Bands Playing : As I Lay Dying, Between The Buried And Me, Underoath, Blessthefall, Cancer Bats, Architects & War Of Ages.
Show Date : July 17th, 2010
Cool Tour is here ! This lineup helped deem this tour as the must-see hardcore show of the summer. Doors opened at 4pm, but to my surprise there wasn't many people at the venue for doors, but as it got later into the evening the Sound Academy became packed.
This hardcore band is from Arizona with the exception for Mr.Beau Bokan, who is from California and joined the band after Craig Mabbit parted ways with the band back in 2008 half way through one of their tours. They have grown a lot and matured together as a band throughout the years and definitely have not been given the credit that they deserve.
I have seen the band play before when they came here on their headlining tour "The Bangover Tour" back in April, but to see the reaction the crowd gave them as an opener was an experience! Out of all the bands on Cool Tour, Bokan had no problem jumping into the crowd, jumping over the photographers in the photo pit and getting circle pits started. Most of the bands that were opening on this tour had limited their set to just staying on stage and talking to the crowd without any contact interaction, so to see how the crowd went nuts over the Bokan going into the crowd shows how much he likes to get people rallied up. It was nice to see everyone headbanging and having a good time during their set even if they didn't know who Blessthefall was, and that in my opinion is something hard to achieve as most of the time openers only get the response of clapping with no one really rocking out to the music.
Blessthefall has a lot of great tunes such as 'To Hell & Back' and 'Last One Left'. They are different from other hardcore bands because Wrath's screaming compliments Bokan's voice as opposed to some bands that chose to only have mostly screaming go on in their band leaving people to wonder what the song is about / what they are saying. Musically, this band flows together with each part complimenting the other in it's own way which leaves people in awe about what they have just heard. With that being said, this is why they were deemed to be the most underrated band on the tour.
If you haven't had the chance to check out Blessthefall, I suggest that you do so if you enjoy bands such Underoath, As I Lay Dying & Bring Me To The Horizon.
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