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The ‘Shattered Schemes Broken Dreams Tour’ picks back up in November.

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Cradle of Filth and Blackbraid are coming to the Baltimore Soundstage this Monday, October 19th, with support from Worm and Black Satellite! That’s one hell of a line up which makes DCHM excited to give away a pair of tickets to one of you lucky readers. You can enter by either leaving a comment telling me your favorite song by any band playing this show on my Instagram post here OR you can leave a comment on this post as usual, making sure to include an email address so I can contact you if you win. If you want to double your chances of winning you can even enter in both places. Then this Friday, October 16th at 8pm the contest will close and a winner will be selected from all valid entries using Random.org! If the selected winner hasn’t written me back within 24 hours then another winner will be selected. If you can’t wait to see if you win or the contest is already over when you read this, then you can purchase tickets here.

On this tour Cradle of Filth will be playing several songs from their classic 1996 album Dusk and Her Embrace as well as other selected tracks from their entire catalog. Blackbraid will bring their moving Native American black metal as direct support, a late addition to the tour after Moonspell fell victim to visa issues. Worm plays a style of symphonic black metal with touches of doom metal and a heavy dose of medieval fantasy imagery. Opening act Black Satellite is an gothy rock band from New York City that will get things started right. Now check out the videos of all of these bands below and tell me your favorite song by any band on the bill!

Cradle of Filth – Her Ghost in the Fog

Blackbraid – The Spirit Returns

Worm – Blackheart

Black Satellite – Kill For You

The Nikki Sixx politics clip doing the rounds this week, in which the Mötley Crüe bassist tells a crowd ‘it does not matter to Mötley Crüe if you’re a Republican, it does not matter to Mötley Crüe if you’re a Democrat’, was not a response to James Hetfield. Crüe’s tour ended in late September; Hetfield’s ‘not here to influence you’ speech at the Sphere was October 10. Sixx got there first, somebody dug the clip up after Hetfield made the same point to 17,000 people, and now two of hard rock’s biggest frontmen are on record with the same rule in one week. The people trying to cancel Metallica over it have picked the wrong fight twice.

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What Nikki Sixx Said

In a fan-shot video first shared on X, Sixx stops a Mötley Crüe show to tell the audience the band doesn’t care how they vote, runs through the rest of the list, and ends on ‘we’re all in this together’, then asks the crowd, ‘Can we agree?’

The two lines everyone has quoted are the ones that matter: ‘It does not matter to Mötley Crüe if you’re a Republican. It does not matter to Mötley Crüe if you’re a Democrat.’ From the clip, he keeps going, through who you love and where you’re from, before landing on the point, which is that the room is the one place none of it counts. The crowd, as far as the phone audio allows, agrees loudly.

Nobody has published where or when it was filmed. What we know is that the Return Of The Carnival Of Sins tour finished in late September, so the speech predates anything Hetfield said in Las Vegas by at least two weeks. It surfaced after. That’s the whole timeline, and it matters, because the lazy version of this story is ‘Sixx piles on’. He didn’t. He was already there.

He’s been there for a decade. In 2016, on the Sixx:A.M. tour, he told NME that politics from the stage ‘doesn’t feel right for us’ and that it ‘doesn’t mean it’s not right for somebody else’; fans, he said, shouldn’t have to pick their music by how they voted. In 2020 he told Yahoo he’s ‘not a politician, I’m a rock star’ and had no interest in a ‘mudslinging contest’. He’s loud on social media about the opioid epidemic and about public land. He’s never once been loud about it from behind a bass. That’s a position, and he’s held it longer than most people in the comments have had an opinion.

What Hetfield Said, Again, Because Half The Internet Misheard It

At Metallica’s fourth Sphere show on October 10, James Hetfield thanked the crowd for travelling, then said Metallica is ‘not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you’, that the show exists to forget ‘all the outside’ noise, and that ‘Metallica’s agenda is love, energy and heavy music’.

