Pazartesi 12 Şub 2007, 3:50
Mon 5 Feb – Mastodon, Converge, Priestess
First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN
show starts at 6:30pm.
me and my friend miss Priestess because we're too busy start a party before the show. we hear the last song and it sucks, and since the last song is usually the sweetest, we assume Priestess sucks.
Converge played very, very well. i had a better time seeing Converge at this show than in chicago (in sept 2006) because they finally changed their set up a little. they did some slight variations before that, but i pretty much saw the same show from Converge every year for three years in a row.. just bigger each time. this time was more of an amalgamation of all their shit that i have ever seen. they still had their typical 45 minute set, but before they played a lot of you fail me stuff.. this time it was all over the place. in 45 minutes they played songs off No Heroes, you fail me, the poacher diaries, jane doe, and petitioning the empty sky. the show was the biggest i've ever seen them. i think there was more people there than at the metro show. the majority of the crowd were first-time observers (..all the ones with their fucking jaws on the floor…), but the ones who knew what was going on were definitely fueling the fire. i along with sooo many other fans of hardcore are thankful that Converge still sticks to their hardcore punk values after all these years and are so creative that they can still create relevant, innovative, heavy music, and we were getting some insane energy going to let them know. the start and end of the set were the fucking best. can't go wrong with concubine… i think this is most of the songs they played, but they're not in order. i was having too much fun to actually keep track. add/edit to my list if you know something, anyone:
Plagues
No Heroes
Hope Street
Homewrecker
Eagles Become Vultures
Hellbound
You Fail Me
Locust Reign
Forsaken
The Broken Vow
Last Light
Heartache
Versus
Concubine
Mastodon was fucking amazingly tight monday night too. i have to remind you that this is my third time seeing them this year, so i could be pretty critical, but i really can't because they played so damn good. the sound was fucked up for the first song, but after that, Mastodon blazed through the tighest, most flawless set i've seen them play. the unholy alliance was maybe better, but i was relegated to the balcony of roy wilkins on that one, so it takes number 2. this time, me and hiz had prime spots on the left side up on a ledge. i couldn't even begin to name off the songs they played. everything was incredible. they started off with like 5 songs from blood mountain, and then when they crept into the slow crunch of "march of the fire ants" and "iron tusk", there was no telling where they'd go next. the crowd was grooving on everything.. i was blazing that primo shit that i mentioned ealier in the post the entire time that i was writing this, so i feel like i'm up for taking a stab at remembering the 1 and a half hour's worth of material that they played that night. you'll get the idea:
This Mortal Soil
The Wolf Is Loose
Crystal Skull
I Am Ahab
Sleeping Giant
Capillarian Crest
Circle Of Cysquatch
Iron Tusk
March Of The Fire Ants
Where Strides The Behemoth
Aqua Dementia
Mother Puncher
Bladecatcher
Megalodon
Colony Of Birchmen
Blood And Thunder
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Hearts Alive
ps. hearts alive was played to its fullest. at the end of the song, they extended the solo by like 3 minutes with this crazy tripped out prog jam. kind of reminded me of dillinger escape plan and red sparowes and clutch getting together to drop acid and do epic soloing.