Hey this is John Kevill, Warbringer.
Hey I'm Carlos Cruz, drummer of Warbringer.
What's up guys, this is Adam, guitar player of Warbringer.
And this is What's in My Bag.
First item in my bag, for sure in my top five films of all time, this is Bruce Lee 'Enter The Dragon.'
This is an artist to me, that I followed for a long time. Before music my passion was martial arts.
Very important to just being an inspiring, hungry artist coming over to America
trying to do something with his career going back to China I believe
working with I think it was called Golden Harvest, y'know really indie
being y'know a major success overseas and then coming and finally getting an opportunity to do something well
kind of heartbreaking, two weeks before the premiere of this at Grauman's Chinese Theater, he passed away.
There's that, but this is by far one of the best martial arts films you'll ever see.
He choreographed the whole thing. Major inspiration to me, right here. 'Enter The Dragon,' '73.
First thing I saw was a bunch of coffee mugs, and I just dropped mine on the floor last week so
this was a very pragmatic decision, and I had to choose between this and the Ace of Spades
but I figured, y'know I like dark coffee so I prefer to have the flavor of Satan in it
and that was the rationale behind this mug
and I hope, y'know I get a bold flavor out of it.
My first pick: 'Lethal Weapon 3'
Always been a fan of these movies, I'll never get too old for this shit.
I'm getting too old for this sh-
I actually have one, two, and four at home on VHS
Never managed to find this one, so my collection is now complete.
And if you're not familiar with Lethal Weapon, that's dumb. Go check them out. They're great.
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, action
The action is dynamite.
Definitely.
The most frustrating bad guy is the ambassador dude who goes "diplomatic immunity."
"Diplomatic immunity."
He's one of those guys that you're really happy when he gets it
that's a key ingredient of a good bad guy is when he does get it, you're like, yeah, suck it.
Do you still have a VHS player?
I do. I collect... I don't really...
I never started collecting, I just didn't stop buying them.
You have to work a lot harder to find them though.
That's why it's like a mission. You gotta come to Amoeba in order to find that quality content.
My collection is complette for Lethal Weapon.
Sheriff's department.
Sheriff? We're LAPD.
What're you boys doing down there?
Well we're in the middle of a case
of Scotch.
Something new that came out, even had the Amoeba staff pick on it.
This is from the band Cynic, their debut record called 'Focus,' 1993
and this is the heaviest song on it, called 'Uroboric Forms'
so what they did was they took the demos of it
and then prior demos where the band was more centralized around being a death metal band
so this was something really cool and I hadn't seen it before, it caught my eye over here
and it had the staff pick on it, so kudos to I think his name was Zeke
but this is like the demo, so it's pretty raw
and it's cool to see a band in their youth just kind of hungry and going for it with something like this.
Speaking of new releases, I grabbed a new thrash release that just came out a few days ago
Power Trip 'Nightmare Logic.' I like this one.
Y'know obviously we play thrash and we appreciate things with heavy chunky riffs
and this has a lot of those.
and the dude just sounds... the singer just sounds like he's like "go away!"
like he wants to return to his cave and break rocks with his face or something
so I fucking love it. Pure aggression.
Exmortus 'Ride Forth'
I believe that this hadn't been released yet when we were on the road with them?
Or it came out in the middle of the tour.
We've known these guys for a decade plus, so
all cool dudes, super just shreddy good stuff
Guitar lightning.
Oh yeah.
The main songwriter, Conan, he actually played in our group and filled in as a guitar player
for said tour, so he was doing double duty the entire time.
When all of us played 45 shows he played 90.
Honor and fear shall be heaped upon his name.
Latest issue of Decibel magazine
I was browsing through it and then I found
a review for our new upcoming record on here, in here
a review from Ice-T on one of our new songs
and then just some advertisements for it, so yeah
great magazine that's been in publication for god knows how long
always putting out new books and features and stuff like that
but it is something great where I can be like, hey mom check this out. Here I am y'know what I mean, in print
Yeah here it is.
Ice-T giving his kind of blind take on 7 songs he's never heard before
and ours is the very last one right there
and the tagline: "They're pretty hard. I like them."
There you go, Ice-T, Colors
Looking forward to this tour.
Kreator, major influence on our band from our style
I think they have the number one record in Germany right now so
proud of them, kudos to them, they're genuine people.
I just love war history of battles and I haven't seen this one yet.
The story's pretty interesting, a pacifist dude in the Army who won a medal of honor by
saving a ton of people, essentially, with severe wounds.
There's some cool human themes I find just in that without knowing anything further of the story
Directed by this dude.
Oh yeah, directed by this guy here.
