MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/20/20 - STITCHED UP HEART

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/20/20
GUESTS :: STITCHED UP HEART

HOUR 1
WEATHER CHECK - "innovate" // innovate/elevate 7"
EXACTLYNO - "red city line" // red city line
DOOMTREE - "five alive" // five alive - single
FALSE FLOOR - "equals" // equals - single
BRING THE SUN - "truth" // ghost
THEM THAT DARE - "tiny army" // endings
THE FAILSAFE - "head under water" // erasing color
STITCHED UP HEART - "warrior" // darkness

STITCHED UP HEART - "lost" // darkness
STITCHED UP HEART - "problems" // darkness
STITCHED UP HEART - "darkness" // darkness
FIRE FIGHT - "better" // identity
BRING ME THE HORIZON - "mantra" // amo

HOUR 2
STITCHED UP HEART - "my demon" // darkness
BEARTOOTH - "afterall" // disgusting
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
LAMB OF GOD - "momento mori" // lamb of god
IMONOLITH feat JOHANNES ECKERSTROM - "becoming the enemy" // state of being
MY ZERO - "demotivation" // demotivation

HATEBREED - "when the blade drops" // when the blade drops - single
AUGUST BURNS RED - "defender" // guardians
STATIC-X - "hollow" // project regeneration vol 1
ENEMY X - "endless circle" // endless circle
KATATONIA - "behind the blood" // city burials
CODE ORANGE - "in fear" // underneath
TRIVIUM - "catastrophist" // what the dead men say
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
VEIN - "rebirth protocol" // errorzone



**SPECIAL THANKS to MIXI from STITCHED UP HEART for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! STITCHED UP HEART's new album "Darkness" is out now via Century Media! STITCHED UP HEART will be a part of Rock Fest in Cadott, WI on July 15-18!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/13/20

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/13/20

HOUR 1
WEATHER CHECK – “elevate” // elevate/innovate 7"
FOUR YEAR STRONG – “crazy pills” // brain pain
BOSTON MANOR – “ratking” // glue
MOON TOOTH – “musketeers” // crux
THROW THE FIGHT – “wolves in the dark” // settle your sins
3 PILL MORNING – “the hunted” // never look back
ARMS FOR ELEPHANTS – “vagrant” // all rise
GOING TO THE SUN – “new year” // going to the sun

DOWN AND ABOVE – “joga” // anodyne
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “depending on the weather” // keep your devils around
THRICE – “just breathe” // palms
SKILLET – “hero” // awake
RAD OWL – “hannah barbera” // madison beast
TURNSTILE – “real thing” // time and space
HIGHER POWER – “shedding skin” // 27 miles underwater
DIRTY HONEY – “rolling 7’s” // dirty honey

HOUR 2
STITCHED UP HEART – “warrior” // darkness
COLD KINGDOM – “desire” // into the black sky
ERIS – “the roche limit” // formation
JOHNNYROOK – “wrong thing” // between love and loss
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species (live)" // angry waters live
TORCHE - "walk it off" // harmonicraft
OH, SLEEPER – “vices like vipers” // when I am God

SAUL – “trial by fire” // trial by fire - single
BUTCHER BABIES – “the huntsman” // lilith
HELLYEAH – “333” // welcome home
CODE ORANGE – “swallowing the rabbit whole” // underneath
KNOCKED LOOSE feat KEITH BUCKLEY – “forget your name” // a different shade of blue
JOHNNY BOOTH – “bury the rose” // firsthand accounts
JINJER – “on the top” // macro
EVERY TIME I DIE – “map change” // low teens

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/06/20

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/06/20

HOUR 1
POLARIS - "hypermania" // the death of me
JASTA feat JESSE LEACH - "strength to draw the line" // the lost chapters II
EMPLOYED TO SERVE - "eternal forward motion" // eternal forward motion
SLEEP SIGNALS - "fireproof" // 2020
BLUE FELIX - "hate inside" // battling gravity
ERIS - "laniakea" // formation
THE PUSH - "monster" // I liked it better that way

EXACTLYNO - "don't wake up" // red city line
BIFFY CLYRO - "end of" // a celebration of endings
ARROWS AT DAWN - "let live" // pieces
SALT CREEK - "what you would hear" // if you were there
LEDGER - "not dead yet" // ledger ep
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // shanaska
BABYMETAL feat ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ - "distortion" // metal galaxy

