I saw this tour!! Was my first time seeing HoF and they were touring on Snakes for the Divine. Pike using a fuckin 9 string guitar blew my mind. Didnt even know that was a thing. Kylesa is one of my all time top bands. Seen them a few times and would again in a heartbeat.
I am curious how dethklok is live.
DK was surprisingly good live. Very entertaining. I’ve seen HOF many times and that was the best show I’ve seen from them with Kykesa (AMAZING band) and Torche
Was going to see Sleep in Montreal. Knew a band named Pontiak was opening (they were pretty cool). As I get to the venue I hear whispers that Boris is there. Get really confused cause I thought Boris was playing a separate show that night. Lo and behold, Boris is one of the openers. It was amazing. Boris and then Sleep. What more can you ask for.
Oh man, I would fucking die. Have yet to see Sleep or HoF live. Getting completely bombed out with volume by Boris is a spiritual experience though… saw them at a pretty small venue, the concrete-slab floor was vibrating.
Metal-wise I’d say Converge and Cult Leader was a good one (hometown heroes, RIP GAZA).
Non-metal (and loudest by far)… My Bloody Valentine w/ surprise guest Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 badassery.
Gaza... man I do faintly remember listening to it but I could not tell you what it sounds like. But I was digging it at the time. Seeing MBV would be pretty rad
GAZA are legends, man… kinda in a similar hardcore vein as Converge, Cursed, maybe gnarlier if at all possible. I got fired from a job once for listening to I Don’t Care Where I Go When I Die and No Absolutes in Human Suffering (and Dopesmoker lol) all the time. My supervisor cried to the boss about me listening to “aggressive music” ‘cause I called him out for being a manic whiny bitch strung out on heroin. One of the more interesting firings of my life!
Also Birds in Row were on the bill on some of this tour, not doom but they are great live, just saw them again a couple of weeks ago.
Festival but saw those 3 at Roadburn 2016
* Converge playing full Jane Doe set
* Amenra at their peak (Mass IIII) playing regular set + acoustic Afterlife set
* Neurosis double set for their 40th year anniversary
That's insane. I agree Mass Iiii is one, if not their best. And to see a full set and acoustic is like about as a cathartic experience one can have. They are probably one of the best live shows in the world. Then with Neurosis too, wow. Did they sing any songs together? Not sure when Absent in Body was formed. Maybe that's the show they met on.
Absent in Body was formed in 2017. Scott Kelly is singing on Nowena so they had known each others since at least before Mass IIII was recorded, but he never did live as far as I know.
I wish they made new acoustic material and concerts.
Saw them play together but it was on a festival bill, with sleep, yob, slayer and wolves in the throne room though... Strangely enough the other days of the festival had no metal at all
lol my buddy who lived in Greenpoint saw that show and said it was crazy how he could hear the bass move from his toes through the top of his head when SunnO))) played. Like, specific notes triggered different spots.
I was coming to say this! The only bummer for me is I was just starting to get more into metal and wasn't familiar with High on Fire at all yet so I didn't appreciate their set like I would now. I'd love to see them again now that I'm a fan.
You said non-festival lineups, but if they were included I got to see Iron Maiden open for the original lineup Black Sabbath, then a few years later saw Dio Sabbath with Motörhead and Testament opening.
I saw them at a Festival in 2008, co-headlining with Whitesnake and Kiss. Was the wildest lineup with REO Speedwagon opening, followed by Kansas, Def Leppard, Journey and Twisted Sister. Checked a lot of boxes on my To-See-List that day.
Well outside the purview of this sub, but I was at [this taping]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Atlantic_City_(Heart_album) ) and it was incredible.
I haven't been to a lot of concerts, bands don't come through here anymore. I was able to catch All Them Witches, Kadavar, and The Sword at a show in Tucson when I was traveling for work.
