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INTERVIEW – Witchery

Witchery have just released their brilliant new album In His Infernal Majesty’s Service and we caught up with guitarist Patrik Jensen to hear all about the album, it’s creation and new band members as well his work with The Haunted and what they are up to next, touring plans, influences, his time in former bands Seance and Satanic Slaughter , the Swedish metal scene and his thoughts on the new president of the USA in a very informative and entertaining chat.

Your new album In His Infernal Majesty’s Service is out now. How did the recording of the album go?

The recording of the album went really smooth. Even though Daniel Bergstrand is a new acquaintance, he was really easy to work with from the get-go. The only major issue when the recording of the album, and it was indeed a serious crisis, was the news we got on the phone one day that Caligula couldn’t sing or perform anymore due to a medical ear condition he had contracted early in the year (2016). This left us with a half-recorded drummer, but without a singer. We had to do some serious wracking of brains to come up possible candidates. It was Rikard ( Witchery guitar player) that suggested Angus Norder. Angus is from the same city as where Witchery once started in and sings in the local band Nekrokraft . We checked him out on youtube and arranged a meeting with him over a hamburger. He was offered the job at the end of the meal. And man, were we ever lucky to find someone as good as Angus in that short period of time. I think his vocals turned out amazing. But yeah, to conclude, the recordings went well, but we did a break a sweat when having to find a new singer.

As well as your new singer, you also have a new drummer in Chris Barkensjo, What was it about him that made you want him to join Witchery?

Him joining the band goes hand in hand with Witchery’s inability to get together to write and record albums and/or to play live. After the first busy and productive first years within the band’s existence, things started to happen with our other bands. The Haunted started to do really well, Arch Enemy took off with Angela joining the band and Martin joined Opeth in 2005/2006. This all led to huge problems with conflicting schedules. Having 6 years pass in between releases in not ok. This year (2016) would mark the band’s 20th anniversary, thus making an album release all the more important. Due to persisting scheduling problems, Martin agreed to make his spot in the band available, so to not hinder the band from creating and recording a new album for the anniversary. You can rehearse with just one guitar, you can rehearse without the singer or the bass player. But you can’t have a rehearsal without a drummer. On recommendations from Marco Aro ( The Haunted ) we got Chris Barkensjö in the band and he fitted perfectly in with the band. So both Angus and Chris has brought great skills and chops to the band and we are very glad to have them on board!

Angus has his own style of vocals that is different from both Emperor Magus Caligula, Legion and Toxine. Was that what you wanted from the bands new vocalist?

At the time of asking Angus to join we couldn’t be very “choosey”. Our studio time was ticking away. We knew that he was good and that he would do a great job, but I don’t think we were prepared for just how great his performance would end up to be! I personally think he blows most other singers out of the water.. and into fucking orbit! Angus rules!

Does it like a fresh start for the band and that the music has a hunger that harks back to the bands early days?

I have always had that “young man’s attitude” to writing music and music in general. Ive never understood bands that slowly progress into a granddad-version of what they once were over the years. Yeah, yeah.. its called progress and “maturing”, but that’s not for me. I still want a riff that makes my tummy feel like I just got on a rollercoaster ride. That writing, along with a new producer (Daniel Bergstrand) who really understood what the band was about and “saved” the raw attitude throughout the mixing and got it down onto the cd, also helps. Chris’ drumming style is more similar to our first drummer Mique’s drumming (Chris is always pushing the beat whereas Martin would instead give the beat a natural groove, with both still maintaining great time-keeping). Maybe people say that this latest Witchery album could’ve easily also been our first album. I think that is a great comment to get. Because how many bands do you know were able to deliver the same kind of energy after twenty years as they did when they first released an album? Metallica in 2003? AC/DC in 1994? Iron Maiden in 2000? I personally think its very uncommon, and because of that, I see that comment/critic as a very fine badge of honour.

Have Witchery got any upcoming tour plans?

Not at the moment, no. Although we are open for offers.

Hopefully you will make it over to the UK. Do you think that when Britain leaves the EU it will have an effect on European bands coming over?

Depends on the visa and tax situation between the UK and the EU. An EU band doesn’t have to apply and pay for work visas to play in Norway, but Ive heard and read so many times by now that the UK is not going to get to cherry-pick its conditions for the Brexit, e.g. remaining in the single market but stopping freedom of movement. So work visas will be needed and taxes will go up, making it more expensive to play the UK. What effect this will have on non-UK bands playing the UK, I do not know.

What are Witcherys plans for the new year?

We were hoping to get on few summer festivals for 2017, but since the album came out so late (end of Nov, 2016) most festivals were already booked. Because it was 6 years since Witchkrieg came out and us having two new members (where one of the new members is the singer, no less) noone dared to book us out of not knowing what we would sound like. We have therefore so far only gotten booked to play Wacken. So, to keep the interest up, despite perhaps not getting booked to play any other festivals, we are writing on our next album which, if all goes as planned, be out in later 2017. That’ll give us a shot at the festivals of 2018. We are also up for touring, but we don’t want to start over at the lowest level of supporting, and that’s where exposure to a bigger festival crowd would give us that leg up in securing a good support slot on a tour.

How is life in the Haunted at the moment?

Its fine. I miss the “good ol days” when we all lived in the same city and we could get together rehearse a few times a week (we know all live in different cities) but apart from that everything is absolutely fine within the band.

How do you combine your work with both Witchery and The Haunted?

As of a few years I also combine my time between a day job and both bands. I wish people still bought CDs so I could focus on music, but those times are over. Anyway, combining work between isn’t that hard. When I sit down to write new material, I just divide the riffs and ideas up to whatever band they seem to fit the best with. Sometimes both bands have adopted songs that the other has rejected. For example. The Burning of Salem was supposed to have been on the next The Haunted album, but the songs got down voted by the other members of The Haunted due to them thinking we had enough fast material for the album already. I didn’t mind, and with a few minor changes to make a little more “ Witchery -esque” it made its way onto the latest W album. And I think it does a great job as a Witchery song. It also works the other. A song most people see as the “call sign” of The Haunted, Dark Intentions , was actually written at a Witchery rehearsal with everyone in the band playing the song and loving it. Needless to say, I wasn’t a very popular person when I said I thought it made more sense to use the song with The Haunted rather than Witchery , but I think in hindsight they might give me right. Or maybe they wont? haha!

You’re supporting Meshuggah with The Haunted this month, are you looking forward to that?

Very much so! We haven’t played the UK/Ireland in a long time and getting to do it with fellow long time friends Meshuggah is fantastic.

Who has been the best band that you have ever toured with?

That’s a difficult question to answer. Best, as in how? Most fun? That would probably be Exodus . Most relaxed? That would be At The Gates . Best, as in getting the most exposure would be Ozzfest (but that’s also the tour that yielded the least return per invested dollar). Best at playing would perhaps be.. Killswitch Engage ? Best out of a personal fan aspect… Slayer , of course. Always Slayer .

Can we expect a new album from The Haunted in the near future?

We can. We are entering the studio in early 2017 and if all goes according to plan the album will be released either before the summer or directly after the summer of 2017.

What is your favourite song to play live both with Witchery and The Haunted?

I think that would be Witchery’s Restless And Dead and The Haunted’s Trespass .

Do you still look back at your time in Seance and Satanic Slaughter with fondness?

Absolutely. Séance was where I cut my teeth and the Satanic Slaughter writing sessions and the recording of that first album are all very fond memories. Satanic Slaughter was also what would later morph into Witchery , so no Witchery without a Satanic Slaughter .

The Swedish metal scene back then seemed very tight knit with bands sharing members. Was this the case?

