Bury Tomorrow, Crossfaith and Black Peaks @ Rock City, Nottingham 20/04/17

When a night starts with Black Peaks as the first act, you know you are going to be in for an explosive start and a bar set very very high. If Black Peaks don’t end up headlining the likes of Reading Festival or Download in the next five years, then the music industry really is done for! There is a uniqueness and originality to Black Peaks, every one of their songs feels like a story, each song has peaks and troughs of emotion and killer riffs, each song almost feels like a self contained mini E.P. but at the same time it’s just simply part of the greater picture that is; Black Peaks. Debut album ‘Statues’ is a very solid starting point for Black Peaks, and support slots like this isn’t going to do any harm to their progression.

If Black Peaks offered the technical progressive rock part of the evening, Crossfaith offered the down right dirty techno driven, dropped bass, heavy part of the evening. There won’t have been many times that the Rock City crowd was jumping that hard for a support act, and that doesn’t even cover the later walls of death! America has the MOAB, but Crossfaith brought MFOAWOD, the ‘Mother Fucker of all Walls of Death’! Music is a universal language, there is no language barrier to blasting guitars, soloing drums and screaming vocals, you could feel everything from Crossfaith. They give a crowd everything. If Black Peaks set the nights bar, Crossfaith saw said bar and raised a wall, a difficult wall for even a band like Bury Tomorrow to scale.

Onto the evenings main event, and the undercard meant that the crowd wasn’t warm it was on freaking fire! Even the bizarre choice to put Katy Perry over the PA didn’t seem to bring anyone down. If you saw Bury Tomorrow frontman Daniel on the street, you wouldn’t peg him for someone who could channel the demon Valak! There is always a sense of pride as a music fan, watching bands work their way up through the smaller venues and taking support slots, to reach headline status at a venue as legendary and well regarded as Rock City, after all it is Frank Turner’s favourite venue, so any band who gets to play it is clearly ticking the right boxes. Bury Tomorrow are the new breed of British Metal bands, they are going to be one of the bands that nurtures the next generation of Metal fans, and those fans are in good hands.

Amazing night.

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