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[guitar feedback, cheering]

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Downloaded from
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["The Final Countdown" guitar riff]

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[cheering]

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[wrong notes]

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Tonight is the 20th anniversary of
Sagometal,

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a Vietnamese band fronted by the veteran
Trung Thanh Sago.

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Twenty years makes Sagometal the oldest
band in town,

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but despite the anniversary, this show
is being played in a tiny coffee shop,

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in front of just a few dozen fans.

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[piercing feedback noise]

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[moody piano riff]

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[heavy metal riff]

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Metal music never caught in Vietnam the
same way it did

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in nearby countries like Thailand or
Indonesia.

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[growled vocals]

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The country's violent past should suit
the anger of metal perfectly,

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but most locals haven't even heard of
the genre.

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The question is, why not?

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When we asked around, without fail,

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we were told to go speak with Trung
Thanh Sago.

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[screamed vocals]

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[distant traffic]

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We met Trung Thanh at his home,

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which could easily be mistaken for a
local restaurant,

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except for the electric guitar coming
from upstairs.

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[electric guitar riff]

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[guitar solo]

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[playing Metallica - Enter Sandman]

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[fuzzy guitar riff]

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[classic rock style song]

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[Star-Spangled Banner riff]

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[guitar solo]

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[karaoke style music]

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[fast-paced rock music]

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[guitar solo]

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[cheering]

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[hard rock guitar solo]

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[singing in Vietnamese]

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[hard rock guitar solo]

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[hard rock music]

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[The Sound of Silence riff]

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[Sagometal - Giac Mo Tuyet Voi]

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[pensive Vietnamese rock music]

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[climactic growled Vietnamese vocals]

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[heavy metal riff]

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Trung Thanh had the cards stacked
against him.

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Rock music was prohibited for years,

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his old bandmates fled or died,

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but bad hands and a shoddy venue still
couldn't stop him

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from putting on a damn good show.

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[heavy metal music]

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Vietnamese heavy metal started with
Sago's generation,

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but as they grew older, they must have
passed the torch to someone.

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Who was brave enough to march against
the tide of society?

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(Alright, good to continue when you
are.)

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(You ready?)

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[intense grindcore music]

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As it turns out, there was a time not
too long before

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when extreme metal made real headway in
Vietnam.

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And this man played a big part.

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Trung Loki: CEO of Bloody Chunks
Records,

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and founding member of three grindcore
bands that toured Southeast Asia,

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an unprecedented level of success for
the scene.

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[grindcore music]

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[brutal metal music]

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(Do people ever judge you or think badly
of you)

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(because you listen to this type of
music?)

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[growled vocals]

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(We were talking to other metal
musicians and they told us about)

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(a time in the past when the government
just banned metal completely.)

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[sinister laughter]

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[brutal death metal]

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[brutal death metal]

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[brutal metal riff]

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(A long time ago...)

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[traffic]

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A proper local scene had begun to form
around Loki's bands,

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and extreme metal was closer than ever
to the Vietnamese mainstream.

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Another man who saw it all was Wừu
bassist Siêu Dê Cụ.

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He told us about his time in Wừu, and
how it all started.

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[intense grindcore music]

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[brutal metal, rapping]

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[heavy grindcore music]

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[heavy grindcore music]

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[heavy grindcore music]

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As well as Wừu did, they weren't
around anymore.

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On our next trip to meet Trung, we came

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with a case of Saigon beer, ready to
dive deep,

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and learn the rest of the story.

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(My one weakness!)

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(Here's to that.)

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[Vietnamese banter]

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[brutal metal riff]

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[unintelligible growling]

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[brutal death metal riff]

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[intense grindcore music]

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[traffic]

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(He's talked about his problems with
going to rehab...)

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(...was that the reason why he
disappeared, yeah?)

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[traffic]

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(The scene in Saigon, do you feel close
to it?)

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(Or do you feel far away from the... the
scene?)

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[brutal metal riff]

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First impressions of Pleiku?

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Yeah... I mean... it looks like a
Vietnamese town, like.

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It does. It does look like a Vietnamese
town.

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I'd... say that's an accurate
assessment.

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Pleiku is a sleepy highlands town,

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and the home of Trung Loki and Bok
Wừu.

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Twelve years earlier, metalheads had
brought a concert here,

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and now Loki made a comeback for the
sequel: Pleiku Metalhood II.

