Mudvayne, the monsters of mosh pit madness, bring all of their freaky friends to party with their peeps at Pine Knob.
When the headbanging heroes, Mudvayne, come to town, you can bet your sweet bippy they are going to throw down the most masterful moments of maniacal mosh-pittery that will mesmerize the mere mortal metalhead within thee. This sopping, sloppy Sunday night is no exception, as they have brought The Psychotherapy Sessions Tour for a stop in the mighty mitten. Tonight, they have quite the metal militia in store for these music-loving Michiganders… so let’s see what’s on the ticket… BOOM!!!! Look at this lineup: Butcher Babies, Nonpoint, Gwar, Coal Chamber, and of course, the host of tonight’s metal madness… Mudvayne. We have much to cover, so without further ado… let’s get to some goo!
First to the stage for this sultry symphony are the barbarically bodacious beast, belting babes, the Butcher Babies. The ladies and crew from L.A. can ball with the best of them and hit the stage at fuel throttle. They get our night started with “Red Thunder,” “Monsters Ball,” and the fan favorite “BEAVER CAGE.” Dual frontwoman Heidi Shepherd steps to the mic and says, “What time is it…? I can’t f***ing hear you… It’s killing time baby!” (as they launch into the tune while getting some air launching from their risers!). The BBs oblige their screaming fans and transition perfectly into “Bottom of a Bottle.” With hair swingin’ and some karate kickin’, we see these ladies give the crowd the good smack around they came for… getting right into your guts in the happiest of ways. Fun BB factoid: dual frontwoman Carla Harvey is a Detroit area native, with a degree in Mortuary Science, and a former embalmer and funeral director. Heidi Shepherd is/was a professional athlete and competed in the 2003 junior Olympics in Moscow, Russia before breaking her back training for the pole vault. They finish up the night with “Last December” and close the set out on “Magnolia Boulevard.”
Next in our lineup comes our high-flying heroes of hard-core heavy… five rockers from Fort Lauderdale called Nonpoint. Nonpoint always gives an energetic, aggressive, and “on-point “performance that is full of headbanging adrenaline. Tonight, true to form, the quintet hit the stage with those mad hops and Elias Soriano‘s braids gyrating about like a rabid Medusa. Nonpoint opens with “Victim/Dodge Your Destiny,” “What a Day,” and the axe-grinding mega-hit “A Million Watts.” Guitarist, Rasheed Thomas, Jaysin Zeilstra, and bassist Adam Woloszyn are tight and rock those grooves with surgical precision while drummer Robb Rivera brings that thunder butter that makes that Nonpoint 3-D sound go to 11. They bring their set to a close with a deluxe, long-play version of “Bullet With a Name” (featuring an epic stage leap with all band members getting airtime in unison!). Are you ready for some shock rock, stagecraft… featuring all the body fluids you could imagine? Holding down position three in tonight’s lineup are the metal mutant Muppets, known to melt faces… GWAR. Looking about, you might notice the stage has been covered with plastic and this is for a good reason. Tonight, the crowd will get three flavors of sprayed fluids… red, blue, and of course, green (you’ve got to have green, right?). Blothar The Berserker gets things going as he ramps the crowd up with the face-smashing banger “Hail, Genocide!” “The Cutter” comes next and we see a stage fight break out amongst the band, resulting in a spinning saw device cutting the loser into pieces while spraying the crowd with its first dose of sticky red blood-like substance. GWAR presses on with some of their most iconic hits including “Sick of You,” “Let Us Slay,” and “Berserker Mode.” Tonight, they have even brought a special guest… a Vladimir Putin clone from the ultra-verse. Putin proceeds to get smacked around a bit, before a GWARLY dismemberment (and spraying the crowd with more goo). GWAR wraps up their sloppy set with the AC/DC cover, “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It).”MUDVAYNE
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