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Round 10 has ended Wretches and Kings - 7 Iridescent - 6 When They Come For Me - 1 Wretches has lost, thankfully. We're now in the top 5. 5. When They Come For Me 8. Waiting For The End 9. Blackout 12. Iridescent 14. The Catalyst When They Come For Me Elimination Tracker: 1-5. TBD 6. Wretches and Kings 7. Burning In The Skies 8. Robot Boy 9. The Requiem 10. The Messenger 11. Jornada Del Muerto 12. Wisdom, Justice, and Love 13. The Radiance 14. Fallout 15. Empty Spaces

I actually agree completely with Geki. If it were up to me, 90% of the HT/Meteora stuff they're playing in the sets would be dropped for stuff from their more recent albums. Obviously In The End, One Step Closer, Faint, and Numb from the first two albums are going to stay, but that should be it. I guess With You and From The Inside could stay too. Bring back NMS, WTCFM, VICTIMIZED, IN MY REMAINS, Blackout, Valentine's Day, A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES and add I'LL BE GONE, POWERLESS, Keys To The Kingdom, All For Nothing, War, Mark The Graves, and A Line In The Sand. Who cares about shit that the band clearly wants to distance themselves from? I mean, that was the point of MTM and ATS, right? To prove they could go beyond the nu-metal genre they were thrust into? Well, that isn't being shown in the sets at all right now.

If they're gonna do a short, 12 song set, it better be packed with jams. 1. Guilty All The Same 2. No More Sorrow (Long Intro) 3. Keys To The Kingdom (Hard Start) 4. LOST IN THE ECHO 5. With You 6. VICTIMIZED (w/ QWERTY) 7. Rebellion 8. Wastelands 9. Mike Solo Medley (w/ 'Wretches and Kings', 'Remember The Name', 'When They Come For Me'; Ext. Outro Transition) 10. Dirt Off Your Shoulders/Lying From You (2014 Abridged Version) 11. Faint (Ext. Outro) 12. One Step Closer (Ext. Outro) I had to skip a lot of my favorite songs, but pretty much everyone in the fucking world would explode to this shit.

That better not be a one time thing. I want that shit to stay in the sets forever. Oppenheimer Outro 2.0 is fantastic, and that small sample of WJL is a really great touch.

Some realistic-ish sets I think would work for Europe: Set A 1. Mashup Intro #2 OR Mashup Intro #3 (Either one) 2. Guilty All The Same 3. By Myself 4. Points of Authority 5. Blackout (Shortened (Intro and Partial Outro Instrumental Only); Ext. Papercut Beat Transition Outro) 6. Papercut (Shortened (No Second Verse or Chorus)) 7. Rebellion (Ext. Intro) 9. No More Sorrow 10. War (Outro Transition) 11. Wastelands 12. CASTLE OF GLASS (Experience Version; Ext. Piano Transition Outro; w/ Oppenheimer Speech) 13. LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent (Ballad Medley) 14. Robot Boy (Shortened (Intro, Synth Bridge, and Outro Instrumental Only)) 15. New Divide (Shortened (No First Chorus or Second Verse)) 16. BURN IT DOWN (Shortened (No First Chorus or Second Verse)) 17. Final Masquerade 18. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro w/ 'UNTIL IT BREAKS' v3; Wall of Noise Outro) 19. Mike Solo Medley (w/ 'Wretches and Kings', 'Remember The Name', 'High Voltage'; Ext. Outro Transition) 20. Numb (Numb/Encore Intro/Outro + v1 Guitar) 21. In The End 22. Bleed it Out (Ext. Intro w/ 'Reading My Eyes' v1; Ext. Bridge w/ Drum Solo + 'The Catalyst' Refrain; Ext. Ending) ---------------------------- 23. LOST IN THE ECHO (Ext. Intro) 24. Until It's Gone (Ext. Intro w/ 'With You' v1) 25. What I've Done (Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) 26. One Step Closer (Ext. Outro) 27. A Line In The Sand Set B 1. One Step Closer (Long Intro; Ext. Outro) 2. Keys To The Kingdom (Hard Start) 3. With You 4. Given Up (Ext. Outro) 5. LOST IN THE ECHO 6. Blackout (Shortened (Intro and Partial Outro Instrumental Only); Ext. Papercut Beat Transition Outro) 7. Papercut (Shortened (No Second Verse and Chorus)) 8. Rebellion (Ext. Intro) 9. When They Come For Me 10. Wastelands ('War' Outro Sample Intro) 11. In The End 12. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro w/ 'UNTIL IT BREAKS' v3; Wall of Noise Outro) 13. CASTLE OF GLASS (Experience Version; Ext. Piano Transition Outro; w/ Oppenheimer Speech) 14. Breaking The Habit (Piano + A Capella Intro) 15. Numb (Numb/Encore Outro) 16. BURN IT DOWN (Shortened (No First Chorus or Second Verse)) 17. Final Masquerade 18. Mike Solo Medley (w/ 'Wretches and Kings', 'Remember The Name', 'Frgt/10'; Ext. Outro Transition) 19. Dirt Off Your Shoulders/Lying From You (2014 Abridged Version) 20. Faint (Ext. Outro) ---------------------------- 21. Guilty All The Same 22. Until It's Gone (Ext. Intro w/ 'Points of Authority' rap; Ext. Transition Outro) 23. A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES 24. New Divide (Shortened (No First Chorus or Second Verse)) 25. What I've Done (Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) 26. Bleed it Out (Ext. Intro w/ 'Reading My Eyes' v1; Ext. Bridge w/ Drum Solo + 'The Catalyst' Refrain; Ext. Ending)

I really need to fucking hear this. Do we have any idea how it was implemented or do we just know it happened?

