With so many long songs, was it tough to cram everything into a 30-minute slot?
We tried to mix up the set list pretty much every night. We had played some of these markets four or five times now on The Blackening. We love playing those classic, killer songs so the person seeing us for the first time says, “Wow, these guys are awesome.” Then, for the people that had seen us four or five times, we tried to throw in a total gem that we haven’t played in years. In L.A., we played “Blood for Blood,” which we haven’t played in five years. Then we threw in the Iron Maiden cover “Hallowed Be Thy Name,” which is the cover that we learned recently for that Kerrang! thing, but we’ve never played it there either. We gave something special to those kids that come out to see us every time we’re in L.A. We’re really making effort to do that. We did “Struck a Nerve” the other day, and we haven’t played that song in about eight years. It went over great too. It’s fun for us because we’ve got to go through this mad dash of a refresher course the day of the show. Basically, we don’
