Last Friday, Manny and I went to a glorious metal cover show at the Victory Theatre. We started the night by finding our seats and looking at merchandise. At the merch table, we found our first surprise of the night!
Sean Perry, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of The Four Horsemen, was actually the one selling the merch! We didn’t realize it at first, until we bought a picture of the entire band from him, and of course, the face in the picture matched. Sean was friendly enough to grant us an interview (listen to the interview below).
After the interview, we sat down for the show. Stupify was up first in about 20 minutes at that point. However, Manny and I were not ready for what was about to happen. The lights dimmed, and the show began; however, it wasn’t exactly what we were expecting. The vocals, bass, and drums were on point. The only honest criticism I had was of the guitarist.
The entire time, guitarist Neil Wesley of the band was doing the absolute most on stage. Coming from a guitarist who plays on stage as well, sometimes a little goes a long way, and in this situation, I feel like toning down the amount of nonsense on stage that didn’t even make sense or go with the song. Besides that, however, Stupify did bring the heat.
After Stupify, we waited for about another 15 minutes before The Four Horsemen took the stage, and they didn’t just take the stage; they destroyed it with “Disposable Heroes,” which was an Insane cover to pull out at the very beginning of the set. Lead guitarist Luke Kunkle was absolutely shredding through this set and delivering solo after solo that would even make Kirk Hammet proud.
Sean also didn’t disappoint with his powerful rhythm playing and his beautiful thrash metal vocals that took me straight back to the 80s and 90s. The show went on for a long, and I mean long, time. However, that wasn’t a terrible thing. Every second of the show blew me away. Every song brought me closer and closer to feeling like I was at an actual Metallica show.
They played over 15 songs, every one better than the last. Finally, the set ended with one of my top songs in all of Metallica’s catalogue, “Hit the Lights”. Fast, shready, and all the right energy. The Horseman provided everyone with a fitting representation of “Hit the Lights”.
After the lights finally dimmed back down and the sound of applause faded, we knew the show was over. However, the night was definitely not over. After the show, we made our way over to the merch table again for one reason. Get that poster signed. We got in line around the second or third spot and waited until finally we got to see the entire band completely up close and personal.
Luke and I had a brief conversation about being guitarists and such while we met Sean for the second time that night. The whole band was very great and very approachable people.
After a lot of conversation, we finally got our poster signed and headed out the doors of the theatre to the car.
All in all, the night went as perfectly as I could’ve wanted it, and if you missed it, don’t fret, The Horseman has been at the theatre once before last year, so I am positive they will be back next year.
