madison beast (PICK OF THE WEEK)
JUSTIN COURTNEY PIERRE - "in the drink" // in the drink
AMARANTHE - "365" // helix
COHEED AND CAMBRIA – “the gutter” // unheavenly creatures
BLUE FELIX – “hate inside" // hate inside - single
NUSIANCE – “ashes of empires" // 10 or 10,000
EAON – “fan the flame" // fan the flame - single
MY ZERO – “can't lose control" // can't lose control - single

ENEMY X – “dirt" // enemy x
WRATH – “draw blood" // rage
GREEN DEATH – “lord of the dead" // manufacturing evil
MEGADETH - "peace sells" // peace sells...but who's buying
AFTER THE BURIAL - "rareform" // rareform
ROYAL'Z - "na na princess" // an end to anchor
THE SLAIN - "the vampire bat" // the slain
AVATAR - "for the swarm" // feathers and flesh

**SPECIAL THANKS to DESSA for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! DESSA's first hardcover book "My Own Devices" is out now via Dutton Books and her latest record "Chime" is out now via Doomtree Records!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/28/18 - SEVENDUST

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/28/18
GUESTS :: SEVENDUST

HOUR 1
BEARTOOTH - "disease" // disease
KNOCKED LOOSE - "deadringer" // laugh tracks
ARMS FOR ELEPHANTS - "vagrant" // all rise
THROW THE FIGHT - "skeletons" // skeletons - single
ALICE IN CHAINS - "would?" // dirt
ATMOSPHERE - "virgo" // mi vida local
TREMONTI - "take you with me" // a dying machine

COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "old flames" // the unheavenly creatures
WEATHER CHECK - "sanity" // weather check vol II
WITHIN TEMPTATION feat JACOBY SHADDIX - "the reckoning" // resist (PICK OF THE WEEK)
SEVENDUST - "dirty" // all I see is war
SEVENDUST - "God bites his tongue" // all I see is war

HOUR 2
SEVENDUST - "unforgiven" // all I see is war
SEVENDUST feat CHINO MORENO - "bender" // home
SEVENDUST - "sickness" // all I see is war
EAON - "fan the flame" // fan the flame - single
THRICE - "hold up a light" // palms
AVERAGE MAMMALS - "the senses" // life under the influence

MACHINE HEAD - "elegy" // through the ashes of empires
ENEMY X - "crawl" // enemy x
UNEARTH - "survivalist" // extinction(s)
SLIPKNOT - "spit it out" // slipknot
AFTER THE BURIAL - "bezerker" // rareform
DEVILDRIVER - "not all who wander are lost" // the last kind words
TURNSTILE - "real thing" // time and space

**SPECIAL THANKS to LJ from SEVENDUST for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! SEVENDUST's new album "All I See is War" is out now on Rise Records! Look for vinyl reissues of the albums from Alpha to Kill the Flaw releasing this October thru Rise Records and Rhino Records' Rocktober!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/21/18 - CLUTCH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/21/18
GUESTS :: CLUTCH

HOUR 1
SLASH feat MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS - "driving rain" // living the dream
DESSA - "fire drills" // chime
REMO DRIVE - "crash test rating" // greatest hits
STATE CHAMPS - "dead and gone" // living proof
CLUTCH - "how to shake hands" // book of bad decisions
CLUTCH - "gimme the keys" // book of bad decisions

CLUTCH - "weird times" // book of bad decisions
CLUTCH - "sonic counselor" // book of bad decisions
CLUTCH - "hot bottom feeder" // book of bad decisions
CLUTCH - "Lorelei" // book of bad decisions

HOUR 2
RAD OWL - "sometime before April" // madison beast
JUSTIN COURTNEY PIERRE - "in the drink" // in the drink
ASHES FROM STONE - "molon labe" // molon labe
STANDING ALLIANCE - "erased" // revisions
SKINDRED - "big tings" // big tings
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "faster" // the unforgiving
THE FEVER 333 - "made an America" // made an America
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // let it breathe
WARROOSTER - "save the date" // bilderberg workshop
AMON AMARTH - "raise your horns" // jomsviking
BY THE THOUSANDS - "visions of inner depth" // visions of inner depth
UNEARTH - "incinerate" // extintion(s)
LAMB OF GOD - "I against I" // legion XX
EVERY TIME I DIE - "I didn't want to join your stupid cult anyways" // low teens

**SPECIAL THANKS to NEIL FALLON of CLUTCH for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! CLUTCH's phenomenal new album "Book of Bad Decisions" is out now thru Weathermaker Music!

CLUTCH kicks off the "Book of Bad Decisions" US Tour in MN!

CLUTCH, SEVENDUST, TYLER BRYANT AND THE SHAKEDOWN

Myth in Maplewood, MN

September 18, 2018

CLUTCH kicked off the "Book of Bad Decisions" US Tour on Sept 18 at the Myth in Maplewood, MN bringing SEVENDUST and TYLER BRYANT AND THE SHAKEDOWN with them as one of fall's must see tours! CLUTCH and SEVENDUST have very die hard fan bases and teaming them up together brings in new fans for both bands as was evident with this first show of the tour!