In the very beginning I doubt that people weren’t old enough to drive cars or to just up and leave to go and rehearse somewhere with a band in another city. The infamous Swedish “everyone is in every band” came in the late 90’s and kept going until perhaps mid 00’s? I guess that’s the period when the pioneers of Swedish metal had gotten somewhat successful, had means of transportation, didn’t have to ask anyone if they could leave to go rehearse in another city for 2-3 weeks, were still enthusiastic about playing their instrument and about metal in general and had gotten to know other musicians from other cities from touring together… BUT also before these same musicians had become parents themselves (not so much time for anything else than your own band and your family), perhaps weary of also having to tour with a second band since albums no longer made any money on their own in the mid 00’s and you had to tour to make back your studio advance etc.

So, to answer your question; yes the metal community was tight knit back then, and there were also different factors in play behind the rise and decline of the Swedish “sharing of members/project band” era.

Sweden has a rich history when it comes to extreme metal bands. What was it like when you were first starting out?

This was in the 80’s so no internet, of course. I knew of a few death metal bands in other cities (like Nihilist and At The Gates etc) but I didn’t live in Stockholm or Gothenburg so I didn’t know the bands personally. I met Quorthon at a signing session for Bathory’s Under the Sign.. album in the only heavy music store in Stockholm, and I later realized that everyone that would later form Entombed , Unleashed , Dismember etc etc were there as well. My first band sounded a lot like Bathory because of meeting Quorthon. When Séance released the demo tape and we got into tape trading I got a lot of questions on what Sweden’s metal scene was like. There was no scene like in the Bay Area etc. You played with your metal band in “play for free” music rehearsal space at the local youth center and that was sort of it. I still don’t think there is much of a scene to support local acts here, although today being “metal” is a lot more mainstream than it was back then, and is seen as a perfectly acceptable lifestyle these days and not as a phase you went through as a teenager.

Who are some of your influences both as a guitarist and as a metalhead?

I can name a few guitarists that, without their music, I wouldn’t be a musician myself today.

Toni Iommi, the grittiness and ghostly feel of his heavy riffs applied over thin guitar strings is what led me into the “evil sounding” riffs. Especially the Live Evil album. It took me a while before I realized that the heaviness in the sound came from Butler’s bass, but that whole production (along with the actual riffs) made me love those evil sounding riffs and harmonies forever. Wolf Hoffmann, super tight, super clean guitar player who doesn’t get enough credit these days. He’s written some of the best heavy metal riffs we have today Ritchie Blackmore, No one can put more feeling into solos than Ritchie’s. Immediately identifiable style. A classic Fender Strat player. Jim Durkin, The guitarist responsible for Dark Angel’s heavy riffage. Dark Angel and Slayer are both early thrash bands from LA, and a lot of people say that I have a lot of Slayer in style of playing, but I would say it comes more from Jimmy Durkin than King/Hanneman.

With all the unrest in the world at the moment, how do you feel about the news that Trump is the new American president?

I think we are in for some rough times. A greater issue than the US presidency is people’s distrust in fact-checked news and in government in general. Not to mention climate change, which doesn’t wait for human bickering to reach a consensus on anything.

And finally, What are some of your favourite metal albums of all time?

Mercyful Fate- Don’t break the Oath Celtic Frost- To Mega Tther ion Dark Angel-“Darkness Descends Artillery “Terror Squad” AC/DC “Powerage” Black Sabbath “Live Evil” Motorhead “No sleep til Hammersmith” Rainbow “Rising” Captain Beyond “s/t”

…I could go on, but I’ll keep it short haha!

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WITCHERY Announces New Studio Album 'Nightside'

Swedish blackened thrash metal pioneers WITCHERY will release their eighth studio album, "Nightside" , on July 22 via Century Media Records . The follow-up to 2017's "I Am Legion" was recorded with the WITCHERY lineup consisting of Patrik Jensen (guitar, THE HAUNTED / ex- SEANCE ), Rickard Rimfält (guitar, SEANCE ), Angus Norder (vocals, NEKROKRAFT ), Victor Brandt (bass, DIMMU BORGIR / ex- ENTOMBED A.D. , officially replacing longtime bassist Sharlee D'Angelo ) and Chris Barkensjö (drums, LIK / ex- KAAMOS ). The album was once again mixed and produced by Daniel Bergstrand ( BEHEMOTH , IN FLAMES ) and includes artwork by Andreas "Diaz" Pettersson .

"Nightside" features a guest appearance on vocals by Jeff Walker ( CARCASS , on "A Forest Of Burning Coffins" ),as well as guest guitar leads by Hank Shermann ( MERCYFUL FATE , on "Left Hand March" ), Simon Johansson ( WOLF , on "Crucifix And Candle" ) and Maciek Ofstad ( KVELERTAK , on "Don't Burn the Witch" ).

"Nightside" will be released in the following formats: jewelcase CD, 180-gram vinyl LP (either as black vinyl or as limited transparent red vinyl of 500x copies via CM distro/mailorder) and as digital album.

"Nightside" track listing:

01. Witching Hour 02. Don't Burn The Witch 03. Storm Of The Unborn 04. Er Steht In Flammen 05. Popecrusher 06. Left Hand March 07. Under The Altar 08. Churchburner 09. Crucifix And Candle 10. A Forest Of Burning Coffins 11. Nightside

The first single and video for the razor-sharp track "Popecrusher" is out now. Watch the animated video clip created by Eduardo Hidalgo and Maciej Pieloch of MPieloch.com and E2h Design Studio below.

Jensen states about "Popecrusher" : "Setting the benchmark for the new album, 'Popecrusher' is the first foreshadowing aural assault from our new album 'Nightside' . All the pieces fell into place with this album and we can't wait for everyone to hear the album in its entirety. 'Nightside' is our first attempt at writing a concept album, and 'Popecrusher' is of course a part of that story. We hope you love the soul-incinerating heaviness of 'Popecrusher' as much as we do. More great things are soon to come. Do the W!"

Jensen adds: "I started to write this album without any general direction of idea in mind, but somewhere in the middle of the writing process I remembered that I've always wanted to do a concept album, so I decided to give it a shot. Little did I know that writing a concept album puts a lot more pressure on each and every song turning out great. This might seem a norm (and I guess it is in some way) but usually you write 12-14 songs and choose the songs that turned out the best after they've been mixed and mastered. Sometimes even what you thought was going to be the first song on the album gets pushed to somewhere else because another track turned out sounding more like an opening track. Also, out of those 12-14 songs you can choose to keep a few a bonus tracks. With a theme album, songs can't swap places. The story needs to work (no one wants to do a new 'The Elder'!),so the opening track really needs to hold up as an opening track etc., thus the extra pressure of 'no surprises' after its all recorded.

"The album tells a story of demonic nightmares, unexplainable pregnancy, witch trails and an escape from the Old Country to the colonies in the west and what happens once the child is born. Guests on this album is, for starters, our permanent guest of honor Hank Shermann , but also guest solos by Maciek Ofstad of KVELERTAK and Simon Johansson of WOLF (also the studio owner of SolnaStudio where we recorded the album. We also had the honor of having Jeff Walker of CARCASS do guest vocals on the song 'A Forest Of Burning Coffins' . All in all, we are very happy with how the album turned out and with again thrilled over Daniel Bergstrand 's killer production…"

WITCHERY has also announced that its will appear on this year's colossal Hellfest in Clisson, France on Friday, June 24.

WITCHERY 's early catalog was reissued by Century Media Records in 2020 on CD, LP and digitally, finally, making "Restless & Dead" (1998), "Witchburner" (EP, 1999), "Dead, Hot And Ready" (1999) and "Symphony For The Devil" (2001) available worldwide again.

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WITCHERY: “NIGHTSIDE”

(Here’s DGR ‘s review of the latest album by one of our site’s favorite bands, Sweden’s Witchery . It was released on July 22nd by Century Media .)

Witchery albums have a habit of sneaking up on us around here, which is strange given that they do have a collective among the staff that will go to bat for them to this day.

Granted, in the span of time since the site’s founding up until now there’ve only been three Witchery albums released, but they’ve existed as a steady undercurrent for the writers around here and have evolved in the background into a ‘house band’.

