[DID NOT ATTEND: May 5, 2025] Arch Enemy / Fit for an Autopsy / BAEST / Thrown Into Exile
I saw Arch Enemy open for Behemoth back in 2022. I didn’t really know them before hand, but I enjoyed their set quite a lot. And I took a photo of singer Alissa White-Gluz that is one of my favorite concert photos ever.
I don’t think I really had any interest in the show, especially since I didn’t know any of the other three bands. But the fact that they were playing at TLA held my interest for a little while at least.
Fit for an Autopsy is a band I’ve been aware of for a while, but I had never listened to them. I hate to say they are another band with a growly singer, but they are. The good thing is that you can actually understand what he says (it’s pretty dark, duh). And they do have some really catchy parts in their songs. They’d probably be enjoyable live.
I had not heard of Baest who is a Danish death metal band formed in 2015. I like that their name was initially spelled Bæst, the Danish word for “beast” or “brute.” That makes me happier than thinking they just wanted to spell Beast weirdly.
They have a pretty classic European metal guitar sound with a really deep growly vocalist. They’re more punishing than Fit for an Autopsy by my reckoning.
Thrown into Exile is a band from L.A. They’ve been around forever, although I’d never heard of them. The singer has a kind of barking style that I don’t really like.
This would have been an exhausting night of metal.
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