Sick New World: A Hot Mess 

I used to work concerts and ppl would spend all their money on booze all day instead of water then get taken away in ambulances it was ridiculous how many thought beer hydrated.

We went to an air show for my husbands company summer family picnic, they gave us all water bottles to use there to refill as much as we wanted from the water buffaloes, even lukewarm water is better than no water!!

@@CkyGuy69I’m assuming a lot of people then missed out on headliners because of it?

@@nicolettegeiger3678 for sure they passed out like 3-6 when it was super hot. Missed Korn and all the headliners lol

What the fuck are you talking about?? They gave free water.

Great video!! Good bands. But they had water!!! Noone died or got possessed.. it's a win

How hot did it get?

⁠@@asaplueiii Around the low 90’s.

@@asaplueiii It was 90-95 all day, but keep in mind it was on black pavement... the temperature on the grounds was much higher.

Bro it's not even summer yet lol

Agreed. So we're the medics, unfortunately

Yes, those people were the festival organizers.

They sent out 2 emails on what to take and wear to be ready. I followed their guidlines and my experience was great (minus the uncontrollable heat and bad shading) other than that. Had a blast!

I thought I was prepared. Followed all their guidelines, stayed plenty hydrated, took shade breaks, but I still was dead half way through. I know I was among many Canadians who flew down for this and we are just not built for this lol.

@@pvpperdogs oohhh that explains a lot. You came from Canada. You’re not used to the late spring/early summer western USA heat.

Yeah, the heat is rough. I was at Psycho a few years ago in, maybe July. But they had their shit together and was an amazing experience. ✊🏼🖤🤘🏼

When it was TBM and Lacuna's turn I was right out front during their changeover (right after London After Midnight). Someone near us did totally go down and idk whatever happened to her but Security/Safety had to Casevac her out of the event cause she passed out from dehydration, crazy. Bitter irony is, over a decade ago I was literally in the service as a Marine out in Twentynine Palms (which is a stone's throw away from there) so that whole region I am kind of used to, but ya people were suffering that day.

I agree. I was there and would have loved a 2 or 3 day festival giving enough time for the bands.

Was going to go. Thankfully I figured out it was only 1 day before I bought tickets. WTF.

They tried that with Rock in Rio in 2015 and it completely flopped. This was with a festival that had Linkin Park and Metallica mind you

​@@brianrodriguez6897 I believed it flopped because it wasn't promoted and attendance wasn't there. Social media wasn't the same in 2015 as it is now, news and viralness was slower back then lol I remember just walking up to front of stages for deftones and Metallica. It was awesome 😎

@@laylazarai9122 that plus the fact that EDM was just overtaking the scene at the time. So much that a festival with Metallica was underwhelming. Like, how does that happen lol. But yeah I remember getting super close for Linking Park with absolutely no problem. Nowadays with these new festivals you'll suffocate on your way up there lol or you need to purchase some crazy priced VIP

I 2nd this. I think it was during deftones that I got slammed into the barrier and got a cut on my hip bone. Deftones was insane. So was Korn.

I feel like the crowds are getting more aggressive the more attention is put back onto a lot of these bands. Not a lot of people who don't go to shows frequently are going to be able to handle getting spinkicked in the face as just something that just happens sometimes lol

Probably had to due with how many non concert people those bands bring in

Deftones was crazy! I was in the front and that crowd surge was insane. He had to pause it twice and so did Korn. System was insane as well and was like let’s get all the circle pits going

Nah people wanted to cut in front of others for better view fuck that, I told them ass to get back to the back

The end of that set was a disaster lol

T is a freaking LEGEND and a really nice dude who cares about his band and the fans❣

Yep, totally agree.

UCC go

Great insight man! I agree that Body Count episode was handled bad ass! Ice T is a vet and its shows!

Its fucking irritating seeing fantastic groups like Melvins and Skinny Puppy get fucked over in favor of System of a down and Korn.

I feel like the way they handled it was so on brand haha

Flyleaf's audio issues were unbearable. You couldn't even hear Lacey speak between songs. I couldn't believe sound techs didn't hop on to fix it right away.