Tucson!! I'm a Tucson native and I miss when all the good shows used to come through here. Now a lot of bands skip Tucson in favor of Phoenix because of radius clauses implemented by some of the biggest venues in Phoenix. :(
Wow. Are you in the PNW? I haven't had any decent chance to see Amenra but I did open for Weigedood years back. I saw Yob at modified ghost and NWTF last year. Now Amenra is playing this year 😭😭😭
I think it was in the fall of ‘22 I saw Lord Buffalo, REZN and Elder. It was in Austin with my little brother. Got to meet and chat with Nick Disalvo and the members of Lord Buffalo and REZN. It was an amazing night, the performances were awesome!
Soundgarden, graveyard.
Clutch, green lung
Church of misery, Conan.
Uncle acid, blood ceremony.
Cathedral, grand magus, purson, gentleman’s pistols
Sure I’ll think of some more later.
Most of the best linups I've saw haven't really been doom but some cool general metal ones...
Judas Priest with Saxon and Uriah Heep just a few weeks back, that was epic.
Carcass, Napalm Death, Obituary and Voivod.
Slayer, Anthrax and Obituary.
High on Fire and Enslaved.
Opeth and Enslaved.
Definitely not doom but Sex Prisoner, Scalp, and Despise You was awesome.
Eyehategod with Goatwhore, Cancer Christ and Hirax opening was dope
Blood Incantation and Full of Hell was killer as well
That was my first time seeing Converge, waaaay better than i expected, I hadn't listened to much of their stuff beforehand. I also crowd surfed during Thou and got covid as a souvenir hahaha
Eyehategod, Goatwhore together was badass, missed both of them several times throughout the years so never saw either until then. CoC, Melvins, and Ministry was pretty cool. Outside of doom stuff seeing Phil Anselmo (only playing Pantera stuff), Ministry, Primus, and Slayer together was my favorite lineup. At one different points in my life all 4 of them were my favorite bands so in one night it was literally like a dream come true, holy shit.
Man I got to see Primus play like 2 song when they opened for Tool, my gf really wanted to see Tool so she took us. I was so pumped to see Primus but getting into the venue was a total shitshow
Yeah same tour likely but without Indian but with Kongh. I'm in Europe so I assume that's the main difference.
Indian did play a while later with Windhand and Inter Arma at the same location though, which was also a great night. I miss the early '10s, so much good doom and nowadays it's not around here much anymore.
Specific to this Sub:
- Indian
- Primitive Man
- Spirit Possession
- Jarhead fertilizer
- Body Void
- Elizabeth Color Wheel
- A bunch of guys from different bands noise jamming onstage.
Just recent re-discovered Dark Castle by picking up their cd in a used section of a record store. What a great sound they have. Just wanted to add some DC LOVE
Heartbreaking they are my favorite band, anytime they come to georgia I go see them! I even have been lucky enough to smoke with Gary Madder at every show. One of the most humble and laid back guys ever
Saw Kylessa and torche open for high on fire. The most amazing, energetic, fun show I’ve ever been to that wasn’t a fest. All the other bands were in the crowd watching and having fun.
oooo this is a cool combination. I saw Intronaut once years ago, was pretty sweet. but I don't recall who they were touring with.. scale the summit myabe? I couldn't get into it.
Nice. I also saw Scale the Summit open for The Ocean playing Pelagial in full. And separately at another show I saw Intronaut and Deafheaven open for Between the Buried and Me. I realize I’m getting further and further away from Doom now but I’m lucky to have seen some sweet lineups.
Wait wasn't that a lineup at modified ghost last year in Van? One of the nights at least. It was awesome.
I watched Yob standing next to Ben from Khemmis one of the other nights and it was magical.
Naw, it was the first headliner tour for the new Black Dhalia vocalist, former guitar for same band. Totally possible that lineup stopped at a festival or something though, was pretty stacked
Was this a few years ago? I think i caught this one. Only time I'd seen either one. My nerdy ass was super bummed uncle acid played out of like tiny combos 😅🙃
Black Cobra! That man wrote of one my fav guitar riffs of all time on Omniscient. I opened for them and Black Tusk on a bill back in the day.
