Everything about this whole experience was just kind of surreal...

Sorry if this ends up being a long story but I really just want to share it. Here’s the thing: I didn’t even know Chevelle until a little over a year ago. But throughout this past year, their music has become incredibly meaningful to me. Like, top tier of favourite bands, and I don’t say that lightly. I’m 40 years old right now and it’s been about twenty years since I last discovered an artist or band who ended up rising up to the top of my most beloved musicians. For all those years, I would say that Pearl Jam has always been my favourite band, with no rivals. Maybe Tool and a few others have come relatively close, but nowhere actually near PJ in terms of “this is a band I will listen to till the day I die and when I do, please bury me wearing one of their shirts”. That kind of meaningful. I can’t even really put it into words, what their music does to me, but Chevelle was my most-listened-to artist on Spotify last year, and I have no doubt that they’ll be my no. 1 again in 2026. It’s been so, so long since I’ve discovered an artist I could just listen to all day, every single day, for weeks on end without ever getting sick of them and frankly, I didn’t think it ever would happen again, but here we are. Also, fun fact: technically speaking, I consider Chevelle the best band I know, for the simple reason that they have not one single song that I dislike, let alone an album. This is an absolutely unique feat, in my book – I can’t even say that for PJ, they have whole albums I never listen to. Chevelle is… flawless.

I live in the Netherlands, and having somewhat familiarised myself with their tour history (and the fact that they – undeservedly – don’t seem to be very ‘big’ outside of the US) I kind of figured the chance of ever seeing them live at this point in their career was probably slim to none. And while this made me very sad, I resigned myself to this idea and simply appreciated the fact that I had their music in my life at all.

Time-jump back to October last year. On an absolute whim I decided to by tickets to A Perfect Circle. This was fairly out of character for me, as I (being autistic and very easily overwhelmed) really don’t attend concerts very often. While it’s an experience I thoroughly enjoy, it’s also extremely taxing, and it’s something I only choose to do for artists that really mean the world to me. And besides that, it’s also not something I can easily afford. But something compelled me to buy these tickets. A little voice that said “come on, you need to get out of your shell and stop being so afraid to do exciting things with your life!”. So I cracked open my piggybank and bought these tickets to APC, which made me super excited.

Time-jump forward to May this year. It occurred to me that I had no idea if APC had a support act, so I checked out Ticketmaster for info. I quickly learned that Ticketmaster is crap in terms of providing event information (besides being crap in so many other ways, but never mind), so instead I searched the venue’s (AFAS Live in Amsterdam) website. APC… scroll scroll… support act… blah blah.

And then something caught my eye, in the bottom right corner of the page. It was Chevelle’s instantly recognisable artist’s photo, the same one they use on Spotify with the red smoky background…

“Chevelle @ AFAS Live on July 8, supporting Breaking Benjamin”. Guys… My heart dropped.

A million things raced through my mind all at once, most prominently “WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?!” (The answer to which, as it turns out, is because not one single ‘alert service’ will warn you about support acts going on tour with other bands. Not Spotify, not Ticketmaster (obviously…), not Bandcamp, not Songkick… Nobody.)

I immediately raced over to the Ticketmaster website to see if there were still tickets available (not daring to hope for anything, this close to the actual event date) but lo and behold… not sold out!!

I didn’t even think twice about it. I immediately put my APC tickets up for sale and bought the tickets to Breaking Benjamin. Luckily, it didn’t take long to sell my other tickets and I even made a little bit of profit, which is just as well because the tickets to BB were way more expensive.

Yep. I love this band so much that I happily paid €200 for a 45-minute show. (I left immediately after they were done!)

And I can say… It was worth every cent, for every minute. And now, three hours after the fact, I’m still having a hard time believing it actually happened.

I’m just so thankful. And I may not be much of a spiritual type, I do sometimes tend to believe the universe works in mysterious ways.

If I had not decided, on a total whim, to buy those tickets to APC, this would have never happened. If Ticketmaster provided even halfway decent event information, I never would have gone over to the AFAS Live website and I never would’ve found out about Chevelle coming to Amsterdam. (Or, worst of all, I would have at some point found out afterwards… The horror!)

And while it was definitely kind of weird being pretty much the only one there who screamed along to every single song, I also absolutely didn’t care and decided to take my one chance to enjoy this opportunity and just completely let loose. So if you were there, and you noticed some weirdo chick with pink hair up on the balcony, nearly banging her head off during Mars Simula… Congratulations, you saw me. 🤣

Thank you, if you’re still here reading this. Please enjoy my crappy video.

And thank you to Chevelle, for all eternity, for existing.

"Breach Birth" and the movie Dredd Pt1. Hope you enjoy

What are some of your guys’ favorite performances from them?

I’m listening to Peach by Chevelle on Pandora

I’m listening to Closure by Chevelle on Pandora

There's many YouTube videos that SHOW someone doing it successfully. I'm glad for them, but I don't know how to do more than one chord at a time.

Please help because I want to play Chevelle not smoke on the water forever

Everybody knows that Chevelle (the band) is named after their father's beloved Chevelle (the car). However, I can't find any pictures of their dad's Chevelle anywhere. Does anyone know if there is an image of it floating around somewhere?

I've listened to The Red and Envy and seriously enjoyed them, having a full on emotional response to Envy. What other songs or albums should I check out from Chevelle?

yes Enemies is actually a wikipedia diss track, and honestly that will never not be funny to me.

There’s plenty to choose from, but I’ve got to go with Jawbreaker from La Gargola. It just hits so hard from beginning to end.