You couldn’t even hear Ryan’s voice on So I Thought, or any backing vocals on flyleaf’s set

​@@pvpperdogsit was that way when they played blue ridge rock festival 2023 u could not hear her..

Is VIP WORTH IT ?

​@@treverpittsyep they seem to have some bad audio people

I had a wonderful time. The longest line I waited was security for 10 min (I got there at 11). The longest I waited for drinks or food was 5 min. I stayed till close

They tried that in 2015 with Rock in Rio and it completely flopped.

It really wasn’t that bad. If you think a power outage can’t happen over two or three days, you’re faded lol

Thats too bad about sevendust they were one of the main ones i almost went just to go see. i wouldve been pissed. Festivals in general just look exhausting to me tho 😂

that happened on both secondary stages, i think thats when the melvins were on and they lost power as well

So is the guitarist, Mike Stringer. They're married

Mathcore? Ugh 🙄

i never even knew they counted as mathcore hahaha i use to listen to them when i was a scene kid back in 2010 😭 i’ll have to check spiritbox out

I had no idea about this! I remember iwrestledabearonce from my scene kid days when I was experimenting with deathcore bands. So cool!

Saw them at knotfest Brisbane this year they were utterly fantastic

Totally agree about that sub bass noise ruining Flyleaf's set. Thank goodness that ended after Deathgrips

I thought I was crazy man that made me so sad!

Woahhh I forgot all about the thicc bass during Flyleaf! Yeah, that was pretty bad.

i worked production on spiral stage. the only time issue we had was with melvins do to the power. infact every band played their whole set. im not sure where people are getting the idea that they where cut short. even with ministrys delayed start they played their whole planned set. Ministry simply had an RF issue that cause some confusion for their self contained crew. Ministry, and the mixers, all that, was what we call "self contained" and that was all their own equpment. we ran things on time except for the band after melvins, but we where able to rotate the stage quickly the next few acts and get things going that bought us back the 5-7 minutes lost. infact i believe melvins only got cut 3 songs due to power. (which sucks but its not like they lost their whole set). fyi, they wherent really 5 minute turnaround, its more like 35-45 minute turnaround. everything gets line checked before rotate on the backside. usually we had about 5-10 minutes of chill before the rotate even. TBM was not cut short either. they played their whole alloted time as well. saying that a band gets their set cut short when they didnt themselves cut down their hour long set to their 30 minute alloted time is more of an artist issue. the only band that didnt get their whole alotted time was the melvins. despite the tone of the video backstage had a decent flow on our stage. Often the lead singers wouldnt get on stage with ears till right before they rotate which gives us no time to get their in ear mix right, so there usually will be communication back and forth from the artists even during their set. this does not mean there is an issue, and is simply expected. there was one band i forget who, who brought their own mixing consoles and desk and their "FOH Drive" had an issue of their own fault. i think it was the 2nd or 3rd band. they had an unshielded cat5 issue. band tour managers and production staff where happy with what we worked with. we didnt have any stupid issues like mainstage using the wrong kind of ethernetcable for their backup drive line causeing a clocking issue that was fucking up their pa that took them too long to figure out lol.

@@RicheyAmigoHerplerGaming Firstly, I want to say thank you for your work and your insight. It might sound from my comment that I had a shit time, but my favorite section of the festival was Filter into KMFDM into Skinny Puppy, which I thought considering that Melvins lost power was a good save and they simply had great performances. My main point was that because of the delay, however slight, made the rest of the day tricky to make it to certain bands on time and I had to miss a couple of bands I had planned to see. Of course, I understand that a festival of this size in one day will have some issues, but they were there. On the ear monitor situation, I swear The Birthday Massacre were having some sort of issue. Chibi kept looking side stage and asking for it to be turned up and generally looked upset (could have been anything I guess) and I'm pretty sure she left while the band was playing. Don't know if you have anything on that, but regardless I appreciate a look into the other side of the festival and I do hope Sick New World happens again!

