A couple of weeks ago, Beartooth embarked on one of their biggest EU & UK tours to date with shows raging through Germany, Austria and France before returning to the UK to kick off the week with 2 shows in a Birmingham, a teaser of what was to come from their enormous Ally Pally headliner on Saturday.
The band played the O2 Academy Birmingham in March last year and decided that once on this tour just wasn’t enough so treated their midlands audience to two incredible nights with an explosive entrance on Monday 21st October.
Opening the night was LANDMVRKS, a French metalcore band with heavy riffs and melodic vocals to cleanse the palette with something fresh and unlike any other band on the scene right now. It was a very warm welcome and set the tone for the rest of the evening flawlessly.
Polaris shortly followed, owning the room as if it was their own, nothing new for the band set to play Rock Am Ring and Knotfest in 2025 – huge shows they are nothing short of perfect for. Pits stormed on from beginning to end, finishing on ‘The Remedy’; a crowd favourite to make even the fussiest of listeners a fan.
It wasn’t long until the tone changed and Beartooth were set to enter the room; a short video playing set tensions high and hyped up the crowd to new levels. “The Surface” off their latest album with the same name lit the fuse and chaos broke loose.
Jumping into the crowd a few songs later for usual set closer “The Final Riff”, Caleb slowed things down with “Look The Other Way” giving everyone chance to take in the experience and know that despite everything else they may be struggling with they were in a place where none of that mattered and for an hour and a half they could enjoy what they love with thousands of others doing the same.
Much to everyone’s delight, an acoustic cover of “Mr Brightside” followed – a true night out classic for everyone. Returning to the stage, the band played fan favourites off their older albums showing how far they have come, giving the crowd one final chance to let all hell break loose in the pits – a challenge no one hesitated to take on.
With a few more European shows left after a monumental goodbye to the UK for this run it’s exciting to see what lies ahead for the band, hopefully with a return to the UK not far on the horizon.
Words + photography by Kcorra Mia
