SPIRITWORLD in HD live concert full set sold out show 2023 House of Blues San Diego California
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2023
- SpiritWorld is the brainchild of Las Vegas native Stu Folsom, who described his intentions and stated, "It's about trying to write killer songs and craft a classic record. With Pagan Rhythms, I set out to distill my love of thrash, old school death metal, and hardcore into something new that would hit like a tomahawk right in the face. When I first started telling people about this idea, I had to merge Western imagery, horror fiction, and heavy metal into an all-out sonic assault. It seemed ridiculous, but I truly believe that if you make great records people are a lot more willing to embrace your weirdness and come along for the ride."
Commenting on their record label signing, Century Media Vice President of A&R, Mike Gitter, said, "SpiritWorld is sonic world-building in the boldest way. It's a vision of the American West as somewhere south of heaven that's equal parts Slayer, Louis Lamour, and Sam Peckinpah - full of dust, dirt and blood."
SpiritWorld album Deathwestern is out now on Century Media Records
Stu Folsom always wanted a Nudie Suit. It’s an odd admission from one of modern metal’s most ferocious frontmen, but it explains a lot about SpiritWorld. This band might sound like Slayer throwing down with Hatebreed, but their dusty, rhinestone-encrusted aesthetic and weird cowboy fables were shaped by the frontman’s coming of age in the United States’ wild western sprawl.
“I grew up in a house full of hillbillies,” Stu grins, recounting his early love for country icons like Chris Isaak, Porter Wagoner and Dwight Yoakam as we collar him cruising through cowboy country on I-15 to see family in eastern Idaho. “We kept horses, goats and chickens when I was a kid. A bunch of my family competed in rodeos. For SpiritWorld shows, I’ve finally got a suit of my own, but it’s a little inappropriate for the country scene. There’s a giant Baphomet goat on the back, which is way more satanic than I imagined when I was watching those great singers growing up. I guess I couldn’t really wear it to anywhere but a heavy metal concert!”
If you’re still struggling to understand what exactly SpiritWorld is all about, searing second album Deathwestern sums it up in a 36-minute nutshell. Opener Mojave Bloodlust sets the scene with an Ennio Morricone-esque composition, combining twangy six-strings with the sounds of eagles, horses and rattlesnakes. ‘Are you anti-Christ or are you for Christ?’ asks a disembodied voice. ‘Those are your only options.’ Then all hell breaks loose. Literally. Picking up where last year’s Pagan Rhythms left off, we’re transported to a callous, bloody Old West where the gates of hell have just fallen open, as seen through the eyes of cowboys and native Comanches alike.
Crucially, we cannot overstate how awesomely gnarly it all sounds.
“I’m a hardcore kid through and through,” Stu shrugs by way of acknowledgement. After leaving the family homestead, he fell hard into Las Vegas’ no-nonsense underground scene, fronting legendary local HXC outfit Folsom through the heady days of the 2000s and early 2010s. All that learning can be heard here. We get ’80s thrash clashing with ’90s Florida death metal. The heavy grooves of Pantera and Sepultura. And there’s a taste of the cathartic, pit-rumbling chaos of outfits like Cro-Mags, Leeway, Blood For Blood and Snapcase.
“It wouldn’t be appropriate to drop in an old cowboy trail song in the middle of that,” Stu stresses that there was never any temptation to add gimmicky banjos, fiddles or pedal-steel into the mix. “I just want a record that I can listen to front-to-back and bang my head.”
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Best band of the past 10 years! Deathwestern is a CLASSIC already
Agreed! DW and PR are the freshest metal out there that don't delve into growling stupidity. Just fun head banging craziness.
Heard it first time instantly took me back to my metal roots. These guys are keeping genx metal alive for all us older metal fans. Instantly bought this on vinyl.
Folsom’s vocals have improved so much
Totally agree...
Previous lives I checked it was... let's be honest, the vocals were pretty shitty...
Now they also seem to have added a backup singer, that seems completend very good the sound.
He's also a really cool guy.
I was there in this show..exactly in front of the rail but the opposite side, SpiritWorld really put their souls into the show...first time hearing this band and like it to hell, you guys rock the metal, rather than being the opening band you deserve being the main band from now on!!! Animo SpiritWorld!
Fantastic, thank you
Thanks for this 🤘
12:17 dont shit your boots when that riff hits you in the face!!!
These guys are epic
thank you for this ! It was a pleasure sharing the rail with ya!
Absolutely 💯 thanks so much 🙏 glad we arrived early to see this band
Unholy passages
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Wow! We have alot in common. Checked your library. Ive known Jim Brown since 1995, he's the only man of God I know. Great man! Love the metal stuff! Louder with Crowder every day! Fish Caney Fork and have some White River AR and GA trout pics that are unbelievable. Great library!