Like bringing a knife to a gunfight

Just got back from seeing Norma Jean with my roommate Alex. They opened for Underoath in what was a sort of Christian hardcore exposé. Being an atheist, I focus on the lyrical content rather than the actual religious aspect, and Norma Jean are also extremely talented, so the music is always great. The band before Norma Jean was slightly boring, and frankly not my style, but they produced these excellent breakdowns which they constructed with glitches and electroacoustic sound sources. Very good. They were called Innerpartysystem I believe.

Great energy on the outset. You could tell that some people were there ONLY for Norma Jean and as soon as the lights went down they went apeshit. But when the music started, the lead mic went dead - no vocals. Well, shit, that's not good. They fixed it. Soon they were playing all the songs we know and love. Everything was going great until they announced, five songs in, that there was one more song before Underoath. Phooey. All in all we got about 30-40 minutes of Norma Jean excellence, which wasn't nearly enough. That means that Underoath would headline for about an hour and half, almost 2 hours, and frankly, we didn't really go there to see Underoath.

They ended their set on Creating something out of nothing, only to destroy it which tore the fucking place down. "Like bringing a knife to a gunfight..."

After an excellent ending, and after being hit in the face and sternum a couple of times, Alex and I decided that it would only be downhill from here as nothing could excel this four-piece band from Gerogia who had just played an amazing set. So we left. Fuck it. Amazing.