Ft. Worth - Pro-Pain.

yesterday...



Further into the "Can We Stop At The Gas Station?" Tour. Today we met up with the PRO-PAIN tour for 3 dates, the 1st of which is tonight in Ft. Worth @ Lola's Sixth.

Sitting outside on the curb with Brandt after the show... he's drinking a cold Budweiser (Cowboy Killer). It's a cool Texas evening, the sun is setting and the hum of Pro-Pain's tour bus is audible in the distance to the right.



We played on Pro-Pain's gear tonight, to save space. Lola's is a very small club. I'd guess it holds 75 people max. Had a tough time with the monitors, but we put on a killer show and brought D-S 100%. "I'm going to give you guys everything I got..." I said right before one of the songs. And I did. We did. The boys gave it all. Didn't get the opportunity to record tonight, so looking forward to the opportunity to record tomorrow night in San Antonio at the scout bar.

Hungry. Sweaty. It really is an awesome sun set.

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Mantic Ritual went on after us and reminded of old school Metallica, when Metallica was young, baby faced. Amazing guitar leads, tons of hair... high energy, a little dorky. Totally awesome. Had no idea what these guys were going to sound like, pleasantly surprise.

Sworn Enemy was good, looking forward to seeing them the next two nights.

PRO-PAIN. FUCK. These guys were bad to the bone, no fucking around, no frills, no dancing... just rocking your skull off with power... kicking you in the face with a combat boot. A nuclear attack. An earthquake. Awesome!! Damn.



Pro-Pain's front man came over to me right before they went on, congratulated us a strong set, said he was looking forward to touring with us. Very calm, cool, collected. An older gentlemen with a button down green shirt and black framed eye glasses. Nothing cliche, very intelligent. I had no idea what Pro-Pain would sound like at all.

At very beginning he demanded that everyone come up front, "this isn't a company pick nick, get up here!"... *anticipation!!* Then he released a guttural roar "this song is called... THREE MINUTES OF HATE!!" and from then on it was balls to the wall, ripping faces off, no apologies, straight kicking ass. Bravo, bravo, bravo! Can't wait to see these guys again!! PRO-PAIN Killed!!