The Progresja was packed out for Mastodon last night so I didn't fancy jostling about trying to take shots near the front of the stage.
Thankfully, the band had a great stage show with ever-changing, strange shapes on the back screen so this turned out a good gig to watch from the back of the crowd:
Have listened to Mastodon for a few years in passing and have never really been able to make my mind up about them, viewing them as some kind of half Metal-half Prog band.
So last night, I went to see the band out of pure curiosity, and I've got to admit that I enjoyed them more than I expected.
I just sensed that they had far more strings to their bow than I'd previously realised, as I really enjoyed the kind of faint psychaedelic stream that they sometimes fuse into their Metal Prog/Prog Metal kind of music.
My main memory of the night is going to the bar downstairs for a nice Czech beer, and coming back to the gig to see waves of hands responding to 'Show Yourself'.
Was also curious to see Russian Circles last night. Watched the first 2-3 tunes not that far from the front, but just found it too loud, I was genuinely worried about my ears (even with some ear protection).
Still, as expected, the drummer was amazing (like Mastodon, I only know Russian Circles in passing):
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