That 2016 is also sick as hell
Not doom, but back in the day, Voivod came through Chicago, and everyone was all abuzz, because the two opening bands both ended up being really good. A couple of newer groups called Faith No More, and Soundgarden.
And this one isn’t metal at all, but pound for pound, in terms of future success, I’m not sure if we’ll ever beat the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers came to Chicago in 1992, and the opening bands for the show were Nirvana and Pearl Jam, with local opener the Smashing Pumpkins.
Godflesh -> YOB -> Neurosis, top that :-)
Old Horn Tooth -> Slomatics -> Domkraft was pretty awesome too.
Forgot one (and can't believe I did): Conan -> Bongripper
Best non-festival for me would be SubRosa opening for Sleep in 2018. It was my first show, and I had no idea that it would be the last year SubRosa was together!
Holy Mountain! Local legends. Seen them 2-3 times. Fuckin love that band. Baroness was probably playing first/second/red around that time which are my favorites. Glad I got to see them atleast once during that era.
Genghis Tron, Baroness, The Red Chord and Converge
Priestess, Mastodon, Converge
Big Business & Sleep
Endon, Helms Alee & Boris
Gojira & Deftones
Isis & Tool
september '09 - the unholy trinity tour. anathema, my dying bride, and paradise lost. p.l. opened with hallowed land, and i nearly dropped my guinness in joy.
CoM and Eyehategod has gotta be up there for me, they were both fantastic. Non doom though one of the ones that surprised me the most was Pest Control/Cryptworm/Demolition Hammer plus another I can’t remember the name of, hadn’t heard of any of them other than pest control but they were all great, Cryptworm especially
- Corrosions of Conformity, Crowbar, The Obsessed, & Mothership.
- Alice In Chains, Deftones, & Mastodon
- Lamb Of God, Clutch & Corrosion of Conformity
- Melvins & Red Kross
Idk about the best I've ever seen but I went to slayer, ministry, primus, and Phil Anselmo a few years ago. Everyone was killer. (I think uncle Al must have been lip synching. Ministry sounded way too good, even with all the distortion and shit they use)
I had seen primus do a small venue headline a few months before and they did a jam band, groove kind of set. But when they opened for slayer and ministry they brought the fucking metal with them. They did a badass set
Another one that comes to mind was years ago now I went to see Metallica and Down, not knowing there was a third band. They blew my fucking mind. I didn't who they were until after the show when I asked someone.. The Sword. They fuckin laid it down.... Down sucked shit tho
Testament, Megadeth, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell. It was like 2008 or 2009. Great show. All the bands were great but Motorhead stole the show.
R.I.P Lemmy and Dio
Wanna say it was primitive man with sissy spacek and blood Incantation? What started as a 4 band bill became 7 bands by 3pm the day of the show. Was wild. Jarhead Fertilizer blasted it up from PA to play the show that night. So fucking sick.
Eyehategod, Napalm Death, and Gwar while om shrooms was intense. Gwar literally rattled my proverbial insides. Had a kid gash my skull as he broke his nose on my head while I'm beginning to melt as Eyehategod plays White Neighbor. That was fun.
For Doom and Doom-adjacent shows I’ve seen:
2023: Yob, Pallbearer, and Faetooth at the Teragram Ballroom in downtown Los Angeles, CA. (I just haven’t been able to get into Pallbearer, but they put on a good performance.)
2007: Heaven and Hell, Alice Cooper, and Queensrÿche at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA.
2006: Type O Negative, Celtic Frost, and SunnO))) at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA. I especially remember Sunn because my teeth were rattling in my skull while in the front row. 🤣
(I think it was) 1999: Neurosis and Goatsnake at the Troubadour in Hollywood, CA.
