Reload Festival Part 2: Kira Returns with the Post-Festival Recap

In this follow-up episode, the host chats with Kira from Germany after she returns from Reload Festival to recap how it went.

They start with quick personal and metal-themed questions (tea vs. coffee, beach vs. mountains, horror vs. comedy, front-row preference, Iron Maiden vs. Judas Priest, Slayer over Metallica, black metal vs. death metal, harsh vocals, small clubs, favorite non-metal music, and a dream show: Alice In Chains’ original lineup), and the host mentions his horror podcast “Someone’s in My Fruit Cellar,” where they build soundtracks for classic horror movies.

Kira describes Reload as sold-out with about 20,000 visitors, extreme heat and heavy dust, crowd surfing during Terror, and seeing bands like Judas Priest (including “Turbo Lover”), Gaerea, De ...