What a mind-blowingly, fantastic gig this turned out to be!

Good to see at least two other fellow KBers there, Devil, and the other chap who's name I forget.

End up walking aimlessly around Queen Street looking for the Transmission Room, with no sign of the gig at all, find 3 or 4 other groups of confused metal heads, and eventually stumble across the venue. Massive line out the front, a sea (or river at least) of bogans. Awesome, I fight right in.

Walk to the back of the long line, only to stand beside some guy who happens to be wearing the same damn band shirt from the Lamb Of God gig in '07. Damn. 300+ people, and I have to stand next to the guy with the same shirt. Happily chatting away to my metal-brethren, line starts moving. Different sort of metal crowd too, I guess a prog-band that plays 8 stringed guitars, 6 string basses tend to exclude the usual meathead jocks as the music makes you think.

No invasive body search, no angry security guards. What an awesome change.

Walk downstairs (about 5 flights) into the club, awesome underground venue. Close proximity to the stage. Watch a hilarious scene as a barmaid shouts at a guy smoking inside for the third time, jumps up on the bar, shouts "SECURITY", guy promptly drops the ciggie. pulls off his hat, and disappears into the crowd. Genius move. Try recognising the guy with long hair, black shirt, and jeans at a metal gig.

Work our way up to mid-crowd. Support band plays, band seem pretty awesome. Vocals turned down way too low. Hope they're improved for the main act. Play 5 or 6 songs, get the crowd moving.

Guitar techs much around a little, time for the main event. The sound is absolutely perfect, way too much smoke on the stage, can't see the drummer until about the 3rd song.

One of the coolest things about the gig, was watching how people in the crowd were moving to the music, just as I seemed to have a rythum going, I looked at someone nxt to me, who was headbanging or moching to a completely different riff, or beat than I was. That's the awesome thing about Meshuggah, 10 different people hear 10 completely different riffs and beats in their songs. Have a look at the videos below. It's hard to mosh too.

Two girls standing in front of us have an obcession of dancing with their elbows out, purposely running into people and jabbing them. They proceed to run into the same guy at least 15-20 times jabbing him with their elbows for their owen sad amusement before the guy turns around, jumps out the way as the girls ran towards them, and watched them fall to the ground of a heaving pit. Hilarious.

No forced encore. played their music, said goodbye, and left. Quite refreshing to see a band that doesn't plan an 'impromtieu' encore.

Epic gig. Stoked I got to see them live. That's one more off the list.

Check 'em out if you're into things like Early (L.D.50 era) Mudvayne, Dillinger Escape Plan, Tool, The Haunted.