Reviews attached to May 25, 2025
Set 1: O.N.E. > Doom City, Supreme Ascendancy, Antarctica > The Reticent Raconteur > The Lord of Lightning > The Balrog, You Can Be Your Silhouette, Cut Throat Boogie > Daily Blues, Le Risque, The Garden Goblin, Magenta Mountain -> The Grim Reaper, Converge, Superbug, Flamethrower
Perhaps the most simply and downright fun concert they've played so far, and a quintessentially Amby show. The unusual rendition of Supreme Ascendancy, the unleashed harmonica of Cut Throat Boogie (which practically merges with Daily Blues, making you doubt if they were ever two separate songs, despite being more than a decade apart), and, above all, the now-historic The Grim Reaper, born from the bowels of the most psychedelic Magenta Mountain of all time, reaching heights of live intensity worthy of legend. The most powerful and polished Le Risque I've ever heard, and a journey through Antarctica that ends with Balrogs and thunder gods appearing. Do I need to say more?