What bands did you see live recently / are waiting to see?

[nightsprinter]

Lamb of God in August, in Penticton, British Columbia. They are doing the Ashes of Leviathan tour with Mastodon.

I'm a huge Lamb of God fan. I love hockey too, I ordered a custom made Lamb of God hockey jersey in February for the concert this August.

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Here it is next to my Edmonton Oilers jerseys.
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Since Lamb of God are doing the 20th anniversary of the Ashes of the Wake album Live, I bought summer shorts too that have the Ashes of the awake logo. I love Lamb of God! They are my favorite band!

It's been 20 years since ashes of the wake?

Some days feel so long but time really does just zip by.

 

[Crash Dandicoot]

I saw Pallbearer the other day. Fantastic show with some of the best tone I've heard live in a long time. I appreciate the doom guys bringing an obscene amount of wattage to the live game.

 

[PuckishGuitar]

Saw the Mastodon / Lamb of God show last night. It was a cool idea to have both of these albums for this tour, which apparently were released on the same day back in 2004. Both bands were on top of their game, the complete album playthroughs was a lot of fun and love it when bands do something like that. Earlier I looked at photos I took back on the original tours, lots of memories there, and happy to see their successes. Mastodon especially was a big influence on me getting out of playing generic thrash riffs and into more creative song structures. I wish both bands had a bit more time to play other songs, they each only had about 3-4 songs after playing the albums, but it was a pretty packed setlist as it was. The visuals for Mastodon were on point for the theme of the album, lots of sea beasts and sailing into storms. Think my only complaint is the sound in the venue was a bit too bass heavy throughout, the thump on the kicks really overwhelmed a lot and heard a number of complaints about it after the show. Really great energy from all the bands and fun night to remember though.

Missed most of Malevolence's set unfortunately, not familiar with them but last couple of songs in the set sounded good. Kerry King's solo outfit is basically leftover Slayer, but glad it's an opportunity for the members to get a paycheck and have fun playing stuff live. Even threw in a couple of Slayer covers, lazy but it was great fan service for the crowd.

Mastodon on the original Leviathan tour in '04 a few blocks from where I lived - opened with Hearts Alive!

 

[MFB]

^ I'll be seeing that one in a couple weeks, wild to think I haven't seen Lamb of God besides the one time back in '07 when they toured Sacrament, but this will be my 5th or 6th Mastodon show since 2006 when I saw them for the first time with the Unholy Alliance tour

 

[BeyonThe7thSeal]

Went to the local “big” venue last night to watch a friends band open up for Drowning Pool and a band called A killers confession, which from what I understand is fronted by a former member of mushroomhead but wouldn’t say the bands name nor what song of theirs he was covering. They didn’t sound awful but it was quite boring, and they all wore all white boiler suits and it seemed the singer was lip synching quite a bit as his chest never moved and he would be “singing” some notes that would require that. And he has his face plastered on his gear trailer, which apropos of everything is just weird to me. Drowning Pool was decent for being a nostalgia act. However my friends band surprised everyone being a death metal band about grilling meat opening for whatever you’d call drowning pool.

 

[sirbuh]

Caught Fallujah live recently, really surprised with how well their music translated to a live setting.

 

[MFB]

Totally forgot until the last few days that my Lamb of God/Mastodon show is tomorrow; unfortunately that means suffering thru Kerry King too, but a small price to pay for those two.

 

[sirbuh]

Totally forgot until the last few days that my Lamb of God/Mastodon show is tomorrow; unfortunately that means suffering thru Kerry King too, but a small price to pay for those two.

slayer jr isnt bad, he does play a few slayer tunes.

 

[MFB]

slayer jr isnt bad, he does play a few slayer tunes.

Unless it's one of their mid/slow tempo songs, I'm sure I'll be still entirely underwhelmed; Slayer has never done anything for me, and seem like someone kept making fun of metal but people bought into it more and more, and suddenly the escape button was gone.

 

[p0ke]

Unless it's one of their mid/slow tempo songs, I'm sure I'll be still entirely underwhelmed; Slayer has never done anything for me, and seem like someone kept making fun of metal but people bought into it more and more, and suddenly the escape button was gone.

Yeah, Kerry King's slower/mid tempo songs were definitely the best of part of the show. The faster songs just sounded sloppy, including Raining Blood which iirc was the only Slayer song they played at Tuska this summer.
All in all I'd say it was bearable but nothing I'd pay for on its own (I listened to most of it while queuing to the merch stand).

 

[jco5055]

I just got King Diamond tickets for the Brooklyn show, but idk it seemed kinda expensive, like $77 dollars for the cheapest seats? But it's the day before Halloween, I gotta go

 

[Rubbishplayer]

I'm kinda curious to see how "Beat", the new King Crimson spin-off pans out. The idea of Adrian Belew and Steve Vai fronting this band intrigues me.

Anyone in the USA seen them live yet?

 

[p0ke]

Holy crap, me and two friends just bought tickets to Wacken 2025!