July 22nd gave us the fourth addition to the collective of Witchery albums that have been released since this site’s founding, with the recent unleashing of Nightside , closing up a near five-year gap between albums.

Five years is a little bit on the long side for certain bands, but Witchery have had some gaps in their career before, including multiple ones of about the same length earlier on.

One can only imagine that the feeling was probably intensified too by the fact that prior to Nightside , Witchery had released a year-over-year album collective in 2016’s In His Infernal Majesty’s Service and 2017’s I Am Legion .

Both of those ranked pretty well with us but now that puts Nightside in the interesting position of having a near five-year rest for the band. Does this one also join the much-vaunted ranks of being a constant undercurrent at the site here?

It will come as no surprise to hear that Witchery still sound very much like Witchery on Nightside . The group have a solid-as-a-rock formula and have long settled into being a band whose legacy is a hallmark of consistency.

They have the blackened/thrash/death metal hybrid honed down to a fine point and they’re damned good at it. When Witchery does Witchery , you’ll know you’re in for a ‘good’ time at the very least.

They don’t even shift far in terms of subject matter either, because if nothing else Witchery are going to write about smashing the church into Satan – which they’re experts at by this point. Witchery write about Satan with a strong frequency and they write about Satan better than most bands do.

They write about the subject better than bands that have their heads shoved so far up their asses in pursuit of occult magicks and other scary-sounding subject matter that they could tell you what the back of their teeth looks like.

The part that has made Witchery a joy to listen to over the years is that they take a joy in it as well, so when you hit a song like “Popecrusher” you too are likely to nod along, like “yes, yes, very evil” and then get back to the headbanging since the song – likely why they chose it as one of the singles – is a murderous highlight on the album.

Which brings us to the idea of Witchery doing Witchery wherein you’ll never go broke playing to the cheap seats. The band can be as adventurous as they like and it does help break albums and give the band breathing room, but when they play to their strengths with a song like “Gilded Fang” from In His Infernal Majesty’s Service – which may be one of the most following-the- Witchery -blueprint songs out there – the band truly are one of the best at this style.

Nightside is an odd duck on that front because for the first few songs of the album, the fire and inferno you’d expect from the band is a little more slow-rolling than when they’re knives out and ready to kill. Opener “Witchburner” is great for setting the scene of Nightside and also welcoming listeners in, giving a taste of that style, but “Don’t Burn The Witch” and “Storm Of The Unborn” that follow are more mid-tempo affairs.

The opening bits of Nightside take on a strange pace due to this: You have a quick hit to the system, two sort of mid-tempo headbangers with vocalist Angus Norder pulling off some impressive snarls with the hefty number of lyrics he delivers in those two, and then oddly enough a mood-setting instrumental piece before you hit the previously mentioned “Popecrusher”.

This happens a few times on Nightside as well, because it isn’t two songs later that you have another quieter instrumental piece before a one-word song title with “Under The Altar” leading into “Churchburner”.

A song like “Churchburner”, however, is the type of song that makes Nightside worth the price of admission. Witchery have tried to do albums like this before, wherein every song is just a constant stabbing of the eye-sockets, and those have run a little long in the tooth, but it seems like now Witchery albums are experiments to see just how many of the fiery, high-speed affairs they can fit into one disc to break up some of the pacing.

Nightside plays it pretty conservatively on that front, so if you’re the type to like the shorter, grindier songwriting style where Witchery are a ceaseless circle-pit, you’ll likely find yourself bouncing around the disc with your constant tops being the opener, “Popecrusher”, “Churchburner”, and “A Forest Of Burning Coffins” near the very end (which features Jeff Walker as guest vocalist).

Special mention does need to be made of “A Forest Of Burning Coffins” though, because to this day it is still not often you find one of the best songs on an album laying near the end of a release. Groups will let albums taper off all the time but it seems like Witchery wanted to make it so that the titular “Nightside” closer had nothing but charred ground in front of it.

You’ll note I mentioned “Gilded Fang” as a song that sticks rigidly to the Witchery blueprint yet still comes out as one of their best, and “A Forest Of Burning Coffins” does the same damned thing.

Nightside represents the eighth release from Witchery , so it probably doesn’t shock that the band settled on sounding just like themselves. There are moments throughout this release where they’re unable to be challenged. You headbang hard and fast, and yes, you’ll find yourself with more energy in you than before.

But it’s also recognizable that Witchery have gotten to where they are by being really good at that for a long time now, and the gap between Nightside and I Am Legion hasn’t changed that any. It’s a solid addition to the band’s overall discography that provides just as many infernal high-speed headbangers as it does the slow-broilers.

It may be paced a little strangely in its front half, giving Nightside the sense that it isn’t sure where exactly to plant its feet at first, but when Witchery settle into their groove for the latter-half battering of the album, Nightside earns its keep.

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I was a little soft on the singles released but being one of my fave bands of all time I bought the record anyway. Of course! A couple spins in and it just “clicked”. Now I’m listening to it nonstop and ready to declare it my AOTY.

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WITCHERY, original musical, had a sensational first run in Salem Mass in Oct 2018. Witchery is about a little witch that fall off her mother broom stick on Halloween night, landing in the land of Salem Mass, witches, warlocks, ghost and turkeys all set out to find her. Witchery was loved by all that saw it, many caming back a second and third time to see it and hear the fun original music.

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DIRECTOR Bethany Vahn has performed as well as Directed Community Theatre throughout New England and the World. She has an extensive career as a performer and a Director on numerous Cruise ships. A Private Voice Teacher at The Music Connection in Danvers and The Creative Arts Center at the Salem YMCA. Bethany celebrates the musical in all of us .

MUSICAL DIRECTORS Lynne Jackson & Mike Palter have a long-established reputation in theatrical/musical projects. The musical directors of Dreamstar Productions based in Lincoln, Mass. For ten years, they have been the musical directors of the Beverly, Mass. Neverland Theatre . Directors of the Manchester School of voice in Manchester by the sea . They brought their Jazz to the Rainbow projects throughout New England. Recipients of the first Cabaret Humanitarian Award.

WRITER, COMPOSER, LYRICIST

FRANCINE PELLEGRINO, of the musical play Witchery. Ms Pellegrino is the writer, lyricist and composer of the musical play "Molasses in January" seen off Broadway in New York received great audiance reviews. She has also written and directed "Sweet Destiny", a feature film starring Abe Vigoda, Carmen, Frankie Avalon and Livingston Taylor. "Sweet Destiny", is Academy Award qualified, screened at Cannes, receiving numerous awards in film Festivals throughout the world ".

Donegan Moore (Patricery) Graduated with both her bachelors of arts in theatre performance, and in music at Oklahoma City University. She is new to Massachusetts and this will be her first time performing in the area. Some of her favorite performances have been her New York debut with Chelsea Opera and in Italy at the Accademia Vocale Lorenzo Malfatti. Donegan would like to thank her husband for all his love, encouragement and support.

A nthony Giordano, (Turkey King, Luke, Andrew the Ghost), Is an aspiring actor and musician. At Northeastern University he was part of the musical theater group for his entire stay until he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering this past December. You can find his work online (@antjgio) including his recently released first album “Due East”

Gino Isidro (Father Warlock/ Arthur ) , Featured Dancer in The Addam’s Family Stage 284, Legally Blondel (Emmett Forrest), Titanic, In Concert (Bellboy), The Sound of Music (Captain von Trapp), The Wizard of Oz (Tin Man), Disney’s Cinderella (Prince Charming), Seussical (Wickersham Brother), Almost, Maine (Pete/ Dave - “METG Acting Award” recipient), Rumors (Glenn Cooper). Special thanks to his family, friends, mother, siblings, grandparents, Tyler, and his dog, Clara, for all their love and continued support.

Judi Marraffa (Mother Witch) BA in Theatre from Salem State University and an MFA in Acting from Michigan State University. Professional credits include West Side Story in Portsmouth NH, South Pacific and How to Succeed, in Whitehall, MI, Nunsense and Zorba in Chicago, Il. Judi is delighted to be back on stage in her hometown.