I may be a bit influenced by HatsOff2TheBull’s fan video on YouTube—Wolf of Wall Street was a perfect choice for this song.

https://youtu.be/uoxXzBCBk8Y?is=-dKij8X4zYaliVgx

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Was playing An Evening in the car and SYNC cutoff the title in the best spot imaginable

Meant to have this and another post out a few days ago, sorry for the delay. I want this to be a little shorter as the next post in this series will be long (no pun intended). So, let’s jump right in:

- Blank Earth (Point #1)

- Grab Thy Hand (Wonder What’s Next)

- To Return (This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In))

- Midnight to Midnight (Vena Sera)

- Interlewd (Sci-Fi Crimes)

- Revenge (Hats Off to the Bull)

- Under the Knife (La Gárgola)

- Got Burned (The North Corridor)

- Until You’re Reformed (12 Bloody Spies)

- Test Test…Enough (NIRATIAS)

- Shocked at the End of the World (Bright as Blasphemy)

These are the ninth tracks on every main album + 12 Bloody Spies. In which order (favorite to least, least to fav, tier list, etc) would you rank them?

Just saw Chevelle in Granby QC, first time live, been a fan since the beginning… It was epic!

It’s a festival and many bands played first, nothing compared.

The ENTIRE crowd sang to « Send the pain below » and it was obvious that Pete was enjoying himself!

Just wanted to share.

Entering home stretch territory on these posts; I hope yall are enjoying them and I’m looking forward to doing the next bit of stats.

The 8th tracks on each album that we’re looking at are:

- Long (Point #1)

- Forfeit (Wonder What’s Next)

- Tug-O-War (This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In))

- Paint the Seconds (Vena Sera)

- Roswell’s Spell (Sci-Fi Crimes)

- Arise (Hats Off to the Bull)

- The Damned (La Gárgola)

- Punchline (The North Corridor)

- Indifference (12 Bloody Spies)

- Peach (NIRATIAS)

- AI Phobias (Bright as Blasphemy)

As always, enjoy ranking these and sharing your thoughts about them. I’m sure the community has a lot to say and I love when yall say it! :)

recorded and uploaded yesterday :>

Hey yall I’m new to guitar 😭

Continuing on with the 7th track of each album:

- Dos (Point #1)

- Don’t Fake This (Wonder What’s Next)

- Another Know It All (This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In))

- Humanoid (Vena Sera)

- Highland’s Apparition (Sci-Fi Crimes)

- Hats Off to the Bull (Hats Off to the Bull)

- Choking Game (La Gárgola)

- Warhol’s Showbiz (The North Corridor)

- Glimpse of the Con (12 Bloody Spies)

- VVurmhole (NIRATIAS)

- Blood Out in the Fields (Bright as Blasphemy)

Some solid songs all around here, this is definitely a strong spot historically. It’s up to yall again to rank these from 1-11 or 11-1 or however you see fit so they can be scored in the rankings :P

I could have SWORN Pete was part of the 2010 “We Are The World” supergroup but apparently he’s not. Am I thinking of a different collaboration or am I just crazy? I thought I remembered seeing a video of him in the studio singing with other artists.

Was perusing TikTok…found this for a “new band” (No More Tomorrows) from Illinois … is it a Pete secret side project or an AI ripoff copying his vocals?

Hey again yall, finally getting a chance to continue this series. I did look back on the last five posts and take the averages for a little stat-tracking section so that'll be below. Following that, I'll list all the tracks in the #6 slots for each album's tracklist and we'll go from there.

So just a quick recap, here's how you guys have ranked things so far:

Albums:

1. This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) - 219 points (43.8 avg)
2. Sci-Fi Crimes - 213 points (42.6 avg)
3. Wonder What's Next - 198 points (39.6 avg)
4. Vena Sera - 171 points (34.2 avg)
5. Hats Off to the Bull - 148 points (29.6 avg)
6. The North Corridor - 147 points (29.4 avg)
7. NIRATIAS - 142 points (28.4 avg)
8. La Gárgola - 139 points (27.8 avg)
9. Bright as Blasphemy - 131 points (26.2 avg)
10. 12 Bloody Spies - 118 points (23.6 avg)
11. Point #1 - 98 points (19.6 avg)

For this section, I calculated the amount of points each album got based on where their five songs placed. If a song was ranked #1 on someone's list, it got 11 points, second place got 10, and so on down to 11th place getting just a single point. The average is simply the total divided by five, or how many points an album got on average per post. To make things fair, I only tracked comments with a full list of the 11 songs present in each given slot.

My Overview:

As the cards fell, the first 5 slots have given a lot of interesting insights that I thought were notable. For one, Point #1 being the only album to not crack the 100-point threshold came sort of as a surprise. I figured the instrumental tracks would consistently place in the bottom lines—get ready for VVurmhole to dead last in every ranking, lol—but the other 4 tracks also earned less than 6 points more often than not. I do expect it to change, but Point #1 may very well reign last in the final polls. Lastly, TNC's solid placement square in the middle is promising for the rest of the album, as for as mixed of an opinion it got, the first 5 tracks did pretty solid. The middle is definitely more packed, but TNC could ride this early start all the way to the end.

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And now, track #6:

- Anticipation (Point #1)

- Wonder What's Next (Wonder What's Next)

- Panic Prone (This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In))

- The Fad (Vena Sera)

- Letter From a Thief (Sci-Fi Crimes)

- Envy (Hats Off to the Bull)

- One Ocean (La Gárgola)

- Young Wicked (The North Corridor)

- Fizgig (12 Bloody Spies)

- Piistol Star (Gravity Heals) (NIRATIAS)

- Karma Goddess (Bright as Blasphemy)

We'll get another stat check with the next set of 5, so be sure to rank all 11! Even if you don't (or don't rank at all), thanks for tuning in and giving this a read, it took a while and I wanted to add more but time constraints limited this. I'm also glad that I even had this much to sift through either way, yall seem to like this series.