HOUR 2
THE LETTER BLACK - "sick charade" // rebuild
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "counting scars" // alpha bionic
CWN ANNWN - "outlander" // patron saint
AMARANTHE feat ANGELA GASSOW - "do or die" // do or die - single
BEYOND THE BLACK - "misery" // horizons
STITCHED UP HEART - "warrior" // darkness
MOON TOOTH - "musketeers" // crux

IMONOLITH feat JOHANNES ECKERSTROM - "becoming the enemy" // state of being
APOCALYPTICA feat JOAKIM BRODEN - "live or die" // live or die - single
SABATON - "seven pillars of wisdom" // the great war
JUDAS PRIEST - "firepower" // firepower
ENEMY X - "until you're free" // enemy x
DEVIN TOWNSEND - "spirits will collide" // empath
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "grace" // epicloud

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/28/20

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/28/20

HOUR 1
DOOMTREE – “five alive” // five alive – single
AGAINST ME – “333” // shape shift with me
BARONESS – “borderlines” // gold and grey
EAON – “happy” // lesson no 1
COLD KINGDOM – “desire” // into the black sky
CITY OF THE WEAK – “drag us under” // pulling teeth
REFUSED – “new noise” // the shape of punk to come

SUPERLUNG – “time is of the essence” // demo
FRAMING HANLEY – “puzzle pieces” // envy
DOWN AND ABOVE – “anodyne” // anodyne
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “Cheshire” // yesteryear
DROPPING DAYLIGHT – “brace yourself” // brace yourself
SILVERSTEIN feat AARON GILLESPIE – “infinite” // a beautiful place to drown
THE PUSH – “mommy problems” // I liked it better that way

HOUR 2
AUGUST BURNS RED – “bones” // guardian
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – “the signal fire” // atonement
LIGHT THE TORCH – “the great divide” // revival
SAUL – “trial by fire” // trial by fire - single
BUTCHER BABIES – “Lilith” // Lilith
ALL THAT REMAINS – “this calling” // the fall of ideals
HELLYEAH – “333” // welcome home
COMMON CHOIR – “dive bar knight life II” // gravemind

AFTER THE BURIAL - "the great repeat" // evergreen
INTRONAUT - "check your misfortune" // fluid existential inversions
TRIVIUM – “catastrophist” // what the dead men say
LOVEBITES – “when destinies align” // electric pentagram
3TEETH – “American landfill” // metawar
POSEHN – “grandpa metal” // grandpa metal

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/21/20

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/21/20

HOUR 1
BIFFY CLYRO - "instant history" // instant history - single
DESSA - "5 out of 6" // chime
DIVIDE THE FALL - "stay" // stay - single
THE FAILSAFE - "head under water" // erasing color
STANDING ALLIANCE - "erased" // revisions
ODDS OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT - "show me a sign" // through the eyes of change
STITCHED UP HEART - "warrior" // darkness

LARKIN POE - "wanted woman / ac/dc" // peach
FALSE FLOOR - "equals" // equals - single
ATMOSPHERE - "push play" // whenever
PENDULUM feat IN FLAMES - "self vs self" // immersion
FIRE FIGHT - "identity" // identity
VERSION 5 - "why don't you drop" // version 5
SKYWIND - "slo motion" // escape plan v2 2019

HOUR 2
INTRONAUT - "check your misfortune" // fluid existential inversions
ERIS - "the roche limit" // formation
TORCHE - "admission" // admission
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
BARONESS - "throw me an anchor" // gold and grey
CHELSEA WOLFE - "16 psyche" // hiss spun

CODE ORANGE - "swallowing the rabbit whole" // underneath
PARKWAY DRIVE - "prey" // reverence
HATEBREED - "when the blade drops" // when the blade drops - single
KNOCKED LOOSE feat KEITH BUCKLEY - "forget your name" // a different shade of blue
JOHNNY BOOTH - "bury the rose" // firsthand accounts
PYRALIS - "daggers" // everything is emptiness
EMPLOYED TO SERVE - "eternal forward motion" // eternal forward motion
CONVERGE - "I can tell you about pain" // the dusk in us

