Yes. You read the headline correctly.
As gamers were in line awaiting the midnight release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, at a GameStop in Texas, the death metal band Severance (who are from the Lone Star State) set up to serenade the growing crowd.
In the video below, Chris De Leon, the current singer of Severance, explained how the gig came together.
De Leon says he’s a huge gamer and befriended the manager of the GameStop who invited the band to play the Zelda release party.
“[Before] the very last song [we played that night] … I saw these little kids just really getting into it in front of us, and one of them started doing a circle pit motion,” recalled De Leon. “So, on the spot, I taught them, ‘Hey, do that, but altogether … we call that a circle pit.’ … The song kicks in, and these kids are going hard.”
Such a cool moment to witness for the parents and the band and, as De Leon says in the interview below, the people didn’t exactly know what to expect – but were totally into it.
De Leon ended the interview with some parting advice, “Keep it metal and keep on gamin’.”
[YouTube: Chris ThrashHeavy de Leon] [Consequence of Sound]