Quite frankly, I thought Ben did better on GATS and Faint than Brad.

I've really been thinking about Breaking The Habit a lot recently, and what it means. I know Mike wrote it with drug abuse in mind, apparently Chester's drug problems according to that 'The Ride' documentary that just came out, but it means something else to me. "Memories consume / Like opening the wound / I'm picking me apart again / You all assume / I'm safe here in my room / Unless I try to start again." While these lyrics very much do relate to substance abuse, they also touch on another very destructive behavior you inflict upon yourself: self-harm. Technically, drug abuse could be considered self-harm, but the more recognized act associated with it, and the one I'll be discussing here, is cutting. Those that cut typically do so because it's easier to deal with the physical pain that comes with the knife than the emotional turmoil that's going on inside your head. That's what is being described here. Our protagonist is lost inside his head, reliving his most emotionally damaging memories. People do care about him, and want what's best for him, but he would much rather return to his addiction than live with fighting it. "I don't want to be the one / The battles always choose / But inside I've realized / That I'm the one confused." He, and only he, can choose whether or not to continue with his addiction, or attempt to stop. That's the battle that he is facing, and he realizes that it's all up to him. Nobody else can make the decision for him. "I don't know what's worth fighting for / Or why I have to scream / I don't know why I instigate / And say what I don't mean / I don't know how I got this way / I know it's not alright / So I'm breaking the habit / I'm breaking the habit tonight." The protagonist feels overwhelmed, and doesn't know what means anything to him anymore. He doesn't know why he acts purely on impulse and hurts those who only want to help him. Our protagonist is struggling with just about everything, but he doesn't seem to know how he got to this point in his life, but he's determined to end it, the first step in recovering from addiction. "Clutching my cure / I tightly lock the door / I try to catch my break again / I hurt much more / Than anytime before / I have no options left again." This verse, along with the bridge and final chorus, is what makes this song one of the most emotional songs the band has ever made. At least, for me. Our protagonist has tried all he can to get over his addiction, but he can't seem to do it. Holding his "cure", which is actually the cause for his disease, he can't see another way out, and he relapses, the worst possible thing you could do with an addiction like this. There is one small line change in the second chorus that drives home the message the second verse delivers. He changes the line "I know it's not alright" to "I'll never be alright." This small change in wording completely changes the meaning of the chorus. He's saying that his addiction is stronger than he is, and he needs it to keep going. "I'll paint it on the walls / 'Cause I'm the one at fault / I'll never fight again / And this is how it ends." This could be taken one of two ways, a very negative one, and a very positive one. I'm gonna take the positive one, but I'll also address the negative one. In both, they start the same. The protagonist is taking full responsibility for everything, and wants everyone to know that he is aware of that. This is where it takes a very drastic change, depending on which one you decide to run with. In the more uplifting, positive end, he's found the cure for his addiction, and he'll never have to deal with it again. It's over, for good. On the more depressing, negative side, he still did find his cure, but it was his death, as he couldn't see a better way out. After all the fighting he did, he still couldn't find a way to escape other than to take his own life. As I said before, I know the song was written with substance abuse in mind, but I've always heard it as relating to something else. Whether or not that's because self-harm hits closer to home, I don't really know, but that's just how I've always heard it. Honestly, my analysis still works if you just change the underlying tone of cutting to drugs. Either way, it's still a very emotional song, and is probably in my top 10 from the band now.

You people disgust me.

FM only had an issue at the very beginning. The only video I've found cuts to the first chorus

Round 9 has ended Wretches and Kings - 5 Burning In The Skies - 7 Iridescent - 5 Blackout - 1 The Catalyst - 1 I fucking hate most of you. BITS is fantastic. However, it is now out. 5. When They Come For Me 8. Waiting For The End 9. Blackout 10. Wretches and Kings 12. Iridescent 14. The Catalyst Wretches and Kings Elimination Tracker: 1-6. TBD 7. Burning In The Skies 8. Robot Boy 9. The Requiem 10. The Messenger 11. Jornada Del Muerto 12. Wisdom, Justice, and Love 13. The Radiance 14. Fallout 15. Empty Spaces

Wow. Beautiful performance of Faint.

I'll have to see it, but from the way you're describing it, it sounds pretty much exactly like LITE from Carnivores.

Um, unless you mean something else, they've been playing LITE like that since Carnivores.

We thought KFMA and Rock in Rio had technical difficulties...

Brad missed shows in 2008 if I'm not mistaken, so this isn't the first time.

Brad is, like, the king of not giving a shit when it comes to concerts. He didn't even bother to fucking show up to these.

It's working right now. Let's see how long that lasts.

The surprise might be that they're playing the same set, since a lot of people would expect a new one

I got it. Had to use Firefox.

Hmm... can't get Hola to work. I might just wait for the rip.

This is heavier than pretty much every LT song except maybe VICTIMIZED. It's not their heaviest, but it is still heavy.

All of you voting for BITS or Iridescent are terrible, heartless human beings. Round 8 has ended Robot Boy - 8 Burning In The Skies - 7 Iridescent - 4 Wretches and Kings - 1 Robot Boy is out. 3. Burning In The Skies 5. When They Come For Me 8. Waiting For The End 9. Blackout 10. Wretches and Kings 12. Iridescent 14. The Catalyst Wretches and Kings Elimination Tracker: 1-7. TBD 8. Robot Boy 9. The Requiem 10. The Messenger 11. Jornada Del Muerto 12. Wisdom, Justice, and Love 13. The Radiance 14. Fallout 15. Empty Spaces

I wouldn't mind too much if Points was dropped. It's never really clicked with me. I really like With You, though.

Yeah... no. LGM was horrendous.