Joe Gill, (Turkey lawyer/ Enzo the Ghost ) an aspiring actor and singer who is fairly new to the acting scene. Was a cast member in legally blonde the musical with Neverland theater. Would like to thank his wife Lauren and their children Brielle and Brady for all of their support.

Jessica Beal (Teacher Witch) holds a Bachelor Degree in Dance and Theatre from Dean College. She works as a choreographer, dance instructor, and professional dancer with Unyted Stylz Productions. She recently appeared as Sally Bowles in Cabaret with the Pentucket Players. Other credits include Elizabeth Benning in Young Frankenstein , Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde , and Call Of Kairos with Spectral Unicorn Productions. Jessica would like to thank her family and friends for their continuous love and support. V ictoria Rivera (Genevieve) , A Sophomore at Beverly High School. She has been singing and acting since she was eleven years old. Starred roles, Annie in Annie , Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and Ariel in The Little Mermaid , with Neverland Theatre Company. She attended Arts program at Tanglewood, SYMS ande University of New Hampshire. Victoria would like to thank her parents, siblings, and friends for always being the most supportive and kind.

Claudia ‘Cloud’ Cruz (Genevieve’s Mother/Benjamin the Ghost) "Perusing her BFA in performance at Salem State University". She is honored to be a part of this exciting new production! Her credits include Margery ( A Free Man of Color), Hecate/Porter ( Macbeth), Francine/ Lena ( Clybourne Park ), Mama Bear/ Mama Ogre ( Shrek the Musical ), Joanne Jefferson ( Rent ). Awards: VASTA Regional Citation for Vocal Excellence (2018), Louis Armstrong Award.

Morgan Faith (Cat, Turkey on Leash ) is a film actress and model. She can be seen in numerous films such as "Kode", "Selah and the Spades" and "Reflections. She excited to perform live in Witchery.

Nathaniel Igoe (Warlock Lord, Jack-o-lantern ) is very excited to be in Witchery, his first theater performance. Nineteen year old Nathaniel is a freshmen at Salem State

Sean Batchelder (Billy ) lives in Salem NH , enjoy acting, singing and dancing. Performed for the Neverland Theater company for twelve years, in various productions. He has choreographed dances numbers as well as stage crew. Sean, for the past 12 years has worked with adults with disabilities. He thanks everyone for coming to the Witchery

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DRUMMER Al Boudreau , professional drummer for 61 years, grew up in Boston, toured the US, Canada, London and France. Resides in Gloucester with his wife Barbara, their band, "The Barbara and Al Boudreau Jazz Quartet."

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Midnight Announce New Album Let There Be Witchery, Share “Szex Witchery”: Stream

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Midnight , the one-man metal project of multi-instrumentalist Athenar, has announced a new album, Let There Be Witchery . Lead single “Szex Witchery” is available now ahead of the LP’s March 4th release date.

Under the Midnight moniker, Athenar has proliferated a brand of blackened heavy metal where sodomy and blasphemy reign. For the uninitiated, the new song “Szex Witchery” is a perfect introduction to the Midnight’s Motörhead-playing-black-metal assault. This is “music to start fights to,” as record label Metal Blade so gently puts it.

“I always want it to be loud and nasty,” Athenar said via the label’s press release. “That kinda thing never gets old with me. How funny will that look to see me at age 77 — if I reach that point — sitting on the porch blasting Hellhammer?”

Athenar recorded the album at Mercenary Studios in Cleveland, Ohio, with producer Noah Buchanan. Despite Midnight having a dedicated lineup for live shows, Athenar again chose to record each instrument himself.

“It’s still just me and my science project gone awry,” he said. “I realize I’m musically handicapped, but there’s a charm to it.”

To support Let There Be Witchery , Midnight (the band) will be heading out as the opener for Mayhem and Watain’s co-headlining “Sanguine Sodomy of North America” spring tour . The outing kicks off March 7th in San Francisco and you can get tickets via Ticketmaster .

“If I were to give actual good advice, I would say stay clear of anything to do with Midnight,” said Athenar when asked why people should “give a sh*t” about his band. “But I’m not a rational thinker, so as usual, I will give terrible advice and say punish your earholes and play this album as loud as your stereo goes, go out to a gig and mingle with others that you don’t know, lick their faces and rub upon each other’s sweaty torsos to the hellish, neanderthalish noise of a band called Midnight! You gotta release your demons somehow! That’s why you should give a sh*t, or two.”

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The musician, producer, engineer, and journalist was well-known and admired for his impressive work in the alternative rock industry worked on several thousand albums over his career. Albini helped to create a number of timeless classic albums over the years including Nirvana’s hit studio album In Utero and the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa.

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How did creed, the most hated band of the 1990s, become so beloved—and even cool i sailed the seas with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out..

It’s high noon on a blazing April day, which is the ideal time to be sitting in an Irish pub aboard a cruise ship the size of a small asteroid. The bar is called O’Sheehan’s—yes, pronounced “oceans”—and it’s located deep within the belly of the boat, just above the teppanyaki joint, the sake bar, and the lustrous duty-free shops. This consciousness-altering diorama of infinite seas and cloying Guinness-themed paraphernalia is where I meet Colleen Sullivan, a 46-year-old woman with a beehive of curly red hair and arms encased by plastic wristbands. She wants to tell me how Creed changed her life.

A few moments earlier, Sullivan dropped one of those wristbands on my table—an invitation to talk. It’s lime-green and emblazoned with pink lettering that reads “Rock the Boat With Creed.” I slip it past my hand and sidle up to her booth. Sullivan uses one nuclear-yellow-painted fingernail to hook back the wristbands on her right arm. Underneath is the pinched autograph of Scott Stapp, the band’s mercurial lead singer, enshrined in tattoo ink. This, it seems, is not her first rodeo.

We are both here for “Summer of ’99,” a weekendlong cruise and concert festival for which Creed—as in the Christian-lite rock band that sold more than 28 million albums in the U.S. alone and yet may be the most widely disdained group in modern times—is reuniting for the first time in 12 years. Roughly 2,400 other Creed fans are along for the round-trip ride from Miami to the Bahamas, and the rest of the bill is occupied by the dregs of turn-of-the-millennium alt-rock stardom. Buckcherry is here. So are Vertical Horizon, Fuel, and 3 Doors Down, the latter of whom hasn’t released an album since 2016.

To celebrate, Sixthman, the booking agency responsible for this and many other cruises, has thoroughly Creed-ified every element of the ship. The band’s logo is printed on the napkins and scripted across the blackjack felt. The TV screens at the bar are tuned to a near-constant loop of Creed’s performance at Woodstock ’99. The onboard library has been converted to a merch store selling Creed hoodies and shot glasses. The stock music piped into the corridors has been swapped out for Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel,” Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy,” and 3 Doors Down’s “Kryptonite.” When I turn on the closed-circuit television in my cabin, a channel called New Movies plays Scream 3 and Can’t Hardly Wait . And four elevator doors in the boat’s central plaza are plastered with the words “Can You Take Me Higher or Lower?” Sixthman pulled similar stunts with 311’s “ Caribbean Cruise ,” Train’s “ Sail Across the Sun ” cruise, and Kid Rock’s notoriously debauched “ Chillin’ the Most ” cruise—the Kid Rock cruise also took place on the vessel I’m on, the Norwegian Pearl . The idea is to teleport a captive audience back into the dirtbags they once embodied and to a simpler time, when Scott Stapp controlled the universe.

Sullivan tells me that her relationship with Creed overlaps with her sobriety story. She first became a fan of the band in the late 1990s, when “Higher” and “With Arms Wide Open” were soaring up the Billboard charts. Then, Sullivan started using, and her appreciation for the divine proportions of those songs faded in service of more corporeal needs. Years later, after Creed broke up and Sullivan got clean, she returned to the music and discovered a dogma of her own: Maybe she had been put on earth to love Stapp—and Creed—harder, and with more urgency, than anyone else in the world.

