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Crobot opening for Black Label Society

 

at The Institute, Birmingham

by Daniel King - 12 February 2015

Opening up on a tour that you look slightly out of place on must be a daunting experience. Having never done it myself I'm not really in a great position to comment, but it seems logical. The comfort of your own fanbase is gone and you don't even have the knowledge that the band you're opening for is of the same genre. If that sentence is even remotely true then quite clearly Crobot didn't get that memo. On a night when they were opening for Black Label Society they came out all guns blazing.

Around 1500 people turned out to see them and to say they blew them away would be an understatement. Having loved them in Coventry a few months ago, it was amazing to see how much they stepped up their performance when confronted by more than 60/70 people and a stage that they could actually fit on. The energy on show was infectious and a real reward for the masses that turned up early on a Thursday night. Bassist Jake Figueroa is all sorts of crazy, coming across like Metallica's Rob Trujillo on some form of hallucingenic drug. Frontman Brandon Yeagley is part of a relatively small club that manages to not only replicate the highs and lows that he hits on record but also improve on it whilst also being being mesmerising on stage, at times echoing a hippy Steve Tyler.

Having just the one album to their name so far (an album that obviously had some effect on us here at MNN if our albums of 2014 is anything to go by) means the crowd pretty much know the entire set. The party starts with The Legend Of The Spaceborne Killer and  
the crowd was captivated from there.

 

The opening notes on Skull Of Geronimo were even more powerful than they are on their debut album and you really get the feeling that they are doing exactly what they want to be doing in their careers. Closing on Fly On The Wall seemed a strange choice, not as pacey and crowd pleasing as many of the tracks they played, but that is merely a sidenote on another fantastic performance by the Pennsylvanian four piece.

 

Another classy performance from the lads that shows they are serious about taking their place in the rock community. Is there anywhere better to lay that claim than in front of Zakk Wylde? People seem to hang off his every word, so lets hope he has as many good things to say about Crobot as we do!

Crobot's setlist from The Institute:

- The Legend Of The Spaceborne Killer

- Cloud Spiller

- Skull Of Geronimo

- The Necromancer

- Le Mano De Lucifer

- Night Of The Sacrifice

- Chupacabra

- Queen Of The Light

- Fly On The Wall

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