Red Mosquito

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

turned2black wrote:Got my tix for their Oct. 20 show here. Kinda surprised they are playing such a tiny venue. Place probably doesn't hold more than 300 people or so.

Are they a particularly popular band?

I guess I don't really know.

The last time I saw them, it was a bigger venue and I remember thinking that venue was small. They are playing the venue a lot of metal bands play (I saw Behemoth there last year). They seem to draw an interesting mixture of metal kids, "hipsters" and frat bros, so I just figured their audience would be a lot larger.

I've seen them in big venues, but that was in Austin, so it doesn't really count.

i'm still struggling to get fully on board with this release.

turned2black wrote:Got my tix for their Oct. 20 show here. Kinda surprised they are playing such a tiny venue. Place probably doesn't hold more than 300 people or so.

I'm going to see them Oct. 29 in Portland, I have no idea how big the venue is. When I saw them on the Warp Riders tour, the place held around 900 I think (Regency Ballroom in SF).

turned2black wrote:Got my tix for their Oct. 20 show here. Kinda surprised they are playing such a tiny venue. Place probably doesn't hold more than 300 people or so.

Show was kind of a nightmare. Too many frat bros looking to hurt people and bad acoustics, which was weird because Behemoth sounded great when I saw them last year at the same venue. Also, there was a hellacious fight going on right next to our car when the show let out, so the wife and I walked to a coffee shop. We noticed a homeless man on the way in, so we bought two extra scones and a coffee for him. On the way out we tried handing them to him, but he knocked it all out of my wife's hands and screamed at her.
A lovely evening all around. #lifeinPHX

Lol remind me never to go to Phoenix.

Saw Opeth and The Sword last night. Opeth was great, but The Sword was BORING. I didn't hate High Country as much as a lot of people did, but they did 9 songs and 6 of them were from High Country. Those songs didn't translate very well live. Even two of the songs they did that weren't from High Country (Tres Brujas & Maiden, Mother and Crone) weren't very good. Almost like they were performed to sound like they were from High Country. They did one from Apocryphon which I don't remember , but they didn't do anything from Age of Winters. I saw them headline on the Warp Riders tour in 2010 and they were amazing - I don't know what happened.

RussellManiac12 wrote:Saw Opeth and The Sword last night. Opeth was great, but The Sword was BORING. I didn't hate High Country as much as a lot of people did, but they did 9 songs and 6 of them were from High Country. Those songs didn't translate very well live. Even two of the songs they did that weren't from High Country (Tres Brujas & Maiden, Mother and Crone) weren't very good. Almost like they were performed to sound like they were from High Country. They did one from Apocryphon which I don't remember , but they didn't do anything from Age of Winters. I saw them headline on the Warp Riders tour in 2010 and they were amazing - I don't know what happened.

Thought about seeing them again last month but wasn't crazy about hearing High Country. Sounds like I made the right decision.

BurtReynolds wrote:

RussellManiac12 wrote:Saw Opeth and The Sword last night. Opeth was great, but The Sword was BORING. I didn't hate High Country as much as a lot of people did, but they did 9 songs and 6 of them were from High Country. Those songs didn't translate very well live. Even two of the songs they did that weren't from High Country (Tres Brujas & Maiden, Mother and Crone) weren't very good. Almost like they were performed to sound like they were from High Country. They did one from Apocryphon which I don't remember , but they didn't do anything from Age of Winters. I saw them headline on the Warp Riders tour in 2010 and they were amazing - I don't know what happened.

Thought about seeing them again last month but wasn't crazy about hearing High Country. Sounds like I made the right decision.

You definitely did.