Bleeding Through recently announced the band will cease performing after a 15 year career, spanning seven albums, two DVDs and countless compilation appearances. Band keyboardist Marta Demmel shared the highlights of the band’s career.
Tour memories:
“Going to New Zealand was really cool. That was just a really beautiful country. We always loved going to Australia. They were always good to us. Again – really beautiful country. I think after touring the US and Europe quite a few times, I realized there are certain places I liked going. But some of the places we went that were further out, like going to Alaska was really cool. It was really beautiful. I think we feel lucky to visit some of those more remote type places.”
Standing out on tour:
“Every tour that you’re not headlining, that’s the goal. The Slayer/[Marilyn] Manson tour, I think, was a pretty decent testament of getting a crowd going. They don’t care about an opening band in the most part. Even though we had our own fans that came to those shows, that’s an expensive ticket for a Bleeding Through fan to fork over. But Brendan [Schieppati] had a wireless mic on that tour, and would go off the stage and into the stands to get people going. People appreciated that we weren’t just on the stage. He was dedicated to get out there…and get em up!”
“We did a tour with HIM as well, and there were no other bands on the tour. No other openers. I think some of the guys were being mellow or not partying on that tour, so they wouldn’t show up to the venue until right before they played. So we would get there and we were on tour with ourselves essentially. It was different. I’m sure we scared a lot of fans on that. But we got some others.”
REI NISHIMOTO
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