My wife and I saw them here in San Antonio back in November, at a small venue called Paper Tiger, TBM were really good, Chibi was even concerned for some fans that got in a bit of a tiff, checked on them and kept going. They gave a great performance there. So when we saw them here at Sick New World, my wife was excited to see them again, but was upset and let down they ended so quickly, I know she's still bummed about it. I wish they could have done more, I do like them.

What were the KMFDM issues? I thought they were one of the best sounding bands during the festival

@@leopaschall4580 just their first 20 seconds. Perfect sound afterwards, but it was more Lucia and less KMFDM.

Why were you in the back during System? You played yer’ self.

I'm glad to hear that not every smaller band got fucked, that's good. Btw, if people aren't moving, move them. They might not like getting shoved or whatever, but they're probably gonna hate what happens if somebody who's about to pass out or vomit isn't able to make it out of the crowd.

You literally saw Loathe over the other bands at that slot? Machine Girl? Dude, there’s a reason you had a bad time. Your taste in music is ass.

I am curious how crazy are the lines for the food and beverage stands? Do you have to wait in line for a half hour to order food or a drink or is it not that bad? Only asking because I have not attended before, and I have a VIP ticket to attend in 2024.

I’m so glad I missed it too. I can hardly deal with head to begin with, plus I would’ve gotten so sunburnt and I would be miserable the entire time😭

One of the things I just can't give Wakaan Fest enough credit for. They were incredible year one and only get better.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Yeah all these pissy dissatisfied people hopefully don't go next year if they have it again. I don't mind cramming in all the bands in one day... get it done and over with in one shot. All the complaining about heat and people wanted it spread out across multiple days? Yeah right.

definitely the best experience ive had 🫡

I Agree !! I was at the festival and despite a pretty heavy line up ,I feel they spaced out the set times for the major headliners pretty good. it gave enough time in between sets for the big headliners on the two main stages . We had a great time I am actually glad it was not a draggeg out 3 day event to many headliners are doing that and its just hard to attend all three days . I feel a one day was a good idea . Easy access and exit it was not too bad . I would purchase and attend again

I had a great time, shoulda had more shade areas and prob shoulda been 2 days of longer sets, side stages were a little off, but they did a great job for what they had to accomplish I think, def interested in going back

I usually hate music like Cradle, but they were killing it up there. Definitely in my top 5 favourite acts that day, waited several minutes before leaving jic they were allowed to finish up.

Whether or not if you like the music you should see Cradle regardless if you have chance. Just saw them back in March with devildriver, was an excellent show.

wish i saw cradle but i was so exhausted i was about to faint

For extreme metal, it would have been much more worth it to attend Maryland Deathfest

Yeah, I went and saw sevendust and didn't realize there was anything wrong with the sound or technical issues and then was pissed after only hearing 3 songs! I literally thought that they only had time to do 3 songs on the side stages per band after that? So I gave up seeing hoobastank and stayed on main stage to see deftones instead. I also didn't really see much of incubus as it was just too hot and we had to use that point to cool off in front of the misters and fans and under the shade!

Anyone watching Sevendust was paying attention to the best act of the day. Turnstile. They killed it.

That is exactly the sound people’s fault

yeah they had to even announce it on the screen how crowded it was getting for a good 20 minutes.

yeah they had to even announce it on the screen how crowded it was getting for a good 20 minutes.

yeah they had to even announce it on the screen how crowded it was getting for a good 20 minutes.

yeah they had to even announce it on the screen how crowded it was getting for a good 20 minutes.

Pro tip: if you're going to a festival like this in bad heat. I would recommend not drinking any alcohol. Its just going to make everything worse. If you smoke herb than just do that. Otherwise in THAT kind of heat. I would just stay sober and drink water. Edit: this is what I did and I was there from 9:30am until System finished and I was in the SAME spot at the barrier the Entire festival. I saw lots of people passing out. LOTS! But I was totally fine. Sweaty and uncomfortable entirely but at least I wasn't passing out.

@@rebd00mer93 No drinking here. Staff was on point.

It wasn't easy but it was worth it to see all those bands. This concert definitely wasn't for the feint of heart

Right. Perfect concerts are when like 3 or 4 bands play that you really like. I would most likely not enjoy myself much at a show of this size, however I did go to Ozzfest 3 different times in Ohio but this crowd here is probably twice the size of a normal amphitheater crowd. For me though, I'd rather just see the bands I like when they are touring on their own, festivals are overhyped bull$hit most of the time.

