Songs of The Abyss by Bradshaw Robert J

Author:Bradshaw, Robert J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

KOREAN STEEL

The crowd cheers like they always do. Nashville loves to scream our names when we come to town. Maybe tonight we are in St. Louis? I’m not sure, they all begin to blur together after a while. The crowd’s roar echo through the tunnel backstage.

Jarrett, our drummer, runs out first, as is his ritual. The stadium’s lights are off so the audience won’t see him. The hungry people continue to cheer as the opening song plays from a tape over the sound system. Its purpose is two-fold: to hype up the masses, and to tell them to get their asses to their seats. Buy that beer, you’ve run out of time. The show’s about to begin.

Our taped song is an old William Henry And The Troopers tune, one of my favourites when I was a kid. That said, I was getting tired of hearing it. Sixty stops on this tour so far. Hearing the same song every night gets to you.

“Clashes By Moonlight” finishes playing and Jarrett begins his open salvo to a little number called “Ace In The Hole.” The crowd goes ballistic. I love this track. Some fresh blood from our new album. Admittedly, it makes me a little depressed. This was the only hit single off our newest LP, With Overwhelming Force.

I remember some snot nosed “music critic” named Eric Prince—a pretentious name if I’d ever heard one—jabbed us good in his one-star review of the album. He had called it “With Underwhelming Force.” Real clever, you hack. Eric Prince was from Alabama, what did he know about metal?

Lance, our bassist, runs out next, followed by Hooper, our rhythm guitarist. They start to play and I can see the lasers are already flying. I know it is my turn to let the crowd have it.

The rhythm section stops for a moment and I begin my lead break. I enter from stage left and the moment I start playing the stadium lights shoot on. The crowd goes insane. My custom-built ESP guitar glistens in the spotlights. It shows off the 70s Korean Special Forces camouflage paint job perfectly. I love the design. It borrows elements from both the old North and South patterns, back when they were separated.

My time to shine is limited, however, as Nix belts out the opening lyrics. The cheers for him are the loudest, the people always love the lead vocalist. I roll my eyes and keep playing.

It’s no secret that we are breaking up. I think the fans could see the writing on the wall when the album dropped and Nix only had one song-writing credit on the whole damned thing. Some saccharine ballad by the name of “Hold Me Close.” The song blows, but the chicks dig it.

I think the bulk of fans agree with me, though. It’s our second single from the LP and it didn’t perform well on the charts in the slightest. As such, it might be the last single our record company drops for the album. Unfortunately, it’s on our setlist tonight.

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