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I dislike it when clubs open doors a half hour (or later) after the advertised time. This really runs over my noodle with a brick. I got to the show early because both Chan and I got out of work at 6, and waited well over an hour to get in (doors opened at 7:30 instead of the 7 o'clock advertised time). Luckily, I was parked close to the club so we didn't have to keep walking to the door and back or freeze our asses off outside in the frigid night.
Because Fall River broke up, Embrace the End opened the show. They played technical metal with grind, a good amount of breakdowns, and two singers; one of whom looked sort of like Andrew WK. The two voice weren't all that much different, but it worked. My favorite parts of the band were the token long haired metal guy and the fact that their songs were either really long or really short
Righteous Jams had a lot of kids moving from the moment they started playing. Their mostly mid paced hardcore songs had a good groove to them, but I got bored with them really fast. Their songs are very simple,a nd all fo their parts sounded like a bridge. They weren't horrible, but I had trouble understanding the huge buzz about these guys, even though the last song they played was great.
I was pretty tired when Blacklisted took the stage, but god damn did they kick enough ass to wake me up. The mix sounded amazing; 100x better than the previous two bands. The energy level during their set was turned up to 12 (although their pit wasn't as huge as I had imagined), and they really seemed to enjoy themselves on stage, which helped give them such a killer live sound.
The Warriors started their set by playing some of "New Noise" by Refused, which really caught me by surprise, but it was a nice one. They sounded really tight, and the pit was huge for them, with people using The Living Room floor as their own personal spring board, loving every second of it.
I was very surprised at how good the mix for The Warriors (and Blacklisted, as already stated) sounded. The Living Room usually doesn't sound this good (though they have come a long way from the days when it wasn't even worth going there because you couldn't hear anything clearly), but these two bands sounded clear as a glass just out of the dishwasher. This contributed to both bands sounding as incredible as they did (although the bands themselves played a big role in that, too).
Written by: RF