The series is based on the manga by Dr.Poro and Nabana Naba. It follows Peru, a young man who killed his companions and mentor while under the control of the “Mask of the War God”, and who now sets out to destroy the mysterious masks scattered across the world. The powerful, energetic ‘Firestarter’ feels like a rallying cry for characters facing harsh destinies.

The track was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, whose credits include Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

‘Firestarter’ is out digitally now, with a CD single following on 28 October. True to Man With A Mission tradition, it includes a remix: hit ‘Kizuna no Kiseki’ has been reimagined by acclaimed composer Hiroyuki Sawano. The limited edition comes with a DVD of the band’s signature “Mission Movie”, and the limited period edition features new cover artwork by Nabana Naba.

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Man With A Mission might have the wildest/epic origin story that we’ve ever heard! However, fifteen years later, they’re filling arenas across Japan and about to bring their HOWLING ACROSS THE WORLD tour to UK shores!

The wolf thing isn’t a gimmick, it’s pretty genius. Jean-Ken Johnny explains that you can’t focus on their nationality, their faces, or any preconceptions. You just listen to the music. In a world obsessed with image, they’ve found a way to make you focus on what actually matters.

Watch the full interview with half man, half wolf, Jean-Ken Johnny here:

Man With A Mission are dropping XV EP Across The Globe on September 19th via Century Media Records. It’s a special international release of their 15th anniversary EP, which includes bonus tracks from their recent Japanese arena tour.

Plus, they’re finally bringing their wolf energy here to the UK! The HOWLING ACROSS THE WORLD tour kicks off October 2nd at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire, then Manchester O2 Ritz (October 3rd) and Birmingham XOYO (October 5th) before they tear through Europe for another 10 dates.

Whether they’re actually wolf-human hybrids or just incredibly committed to the bit doesn’t matter; they’ve created something extremely fun and engaging that you can still very much connect to! Don’t miss them live!

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Now MWAM has collaborated with Fall Out Boy front-man Patrick Stump on new track ‘86 New Calls’.

Check out the video below:

This is taken from the band’s Dark Crow EP. Tracklisting below:

1. Dark Crow
2. 86 Missed Calls feat. Patrick Stump
3. Reiwa feat. milet
4. My Hero [Slushii remix]

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So here it is, the first ‘proper’ day of the festival.  Looking at the line-up this seems to be the annual day which is a nod to Monsters Of Rock, the proto-Download. Headliners Def Leppard, along with Whitesnake, Slash, Tesla, Skid Row and Last In Line (most of the original members of Dio) make sure of this. Seeing as these iconic festivals had about seven bands on the line-up, this would have completed the bill. On the other hand, we have a lot of bands making their debut at DL, and some ‘younger’ bands climbing the ladder to the coveted headline slot.

This year we have three bands opening the whole festival: Last In Line on the main stage, Goodbye June on the Zippo Encore stage, and competition winners Pengshui on Avalanche stage. Pengshui won the battle of the bands for the right to open this fantastic stage. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Avalanche stage is generally reserved for the punkier bands playing this festival. Pengshui is certainly different – a mix between grime and a pseudo- Shikari. Not bad, but DL regulars are more likely to check out the main stage where they will find Last In Line. As mentioned earlier, this includes the original members of Dio – this means Vivien Campbell is doing double duty OPENING and CLOSING Friday night on the main stage. This man is 56. What a legend. Speaking of which, we are treated to a rendition of ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ to finish the night… I mean day.

Going back to the Avalanche stage, Canadian genre-spanning punks Sumo Cyco make their DL debut. This is a great turn out for a band whose albums are fan-funded. An amazing performance as always getting into the crowd, getting everyone involved and jumping. Catching the audience off guard with their own version of ‘BYOB‘ (System Of A Down). Although they aren’t from home turf, this is a band that really understand the Download audience. Let’s hope this enough for them to be at least on the Zippo stage, if not the main stage like their biggest influence Skindred are on Saturday.

Bit of a wait for the next band on the Avalanche stage as Icon For Hire is a bit late and only give us a 20-minute set. It’s a good 20 mins for sure, shame we don’t get the full show though. Following are Japanese crazy dudes MAN WITH A MISSION. This band basically fuse electronic hip hop and dance music elements with punk rock and a tad of metal. They also wear wolf masks. This is such a fun band, they also invite members of Zebrahead onstage for a track too. Hope to see this lot again soon.  This another time we have a few clashes, we are already missing Clutch, and soon Zebrahead will clash with Whitesnake.

In the spirit of Donington, Whitesnake draws a decent crowd, plus the sun has made an appearance. Looks like things are picking up.David Coverdale and co. march out to ‘My Generation’ by The Who (for some reason) and start strong with ‘Bad Boys’ and quickly getting into the classics like ‘Love Ain’t No Stranger’. Although David Coverdale may be the only original member, this band is still very old school. Quite a long set including guitar and drum solos. One of the things that are most impressive about Whitesnake is that Coverdale has never lost his golden voice over the years, unlike some of his contemporaries. This is clear when classics like ‘Is This Love’ and ‘Here I Go Again’ are more or less pitch perfect.  It’s great Whitesnake have had a career spanning over four decades but maybe time to take a step back and let the kids step up?

Speaking of Donington veterans, you don’t get cooler than Slash teaming up with his mate Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. This collaboration has had a long enough life they manage to fill a 14-song set with 12 original tracks leaving room for the GNR classic ‘Night Train’ and Slash solo track ‘Back in Cali‘. Kennedy’s rock vocal is undisputedly one of the best in the world, yet the main attraction is clearly Slash’s playing. This is something that needs to be seen to be believed. Not as epic as GNR’s headline set last year but still a great show.

