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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the thrash metal band, Warbringer, while on "The Vortex of Violence Tour" with Allegaeon, Skeletal Remains, and Summoning The Lich. Warbringer is currently supporting their newest album, Wrath And Ruin.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 2, 2025 Location - Reggies in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH WARBRINGERS: Facebook - https://facebook.com/Warbringermusic Instagram - https://instagram.com/warbringermusic Twitter - https://twitter.com/warbringerband  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:28 Driver's Area 03:01 Middle of the Van 05:30 Bunks 06:41 Trailer  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.

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00:00Hey, what's up? This is John Keeble from Warbringer. Welcome back to Warbringer Bus Invaders.

00:15We are here in an alley behind Reggie's in Chicago where I'm in my natural habitat in a parking lot

00:22in front of a van where I spend much of my life. You want to come take a look? Let's go show you

00:27this van. Well, here is the commander's chair of the van right there. I do a lot of driving. I

00:32actually had to take this thing out from Nashville to Los Angeles solo to kick the tour off because

00:38that's where the van was in Nashville and we got a good deal on it. So I was there for two and a

00:45half days basically and it was pretty wild. Usually we'll have somebody waking up in the morning to

00:51drive. Someone drives like an hour or two after the show. If the drive's like eight hours or more,

00:56we have to haul all night, in which case we need two people up here. So someone has to sit here

01:00and basically decide what albums we're listening to and do that. There's also random stuff here.

01:05Water bottle, plate protein shake, my shirt from three shows ago. Let's see if it's dry. Not quite.

01:11Sodom and the sign of evil. Oh, geez. Baby wipes, random stuff that people left here. Garbage. That is

01:20the stock and trade. This thing is constantly filling with garbage and you have to keep throwing

01:26the garbage out like you're bailing water out of a leaky boat. So one of the things we'll do is

01:31generally full records only because we don't want to have to think about a new song every five minutes

01:37or whatever. And you get an interesting mix here. Chase Bryant, the bassist tends to favor prog and

01:43like full extended rush album times. If you get me, it's usually like old heavy or thrash metal.

01:50And then Blake does a weird mixture of all this like eclectic shit and then composers. And Luke

01:57likes to listen to power metal and anyone with a shredding guitar. So between that, it's kind of nice

02:02because you just get exposed to a lot of music in this setting. And for me personally, I hadn't been

02:08like listening to a ton of new music at home because eventually one gets old and jaded. And so just

02:13being here and having a bunch of dudes like flooding the zone with music all the time is great. The

02:18other one is, um, a lot of time when I'm driving in the morning and I'm, it's alone, not night and I

02:23don't have to be, I'm not like hanging with anybody. I'll put on the, I'm on like episode 115 of the

02:29Age of Napoleon podcast. So he'll break down like troop movements and battles and the geopolitical

02:35situation. Guy does a great job. All right. This bag here is all of Blake's shit and he just left

02:40it there and you have to step over it all the time. And sometimes stuff that you want, like your

02:44wallet or whatever, like lands in there and you, you have to rummage through his shit. But, uh, that's,

02:49that's just how it is. So here we're going to try to make it to the back here.

02:53Welcome. Yes. All right. And this here is my house. I live in this tiny cube. It can be sealed

03:07off from the outside lands. So usually I just leave it about like there when I'm sleeping because it's

03:12loud anyway. Um, we actually, it is a pretty well kitted out van. I have a cup holder. Um,

03:19I have a light. Uh, we don't have the auxiliary power on, which we can put.

03:26Now we can light it up back here. I usually have a few bottles of water on here. Uh, here's other

03:32junk. There's multiple blankets because these aren't warm enough. Here's various clothes that

03:37aren't mine and, um, random stuff that I don't know how it got there. That's the downside of having

03:42the front bunk. This is a shirt from a show days ago that was also not dry. Um,

03:47what else we got? I got a few pillows. I got my book. I almost never end up reading,

03:54but I, I've gotten through a bit of this. So I want to be more highbrow. I have that.

03:57Um, I have a little mesh thing, phone charger, and all in all, it's a pretty good setup.

