Ron Rinehart on Encores: Real Metal Energy

0:00It's April 3rd, from chart to breaking drops. This is Music News Today, powered by AI. Dark Angel frontman Ron Reinhart just dropped his thoughts on those encore rituals that dominate live shows. You know the drill, band wraps the main set, dips off stage for a minute, then returns for a couple extra songs. It's straight scripted from the jump, with artists picking the tracks ahead of time. This whole thing traces back to 19th century opera houses, where singers would replay hot arias if fans lost their minds over them. Fast forward, and it's now standard at Rock Yigs everywhere. Not every act buys in, though. Groups like the Strokes and Arctic Monkeys have straight up ditched on-course, leaving crowds hanging. Tensions bored over in 2018, when a California indie band got death threats in Houston, just for skipping that fake out return. Reinhart's band Dark Angel meanwhile hit us with their first new album in 34 years last year, extinction-level event, on reversed records.

1:01They swapped vocalists over the years, from Don Doty to Reinhart himself, dropping classics like, Darkness descends before splitting in 19. Ninety-two. Through breakups and two reunions since, Dark Angel keeps sporadically shredding stages, proving real metal energy doesn't need scripted bows to keep. The crowd roaring.