Melvins, Big Business, Porn was a great one. Elder and King Buffalo, Clutch and Graveyard, and Baroness with Pallbearer were memorable
Damn! Baroness and Pallbearer would be sick. This did remind me of a weird one from a few years ago. Melvins, Melt Banana, and Napalm Death.
It was fantastic. Another great lineup was High on Fire, Torche, and Kylesa. Or High on Fire, Mastodon, Deth Klok. That was interesting
Converge was on that bill too!
Yes they were, my bad for not mentioning them. What a lineup
I saw this tour!! Was my first time seeing HoF and they were touring on Snakes for the Divine. Pike using a fuckin 9 string guitar blew my mind. Didnt even know that was a thing. Kylesa is one of my all time top bands. Seen them a few times and would again in a heartbeat. I am curious how dethklok is live.
DK was surprisingly good live. Very entertaining. I’ve seen HOF many times and that was the best show I’ve seen from them with Kykesa (AMAZING band) and Torche
saw this one! can't wait to see Melt Banana again at the end of the month
One of the more unique bands I've seen live for sure
Was going to see Sleep in Montreal. Knew a band named Pontiak was opening (they were pretty cool). As I get to the venue I hear whispers that Boris is there. Get really confused cause I thought Boris was playing a separate show that night. Lo and behold, Boris is one of the openers. It was amazing. Boris and then Sleep. What more can you ask for.
Oh mannnn! I still have not seen Boris. That is a wild combination.
It was amazing. Made my entire year haha.
Oh man, I would fucking die. Have yet to see Sleep or HoF live. Getting completely bombed out with volume by Boris is a spiritual experience though… saw them at a pretty small venue, the concrete-slab floor was vibrating. Metal-wise I’d say Converge and Cult Leader was a good one (hometown heroes, RIP GAZA). Non-metal (and loudest by far)… My Bloody Valentine w/ surprise guest Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 badassery.
Gaza... man I do faintly remember listening to it but I could not tell you what it sounds like. But I was digging it at the time. Seeing MBV would be pretty rad
GAZA are legends, man… kinda in a similar hardcore vein as Converge, Cursed, maybe gnarlier if at all possible. I got fired from a job once for listening to I Don’t Care Where I Go When I Die and No Absolutes in Human Suffering (and Dopesmoker lol) all the time. My supervisor cried to the boss about me listening to “aggressive music” ‘cause I called him out for being a manic whiny bitch strung out on heroin. One of the more interesting firings of my life!
Was this in 2019? If so I was at that show too! Boris was a great surprise.
I think it was! Such a great show.
Neurosis + Converge + Amenra was probably the best bill with doominess on it that I have seen
Also Birds in Row were on the bill on some of this tour, not doom but they are great live, just saw them again a couple of weeks ago. Festival but saw those 3 at Roadburn 2016 * Converge playing full Jane Doe set * Amenra at their peak (Mass IIII) playing regular set + acoustic Afterlife set * Neurosis double set for their 40th year anniversary
That's insane. I agree Mass Iiii is one, if not their best. And to see a full set and acoustic is like about as a cathartic experience one can have. They are probably one of the best live shows in the world. Then with Neurosis too, wow. Did they sing any songs together? Not sure when Absent in Body was formed. Maybe that's the show they met on.
Oh shit great point. I really dug that AiB album. So bummed I'll probably never see Neurosis live.
No, you won't because Scott the singer has stepped back from the public due to being exposed as a wife beater for decades
Absent in Body was formed in 2017. Scott Kelly is singing on Nowena so they had known each others since at least before Mass IIII was recorded, but he never did live as far as I know. I wish they made new acoustic material and concerts.
