words and photos by JP Davis
On Saturday at The Waiting Room, Between The Buried And Me performed their 72-minute 2012 epic, The Parallax II: Future Sequence and entirety riddled the venue.
In front of the jean-vested crust punks and beer-toting prog rock junkies, the stage was dressed with lights, and ethereal planetary projections shown behind the band. As the prog metal began to ramp up, the audience traveled into the epic that is The Parallax II.
Between the Buried and Me
The mood was quickly altered as San Francisco black metal act, Deafheaven, took the stage. The group pulsed swiftly through blast beats and tremolo-style curtains of electric noise. Vocalist, George Clarke, fell into the crowds hands; a lifeless, Christ-like figure. The act was rejoiceful.
Deafheaven
Intronaut stormed the stage with bass heavy rhythmic encapsulation. Banging out polyrhythms and time signature changes in what seemed like a random succession. The instrumental group performed in an utterly technical and mathematical manner, putting forth jazzy instrumentals and radiating musical intelligence.
Intronaut
Canadian progressive metal group The Kindred opened Saturday’s show. They were absent their vocalist due to illness, but that did not stop the musicality of bare instrumentals from melting the faces and busting the guts of those at the sold-out show.
The Kindred
JP Davis is a first time Hear Nebraska contributor. Reach him through Chance Solem-Pfeifer at chancesp@hearnebraska.org.