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[intense grindcore music]

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[intense grindcore music]

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[drunken chatter]

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[heavy metal music]

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[unintelligible Vietnamese]

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[brutal metal music]

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Are you ready?

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[brutal metal music]

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Thank you and goodbye!

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(Ahh... that was quality.)

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(Yeah, was it a good show?)

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Yeah we're, we're making a film about
the...

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...about, about heavy metal.

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So, how was the show!?

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How was the show boys, was it good?

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[chatter]

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[traffic noise]

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[restaurant chatter]

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[birds chirping]

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Loki's generation never realized its
full potential,

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and the metalheads of Vietnam were
isolated from the international scene

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again.

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Mainstream Vietnam continued to happily
ignore their music

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in favor of EDM and K-pop.

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But, as Trung told us:

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You can never kill metal. Metal never
dies.

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We found Legacy, an agency of young
musicians

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hellbent on taking the scene to new
heights.

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Oh shit...

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Uh, so...

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(Ah, let's have a look here...)

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[unintelligible Vietnamese]

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(Do you ever practice with the guitar
man, or just play bass?)

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(Does anyone need another beer?)

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(Only just started mine.)

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(Got a nice stack of cigarettes here.)

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(What's your job at Legacy?)

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(You boys, do you mosh?)

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(Any stage diving?)

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(Three times? Not bad!)

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[heavy metal music]

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[traffic noise]

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[brutal death metal riff]

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The agency's next bold move came out:

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on short notice, they were going to host
German band Defeated Sanity.

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by far their biggest name to date.

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A technical brutal death metal gig
sounds dark to start with,

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but we weren't expecting the darkness to
be so... literal.

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[chatter]

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[guitar being tuned]

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(So what happens if there’s no
electricity, will you play acoustic?)

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(They said they would.)

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[imitates heavy metal guitar]

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(Have you had any updates from the power
people?)

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(They told you five o’clock, and then
silence?)

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I mean, if we get to sound check we’ll
be able to figure it out.

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Does this have a tap tempo on it?

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Okay, perfect.

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[brutal death metal music]

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Vietnam! We're Defeated Sanity!

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[cheering]

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You won't play shows like this anywhere
else.

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You know, you go through some bullshit
on a daily basis,

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and like, the playing conditions
sometimes...

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The circumstances are harder,

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but it's more rewarding once you play on
stage.

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It's very different. The vibe is totally
different.

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I feel more appreciated here because
we're, like,

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coming from far away I guess, maybe
people have not expected

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to see us, and they appreciate it more.

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You know, in the United States and in
Europe, you know,

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it's "a show," it's whatever. But you
guys made like a spectacle of it!

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And we hope we can come back, we can
just spread the word

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to any other band to come here, cause
it's fucking awesome.

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We played in Vietnam, that's crazy!

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[street sounds]

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[brutal death metal]

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(And you have a big band coming in May,
right?)

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(Who's that?)

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[laughter]

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Whitechapel: highly successful American
deathcore band.

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Four chart-topping albums.

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Millions of followers.

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And Legacy booked them to Saigon.

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Just like that, they moved from small
local gigs,

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to hosting what could be Vietnam's
biggest extreme metal show yet.

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(This isn't gonna be out before then.)

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(Nah don't worry, it's cool.)

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Legacy went big for the Whitechapel
venue,

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booking a location with a capacity of
over one thousand people.

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Attendances for Saigon metal shows
rarely exceeded one or two hundred,

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so Legacy were banking on Whitechapel
drawing a big crowd.

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[crowd chattering]

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[heavy metal music]

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[intense heavy metal music]

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[applause]

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[heavy metal music reverberating]

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[applause]

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(Are you disappointed?)

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[drunken banter]

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After the disappointing Whitechapel
show,

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Legacy didn't host any more
international bands,

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and the agency called it quits.

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Hysterical Buffalo have since disbanded.

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Trung Loki planned to headline Pleiku
Metalhood III with his band ROT,

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but he "disappeared" before the show,
forcing his band

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to find a last-minute replacement.

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As of this film's completion, his
whereabouts were unknown.

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But...

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...for all that chaos, tragedy and
struggle...

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there's still one rocker out there in
Saigon, keeping the classics alive.

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[playing The Final Countdown]

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[tapped guitar riff]