Unbroken @ The Dome (2024)
22/11/2024
Just to give a brief overview of the 3 bands that played before this band... well, it's basically 90% what I'd imagine "punk" music would sound like to the layman. Hellscape were alright! Rifle's overly snotty, nasally and British style punk is not really for me. Shooting Daggers were alright as well, although the much less punky stuff caught my attention the most. When they called for a circlepit and didn't get it, I did my best to make do just circlepitting in Leo's orbit. All in good fun! First time seeing a queercore band live as well.
Deaf Club
Deaf Club is basically Justin Pearson fronting a band that's just about closer to modern Mathcore than it is to The Locust and such. He's got that Davey Havok effect of coming out of "twink death" unscathed. In all seriousness though, he really did have the energy of a frontman still in his early 20s! I imagine if I listened to their music at home it may not leave a particularly strong impression, but live they were definitely fun! The guitarist was doing some cool shit, even if not far off from what a band like Daughters or Frontierer would be doing with guitar effects and shit. I'm definitely gonna be looking into what guitar pedals he uses, should I be able to find enough on that. Drumming went real hard as well!
Very fun!/10
Unbroken
Setlist
AndEnd of a Life Time
Razor
D4
Blanket
In the Name of Progression
Fall on Proverb
Final Expression
Absentee Debate
DAMN, they sounded heavy live. Kinda like Botch, at least if they basically only had one 35-ish minute long album, you pretty much can't go wrong with whatever their setlist ends up being anyways, like them playing my favourite songs on the album was pretty much a given, and they played them real hard. I was still surprised they saved 'D4' for a little later and didn't even start with something from the album. I did also hear that live they didn't appear to play the riff from 'In the Name of Progression', and that was very much the case here, but them extending that slow breakdown also went especially hard anyway. I could've sworn I saw them play 'Fall on Proverb' towards the end, though it's mostly the intro and select riffs I personally recall, but imma leave that off the setlist bit of this entry for now.
I do wish they had at least 40 or 45 minutes set time instead of just 30. Having that many support bands didn't entirely help, even if they all had 20 min sets, aside from Deaf Club who also had 30. The set definitely felt kinda brief, but it was all very good.
Hell yes!/10