It's really good, really gory.
Oh yeah, I bet
Mel Gibson does gore pretty good.
Yeah, and I just love anything having to do with the lore of battle, so there you go.
Alright I got Darkthrone's first album 'Soulside Journey'
This is their death metal album, their first album was a death metal album
then they became a pretty straightforward black metal band
Now they're... what would you call them now?
Yeah death n' roll, black n' roll, whatever.
British heavy metal influences and stuff
but this one stands out because I knew all their black metal stuff
and then coming backwards, I found this one
and it's basically a death metal album, 1991. Really good.
For anyone who's familiar with Darkthrone who hasn't heard this album, I would suggest picking it up
as I did.
Coming from death metal/black metal talk, go into sunny California in the 60s.
By far one of my favorite records that's gotten me through a lot of touring
where you just kind of want to escape all the distortion and all the noise, etc when you're on the road for so long
Pet Sounds, '66.
Inspiring. Brian Wilson taking the reins, he sent the rest of the Beach Boys out to tour
continued to tour, he stayed home and wrote this by himself, single-handedly
at the time, y'know, him and his kind of... not feud but competition
fueled by inspiration from like the Beatles
you know I mean it's really big, where you hear Rubber Soul, you make this record
and then they go back and say, oh we want to make a record like this, and then Sgt. Pepper comes out
In the world of music overall
worldwide, a lot of people appreciate this record and so do I, so 'Pet Sounds.'
This is a really definitive death metal record. It's Autopsy 'Severed Survival'
and I got this one partially just because I wanted to point out
this album cover made all dentistry and any medical treatment a lot worse
ever since I saw it and became aware of it
because you see this exact image all the time
but y'know minus the zombie faces, but then you kind of imagine
a skull beneath the mask, the surgical mask or something
and that always just wormed its way in my head
but as far as the music goes, this band has a sound
like in the guitar tone and stuff, it sounds like it's decomposing and shambling forward.
It's very y'know, rotting grave-like sound
it's very grim and very heavy and cool stuff.
I got a book. Swedish death metal.
Heavily influenced all of us.
Definitely.
and this is just basically from the ground up
Grave, At The Gates, Entombed
Old school Swedish death metal, stuff like Gothenburg, stuff like that
that's always been a huge influence since I was about 14.
So this looks like it might be a really cool read
And if you want to go more into some Metalology
in the early 90s, the two primary death metal scenes are in Florida and in Sweden
and they have stylistic differences.
The American scene is a lot more focused on pummeling brutality
and is way more rhythmic in its nature.
And the Swedish scene has this more
dark melodic quality to it and more
thrashy rhythms and a very certain kind of guitar sound that's unique to it
that's very buzzy and distorted.
Yeah. This is The Strokes. This came out 2001.
My sister picked it up and it just kept playing on every system we had.
Front to back, really, really good record.
It's catchy, it's melodic, it's cool, it's got attitude
and a lot of the time, guitarist Albert and guitarist Nick would play off of each other
split rhythms, split guitars, very influential to me
probably my favorite record of the lot and the one that follows this up is also very good.
It's 'Room On Fire.' So yeah, The Strokes.
This is something very near and dear to my heart, and as you'll notice...
Crom.
Yeah, Crom.
This is honestly a great record. This movie rules, it's very near and dear
and there's actually a lot more philosophical elements to the dialogue and writing in it that you would think
from a very primitive, barbaric movie
but they just don't make them like this anymore. A true fantasy epic and
the film score goes between being war-like and chest thumping and
really 'look at the sky and remember your ancestors' type of stuff
and look at this beautiful illustration on the back, it's just fantastic
'Riders of Doom/Riddle of Steel'
I did a narration once where I recorded the father-to-son speech there
it's really good, you know, it's about technology and stuff
if you look at it in the allegorical perspective
This you can trust.
My favorite one is 'Theology Civilization'
which is just music of high adventure and running through fields to glory and quests.
The sad one, 'Recovery' is really great which is
it's a very sad, minor-key version of the main theme
that's played all soft and it's very...
there's no way to describe it, y'know
but it's brilliant stuff and it makes the movie, the soundtrack, absolutely.
If you just like music with power and soul, this is great.
Yeah, I picked up Berserk 'The Advent'
For those of you not familiar with Berserk, it is a long-running manga from Japan.
If you watch it without knowing any background, it's fine, it's a real... it's a real head trip.
This one kind of fucked me up for about a week so I just had to get it.
If you have a weak stomach, this one's just all over the place and it's nutty, in a good way
not just for the visual aspect but it's a real piece of work.
Thank you guys.
No worries, thank you for having us.