“He helped me grow with those old Creed songs,” she tells me. “When I saw Scott for the first time live, he had just gotten clean too. I’d go to the shows and there would be tears streaming down my face.” Her left arm contains another Stapp tattoo, with the words “His Love Was Thunder in the Sky” scrawled up to her elbow, surrounded by a constellation of quarter notes. It’s a lyric taken from a 2013 Stapp solo song called “Jesus Was a Rockstar.” The singer Sharpie’d it onto her body himself.

“Summer of ’99” is Creed’s second attempt to reunite, after it disbanded in both 2004 and 2012 amid clashing egos and substance issues. The band couldn’t have picked a better time to get back together. If you haven’t noticed, we’re in the midst of an extremely unlikely Creed renaissance, redeeming the most reviled—and, perhaps more damningly, most uncool —band in the world. For much of the past 20 years, hating Creed has been a natural extension of being a music fan: In 2013 Rolling Stone readers voted the group “the worst band of the 1990s,” beating out a murderers’ row of Hootie and the Blowfish, Nickelback, and Hanson. Entertainment Weekly, reviewing Human Clay , the band’s bestselling album and one of the highest-selling albums of all time, bemoaned the record’s “lunkheaded kegger rock” and “quasi-spiritual lyrics that have all the resonance of a self-help manual.” Meanwhile, Robert Christgau, the self-appointed dean of American rock critics, wrote Creed off as “God-fearing grunge babies,” comparing the group unfavorably with Limp Bizkit.

The disrespect was reflected more sharply by Stapp’s own contemporaries. In the early 2000s, Dexter Holland, the frontman of the Offspring, played shows wearing a T-shirt that read “Even Jesus Hates Creed.” After leaked images of a sex tape filmed in 1999 featuring Stapp and Kid Rock and a room full of groupies made it onto the internet, Kid Rock retorted by saying that his fans didn’t care about the pornography but were appalled that he was hanging out with someone like Stapp. The comedian David Cross, who embodies the archetype of the exact sort of coastal hipsters who became the band’s loudest hecklers, dedicated swaths of his stand-up material to bird-dogging the singer. (One choice punchline: “That guy hangs out outside a junior high school girls locker room and writes down poetry he overhears.”) Then, in 2002, after a disastrous show in Chicago at which a belligerently drunk Stapp forgot the words to his songs and stumbled off the stage for 10 minutes, four attendees unsuccessfully sued the band for $2 million. Holland’s shirt didn’t go far enough—at the group’s lowest, even Creed fans hated Creed.

All this acrimony plunged Stapp into several episodes of psychic distress. His dependence on alcohol and painkillers was well documented during the band’s initial brush with success, but after Creed’s short-lived reconciliation, Stapp spiraled into a truly cavernous nadir. In 2014 the singer started posting unsettling videos to Facebook, asserting that he had been victimized by a cascading financial scam and was living in a Holiday Inn. That same year, TMZ released 911 calls made by Stapp’s wife Jaclyn claiming that he had printed out reams of CIA documents and was threatening to kill Barack Obama. But these days, Stapp—who announced a bipolar diagnosis in 2015—appears to be on much firmer ground, and the band has reportedly patched up some of those long-gestating interpersonal wounds.

But with time comes wisdom, and in 2024 neither the critical slander nor the troubling reports about Stapp’s mental state are anywhere to be found. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Creed is good, a shift that, as Stapp told Esquire , “just started happening” around 2021. The new paradigm likely solidified the next year, when Creed’s mythically patriotic post-9/11 halftime show, played on Thanksgiving in 2001, began to accrue latter-day meme status. The set was ridiculous and immaculately lip-synced by Stapp and company. Yoked, shirtless angels spin through the air, and cheerleaders pump out pompom routines synchronized with “My Sacrifice,” all while the live broadcast is interspersed with grim footage from ground zero. It’s garishly, unapologetically American, issued just before the unsavory decline of the Bush administration clicked into place. Today both of those relics—Creed and the unified national optimism—are worth getting wistful about. “This is where we peaked as a nation,” wrote football commentator Mike Golic Jr., linking to the video.

Creed nostalgia has only proliferated further since the resurrection of that halftime show. The band’s guitarist, Mark Tremonti, told the hard-rock site Blabbermouth that he’d recently noticed athletes bumping Creed as their “ go-to battle music ,” and in November, an entire stadium of Texas Rangers fans belted out “Higher” to commemorate their team’s World Series victory . Earlier this year, a viral remix of “ One Last Breath ” even began pulsing through some of the hottest parties in New York. The band has clearly crossed some sort of inscrutable cultural Rubicon and thrown reality into flux—up is down, black is white, and, due to a sublime confluence of biting irony and prostrating sincerity, Creed fucking rocks .

All this means that the inaugural edition of the “Summer of ’99” cruise is buoyed by very high stakes. It has been 12 long years since Creed last played a show, and the cruise is intended to be the dry run for a mammoth comeback tour that is scheduled for 60 dates, through summer and autumn, in basketball arenas and hockey stadiums across North America. The only remaining question is whether the band can keep it together. I’m there in a commemorative Creed Super Bowl halftime T-shirt to find out.

Several flights of stairs above O’Sheehan’s, the day before I meet Sullivan, I find Sean Patrick, a giddily beer-buzzed 34-year-old from Nashville who is standing in awe of a Coachella-sized stage that looks downright sinister on the pool deck. Creed is playing two shows this weekend, and the first is set for the very minute the boat leaves port and escapes Miami for the horizon. This means that everyone who purchased a ticket to “Summer of ’99”—which ranges from $895 for a windowless hovel to $6,381 for a stateroom with a balcony—has ascended to the top of the ship, preparing for Creed’s rebirth in a wash of Coors Light tallboys.

As of two days ago, Patrick was unaware he would be attending this cruise. Everything changed when a friend, who was on the waitlist, received a call from Norwegian Cruise Line informing him that a cabin with his name on it had miraculously become available. Patrick was suddenly presented with the opportunity to spend a tremendous amount of cash, on very short notice, to witness this reunion amid the die-hards.

Unlike Sullivan, Patrick doesn’t possess one of those highly intimate histories with the band, flecked with tales of trauma and perseverance. Still, he fell in love with Creed—even if it was only by accident.

“I think it started as a joke. The songs were good, but there was definitely a feeling of, like, Yeah, Creed! ” he tells me. “But then, next thing you know, you find yourself in your car, alone, deciding to put on Creed.”

The majority of the passengers on the Pearl have never been burdened with Patrick’s hesitance. Their relationship with Creed is genuine and free—cleansed of even the faintest whiff of irony—and, unlike Patrick, they tend to be in their late 40s and early 50s. The woman standing ankle-deep in the wading pool with a Stewie Griffin tattoo on her shin unambiguously loves Creed, and the same is probably true of whoever was lounging on a deck chair with a book, written by Fox News pundit Jesse Watters, titled Get It Together: Troubling Tales From the Liberal Fringe . Two brothers from Kentucky who work in steel mills, but not the same steel mill, tell me that loving Creed is practically a family tradition: Their eldest brother, not present on the boat, initially showed them the band’s records. Tina Smith, a 48-year-old home-care aide from Texas, crowned with a black tennis visor adorned with golden letters spelling out the name of her favorite band, loves Creed so much that she embarked on this trip all by herself. “This is my first cruise and my first vacation,” she says, proudly. (Smith is already planning her next vacation. It will coincide with another Creed show.)

Passengers I encounter that are a generation younger are clearly acquainted more with Creed the meme than Creed the band. These are the people who vibe with statements like “Born too late to own property, born just in time to be a crusader in the ‘Creed Isn’t Bad’ fight”—especially when they’re arranged as deep-fried blocks of text superimposed over the face of Keanu Reeves as Neo. If the establishment brokers of culture once settled on the position that Creed sucks, then it has been met with a youth-led insurgency that seems dead-set on shifting the consensus—if for no other reason than to savor the nectar of pure, uncut taboo.

