This Australian Metalcore outfit showed that their twenty years of experience was not to be messed with. Rock City and its crowd moshed and crowd-surfed their hearts out...
Opening up this monster night were the Californian Metalcore band Mugshot, who certainly impressed with the singer’s screams and gutturals being mighty as all hell – accompanied but some amazingly hardcore riffs and drumbeats and that you can’t not bop your head to.
Something that surprised is the way they commanded the audience, most opening acts get nothing from crowds and considering the lack of people actually there due to early doors, those few reciprocated their energy.
Next up were Alpha Wolf; these Metalcore lads from Tasmania, Australia have definitely generated some buzz in the metalcore scene recently with their 2020 release, A Quiet Place To Die which garnered quite a lot of attention within the scene.
I think after watching them live, its safe to say they absolutely deserve it; their energy, musicality and style was flawless, the pits they conjured were incredible and beautifully aggressive.
Following on from that were Comeback Kid, a band who have quite a status but I think their age showed a bit with this show. Although they commanded and delivered great energy it was not reciprocated at all, there was little to no response.
From what I could tell I think this came from lack of fanbase at the gig as well as them not particularly fitting in with the other bands - they gave me more of an emo sense of genre rather than hardcore and metalcore like the others, but I still enjoyed them a lot, just not as much as the other three.
Finally came the headliners Amity Affliction, who generated an incredible atmosphere and sense of scope with their set; the lights, the screens, everything created a sense of an epic conclusion to something, for them maybe the end of a great year of touring.
The melodies these guys produce are beautiful as well as dark and aggressive and that’s something I always admire about certain bands, their fanbase also have a love for them where I was almost ashamed I didn’t know any lyrics, the crowd was one of the loudest and most passionate I had ever been in, the pit was lairy, the crowd were energetic and the band were perfect.
The Amity Affliction performed at Rock City on 6 December 2023
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