ASHEN

Stop talking so much and listen.

These motherfuckers will smile at you, chat you up pre-show like the nicest people you've ever met, then proceed to kicking your ass so completely you'll have to ask them what YOUR name is. Then afterward, with a smile, they'll ask you if you want to do it again.

Think I'm lyin'? Come fuck with 'em.

I'm old as shit and been to everything from Judas Priest, to Metallica, to Beastie Boys, to Rage Against the Machine, Rollins Band, Pantera, et fuckin' cetera. Hand to God I've never been so completely kicked in the ass by a band as when I saw these guys three times in a matter of two weeks. Changed my year. Absolute discovery of 2018.

If you're not rocking Flagged Channel and doing your best to go see these guys, you're doing it wrong.

Trust.