Opeth -- Boston, MA -- April 5th, 2012

[electrocute1031]

Ghost was up first, and they sounded great. Seemed like only a few people in the crowd knew who they were before hand. However they got a pretty decent crowd response. For stage set up they had the three "satanic stained glass" backdrops.
Ghost:
Con Clavi Con Dio
Elizabeth
Prime Mover
Death Knell
Satan Prayer
Ritual

Up next was Mastodon. They had some slight technical problems, most notably when they had to restart Crack the Skye due to Brent's guitar going out. Otherwise they sounded spot on. I loved hearing most of the Hunter songs played live, and most of the crowd seemed into it as well. I only heard a couple complaints that they played "too much new stuff":
Black Tongue
Hand Of Stone
Crystal Skull
Capillarian Crest
Dry Bone Valley
Thickening
Octopus Has No Friends
Blasteroid
Stargasm
The Hunter
Crack The Skye
All The Heavy Lifting
Spectrelight
Curl Of The Burl
Bedazzled Fingernails
Aqua Dementia
Blood And Thunder
Creature Lives

After Mastodon a few people cleared out near me, however looking around the theater everyone was sticking around for Opeth. They got the best crowd response of the night, with an Opeth chant when the lights went down. Opeth were great. Mikael's stage banter was great as always, including asking the audience if the band Boston was from Boston, and saying how Sweden won because they have ABBA. I was pleased with the Opeth setlist, I forgot how amazing Deliverance is to end a set with:
The Devil's Orchard
I Feel The Dark
Windowpane
Slither
Burden
The Lines In My Hand
Folklore
The Grand Conjuration
Deliverance

Ghost:9/10
Mastodon:9.5/10
Opeth:9.5/10

[mankvill]

Please only put the headliner in the thread title! <3 thanks!

[slapguitarer]

Originally Posted by electrocute1031

Hand Of Stone
Octopus Has No Friends
Stargasm
The Hunter

Why do I have to miss this?! I'm mainly upset about missing Hand of Stone. That song is killer.

[makethemsuffer12]

So stoked for this show next week in NYC.

[BloodoftheKings]

Originally Posted by mankvill

Please only put the headliner in the thread title! <3 thanks!

They're both the headliner.

[mankvill]

Originally Posted by BloodoftheKings

They're both the headliner.

Whoever plays last of a co-headliner should be the one in the title. Two artists in the title mess it up when it goes into archiving.

[electrocute1031]

Originally Posted by mankvill

Please only put the headliner in the thread title! <3 thanks!

sorry about that. fixed

[electrocute1031]

Originally Posted by mankvill

Please only put the headliner in the thread title! <3 thanks!

sorry about that.

[Pahkmycah]

The crowd response for Opeth was great when they first took the stage, but it seemed to diminish a bit as the show went on, people sitting down here and there. The crowd REALLY woke up once they started with The Grand Conjuration.

[electrocute1031]

Originally Posted by Pahkmycah

The crowd response for Opeth was great when they first took the stage, but it seemed to diminish a bit as the show went on, people sitting down here and there. The crowd REALLY woke up once they started with The Grand Conjuration.

That's true, my girlfriend and I sat down for most of the set, just chilling out listening to the music. I figured some of the people were doing the same thing as us.