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Seen other projects announcements and making me think things. They're not doing any big festivals like previous years.

The 2024 UK tour went on sale Feb that year for 6(?) November/December dates. So if they're having a break I can't imagine anything being announced till next year or anything at all!

I mean they deserve a break but now seems like the time to keep interests high. Expected announcements after Download to ride that hype but nope.

But bands don't go from headlining a festival one year to then playing a smaller stage the same festival the next year. And even if they haven't headlined the festival yet we know that they've had offers to be headliners at a lot of other festivals too.

But that now puts them in the group of headliners that will headline festivals here and there and not play some every year.

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😱 he’s so peeled!

For TMBE it was 7 songs off of a 12 song album which means 5 songs were not played.

For EIA it's 6 songs off of a 10 song album so 4 songs aren't being played. That's not a huge difference to TMBE, in fact there were less songs not played.

Now let's compare the setlists. It has to be mentioned that this time there are 2 more songs

TMBE tour 13 songs EIA 15 songs

7 TMBE 6 EIA

5 TPWBYT 5 TMBE

1 sundowning 2 TPWBYT

1 sundowning

1 One EP

bffr that's not a huge difference. It's one less "new" song, the same for the next most recent album and then it tapers so there is something included from pretty much each era.

But wdym they're not showcasing New Artwork? Including this one they played 3 shows since the album came out. They're showcasing 6 of 10 new songs.

And again in terms of new material they've produced the percentage of 7/12 (58%) and 6/10 (60%) it's even gotten higher.

And they've extended the setlist by two extra songs to accommodate for their older songs. If they didn't play two more songs this time the percentage would be virtually the same.

If you are only focused on the percentage of new songs setlist wise there is a different "issue". if they played all 10 new songs they would no longer have the option of mixing it up with those for the other upcoming tours for example playing some new songs for their eventual European tour. Similarly to how they changed up what TMBE songs they were playing on that tour vs the teeth of god tour (where it was 7 out of 16 TMBE songs btw and they started playing Euclid and TMBE) vs all the other tours between the TMBE and EIA releases.

If they did want to get to 53% of new songs on the setlist it would've had to be 8 new songs. That only leaves 2 songs unplayed and considering how they most likely will never play all of their new songs live that leaves just about no room for variation in terms of new songs on the setlist considering there were only 10. And if they eventually switch it up similarly to what I mentioned they did above then we'll hear about 8 songs live anyway.

And they've always played their new stuff and hits because that's what most touring bands do. Unless they are super tired of those songs and properly hate them. But if it were truly about just playing their hits they wouldn't be playing Vore the 3rd least popular song off of that album:

maybe ascensionism, but it should actually be the apparition and TMBE

and off of EIA they'd be playing Gesthemane and Dangerous and not their two least popular songs off of that album in provider and infinite baths

if it were just about hits they'd play Jaws:

I think a lot of the outrage I've seen is bc the setlist is too similar to the festivals and that everyone has consumed all the festival content and now it feels like they've played these songs for ages when they haven't.

For TMBE it was 7 songs off of a 12 song album which means 5 songs were not played.

For EIA it's 6 songs off of a 10 song album so 4 songs aren't being played. That's not a huge difference to TMBE, in fact there were less songs not played.

Now let's compare the setlists. It has to be mentioned that this time there are 2 more songs

TMBE tour 13 songs EIA 15 songs

7 TMBE 6 EIA

5 TPWBYT 5 TMBE

1 sundowning 2 TPWBYT

1 sundowning

1 One EP

bffr that's not a huge difference. It's one less "new" song, the same for the next most recent album and then it tapers so there is something included from pretty much each era.