American-hardcore band August Burns Red made a tour-stop in Dallas May 11 as part of the 2010 Homesick tour.
The heat from inside the concert hall scorched your skin as you walked into the Palladium Ballroom. Bodies filled the entire room and the humidity was ripe in the air. Nothing was comfortable about the situation, yet somehow the music managed to pull you in.
The pure brutality of Pennsylvania-natives August Burns Red was the very first thing that made me take notice of this band when they performed with Underoath at The House of Blues in Dallas last December. From the moment I saw the toes of vocalist Jake Luhrs grasp onto his sandles as he tore across the stage, I was fascinated.
In all honesty, an opening band is not supposed to upstage the headliner. Yet, somehow, the ear-splitting vocals and fascinating riffs of August Burns Red stole that show. Fast-forward five months, and there was still not a band on the tour docket that managed to release the passion like August Burns Red, not even the headliners A Day to Remember.
Shredding through fan favorites such as “Meddler,” “Marianas Trench” and “Thirty and Seven” guitarist JB Brubaker and Brent Rambler lifted the bodies of the audience off of the floor as the fervid lyrics danced around the ears of every body in the house.
Ending the evening with two tracks from their 2007 release Messengers, “Up against the ropes” and “Composure,” created one of the largest circle pits I have seen in an indoor venue. As the bodies of the audience crashed into one another as the pounding drums shook the room, August Burns Red committed everything to the drenched and slightly dehydrated crowd leaving everyone thirsty for A Day to Remember.
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