THE FILLMORE - Minneapolis, MN
August 27, 2021
Review by Nick - Pictures by Brett
My (Nick) last show was BEARTOOTH with A DAY TO REMEMBER and I PREVAIL at The Armory in Minneapolis back in October 2019 so it only seemed fitting that my first show back was BEARTOOTH at The Fillmore in Minneapolis 22 months later. I've been excited to finally see this venue as the shows I was going to all got scrapped because of COVID. When we got closer to the date and we knew the show was happening Brett and I had to go and check it out.
BEARTOOTH came out swinging with "Below" and "Devastation" from their impressive new album Below and the sold out crowd was amped up right along with the band. Followed up quickly with "Hated" and "Sick of Me", those would surprisingly be the only two songs from the Aggressive album all night. Then came some standouts from the new album that went off just as one would expect with "Dominate" and "Hell of It" getting the pits swirling. The crowd sang along loudly to "Skin" from the new album just as much as they did when "Bad Listener," "Disease" and "In Between" ended the main set.
BEARTOOTH really up'd their game with the visuals for this tour using visuals from their Below Livestream and incorporating them in to this tour along with their already impressive light show that they've had the last couple tours. This is a band charging for their place at the front of the pack. The band was tight and had no rust to shake off from the COVID downtime. Beartooth has got the songs and now they got the visuals. Already a festival standout, you give this band some pyro and they'll be taking over arenas.
Overall, 8 of the 12 songs from Below showed up in the set for this tour and every single one was a welcomed addition from the frenzied crowd. I don't know who was more happy to be there, the band or the fans. Beartooth could have easily played another 30 minutes and the crowd wouldn't have let up. But hey, you gotta leave them begging for more for the next tour right?
WAGE WAR came out to raging start with Stephen's impressive pounding of the drums on "Stitch". I'm kinda surprised his drums didn't fall apart. That's a way to start off a set! The back and forth between Briton's vocals and Cody's melodic vocals paired well with Beartooth giving them and a great audience to be in front of if they weren't already aware of Wage War. The crowd was fully engaged and enjoying every moment of their 40 minute set singing along with every melodic part of the songs. Even the newly released "Circle the Drain" got a nice pop from the crowd who is clearly excited about their new album Manic coming out October 1! Keep an eye on Wage War, if this performance was any indication you'll be seeing a lot more from this Florida band.
See more of Brett's pictures from BEARTOOTH and WAGE WAR at THE FILLMORE in MINNEAPOLIS here!
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