I went to a gig to see Between the Buried and Me. Bleeding Through were headlining..... or maybe it was a co-headlined tour? Either way, Bleeding Through were playing last and once BTBaM finished I was pretty much gonna leave without seeing em (I'd gone through my Bleeding Through phase many moons before and got over em long enough ago). My mate is was there with wasn't too keen on seeing em either but he was drunk and I wasn't (driving that night) so we somehow got stuck there long enough to see them start their set....
Cue me ending up up the front of the pit and having a good old mosh to one of the best and most energetic live sets I've seen in my life. Even though I knew some of the songs were pretty cliched, they just fucking WORKED live. They were tight as a motherfucker too and even Brandon (? the vocalist....) seemed to have learned to sing decently enough compared to the early live footage I'd seen. In the end I was fuckin glad I didn't blow them off some gay arse "true metal" pretense.
I don't listen to the other stuff on CD anymore though, but I did check out the new album and found it to be pretty damn enjoyable. I like the mix too, oversaturated guitars and all.