04:02I've definitely slept in far worse conditions. So, uh, you know, if one's willing to be an absolute

04:08beggar, you can call this luxury. The window could be an upside or a downside. One of the downsides

04:12is sometimes people behind you want it open and you don't, um, but it's fine. You know,

04:17so we actually have amenities, but we never use them. So we have a cooler and that's useful. I

04:23think we got some like beers in here. No, we drank all the beers. Um, there's some fruit that needs to

04:27be thrown out and some honey for tea and stuff. This can actually go into the venue and it's like

04:32powered and stuff, but it's limited in usefulness because we don't have the van on most of the time

04:37when it's parked. So it's not like a proper fridge though. In theory, if we gave, if we had shore

04:42power and stuff, that it would be, um, going to this TV has not been used once because nobody has

04:49time to watch TV. We're all just sleeping and stuff. And honestly, like who wants to sit around

04:54watching TV when there's all these dudes making consistently hilarious and dumb commentary way

05:00more entertaining. It's pretty cool. I almost scrape it with my head, but, uh, it definitely lets you

05:05know if we didn't, if we ever forget that we're playing music in this van, it will remind us,

05:10you know, this is, uh, Andrew, the tour manager's bunk. This one's really hard to get into and you

05:15kind of have to like do that. So then you're here and it's kind of like a tomb, but you can sleep in

05:25it. Now we're back here. I almost, I don't sleep back here, so I'm not back here too much. Let's get

05:30some lights on. Here we go. As you can see everywhere, it's like a mixture of everyone's

05:36shit piled around. Luke's bunk. Um, I think Chase is down here. Adam's there. And, uh, yeah,

05:45we just got this. This is the junk bunk here and another there. So base, and, uh, at night,

05:51this is called the WB lounge and people will be back here like while someone else drives basically.

05:57And, uh, I don't come back here too often cause I'm located a distant five feet forward of where

06:03I'm standing. But, uh, yes, this is the back of the van and it's, uh, it's got seven bunks. I don't

06:09think you could actually sleep seven people in here, but we have six in this, so it's fine. So here we

06:14have just a shitload of water cause you kind of can't have too much. I have to drink like eight or

06:1810 of these a day to maintain myself and not disintegrate. Uh, that's an enormous bag of trash.

06:24That's the trash that was correctly put into the trash, which is about half of it. The rest

06:28is scattered throughout the winds. Um, and yeah, we pretty much pile stuff from the writer in here

06:33and everyone drinks all the beer and leaves all the water. So now we are in a different section

06:37of our luxury parking lot with our trailer. This is actually Conan from X Mortis's trailer that we've

06:43borrowed from him. We tore the freaking wheel well off in Albuquerque and due to the relentless tour

06:50schedule with no time off for anything, we have not been able to replace it. So, uh, watch out when

06:55we're making a right turn. Um, on the other side, you'll see a fully functional wheel well. Oh my

07:00God, you won't believe it. Check this out. A fully functional wheel well. That's how it's supposed to

07:05look right there. Now, Adam usually is the Lord of the trailer. We actually, this one, they have two

07:11different locks coming and fix your goddamn locks. And, um, so we need multiple different keys and we're

07:17used to it now, but I was really confused at the start. We aren't really hauling much gear this time.

07:21So it's pretty much stacked to the high with just merch, which is awesome because that is the

07:26lifeblood of tour. We're mostly using the backline with Allegiant, uh, because we wanted to minimize

07:32the amount of load in and load out and we're working hard enough already. Yeah. So yeah. So you might say,

07:38wait, your vehicle doesn't have a bathroom, but it does. It's actually here. If you ever find yourself

07:42in a public place, you can stand right here and just piss behind the trailer. And, uh, you know,

07:48that's the closest we get to a bathroom, you know? Yes, but no one ever has shore power. So we have

07:56this shore power outlet and we could in theory power the van, but no one has ever done it. And we have

08:01not used it once, just like the TV. We are traveling and driving this van around to go and wreck a club

08:07near you with the power of thrash metal and our new record Wrath and Ruin, which was released two

08:13weeks ago on Napalm Records. We're on the tour called Vortex of Violence, catchy name, with Summoning

08:19the Lich, Skeletal Rains, Allegiant, and of course us, Warbringer. Come and see us and we'll fall out

08:25of this van in disarray and hit the stage with organized precision.

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