Bullet Point Live Review
Who: Dethklok/Mastodon/Converge/Hight on Fire
The Fillmore, Denver CO
When: Saturday October 10th 2009
High on Fire
- I didn’t get to see them because I was still drinking beer and having dinner at CityGrille. Best burger in Denver.
- (The blood I bleed is clogged indeed)
Converge
- I missed half their set because the Fillmore is a large ass ballroom much like the Aragon in Chicago, but only has three security guards patting people down to let them in.
- That is poor planning
- I then had to piss really bad after standing in the line (I drank a lot of beer before leaving CityGrille)
- Converge needs to actively not play large venues. Their stage presence just lends itself to small venues much better where J Bannon can get down and interact with the crowd.
- Their drummer looks like he is having the best time ever every time I see them live.
- I am jealous as hell of their drummer
- Small pit, but it was pretty obvious a lot of the people there had no idea who these guys were
- I only then remembered that I still haven’t heard this new album everybody says is so good.
Mastodon
- Full length movie (like, real movie) played on the giant screen behind them while they played Crack the Skye in its entirety.
- There are a lot of hashers in the Denver metal scene. I was contact buzzed by the end of ‘The Czar’.
- Make really really buzzed
- I blame this absurd level of weed intake on why the crowd was too busy to mosh much or do anything really besides watch the screen and bob their heads.
- That movie was really cool if not a little depressing. I was high enough by the end of the movie to emotional identify with the kid in the coma from the album. Beat that!
- Bran said “hank you Denver” at the end and that was all the chit chat.
- Not much movement on the stage during the whole show for the most part
- Mastodon is now a live prog band and I’m saying that as a diss.
He eats drums for breakfast
- The crowd really got into the ‘klok when from the git go
- There were large pits, followed by a short tutorial on moshing on screen
- Not picking people up in the pit is a ‘dickmove’ according to Murderface, and if he thinks it’s a dickmove, well…he’s the expert.
- ‘Black Fire Upon Us’ just killed. The movie, the riffs, the movie once again
- Eagle Riders vs Dragon Riders!
- Gene Hoglan is the fucking man. Every band ever could benefit from a healthy dose of Hoglan.
- So could your mother
- Brendon Small is no slouch either. It was weird basically seeing a guy that looks ‘some professional dildo’ go up there and just tear that shit up.
- Live it becomes apparent of this band’s arena rock/pop hook skills
- I saw two separate people puke during this set. Brutal.
- Does this actually count as a musical because the movie for this band as well had a plot?
- Musicals are not metal. AT ALL.
The Crowd
Homework sucks!
Lots of
- Angry blue collar dudes
- Depressed looking girlfriends
- Heshers
- Hot Topic Goths
- Face Tattoos (?)
There were some
- Hardcore kids
- Old Metal Dudes (can’t wait till I’m in this group)
- Sloppy fat metal dudes
A couple
- Staggeringly attractive older (mid/late twenties) normal looking women
- Dudes that look like Obama [just saying! (black metal?)]
Only one of
- Me
- Dude dressed like Dr. Rockso.
At least I know what I’m doing for Halloween.
