In times past, being on road as a touring musician during a big game or expansion launch likely meant missing out until you were home. Not any more, as evidenced by the support for modern technical death metal giants Archspire making time for World of Warcraft: Forever while the band is performing on-stage.
Video evidence was posted by the group on Instagram. The footage shows Justin McKinney, guitarist in support band The Zenith Passage, actively playing Forever on his Steam Deck right at side-stage to Archspire's headlining performance.
"POV: World of Warcraft: Forever comes out on the same day as the show," reads the start of the clip, the caption adding: "When your set starts at [21:00], but you just zoned into Undercity to pick up your Voidwalker quest so you can pet-tank your way through Fenris Isle."
Tech-death in the vein of both Archspire and The Zenith Passage often soundtracks my RPG exploits, especially when I have to do a bit of grinding or push through some early game fluff. Getting the soundtrack live while you plow down rot hide gnolls would be legendary.
Although Forever is designed around vanilla World of Warcraft anyway, making it less hardware-intensive to run, it's nice that it runs so smoothly on the Steam Deck. These bands will have easier jobs maintaining their characters in Azeroth while touring around than George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher, the vocalist for Cannibal Corpse, would've had back in the day.
Fisher's an old school WoW enthusiast, with the Horde tattoo to prove it.
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