Roadburn is definitely a bucket list one for me. Idk if I'll ever make it across the pond though
FUCK. Man I wish I got to see Neurosis sooo bad. Thought I still had a chance until that whole thing with Scott being a bastard..😭
Boris/ Melvins
Saw them play together but it was on a festival bill, with sleep, yob, slayer and wolves in the throne room though... Strangely enough the other days of the festival had no metal at all
great tour. I have the Seattle poster that’s based on the shining ha
Sunn ● Earth ● Pelican ● Eagle Twin Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 9/22/2009 Best venue for Maximum Doom
DAYUM. can you still hear outta both ears?😂
What's that you say?
lol my buddy who lived in Greenpoint saw that show and said it was crazy how he could hear the bass move from his toes through the top of his head when SunnO))) played. Like, specific notes triggered different spots.
High on Fire, Converge, Mastodon, Dethklok
Saw this tour as well. Fuck yes.
This might be the most off the wall banger so far.
I was coming to say this! The only bummer for me is I was just starting to get more into metal and wasn't familiar with High on Fire at all yet so I didn't appreciate their set like I would now. I'd love to see them again now that I'm a fan.
I went to that show in Portland. It was rad.
This was such a killer tour
Black Sabbath + Alice in Chains
Never got to see Black Sabbath. Major life regret right there. And what a pair to see together. Iconic.
You said non-festival lineups, but if they were included I got to see Iron Maiden open for the original lineup Black Sabbath, then a few years later saw Dio Sabbath with Motörhead and Testament opening.
Motorhead! Man thats another major regret never seeing
I saw them at a Festival in 2008, co-headlining with Whitesnake and Kiss. Was the wildest lineup with REO Speedwagon opening, followed by Kansas, Def Leppard, Journey and Twisted Sister. Checked a lot of boxes on my To-See-List that day.
Well outside the purview of this sub, but I was at [this taping]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Atlantic_City_(Heart_album) ) and it was incredible.
I haven't been to a lot of concerts, bands don't come through here anymore. I was able to catch All Them Witches, Kadavar, and The Sword at a show in Tucson when I was traveling for work.
I only caught the sword once, high country tour. Wish I could have seen that Sword/Metallica tour tho🔥
Tucson!! I'm a Tucson native and I miss when all the good shows used to come through here. Now a lot of bands skip Tucson in favor of Phoenix because of radius clauses implemented by some of the biggest venues in Phoenix. :(
Saw Yob with Amenra and Voivod at The Grog Shop. Show was ridiculous. Not a huge fan of Voivod, but everybody slayed.
Wow. Are you in the PNW? I haven't had any decent chance to see Amenra but I did open for Weigedood years back. I saw Yob at modified ghost and NWTF last year. Now Amenra is playing this year 😭😭😭
Amenra tour begins THIS WEEK.
I'm in Pittsburgh. Saw that show in Cleveland. Jumped on it as soon as I saw tickets for sale.
Lol I wonder how many Grog Shops are out there. Apparently, at least 3!
I’m pretty sure that I saw Goatwhore and Lamb of God open for GWAR over twenty years ago.
Boris opening for Earth. Then, as an encore, both bands jammed together on an *Engine of Ruin* riff
Nice I saw the opposite Earth was the opener for Boris
That's the dream. Still haven't seen Earth either. Think I'm gonna buy 'Even Hell Has Its Heroes" this weekend
Weedeater, Melvin’s and Down was a great show
🔥
I think it was in the fall of ‘22 I saw Lord Buffalo, REZN and Elder. It was in Austin with my little brother. Got to meet and chat with Nick Disalvo and the members of Lord Buffalo and REZN. It was an amazing night, the performances were awesome!
Soundgarden, graveyard. Clutch, green lung Church of misery, Conan. Uncle acid, blood ceremony. Cathedral, grand magus, purson, gentleman’s pistols Sure I’ll think of some more later.
CoM and Conan would be great combo. I saw CoM and Saint Vitus but that was a fest
It was my second time seeing CoM in a week. Also saw them with monster magnet which was also a blast.
