While touring the album in Europe, the band’s crew gets into a fight with a biker gang doing security at a festival in Scotland. “We were playing in front of 20,000 people, and they pulled the power on us and started coming on stage,” Mike says. “We needed a police escort from the stage to our bus, and then a police escort out of town. The last thing the bikers said to our crew guy was ‘I’m not going to stab you. I’m going to put a screwdriver through your heart and kill you.’ We are never going back to Scotland.”

yes, good read. their new stuff, while certianly very good music, is getting a little too preachy for my tastes. i can accept Mike's anti-religion stance, but he must recognize that Christianity comes in many forms, not just crazy right-wingers. i believe in God, but I'm also pro-choice and hate guns and so on. When he tells me my faith is false and that my religion is flawed, it is a little off-putting.