[DID NOT ATTEND: October 1, 2021] Dance Gavin Dance / Animals as Leaders / Veil of Maya / Eidola / Wolf & Bear [rescheduled from April 3 then August 27, 2020, Then April 2, 2021]
The whole reason I as thinking about attending this show was to see Animals as Leaders again. They announced on August 27, 2021
“Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be withdrawing ourselves from the Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner Tour. Apologies to any fans who were planning on seeing us on the tour, but we’ll be returning to all these cities on a scheduled headline tour with new music for next year.”
Obviously, I’d much rather see them as headliners, so I’ll blow this entire show off. The final line up appears to be: Dance Gavin Dance, Polyphia, Veil of Maya, Eidola, Wolf & Bear/
This show has been rescheduled one more time–this is now the third date change. Boy I hope October 1 is not too soon.
Over the changes, the lineup has had some minor tweaks.
Now, Issues is out and Eidola is in.
Eidola is a bit more math rock, with some pretty complex rhythms, and soaring high vocals. They seem like they’d be a good change up in the middle of this set.
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This show was rescheduled from April and I recall that when it was rescheduled, some people online joked that it was too soon. I guess they were right.
I still wasn’t sure I was going to go to this show. It depended on what else was going on that week. But i would love to see Animals as leaders again for sure.
I saw Animals as Leaders at TLA last May and I was amazed at the show (including the opening bands), but the crowd was really rowdy and I wound up far back behind a lot of tall guys. I wanted to see them again, so when I saw that they were playing at Franklin Music Hall, I was surprised that they had moved up to such a big venue.
I had no idea that Dance Gavin Dance was the headliner, not Animals as Leaders. In fact, when I later saw a poster for the rescheduled show(s) I thought Dance Gavin Dance was the (admittedly strange) name of the Animals as Leaders tour.
I don’t think I would have gone knowing that Animals as Leaders were one of (the four!) opening acts, but who knows.
So Dance Gavin Dance has been around since 2005 and I’ve never heard of them? Apparently there are eight guys who have already left the band over the years. People are quite divided about them. Maybe I’ll give a record a listen.
Issues is another band I’ve never heard of although they have been around for eight years. They are described as combining metalcore, nu metal, pop and contemporary R&B. Woah. I don’t love the whole clean/unclean vocal thing–small doses are fine, so this might not be the band for me.
Veil of Maya have been around for six years (clearly I don’t follow this genre at all). They are another metalcore band and I think this show might have been exhausting if I stayed for the whole thing.
Royal Coda shares (past and current) members with Dance Gavin Dance and is described as post-hardcore, progressive and math.
For this rescheduled show they were dropped for Wolf & Bear. They play some aggressive progressive metal with growly vocals–a mix of things I like with things I don’t. They also have a clean vocalist who sings some rather poppy sections. They;re pretty interesting.
It would definitely be an exhausting night.
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When the Primus A Tribute to Kings tour was announced, there were two opening bands: The Sword and Wolfmother. I was intrigued by both bands. When the show was rescheduled, The Sword was dropped. Actually, they ended their segment of the tour with the how before ours. Interestngly, we were watching the Gilmore Girls season 7 recently and Wolfmother was mentioned with high praise (nit bas since they’d had one album out). But when the show was pushed back again, Wolfmother had visa issues (they are Australian) and had been replaced by Black Mountain.