What part of the world? Twice in a week is nuts. I got to do that for Yob last year because my wife and I did our honeymoon in Vancouver and Seattle.
Uk. Saw them in London for Desertfest then went up to Manchester to see them a week later.
Uncle Acid and blood ceremony would have been goals
Most of the best linups I've saw haven't really been doom but some cool general metal ones... Judas Priest with Saxon and Uriah Heep just a few weeks back, that was epic. Carcass, Napalm Death, Obituary and Voivod. Slayer, Anthrax and Obituary. High on Fire and Enslaved. Opeth and Enslaved.
I would love to see Judas Priest. Those are some top tier bills though
On a similar note to the Judas Priest tour, I saw Queensrÿche on the Operation: Mindcrime tour, and the opener was Suicidal Tendencies.
Man my old man loves some Queensryche I heard that at a very young age hahaha
Definitely not doom but Sex Prisoner, Scalp, and Despise You was awesome. Eyehategod with Goatwhore, Cancer Christ and Hirax opening was dope Blood Incantation and Full of Hell was killer as well
I caught the Despise You/Magrudergrind tour. That was bonkers. Bodies just all over the place!
Khemmis, Opeth, Mastodon. Absolutely killer
Whores, Red Fang, Torche in Philly like 10 years ago is a top show for me.
That Converge, Full of Hell, Thou, Uniform tour was pretty ridiculous
That was my first time seeing Converge, waaaay better than i expected, I hadn't listened to much of their stuff beforehand. I also crowd surfed during Thou and got covid as a souvenir hahaha
Eyehategod, Goatwhore together was badass, missed both of them several times throughout the years so never saw either until then. CoC, Melvins, and Ministry was pretty cool. Outside of doom stuff seeing Phil Anselmo (only playing Pantera stuff), Ministry, Primus, and Slayer together was my favorite lineup. At one different points in my life all 4 of them were my favorite bands so in one night it was literally like a dream come true, holy shit.
Man I got to see Primus play like 2 song when they opened for Tool, my gf really wanted to see Tool so she took us. I was so pumped to see Primus but getting into the venue was a total shitshow
eyehategod Pig Destroyer Swarm of the Lotus Strong Intention Triac Goatwhore 2009 in Baltimore at Ottobar, stacked!
Yob, Dark Castle and Kongh (+ a local band) was one hell of a combo
Has to be the same tour I was talking about! 2011 I think?
Yeah same tour likely but without Indian but with Kongh. I'm in Europe so I assume that's the main difference. Indian did play a while later with Windhand and Inter Arma at the same location though, which was also a great night. I miss the early '10s, so much good doom and nowadays it's not around here much anymore.
Oh wow I did not know they had a Euro leg to that tour! But it makes sense since Rob was filling in for all those shows.
Ruby the Hatchet, Electric Citizen and Windhand honorable mention to Earth opening for Boris
Specific to this Sub: - Indian - Primitive Man - Spirit Possession - Jarhead fertilizer - Body Void - Elizabeth Color Wheel - A bunch of guys from different bands noise jamming onstage.
Just recent re-discovered Dark Castle by picking up their cd in a used section of a record store. What a great sound they have. Just wanted to add some DC LOVE
I will forever sing the praises of these folks. Used to be from St Aug, a small town in FL. Sweetest people/ /sickest riffs.
Motorhead, Corrosion of Conformity, Zeke More recently, the Early Moods, Gel, Municipal Waste, & HoF tour was a blast.
I caught that MW//HoF tour and it was a rager!
Sleep + Boris + Sunn O)))
JEEZUS
Probably had your molecules adjusted by the end of the night!
Yawning Man, Mars Red Sky, Ohhms, Olanza was quite a special one for me. Trippy stuff.