Many members of this insurgency are aboard the Pearl , and they’re caked in emblems of internet miscellany that scream out to anyone in the know. Consider the young man, traveling with his father, who is draped in a T-shirt bearing the Creed logo below a beatific image of Nicolas Cage circa Con Air , or the many fans who wander around the innards of the Pearl in matching Scott Stapp–branded Dallas Cowboys jerseys, a reference to that halftime show. In fact, the best representatives of sardonic Creed-fandom colonists might be the youngest collection of friends that I’ve met on board. They are all in their 20s, most of them work in Boston’s medicine and science sectors, and each is dressed in a custom-ordered tropical button-down dotted with the angelic face of Scott Stapp in places where you’d expect to find coconuts and banana bunches. A week before “Summer of ’99” was announced, the four of them made a pact, via group text, that if Creed were ever to reunite, they would make it out to see the band play, no matter the cost. Their fate was sealed.

“I hated Creed. I thought they were terrible,” says Mike Hobey, who, at 28, is the oldest of the posse and therefore the one who possesses the clearest recollection of Creed’s long, strange journey toward absolution. “But then I started listening to them ironically. And I was like, Oh, shit, I like them now .”

His point is indicative of a strange tension in this new age of Creed: If “the worst band of the 1990s” is suddenly good, does that mean all music is good now? Is nothing tacky? Have the digitized music discovery apparatuses—the melting-pot TikTok algorithm, the self-replicating profusion of Spotify playlists—blurred the boundaries of good and bad taste? Am I, like Hobey, incapable of being a hater anymore?

This is what I found myself thinking about when Creed took the stage, right as the Miami skies began to mellow into a late-afternoon smolder, and put on what was, without a doubt, one of the best rock shows I’ve ever seen. The scalloped penthouses of Miami’s gleaming hotel district passed overhead as the Pearl ’s rudder kicked into gear, and Scott Stapp—looking jacked and gorgeous, chain on neck and chain on belt, flexing toward God in a tight black shirt—launched into “Are You Ready?,” the first song of the afternoon, his baritone sounding, somehow, exactly like it did in 1999. “Who would’ve thought, after our last show in 2012, our next show would be 12 years later, on a boat?” Stapp said. He is risen, indeed.

I later hear from Creed’s PR agent that Tremonti, the guitarist, was more anxious than he was excited to get this first show in the books. I also gather, from Stapp’s representative, that photographers are mandated to shoot the lead singer during only the first two songs of the set, before he begins to “glisten” (her word) with sweat. But if nerves were fraying, Creed conquered them with ease. The members of the band were enveloped by an audience that had paid a lot of money to see them, and in that atmosphere, they could do no wrong. They blitzed through a variety of album cuts before arriving at the brawny triptych of “Higher,” “One Last Breath,” and “With Arms Wide Open,” pausing briefly to wish Tremonti, who was turning 50, a happy birthday. (Stapp wiped away tears afterward, a genuinely touching moment, considering that during their first breakup, Tremonti had compared his years collaborating with Stapp—who was then in the throes of addiction— with surviving Vietnam .) Given Creed’s historic proximity to the Kid Rock brand of red-state overindulgence, I half expected the concert to detonate with violent pits and acrobatic beer stunts, but nothing remotely close to mayhem occurred. This crowd was downright polite—chaste, even—as if it had been stunned by the grandeur of Creed.

“He tried to dance pogo ,” says a disappointed German woman, basking in the pool after the show, gesturing toward her husband. Both of them explain to me that pogoing is the German word for “moshing” and that, even more astonishingly, Creed is huge in their native hamlet, just outside Düsseldorf.

“It’s a reunion after 12 years!” says her husband. “Everyone should be dancing pogo .”

Nothing about Creed’s music has changed in the past decade, which is to say that many of the quirks that people like Hobey once used to mock the band for were on brilliant display during its first show back. But the truth is that little of the smug hatred for the group has ever had much to do with the music itself. Creed’s first record, 1997’s My Own Prison , was nearly identical to the down-tuned angst of Soundgarden or Alice in Chains, drawn well inside the lines of alt-rock radio. (It earned a tasteful 4/5 rating from the longtime consumer guide AllMusic.)

The problems arose only after the band started writing the celestial hooks of Human Clay , solidifying its superstar association with other groups chasing the same crunchy highs with machine-learning efficiency: Nickelback, Staind, Shinedown, and so on. Post-grunge was the term music journalists eventually bestowed on this generation, and in retrospect, that was the kiss of death. Creed was suddenly positioned as the inheritor of the legacy of Kurt Cobain, the godfather of grunge, who bristled at all associations with the mainstream music industry and hired the notoriously bellicose Steve Albini to make Nirvana’s third album as sour and uncommercial as possible. Stapp, meanwhile, has long called Bono—he of the flowing locks, billionaire best friends , and residencies in extravagant Las Vegas monoliths —his “ rock god .” Creed’s sole aspiration was to become the biggest rock band in the world, and for a few years there, the group actually pulled it off. Cobain’s grave got a little colder.

Post-grunge steamrolled the rock business, reducing its sonic palette to an all-consuming minor-chord dirge. Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” went quadruple platinum in 2001, eventually sparking a furious period of retaliation from the underground. (You could make the argument that the rise of the Strokes or the White Stripes or the indie-rock boom writ large is directly tied to the vise grip Creed once held on the genre.) Before long, music aesthetes adopted a new term, rather than post-grunge , to refer to the Creed phenotype: butt rock . In fact, by the late-2000s, the hatred of Creed had been so canonized that when Slate published a rebuttal —in which critic Jonah Weiner asserted that the band was “seriously underrated”—the essay was considered so “ridiculous” and contrarian as to single-handedly inspire the viral and enduring #slatepitches hashtag, instantly prompting parodies such as “ Star Wars I, II, & III, better than Star Wars IV, V, & VI .”

But, frankly, when I revisit Weiner’s piece, many of his arguments sound remarkably cogent to modern orthodoxies. “Creed seemed to irritate people precisely because its music was so unabashedly calibrated towards pleasure: Every surging riff, skyscraping chorus, and cathartic chord progression telegraphed the band’s intention to rock us, wow us, move us,” he writes. Yes, these easy gratifications might have been unpardonable sins in the summer of 1999, capping off a decade obsessively preoccupied with anxiety about all things commercial and phony. But now even LCD Soundsystem—once the standard-bearer of a certain kind of countercultural fashionability—is booking residencies sponsored by American Express. We have all become hedonists and proud sellouts, and with Creed back in vogue, it seems as if the band’s monumental intemperance has become a feature rather than a bug.

That does not mean Stapp no longer takes himself, or his art, seriously. The singer’s earnestness—some might say humorlessness—has always been a cornerstone of Creed’s brand, and there are millions of fans who will continue to meet him at his word. They brandish personal biographies that intersect with Creed’s records; they finds lines about places with “golden streets” “where blind men see” more inspiring than corny, and many of them are etched with the tattoos to prove it. But in the band’s contemporary afterlife, when all its old context evaporates, Stapp has also attracted a community eager to treat Creed like the party band it never aspired to be—the group of licentious pleasure seekers Weiner wrote about. They’re all here, sprinkled throughout the boat, ready to drink a couple of Coronas and shred their lungs to “My Sacrifice.”

After wrapping up the first night of the cruise, Creed, along with the rest of the bands on the bill, was scheduled to administer a few glad-handing sessions on the weekend itinerary. On Saturday, Tremonti chaperoned a low-key painting session while the Pearl floated into the Bahamas at a dock already crammed with other day-trippers. (Our boat was parked next to a Disney cruise, and when we disembarked, in direct earshot of all the young families, the PA blasted Puddle of Mudd’s “She Fucking Hates Me.”) Tremonti keeps busy: The previous evening, he had judged a karaoke tournament—on the main stage—alongside 3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold. Toward the end of the competition, Tremonti grabbed the microphone for a rousing cover of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” which I’d like to think served as a tribute to Creed’s own tenaciousness.