Here it is in full, with the words he actually used: ‘Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their [expletive], okay? We are here, no [expletive], we’re here to forget about all the outside [expletive], okay? Metallica’s agenda is love, energy and heavy music, baby!’ He named nobody. He didn’t say the word politics. We covered it the next morning, and the comment section split exactly the way you’d expect.

What he said is the same thing Sixx said, in a louder voice, in a bigger room. Not ‘shut up and play’. Not ‘bands shouldn’t have opinions’. Just: not here, not from us, not tonight. A man who has spent twenty years talking openly about his own recovery and whose foundation has put millions into food banks is not someone with nothing to say. He’s someone who’s decided what his stage is for.

The People Trying To Cancel Metallica Over This Are Idiots

Within a day of the Sphere clip, there were posts calling for fans to boycott Metallica, calling Hetfield a coward, and reading a political position into a speech that didn’t contain one. Now the same people have a Nikki Sixx clip to be angry about, and it was filmed before the thing they’re angry at.

Let’s be precise about what’s being cancelled. Hetfield’s crime is telling a paying audience that he isn’t going to tell them what to think. Sixx’s crime is telling a paying audience that they’re welcome regardless of what they think. Neither man endorsed anything. Neither man attacked anyone. The entire offence is declining to use a microphone the way some people in the comments would use it if they had one.

That’s what makes the outrage so dim. The argument against Hetfield is that silence is a choice and therefore a side. Fine; it is a choice. It’s the choice to treat 17,000 strangers as people who came for the music rather than as a captive audience for your views, and it’s the choice Sixx made a decade before the Sphere opened. If that’s cancellable, then so is every band that ever played a show without a speech, which is nearly all of them. You don’t get to cancel the default.

And the idea that Metallica, of all bands, can be bullied into a position by a comment section is funny on its own. This is a band that made an enemy of its own co-founder and kept the name. They’ll survive a hashtag.

Where The Line Actually Is

Nobody at Loaded Radio thinks metal should be apolitical, and neither, on the evidence, does Hetfield or Sixx. The line is between a band choosing to put politics on its stage and a crowd demanding it.

Black Sabbath wrote ‘War Pigs’. Rage Against The Machine built a career on the pulpit. Roger Waters makes his shows about his views and takes the consequences; Kid Rock does the same from the other direction and takes his. All of that is legitimate. It’s also the band’s decision, made with its own name and its own ticket, and the audience can buy or not.

What’s not legitimate is the demand running the other way: that a band owes its audience a position, and that declining to supply one is itself a betrayal. That’s the thing Hetfield was pushing back on, and it’s the thing Sixx has been pushing back on since 2016. A Mötley Crüe show has enough to argue about without adding the electoral map. Tommy Lee alone is a full evening.

So here’s where this lands. Two frontmen, forty-plus years each, the same rule, stated weeks apart without either knowing the other would. The one thing a hard rock show has always promised is two hours where nobody is working on you. Sixx said it in September. Hetfield said it in October. The people furious about it are furious that a rock band won’t tell them what to think, which is the strangest thing to want from a rock band, and the clearest sign they’ve never understood what one is for.

Nikki Sixx joins Metallica, says Motley Crue doesn’t care about your politics. https://t.co/g5LY6M0kMM

— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) October 14, 2026

TL;DR

• A fan-shot clip of Nikki Sixx telling a Mötley Crüe crowd ‘it does not matter to Mötley Crüe if you’re a Republican, it does not matter to Mötley Crüe if you’re a Democrat’ resurfaced on X this week.
• It was filmed before James Hetfield’s October 10 Sphere speech: Crüe’s tour ended in late September. Sixx said it first; the clip went around because of Hetfield.
• Sixx has held the position since at least 2016 (‘not a politician, I’m a rock star’) while staying vocal on social media about the opioid epidemic and public land.
• Hetfield said the same thing: Metallica isn’t there to influence anyone, the agenda is ‘love, energy and heavy music’. He named nobody and endorsed nothing.
• Trying to cancel a band for declining to lecture its audience is cancelling the default. Metal has room for War Pigs and for silence; what it doesn’t owe anyone is a position on demand.

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