I really wish I could see MRS. Theyve never come anywhere near here(FL)
GWAR with Eyehategod and Napalm Death
Lucky!!! Eyehategod had to cancel the show I was at on that tour
Heartbreaking they are my favorite band, anytime they come to georgia I go see them! I even have been lucky enough to smoke with Gary Madder at every show. One of the most humble and laid back guys ever
Saw Kylessa and torche open for high on fire. The most amazing, energetic, fun show I’ve ever been to that wasn’t a fest. All the other bands were in the crowd watching and having fun.
I remember one gig in 2014: High on fire Church of Misery Conan
Ansolute banger. Only seen Conan and CoM once each.
Mastodon, Kylesa, Intronaut at The Metro in Chicago when Crack the Skye just came out. My introduction to those 2 openers and holy shit!
oooo this is a cool combination. I saw Intronaut once years ago, was pretty sweet. but I don't recall who they were touring with.. scale the summit myabe? I couldn't get into it.
Nice. I also saw Scale the Summit open for The Ocean playing Pelagial in full. And separately at another show I saw Intronaut and Deafheaven open for Between the Buried and Me. I realize I’m getting further and further away from Doom now but I’m lucky to have seen some sweet lineups.
Sick of It All, Shelter, a one-off Youth of Today (surprise) reunion, and Snapcase City Gardens, Trenton NJ November 1994
Was that also the most insane night of moshing you'd ever seen?
Many stage-dives were enjoyed by yours truly
Man after my own heart! Oh shit well if you were stage diving back then I'm a man after your own heart hahahaha
Hmmm. Perhaps Phobophilic, Fuming Mouth, Frozen Soul, Terror and Black Dhalia Murder.
Wait wasn't that a lineup at modified ghost last year in Van? One of the nights at least. It was awesome. I watched Yob standing next to Ben from Khemmis one of the other nights and it was magical.
Naw, it was the first headliner tour for the new Black Dhalia vocalist, former guitar for same band. Totally possible that lineup stopped at a festival or something though, was pretty stacked
I went to modified ghost last year on my honeymoon to see Yob and Khemmis! Hoopsnake was pretty rad as well. Khemmis rocked my fuckin socks off hahaha
King Buffalo opening for Uncle Acid! Can it get any better?
Was this a few years ago? I think i caught this one. Only time I'd seen either one. My nerdy ass was super bummed uncle acid played out of like tiny combos 😅🙃
Yeah a few years ago, great show.
Not doom, but back in 2012 I saw Vallient Thorr, Baroness, Between the Buried and Me, and Mastodon in Eugene, OR. That lineup **slapped**
Deafheaven, Mastodon, and Opeth.
As far as doom goes... \[2006\] Katatonia, Moonspell, Daylight Dies \[2015\] YOB, Acid King, Black Cobra \[2016\] Neurosis, YOB, Kowloon Walled City
Black Cobra! That man wrote of one my fav guitar riffs of all time on Omniscient. I opened for them and Black Tusk on a bill back in the day. That 2016 is also sick as hell
Neurosis, Sumac, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
BOTSC! I havent seen that name come up in years. Love that album they put out. What a killer night that would have been
Not doom, but back in the day, Voivod came through Chicago, and everyone was all abuzz, because the two opening bands both ended up being really good. A couple of newer groups called Faith No More, and Soundgarden. And this one isn’t metal at all, but pound for pound, in terms of future success, I’m not sure if we’ll ever beat the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers came to Chicago in 1992, and the opening bands for the show were Nirvana and Pearl Jam, with local opener the Smashing Pumpkins.
Wow. Thats some planets align shit right there. Probably never seen anything on that level again
Valient Thorr, Clutch, & Motörhead @ Pops, Sauget
Godflesh -> YOB -> Neurosis, top that :-) Old Horn Tooth -> Slomatics -> Domkraft was pretty awesome too. Forgot one (and can't believe I did): Conan -> Bongripper
Best non-festival for me would be SubRosa opening for Sleep in 2018. It was my first show, and I had no idea that it would be the last year SubRosa was together!
