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time favorite team since I was a kid. I'm 43, so
I remember that shit. I remember McMahon
rocking the headband, Refrigerator Perry and
Mike Singletary. That’s my favorite team
besides the 2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers with
Warren Sapp. [The Bucs] were kind of a group
of characters too, you know? But not as much
as the Bears were back then. It was almost like
a comic book; a group of rag-tag misfits that
got all the way to the Super Bowl and won it!
Mosh: You'll be at Metro on October 17th.
What do you like the most about playing in
Chicago?
TF: The energy of the crowd is always a little
bit more than most places. Every time we’ve
played there, with both bands, it's always been
one of the best shows of the whole tour. My
favorite memory in recent years for Municipal
Waste is when we played, fuck, you have to
help me out here. It's not Reggie's; it’s the
other one we played with Exodus like two or
three years ago. I want to say it’s the Side
Door? I think it's Double Door. You’ll have to
fact-check me on that (It was Bottom Lounge —
Ed.). But anyway, we played there and out of
nowhere, I don't know how the fuck they did
it, but someone snuck in an inflatable mattress.
So, they were crowd surfing on this gigantic
fucking mattress, and the crowd was having
fun. One of these kids bought a brand-new
Waste t-shirt and somehow got it caught in the
rafters. And the guy was standing up on the
inflatable mattress, and then the crowd started
chanting, “Get the shirt, get the shirt!” And
they held him up and pushed him up while he
stood on the mattress, and he actually reached
up in the rafters and pulled the shirt down,
and the crowd went nuts. The Exodus dudes
were standing on the side in tears laughing
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because it was just such a fucking weird,
ridiculous experience. And I know that those
people reading this will still remember the
mattress!
Mosh: What’s the camaraderie like between
you and Napalm Death, Sick of It All and
Take Offense?
TF: We’ve toured with those bands multiple
times. At this point, they're just old friends of
ours. I would say eight years ago Municipal
Waste, Napalm Death and Take Offense did a
full U.S. tour, which was amazing. That was
one of my favorite tours, so that was part of
the influence of doing it again. Last winter we
did a show in London, and it was the same
lineup. It was Take Offense, Sick of it All,
Napalm and Waste, and there were about four
other bands on tour and, we're all just sitting
backstage, and we were like, why don't we
make this a fucking tour instead of just a
show? Napalm Death and Sick of it All guys -
we go way back, too. I don't know if you're
familiar with this, but Sick of it All and Shane
did an album together. They did some weird
industrial record together. Not a lot of people
know about that. I think that was on Earache
(Records), and that was in the nineties. So,
those guys go way back, too. And we're all in
the room going, “Why the fuck don't we make
this a whole tour with us?” Because we're
friends and that would be like the easiest tour
ever because we know each other so well.
MOSH-WORTHY RELEASES: Exhorder Mourn the
Southern Skies (Nuclear Blast Records), Nox
Irae Here the Dead Live (Transcending
Obscurity), Creeping Death Wretched Illusions
(Entertainment One).