Stapp, on the other hand, is slated for exactly one appointment mingling with the masses: He’ll be shooting hoops with some of the more athletically oriented Creed adherents on a helipad that doubles as a basketball court near the rear of the boat. Stapp is, by far, the most famous person on board, evidenced by the security detail that stands guard on the concrete. So I take my seat on the bleachers and watch him casually drain 10 free throws in a row in mesh shorts under the piercing Atlantic sun with the distinct tang of contractually obligated restraint. Afterward, Stapp slips back into the mysterious alcoves of the ship, while an awed buzz of fans—hoping for a selfie, an autograph, or a split second of euphoric surrender—tail him until they are sealed off for good. It is the one and only time I see him cameoing anywhere but the stage, drawing a stark contrast to the other musicians on board, who flit between the casinos, restaurants, and watering holes in the guts of the Pearl .

This makes some sort of cosmic sense. Stapp, to both his detriment and credit, has never embraced the flippancy that so many other people wanted to impose on Creed. “Sometimes I wish we weren’t so damn serious,” he said in a memorable Spin cover story from 2000, at the height of his mystique. “My agenda from the beginning was to write music that had meaning and was from the heart. You can’t force the hand of the muse.” If you’ll excuse the ostentation of the sentiment, you can maybe understand how someone like Stapp might not be able to feel like himself when he’s orchestrating photo-ops around a free-throw line with that same young man dressed in his Nic Cage–themed parody Creed shirt. He seems to find nothing trivial about Creed’s music. The threat of irrelevance shall never tame him. You cannot force the hand of the muse.

Unfortunately, Stapp’s remoteness is also why Kelly Risch, a 58-year-old from Wisconsin with streaks of ringed, white-blond hair and glam-metal eye shadow, is currently fighting back tears in the Atrium, the ship’s lobby and central bar. Risch is sipping mimosas with her sister Shannon Crass, and, like so many of the others I have spoken to on this cruise, they each have matching Creed tattoos memorializing a personal catastrophe. Twenty years ago, Risch suffered a massive blood clot in her leg and almost died. Crass printed out the lyrics to the latter-day Creed ballad “Don’t Stop Dancing”—a song about finding dignity in the chaos of life—and pinned them in Crass’ intensive care unit during her recovery. Today the chorus is painted on their wrists, right above Scott Stapp’s initials.

The sisters were two of the first 500 customers to buy tickets to “Summer of ’99,” which guaranteed them a photo with the band at its cabin. This is why Risch is crying. The photo shoot came with strict rules, all of which she respected: no Sharpies, no hugs, and no cellphones. She’d hoped for a moment, though—after spending $5,000 and traveling all the way from the upper Midwest, after clinging to life with the help of Creed, and after waiting 12 long years to have the band back—to thank the singer for his comfort. But Stapp, even indoors, was wearing dark, face-obscuring sunglasses. She didn’t even get to make eye contact.

“He’s so great with the crowd. He’s so engaging onstage,” says Crass. “I think that’s why this is disappointing.”

The two sisters are determined to make the most of the rest of their vacation. The Pearl will be pulling into Miami tomorrow at 7 a.m., and there are plenty more mimosas left to drink. I tell them I’m going to speak with Stapp, and the rest of Creed, in an hour. Do they have anything they’d like me to ask?

“Tell him not to wear sunglasses during the photos,” they say.

Creed is finishing up the meet-and-greet obligations in a chilly rococo ballroom, paneled—somewhat inexplicably—with portraits of Russian royalty. The band members have been at this all morning, after a late night finishing off the second performance of their two comeback sets. A molasses churn of Creed fans, all sea-weathered and scalded with maroon sunburns, weaves through a bulwark of chairs and tables toward the pinned black curtains at the rear.

Creed has this down to an art. The band is capable of generating a photo every 30 seconds, and afterward, the fans exit back down the aisle, with beaming smiles, their brush with stardom consummated. Stapp chugs a bottle of Fiji water and holds out his hand for a fist bump after the last of those passengers disappear. A crucifix dangles above his navel, and an American flag is stitched to his T-shirt. He’s still wearing those sunglasses.

I am given just 15 minutes to ask questions, in a makeshift interview setup against the portside windows, under the watchful surveillance of the entire Creed apparatus—both PR reps, a few scurrying Sixthman operators, the photographer, and so on. I ask what their day-to-day life is like aboard the “Summer of ’99,” in this highly concentrated environment of super fans, with no obvious escape routes. Stapp says that he has spent most of the time on the cruise “resting and exercising,” while Brian Marshall, the band’s bassist, told me he executes his privilege of being one of the band’s secondary members by frequenting the sauna and steam room. Throughout the weekend, Marshall is hardly recognized.

Scott Phillips, Creed’s drummer, confirms my suspicions about the cruise’s demographics. The ticket data reveals that a good number of the passengers aboard are under 35 years old. I’m curious to know how the band members are adjusting to this new paradigm shift, and if they wish to settle common ground between the post-ironic millennials and the much more zealous Gen Xers, who bear Creed insignias on their calves and forearms.

“People are drawn to our music for different reasons,” Stapp says. “That’s probably why you have the guys you were talking about, who want to chill and drink light beer and scream ‘Creed rocks!’ and the others, who have a much deeper, emotional impact.”

“And maybe, at some point, with the light-beer guys, it does connect with them,” Phillips adds. Stapp agrees.

But, really, the reason I’m here is because I want to ask Stapp a question I’ve been curious about for the entirety of Creed’s career. The band’s bizarre odyssey, from its warm reception among youth groups across America to the bloodthirsty backlash that met its success to this current psychedelic revival, has all orbited around a single lasting question: Why is Scott Stapp so serious? Could he ever mellow out? Does he want to? Surely now is the time. If Stapp allocated some levity for himself, then so many of the bad things people have said about him would be easier to process. Who knows? Maybe he’d have an easier time getting his arms around the current state of Creed, a group that is now, without a doubt, simultaneously the coolest and lamest band in the world. Why must he make being in Creed so difficult?

“It’s just who I am,” he says. “It’s what inspires me. It’s where I come from. And it’s tough, because you have to live it. That’s the conundrum of it all. That’s the double-edged sword. If I started writing [lighter material], there would be a dramatic shift in my existence.”

There’s a break in the conversation, then Stapp asks me to identify the name of the new Taylor Swift album. The songwriter’s 11 th record has dropped like a nuclear bomb while we’ve all been out to sea, but data restrictions mean that nobody on board can access Spotify or any other streaming service. The Norwegian Pearl serves as a butt-rock pocket dimension: The biggest story in pop music simply can’t penetrate our airtight seal of Hinder, Staind, and so much Creed. “It’s called The Tortured Poets Department ,” I reply. Outside of my fiancée, he is the only person on the entire cruise I will speak to about Taylor Swift.

“That’s what I feel,” he says, without a shred of artifice. “I connect with that title.”

Later that evening, I climb to the top of the Pearl for a final round of karaoke, where fans keep the spirit of 1999 alive for a few more hours. The bar is more hectic than it’s been all trip—everyone is willing to risk a hangover now that Monday is all that looms on the horizon. The host asks a guest if they intended to sing “Torn” by Creed or “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia. “I assume Creed, but Natalie would be a fun surprise.”

The playlist is more diverse than I expected. We are treated to both Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’ ” and Shania Twain’s “Any Man of Mine.” Brandon Smith, one of the very few people of color aboard the cruise, crushes Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved.” A lanky kid from St. Louis unleashes a Slipknot death-growl into the microphone. A queer couple quietly slow-dances on the otherwise empty dance floor. And a 16-year-old, teeth tightened by braces, orders his last Sprite of the night. “Rockers are the most awesome people!” shouts one transcendently inebriated guest over the clamor of his Rolling Stones cover. “Creed is awesome!” On this one thing, at least, we can all agree.

