“This shit right here is a dream come true,” gushes Chris Motionless. King Goth even smiles a big, sweet, grateful grin as he says it. Motionless In White are no strangers to Rockville, but tonight is a spoopy celebration for King Goth and co. “This is the first time we’ve played in the dark… where we feel at home.”
Today’s storm-related show stop has been a drag for many. For the Pennsylvania poltergeists, though, it’s not been all bad luck, as they’ve ended up with a later, and thus even more nocturnal, stage time than originally planned. Second only to Bring Me The Horizon on Welcome To Rockville’s enormous Main Stage, Chris tells his flock that it makes them “feel like headliners.” The fact that there’s a band on afterwards becomes a mere technicality. Tonight, Motionless In White paint the Sunshine State in many, many shades of black, all of them exhilarating.
Even having to put the brakes on at several points to deal with crowd assistance can’t hurt their momentum. Gothed up to the nines and looking like Satan’s own alt. bad-lad, Chris is a man absolutely starving for this moment.