Breaking Benjamin frontman Benjamin Burnley took some time during his band’s September 6th performance in Holmdel, New Jersey, to rant about his feud with a fellow Fallout 4 modder, as well as his own upcoming 1.2 update to his first-person mod.
The singer-guitarist described himself in the rant as “an amateur modder” for games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 under the name “killemloud.”
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Burnley seemed self-aware of the niche nature of his rant, occasionally interspersing his comments with acknowledgements that “most of you aren’t going to know what the fuck I’m talking about.”
His speech began, “I just made a mod that makes it so that when you’re in first-person, you stay in first-person. You see your body in first-person. You go to your workshop area in first-person, and third-person still works. So, I want you to go and download that f**kin’ mod.”
He continued, “More importantly, I wanna tell you why I’m doing this. There was a modder — so, there’s like a clique, there was a modder in the community that was really mean to me and bullying me and saying, ‘Oh, you mod is shit, you don’t know what you’re f**kin’ doing, so I’m doing this every fucking night, and blowing his fucking downloads out of the water. Please help me destroy this fuckin’ jerk. I’m not even gonna say his name, but he’s a dick, and fuck him.”
At this point, the drummer for Breaking Benjamin began accenting Burnley’s speech with double bass runs.
Burnley kept going, “Even if you don’t play that game, go download it. It’s on Nexus Mods. And tomorrow, I better see all those downloads going up. …This is for people who love mods. I’m uploading the update for it. You know, when you post a mod, you’re supposed to be able to grow and learn, and make it better. And right off the bat, this fuckin’ asshole was shittin’ on my mod, and he ain’t lettin’ me update it. So that’s what happened.”
The frontman then pledged to continue doing this at shows until he hit one million total downloads.
The band later clarified that Burnley didn’t just pause the set to rant about Fallout 4 and his mod. Instead, the set was paused to fix a broken snare drum, at which point the frontman used the opportunity to talk about his gaming life. A statement from the band reads:
“We’ve seen some stories about the New Jersey show claiming Ben stopped the concert to talk about a Fallout 4 mod he’s been working on. That’s not what happened. The show was briefly interrupted when the snare drum broke mid-set and needed to be repaired. While the crew fixed it, Ben made the most of the downtime. Thanks to everyone who came out. We’re glad the snare got fixed, the music continued, and Ben’s Fallout mod got some unexpected publicity along the way. And since we’re here…Go download the mod.”
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Watch the full mid-show Fallout 4 modding speech below.
Local Man Benjamin Burnley interrupts a Breaking Benjamin concert with a rant about his True First Person 1.2 Fallout 4 mod
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