Travis kelce has a supportive 3-letter instagram comment on taylor swift's eras tour starting up in paris while missing night 1, share this article.

The Eras Tour is back once again with Taylor Swift in Paris for four nights of concert goodness (and Paramore is there as the opener! ). And for those of you wondering: Travis Kelce isn’t there on Night 1 .

But the Kansas City Chiefs tight end did show his support, specifically with Paul Sidoti, who is a guitarist for Swift on the tour. He posted on Instagram as the tour gets back underway, and Kelce commented with three simple letters: “LFG!” with the clapping emoji.

So while he’s not there in person, he’s showing his support to his girlfriend this way. There you have it!

📲| Travis Kelce shows Taylor and her band support ahead of "The Eras Tour" resuming "Lfg!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻" pic.twitter.com/CMnC1GkM4v — The Swift Society (@TheSwiftSociety) May 9, 2024

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Iconic noughties rock band announce new tour 23 years since smash hit and shock split

Jack White , Senior Showbiz Reporter
Published : 12:29, 9 May 2024
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AN iconic noughties rock group are reuniting 23 years after shooting to fame with a smash hit.

The band formed in 1996 but it wasn't until 2001 that they achieved international success.

[L to R] Tim Peugh, Mike Cosgrove, Dryden Mitchell and Terry Corso have announced a UK Alien Ant Farm tour

Now Alien Ant Farm have confirmed they will tour the UK later this year, co-headlining gigs with fellow rock band CYK.

Alien Ant Farm is made up of members Dryden Mitchell, Terry Corso, Tim Peugh and Mike Cosgrove.

Speaking about the upcoming concerts , Dryden told OriginalRock.net : "We’ve always loved our UK tours! For over 20 years we have been able to play shows all around our 'home away from home' and we’re excited to see old friends and fans on this run.

"We’ve watched CKY as fans through the years but have never had the pleasure to meet and tour with them. We think this is a proper nice fit."

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Alien Ant Farm had a huge smash hit with their cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal in 2001 but in 2003 Terry shocked fans when he quit the group, citing "irreconcilable differences" at the time.

But he returned in 2013 and confessed the time away from his band mates had actually helped them.

Terry told MLive : "Through us doing outside stuff, we know what we have. We never had a problem playing music together since we were kids.

"We have that commonality of influences and inside jokes and all that stuff.

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"I think it all plays into rhythm that plays between people. It gives you that ESP off one another.

"I know that sounds mystical or whatever, but it's more of a feel thing with music. We have that and we know it's special."

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Taylor Swift made big changes to Eras Tour. What to know about set list, 'Tortured Poets'

PARIS, France — Who's afraid of little old Taylor Swift adding an additional set to her already extensive Eras Tour setlist ? The singer revivified her magnum opus in La Défense Arena adding seven songs from "The Tortured Poets Department."

Swift rearranged the majority of the show, leaving only the "Lover," "Fearless" and "Midnights" eras in their original spots. "Folklore" and "Evermore" joined forces in one eight-song set. Swift also debuted several new outfits and cut some songs from the set list.

Toward the end of her show, Swift officially launched the long-awaited “The Tortured Poets Department” section of the tour after the 1989 era.

Live from Paris: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour begins again in France

Swift performed the track “But Daddy I Love Him” off the April 19 album for her ecstatic fans while wearing a new beige dress with cursive letters.

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A road spiraled down the catwalk in an animation to initiate the era. The background animation showed a deserted road while large cages animated and fell on the road.

“Oh my god you should see your faces,” she sang.

She quickly segwayed into a brief moment of “So High School,” the beloved track speculated to be about her romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. She then performed the powerhouse anthem “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me.”

Swift switched to “Down Bad” before seamlessly transitioning into the lead single “Fortnight.” Stage production recreated an asylum that resembled the music video for the song with Post Malone, whose recorded harmony played concluding the song.

Dancers entered the stage in a marching band style format playing drums as she performed the wrath-fueled song “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.” Dancers Jan Ravnik and Kameron Saunders then revived Swift in a jazzy skit to set up “I Can Do With A Broken Heart,” where she debuted another new outfit.

“The End” text displayed wrapping up the era that’s likely here to stay. Other beloved tracks like “Guilty As Sin” and “Florida!” did not make the cut.

At the start of the secret set, Swift described the "Tortured Poets" set as "Female Rage: The Musical." Fans then got to hear another song from the new album as she played heartbreaking ballad "loml" on the piano as part of her acoustic set.

Set list: Taylor Swift unveils new Eras Tour in Paris with 'Tortured Poets' tracks

'The Tortured Poets Department' songs added to set list

Swift added these seven new songs from "Tortured Poets" to her set list:

"But Daddy I Love Him"
"So High School"
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me"
"Fortnight"
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"
"I Can Do It With A Broken Heart"

The eras in a new order

Swift switched up the order of her eras in the set list. Here's how the new show proceeds:

"Speak Now"
"Reputation"
"Folklore" and "Evermore" combined
"The Tortured Poets Department"
Acoustic set of rotating, secret songs
"Midnights"

Check out the entire new set list here .

Songs cut from the Eras Tour set list

Swift gave a preview of the songs cut from her show in the first release of her Eras Tour movie. To be fair, she incorporated opening act Paramore during the "Speak Now" set to sing "Castles Crumbling" after "Enchanted."

"Lover": "The Archer"
"Evermore": "'Tis the Damn Season" and "Tolerate It"
"Speak Now": "Long Live"
"Folklore": "The 1" and "The Last Great American Dynasty"

The tortured poet debuted the new set in front of 40,000-plus fans at La Défense Arena in Paris.

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Official Trailer for Rock Band Concert Film 'Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now'

by Alex Billington May 9, 2024 Source: YouTube

"This is not a tale about death, but one of life." Rock on! An official trailer is out for a concert doc + horror film titled Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now , made by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry and the band's Tobias Forge. The film is a creation of the Swedish rock band called Ghost . Combining live performance from Ghost's Kia Forum shows in Los Angeles in 2023 with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band's long-running webisode series. Rite Here Rite Now was shot over the course of Ghost’s two sold-out shows at Los Angeles' hallowed Kia Forum. Ghost's debut feature film combines performances from the Re-Imperatour U.S.A. 2023 with a narrative. "Whether you're a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the Ghost live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, Rite Here Rite Now will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of Ghost." Starring Maralyn Facey as Sister Imperator & Alan Ursillo as Papa Nihil, with the band including Papa Emeritus IV . See the Papa below.

Official trailer (+ poster) for Tobias Forge & Alex Ross Perry's Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now , on YouTube :

Shot over the course of Ghost's two sold-out shows at Los Angeles' hallowed Kia Forum, Rite Here Rite Now fully immerses viewers in the technicolor melodrama of the vaunted live ritual that has helped to propel Sweden’s foremost theatrical rock export to GRAMMY-winning, chart-topping, arena-headlining status the world over. Rite Here Rite Now is, however, so much more than a concert movie. Ghost's debut feature film combines live performance from the two-night finale of the band's Re-Imperatour U.S.A. 2023 with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band's long-running webisode series. The result is an utterly unique phantasmagorical blend: Flesh and bone renditions of favorites from all five of Ghost’s albums as well as the RIAA platinum-certified "Mary On A Cross" and more are interwoven with the silver screen debuts of a few faces familiar to the band's legions of fans worldwide—all interacting behind the scenes with Ghost's "Papa Emeritus IV", as his future and fate lay in the hands of the Ministry.

Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now is directed by Ghost's Tobias Forge and American indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (director of the films Impolex, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, Golden Exits, Her Smell previously). Produced by Kristen Mulderig, Rick Sales, Craig Butta, Jonas Åkerlund; and by Popecorn Cinematic Pictures. Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now is set for a theatrical release worldwide in theaters for two-nights only on June 20th & June 22nd, 2024 this summer. For more info + tickets, visit the official site .

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