TYLER BRYANT AND THE SHAKEDOWN played a very solid set of rambunctious rock and roll. We only caught the last two songs but this is a band that you should have on your radar to check out the next time you can. This band is only going to get more solid!

What can be said about SEVENDUST and CLUTCH that haven't been said before. Both bands have phenomenal yet different live shows.

SEVENDUST came swinging right out of the gate with "Enemy" into "Face to Face". Usually saved for last "Face to Face" showed up second song in the set and was still a barn burner!

SEVENDUST launched right into "Denial" before making way for the only new song of the set, the new single "Unforgiven". "Unforgiven" is classic Sevendust with trade off's between LJ and Morgan.

Somewhere around this point, LJ made a joke about Morgan having his whole condo up on stage while the rest of the band has smaller piece of real estate on the stage. But really it wouldn't be a Sevendust show without Morgan stomping and beating that entire kit!

SEVENDUST went back to the first self titled album for "Too Close To Hate" which feels like forever since I've heard that live. Then to my favorite Sevendust album of all time Home for "Waffle"!

When you only have 45 minutes, a lot of favorites are going to be left off the set list. Closing out with "Bitch" and then "Thank You", it just left the crowd wanting more! While I could list off a bunch of great Sevendust closing songs, there was no "Black" which I figured would be the show closer. Sevendust please come back sooner than later!

CLUTCH

Another thing that can be said of both Sevendust and Clutch is that they both have huge discographies with many great songs and they both are riding high with phenomenal new albums. Book of Bad Decisions as an album screams to be played live. Clutch did not disappoint playing SEVEN songs from the new album! (That’s pretty much half of the new album). The rest of the set list came from throughout the band’s extensive catalog.

Starting off with “Gimmie the Keys” and running into “Vision Quest” .. if the rest of this show kept on pace, we are all in for a treat tonight. Playing a song I hadn’t thought about in a while “The House That Peterbilt” showed up in the set from the self titled album. That’s one thing I’ve learned over the last couple years, Clutch will always throw you a curve ball and it’s quite exciting when they do!

“How to Shake Hands” got a big reaction from the crowd and how could you not with those lyrics! Neil made a quick joke stating the next song was about the first time he ran for president and went into “El Jefe Speaks”. I still get as excited to hear “The Mob Goes Wild” as when I first heard it years and years ago. “Hot Bottom Feeder” got Neil laughing stating that’s the first time he’s seen people mosh to recipe. Ending the main set with the sweet sounds of the cowbell on “D.C. Sound Attack” and getting everyone all excited with the combo of “Electric Worry” and “X-Ray Visions” before sending the crowd on their way.

If you get a chance to see this tour, do not miss it! This is one of the most satisfying tours I've seen in a while. Just plain fun front to back. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed their time at the show. I left feeling refreshed and that's exactly how a great show should make you feel! There’s not a whole lot of bands as tight and on point as Clutch and Sevendust and this tour is victory for the bands and fans alike!

CLUTCH's set list at the Myth

GIMMIE THE KEYS
VISION QUEST
NOBLE SAVAGE
THE HOUSE THAT PETERBILT
BOOK OF BAD DECISIONS
HOW TO SHAKE HANDS
EL JEFE SPEAKS
FIREBIRDS
THE MOB GOES WILD
THE ELEPHANT RIDERS
HOT BOTTOM FEEDER
BARBARELLA
LORELEI
THE FACE
D.C. SOUND ATTACK
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ELECTRIC WORRY
X-RAY VISIONS

SEE MORE OF BRETT's PICTURES FROM CLUTCH and SEVENDUST at the MYTH HERE!

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE brings their "Gravity" world tour to MN!

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE with BAD OMENS

Myth in Maplewood, MN

SEPT 15, 2018

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE are one of those bands that are huge in Europe but still play smaller venues in the U.S. BFMV brought their massive sound to the Myth for the second leg of their U.S. tour this time bringing BAD OMENS in tow. Unfortunately, WE CAME AS ROMANS were not on the first couple dates of the tour (R.I.P. Kyle) but joined up with the tour two days after the Myth show.

BULLET opened up the show with two songs from the new album Gravity including the stellar single “Over It” before the fan favorite “Your Betrayal” kicked things into a frenzy. “4 Words To Choke Upon” from The Poison made an appearance and made me miss “All These Things I Hate Revolve Around Me” not being in the set.

“Scream Aim Fire” sounded super powerful tonight which would’ve been a great closer to the main set. But you can’t really argue with the encore being a tight set of “No Way Out”, “Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow”, “Tears Don’t Fall” and “Waking the Demon”.

Here’s to hoping we see BFMV in a festival setting soon to really show the masses in the U.S. what the U.K. already know!

BAD OMENS

SEE MORE OF BRETT'S PHOTOS FROM BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE AT THE MYTH HERE!