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/14/20

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/14/20

HOUR 1
DEFTONES – “digital bath” // white pony
DEFTONES - "sextape ” // diamond eyes
GOJIRA – “vacuity” // the way of all flesh
POPPY – “I disagree” // I disagree
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “fell in love without you” // even if it kills me
HEROES OF HEARTACHE - "tonight” // tonight - single
AVERAGE MAMMALS – “nothing” // nothing – single
EXACTLYNO – “chika boom boom boom” // exactlyno

WEATHER CHECK – “that way” // weather check vol 2
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE – “sleep now in the fire” // the battle of Los Angeles
CITY OF THE WEAK – “censor this” // pulling teeth
NEW FOUND GLORY – “all downhill from here” // catalyst
DOLL SKIN – “shut up (you missed me)” // manic pixie dream girl
WOLFKAT – “missing out” // missing out - single
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “pull me in” // shanaska
ANGRY WATERS – “dead flowers” // the tequila incidents

HOUR 2
BRIAN POSEHN – “grandpa metal” // grandpa metal
LAMB OF GOD – “checkmate” // lamb of god
MEGADETH – “peace sells” // peace sells...but who's buying
TRIVIUM – “betrayer” // the sin and the sentence
IN FLAMES – “I am above” // I, the mask
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “beds are burning” // alpha bionic

STATIC-X – “hollow” // project regeneration volume 1
MACHINE HEAD – “circle the drain” // circle the drain - single
COMMON CHOIR – “dive bar knight life” // gravemind
SEPULTURA – “raging void” // quadra
LOVEBITES – “when destinies align” // electric pentagram
HATEBREED – “when the blade drops” // when the blade drops - single
AMARANTHE feat ANGELA GLASSOW – “do or die” // do or die - single

Korn proves once again they are Here To Stay

REVIEW: KORN & BREAKING BENJAMIN
XCEL ENERGY CENTER in ST. PAUL, MN
2/7/2020
Review and photos by Brett Zisler

A frigid cold night during February in St. Paul, Minnesota wasn’t going to deter thousands of Korn fans from making their way in to the Xcel Energy Center on a Friday night. Almost 26 years later after the their self-titled album and fresh off the release of their new album “The Nothing,” rock titans, Korn, have embarked on a nation wide tour with Breaking Benjamin. And once again, Korn proved they are here to stay. (get it???)

What else is there that can’t already be said about the band that paved the way for a new generation of music and still finds themselves bringing their fans out in droves? The energy level in the Xcel Energy center went from zero to 100 in the span of time it took for the lights to dim and the curtain to illuminate before Korn made their way to the stage. As soon as the crowd heard the first notes of “Here to Stay, “ the crowd knew it was go time. Jonathan Davis stood front and center with his legendary mic stand as he bellowed out the chorus to the crowd as the echoed back the lyrics. James “Munky” Schaeffer & Brian “Head” Welch moved towards the front of the stage leading the intro to one of the biggest hits of the 1990’s “Blind” as it echoed through the halls of the Xcel Energy Center. The impact that song has on their live show is something that will never get old to me.

Korn weaved their way through new material such as “Cold”, “Can You Hear Me?” and “You’ll Never Find Me” and they followed them up with the classic fan favorites, “Got the Life,” “Freak on a Leash” and the bagpipe heavy “Shoots and Ladders.” One thing came to mind as the closed the show with their hit off the Issues album “Falling Away From Me.” This band really has lasted the test of time. From their early days in Bakersfield, Ca. and then onto when hardly anything heavy with a guitar was getting airplay on MTV and somehow morphing that into winning TRL over boy bands for the most requested video in America. It’s no secret Korn has seen their share of hard times, but the best part is that they are still here, and by the turnout in St. Paul, many are glad they still are.

Also on the bill for the night was the ever so popular Breaking Benjamin. Having the privilege of seeing them numerous times off their most recent album Ember its always amazing to me how this band can win crowds over. It’s almost like a wave rolling into shore as the momentum builds as they plow their way through hits like “Diary of Jane” “Until the End” and the heavy crowd favorite “Breath”.

The energy level keeps getting larger and larger as the set goes on. The feeling that Breaking Benjamin gives you as they completed their set with “So Cold” and “I Will Not Bow” is that they still have a long and lustrous career ahead, even after having a history of over 20 years.

SEE MORE OF BRETT's KORN PHOTOS HERE!

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