00:00Birmingham didn't just birth a genre, it built a culture.
00:05And while the headlines this week focus on Sabbath's final bow at Villa Park,
00:09the next generation of heavy music is already making noise.
00:13Tonight's event at Town Hall isn't a tribute act, it's a rally.
00:17Four rising bands are a historic venue and a crowd that knows their riffs from their roots.
00:22Chris Proctor helped shape the event from its booking to its bigger meaning,
00:26especially when it comes to what this city still offers heavy music.
00:31From the industrial heritage of the city, that raw sound that came out from the 60s and 70s,
00:39it's still not gone away.
00:43There's so much untapped talent in Birmingham and for us we have a role to platform and champion that with tonight's gig.
00:52The Town Hall stage has held plenty of volume over the years, but not like this.
00:58The band stepping up tonight represent different branches of the same tree rooted in Sabbath.
01:03Grown through defiance, their sounds may diverge, sludge, new metal, punk, doom.
01:09But they share a lineage.
01:11For many, playing this venue is more than just a gig.
01:14It's a homecoming, a statement and a weight to carry in front of a local crowd that knows its history.
01:19You know, Black Sabbath have played here.
01:22You know, it's literally like this is like the birthplace of metal, Birmingham.
01:26So, like, for us, you know, and listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest over the years,
01:32like, growing up, like, it's definitely helped shape to more modern sound for us.
01:36Like, without those bands, without places like this where they performed and grew their band once upon a time,
01:42bands like us wouldn't exist.
01:43Inside, it was pure catharsis, amps roaring, bodies moving, history thick in the air,
01:49but it's the aftermath that often tells you the most.
01:52Out here, you can still hear the buzz, voices roar, ears ringing, eyes lit up.
01:57For some, this was their first proper heavy gig.
02:00For others, it was another notch in a lifelong glove of Brum's loudest export.
02:04Either way, there's no mistaking the impact nights like this can still have on the people who turn up.
02:10This gig here tonight has been brilliant.
02:14You know, it's just like everyone's having a laugh.
02:17Everyone's having a good time.
02:18I saw Cherry Dead's were absolutely incredible.
02:22It's great to see, like, an all-female Birmingham and Black Country.
02:26I'm a Black Country girl myself.
02:28So, seeing that representation live on stage.
02:30And I just think it's so important and so good to see us finally leaning into that heavy metal heritage.
02:37So, flying the flag, bringing that sort of energy and that sort of that raw sound,
02:43which, of course, has got sort of resonance with the machine shops
02:46and sort of the factories that sort of the members of Sabath worked in
02:50when they sort of had careers, if you like, before they became professional musicians.
02:55And the rest, as they say, is history.
02:57And the rest, as they say, is history.
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