Photo courtesy of Beartooth
Tours are back, finally! And one of the largest tours this Summer/Fall is Beartooth’s The Below Tour. With shows returning, and just releasing a brand new album “Below”, Beartooth was able to have a proper supporting tour for this hit album.
House Of Blues in Anaheim, California has become a landmark for every bands’ tour. It was definitely a worry how they would hold up during California’s extensive shutdown. Needless to say, they survived, and for their opening night they held a sold out show for Beartooth.
Unfortunately, the show started incredibly early at 630 and I was not able to catch the first opening band, Dragged Under’s, set but was able to see Wage War’s return to the stage.
Wage War did not hesitate to get the circle pit going with their opening song “Stitch” and kept that energy the entire time and even forming a wall of death. They gave fans, for most of them, their first dose of a mosh pit since the lockdown and prepped fans for an amazing headliner to follow.
For the main act of the evening, Beartooth kept the fans going with kicking off the set with their song “Below” off their latest album. In fact, they preformed 7 songs total from their new album “Below”, which I greatly appreciated. For album support tours it often happens where bands usually only play 3-4 songs from that corresponding album and fill the rest of the show with their greatest hits.
Frontman, Caleb Shomo, came out like a man who just pounded 4 energy drinks. His energy level never faltered and his voice carried the entire set, even after two other shows just prior as I know his intensity was just as high for them. The band themselves sounded immaculate with a stage to match their energy. For their encore act, they finished with “The Past Is Dead” and the appropriate “The Last Riff” .
For Beartooth’s return to the stage and opening night kickoff for House Of Blues, Anaheim, they gave fans a 17 song sent with a rejuvenation of life after over a year of no live music.
Setlist
Below
Devestation
Sick Of Me
Fed Up
Dominate
The Lines
Beaten in Lips
Body Bag
Hell of It
Skin
You Never Know
Bad Listener
Disease
In Between
The Past Is Dead
The Last Riff