I even said to my wife that I noticed the sound for Korn went low, she agreed. We were more to the side of the purple stage during Korn's set, by the hotdog vendor, near the start of the grassy area. And even when System was on, the sound wasnt...loud, the kind where you know its gonna be nothing but that long ring in your ears, it wasn't that. More to the side of, just over tolerable volume. Like when flyleaf was on, that bass hurt, though we were closer, and that was way early in the day. It was a nice festival, the audio was really our main issue, and some of the heat.

Thats because the wind was really picking up and they had to lower the speakers and the cage on stage so that really cut the sound and they weren't supposed to play with the cage down for the long. Korn also cut their set short probably because of the wind. Bummer too, I was hoping they'd played Faget or Clown or something off self titled for the festival. Even doing Wicked with chino since he was literally on stage right before them.

@@rebd00mer93 was the perfect opportunity to play wicked I really thought it was gonna happen

That’s a shame I was lucky enough to get near the front barrier during deftones and the sound was great up close, korn was the best performance of the night.

Yeah, if you can’t take the heat and are too cheap to fly to Vegas.

@@GetAsCloseAsYouCan I live in Vegas. There's concerts every week.

​@@GetAsCloseAsYouCanyou really think flying is easy to do huh

@@TreyDZd Even Travis Barker flies now brov, get over it.

" had to dig into guys ribs with my nails and rings to let us out." That guy was probably like "that hurt!😭"

@@vlcthefish weird to claim to be the dude restraining a small woman you don’t know from leaving a crowd with her friends but

@@xCYMORIx "weird to claim to be the dude restraining a small woman you don’t know from leaving a crowd with her friends but" Creepy message. What are you talking about?

@@vlcthefish yo comment says edited now💀

​@@xCYMORIx They all say that. Even yours

Death Grips were cut short because Papa Roach decided to purposely play past their allotted time.

"yeah fuck that where gonna play three more songs" or something like that, even though I loved there concert that was a pretty dick thing to do

@@justinnatasmai4503that made me soooo mad, I’ve been listening to death grips for over 10 years and it was my first time seeing them live 😭

Death Grips is music for deaf people. People should have had lunch around that point. Sun was brutal between then and 6p.

@Horny Churro you’re the one that has to cope for listening to trash.

I 100% agree, but to be fair it was the Warner Bros. albums that made them legendary NOT THE FUCKING THRASH METAL!!!!! im just salty at the fact that mr. bungle (being my favorite band of all time) is playing again which is fucking amazing to think about!!! But they aren’t even playing their legendary songs such as Carousel, Ma Meeshka Mo Skwoz, or Goodbye Sober Day (HELL ALL THE SONGS FROM THE 3 WB ALBUMS ARE LEGENDARY). I just wish that their next tour (if they do one) has them playing their legendary sets from before, because that’s bungle i know and love and that’s their unique sound that’ll bring more fans in. Not the generic thrash metal they wrote when they were 16

@@gumbyisaac just happy to see them active again, dudes are in their 50s who knows how long they will keep doing this, I'm a bit disappointed that Faith no more cancelled their entire tour but I understand Mike needed a break, this entire nu metal thing wont be here if not for FNM and Bungle. I have to agree, would love to see them play their signature songs, I wish they played Travolta instead of a cut version of my ass is on fire.

@@gumbyisaacMike Patton is a known troll. Long time fans know this.

Agreed, I went and it wasnt all that bad

Same here I didn't see any major issues except sevendust. Overall it was amazing. SOAD was life changing

Did Thrill kill kult play?

Sorry I finally found a video of them at that festival. I wanted to go but that ticket was expensive. Did you see Spiritbox?

@@donaldcampbell9483 They did, they were awesome!

i was looking for another machine girl fan instead of just the old heads hating on machine girl, they were amazing!!! and i got to see my #1 most listened to spotify artist of the year!!!

@@lilithjade4363 Woooo!