Hop-skip to the Zippo Encore and horror-rock god Rob Zombie is closing this part of the festival for the night. Apparently, this is part of the ‘Twins Of Evil’ tour with Marilyn Manson. Except Manson isn’t here. Interesting. Zombie is always a crowd pleaser and this set is no different. All the classics from ‘Living Dead Girl‘ and ‘House Of 1,000 Corpses‘ as well as a couple of White Zombie numbers and a surprising cover of ‘Helter Skelter‘ (The Beatles) of course accompanied by imagery of Charles Manson. This is another thing about Zombie – he knows how to use clips of movies as part of his show, being a director himself he has an eye for detail. Funnily enough a trailer for his new movie ‘Three From Hell’ plays before his encore of ‘Dragula’. What a great show. It’s obvious why Zombie is a popular choice at Download and why he’s headlined Bloodstock.

We then get on to our first headliner of the weekend: Def Leppard. The Sheffield rock legends have played Download and Monsters Of Rock more than a lot of other bands can say they have. A rather popular choice, yet it’s at the point we’ve seen this all before. A great band for sure, I have all the respect in the world for them. But, I have to ask this: Are Def Leppard really that much of a draw in 2019? I’m not sure about that one. Sadly not that much of a turnout in comparison to some headliners, but clashing with someone like Rob Zombie, and to an extent At The Gates on the Dogtooth stage. Or even Me First and The Gimme Gimmes. Can’t say there isn’t variety at this festival.

Def Lep’s set begins with Hysteria in full, as advertised. For its monumental 32nd anniversary…eh? Joe Elliot and co. are on their ‘Best Of’ tour so why not just play that? Although they have been playing material from Hysteria on their last tour so…fair enough. I’m sure plenty of people would be pleased with that. I guess the band wanted to do something special for Download. The best thing about this is we hear tracks you don’t usually see live these days, as well as popular singles like ‘Animal’ and ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me‘ early on. For hardcore fans, this is a good treat. Are there many of those these days? For their encore, we get some more hits like ‘Let’s Get Rocked’ and ending with ‘Photograph’. Can’t say this was a bad performance, at all. yet this seemed a bit underwhelming as a headline set. Joe Elliot’s mic effect seemed like it was masking his voice a bit, and this is a show a lot have people have seen before. Similarly to Whitesnake, might be time to take a step back. Elliot finishes saying “Until next time…and there will be a next time!” Download 2022 headliners confirmed?

Overall this was a good day to start DL19, some classics and a few newbies to set the scene for the rest of the weekend. Looking at Saturday and Sunday, this may be a good starting point as there are many types of bands, sorry, acts ahead. In all, not the best headliner but still an exciting day.

Featured image courtesy of the official Download Festival website.

Videos courtesy of YouTube.

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Straight out of Tokyo, Man With A Mission, blast us with hard-hitting rock stirred up with some nu-metal and a dose of electric to surge up the crowd with excitement. Adding to their uniqueness the band are dressed in what seems to be wolf masks, adding more fun to the set. They play some of their recent tracks ‘Raise Your Flag’, ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and new track ‘Dead End In Tokyo’. Their cover of Nirvana ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ puts the cherry on top of a great set-list. A nu-metal electronic revamp of this iconic track was really interesting to hear live. We’re not sure many people in the crowd know who Man With A Mission are, but judging by crowd response they have done a great job and defiantly got the everyone hyped up for Don Broco.

Don Broco have broke many barriers in the rock world, hitting the waves hard in the mainstream with their upbeat-happy-electric-rock  adding a dash of that 80’s vibe thus creating super love from fans. Launching their third album Technology earlier this month there is no stopping Don Broco from invading your airwaves with their catchy beats. Lead singer Rob Damiani mentioned that within a week of launching Technology, the album had reached the top 5 in the album charts. The lads are over the moon with it!

From start to finish all the members are bouncing all over the show, you can defiantly tell it’s going to be a great night! DB are one of those bands that instantly get you in the mood, makes you all happy inside. It’s like the feeling you get when you see cute puppies. Good happy feelings all round the crowd are having an immense time.

Tonight will be a mix of classics and new ones, which is always what we love to hear. Rob says he’s glad to be back in Manchester and to spoil us they play ‘Greatness’, the new single from the album. Tonight they have sang for the first time ‘Greatness’ …oft it went down a treat!

Of course playing the classics ‘Pretty’ and ‘Everybody’ which sure did get the crowd going mental! You must love those donco boys! During “What you do to me” Rob asks for a pit… yes a pit… at Don Broco… allllrighty then! This happened a few times during the show which made it that more mental.

More shenanigans include a quick selfie mid-show before the lads look like a total mess at the end of the set and some people from Switzerland have come over to the UK to see DB! Rob saw a sign hanging from the balcony, how mad is that!

‘Thug Workout’ is another huge highlight of the show. Possibly one of the best/ funniest songs I’ve seen both the music video and now performed. Rob askesthe entire crowd to sit down and reenact one of the dance moves, doing push-ups, what a proper workout this show has been! Topping it with a pit! Lavely!

Honestly tonight has been so much fun! If you want a laugh and memorable night forever then see Don Broco. Their music will get stuck in your head and the wacky dance moves will forever be in your favour.

Until next time Chris signing off.

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