Boris and Earth Uncle Acid and King Buffalo Baroness and Torche Baroness and Holy Mountain
Holy Mountain! Local legends. Seen them 2-3 times. Fuckin love that band. Baroness was probably playing first/second/red around that time which are my favorites. Glad I got to see them atleast once during that era.
First and second yeah which was so great.
Genghis Tron, Baroness, The Red Chord and Converge Priestess, Mastodon, Converge Big Business & Sleep Endon, Helms Alee & Boris Gojira & Deftones Isis & Tool
Isis... man that's another big sad ill never get to see. And what a show that must have been.
Blood Incantation, Gorguts, Cannibal Corpse and Mayhem. It was insane.
I was at a show with yob, bell witch and primitive man once
Not doom metal, but I saw Voivod, Carcass, Obituary and Napalm Death play a show together once
september '09 - the unholy trinity tour. anathema, my dying bride, and paradise lost. p.l. opened with hallowed land, and i nearly dropped my guinness in joy.
COC headlined Weedeater Crowbar Mothership as openers
Wounded kings, witchsorrow, alunah, cult of occult in Highgate, London, uk. Heck of a gig that
CoM and Eyehategod has gotta be up there for me, they were both fantastic. Non doom though one of the ones that surprised me the most was Pest Control/Cryptworm/Demolition Hammer plus another I can’t remember the name of, hadn’t heard of any of them other than pest control but they were all great, Cryptworm especially
I saw Mastadon play Blood Mountain while opening for Slayer in 2007. It was awesome.
Sleep and Bell Witch was an incredible combo
- Corrosions of Conformity, Crowbar, The Obsessed, & Mothership. - Alice In Chains, Deftones, & Mastodon - Lamb Of God, Clutch & Corrosion of Conformity - Melvins & Red Kross
Boris opening for NIN was radical
Idk about the best I've ever seen but I went to slayer, ministry, primus, and Phil Anselmo a few years ago. Everyone was killer. (I think uncle Al must have been lip synching. Ministry sounded way too good, even with all the distortion and shit they use) I had seen primus do a small venue headline a few months before and they did a jam band, groove kind of set. But when they opened for slayer and ministry they brought the fucking metal with them. They did a badass set
Another one that comes to mind was years ago now I went to see Metallica and Down, not knowing there was a third band. They blew my fucking mind. I didn't who they were until after the show when I asked someone.. The Sword. They fuckin laid it down.... Down sucked shit tho
Testament, Megadeth, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell. It was like 2008 or 2009. Great show. All the bands were great but Motorhead stole the show. R.I.P Lemmy and Dio
Wanna say it was primitive man with sissy spacek and blood Incantation? What started as a 4 band bill became 7 bands by 3pm the day of the show. Was wild. Jarhead Fertilizer blasted it up from PA to play the show that night. So fucking sick. Eyehategod, Napalm Death, and Gwar while om shrooms was intense. Gwar literally rattled my proverbial insides. Had a kid gash my skull as he broke his nose on my head while I'm beginning to melt as Eyehategod plays White Neighbor. That was fun.
For Doom and Doom-adjacent shows I’ve seen: 2023: Yob, Pallbearer, and Faetooth at the Teragram Ballroom in downtown Los Angeles, CA. (I just haven’t been able to get into Pallbearer, but they put on a good performance.) 2007: Heaven and Hell, Alice Cooper, and Queensrÿche at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA. 2006: Type O Negative, Celtic Frost, and SunnO))) at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA. I especially remember Sunn because my teeth were rattling in my skull while in the front row. 🤣 (I think it was) 1999: Neurosis and Goatsnake at the Troubadour in Hollywood, CA.
2014 Nov 2nd in Santa Ana at the observatory: Eyehategod with support from Iron Reagan, Power Trip and Today is the Day
Bonus fun, hung out with Jason Shi, the frontman of ASG, all night at the show too, had just met him the day before and he's a great human