Machine Girl was amazing. I remember them seeing them in a warehouse in 2017 with a crowd of ~30 people. Was so proud to see them on this festival. Most of the set was new material too.

Spiritbox > Machine Girl. By far.

They played in London a few weeks back and it was so sick! A lot of unreleased stuff too

Ditto!

Agreed

Between SNW and Cruel World last year, a definite tie because of the heat.

@@kimberlyfoust2815 Sick New World was worse. It had the mix of cold and heat. And crazy wind.

Imagine 2 more days of that. FOH.

I appreciate that!

Live music is where it’s at

Not all of the bands there were metal.

Did you even watch the video? Main stage was basically the only place getting special treatment.

@@RU-vid-Is-Trash uh... he was there?

Wasn’t as bad as people are making it out to be, however it really depended on who you were going for. I was able to see narrow head, London after midnight, coal chamber, death grips, kittie, chevelle, skinny puppy, deftones, korn, and system. Only set I saw with sound problems was death grips and they got cut a little short cause of papa roach, but overall was worth $400 for general admission just to see the headliners.

I am AI and read this.

​@@vlcthefish damn I gotta go back in time to stop you, ur basically a T100 with access to youtube

@@rileyhughes5613 My CPU is a Neural Net processor, a learning computer

Ps: COAL CHAMBER ACTUALLY GOT BACK FOR THIS ONE FESTIVAL AND MY FIRST TIME SEEING THEM. SO HAPPY.

imo it should have been 2 days instead of just 1. made it hard to see all the bands i wanted to see

Boo hoo. I passed out also and got up and went out hard.

Damn $1300?!

@@luismaturano4774 yeP, before you think “holy fuck this dude is RICH” i just used one paycheck that i got from working a really busy week at a casino. And I have like $5000 saved as well for things like this, Im a 17-year old who still lives with his parents, there’s not much else my money needs to go towards

$1300 for a one day fest in the Vegas heat is highway robbery

How early did you get to the gates? just wondering since im going this year.

What are your thoughts on the venue? I hate concrete. Coachella has grass. I’d rather have grass

@@Carlos-ms1yx Not much for choice out in Las Vegas. We had Warped Tour in PHX hosted basically in an asphalt parking lot, in the middle of the summer.

I went to WWWY also and going back this year. Not sure why they reduced the stages from 5 to 4 with more or less the same number of bands. I really hope they go back to 5 for WWWY.

@@Carlos-ms1yx its was alright considering the location, they had huge fake grass mats rolled out everywhere that provided a little cushion but not much. open fields are definitely better.

This festival definitely seemed like what people were worried WWWY would be, woof

RU-vids weird sometimes idk. But they should have half as many bands on the side stages at least with one stage at a time playing so the other can properly set up.

That’s the way.

Because it was 95 degrees out man the fuc you mean you don't know how people had an issue

Definitely! Got a few videos planned first but I'll do that one soon

@@wyattsmetal thanks man! can't wait for all of them.

This was my experience, too. I was close to the front for deftones, and that crowd was brutal. Saw them crowd surf an unconscious girl - maybe it was the same girl. But, I then said f that and tried to get out. Saw girls getting crushed, and at some point, I couldn't breathe either. I'm glad the artist helped control the crowd, though.

My wife and I left right before System started Sugar, their closing song. We had left earlier in the day to rest from the heat, after The Birthday Massacre, and we can back at 7, during Deftomes. There was an exit near the ticket check area, its where they gave us our re-entry wrist bands, but seems the closed it off when it was all over, we just left the same way we came in, no issues. I liked how Daron seem a bit like, why aren't you pitting? And Serj said its because we're hot and tired, haha.

​@@CarlosAlvarez-cd9bf totally. By the time system came on I was so tired and drained that I was yawning multiple times during their set and I felt bad because it wasn't them. It was the sun and my low energy. I spent the last bit I had breaking my neck to korn.

Same. My daughter and I were at the main stages for the most part, and I had no idea of the mess occurring elsewhere. If I didn't know about that, I would have said it was very professional.

same here. had a fucking blast. aside from the horrible heat (which i was prepared for bc i am a vegas local) i didn't have any issues.