While all of my friends dressed themselves up to celebrate Halloween this past Saturday, I drove to Lawrence to see …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead at the Granada.  I got the ticket a while back without even thinking that it would be the night to go out for Halloween.  It seems like everyone I knew got a ticket to the Terror at the Train Station at Union Station.  I was fine with it, though, because I’d been wanting to see these guys for quite some time. 

I tried to show up in time to miss the opening act, The Blood Brothers, because I’m not a fan of their music at all.  I ended up getting there to see the final 30 minutes of their set, and I have to say it was one of the weirdest concert experiences I’ve witnessed.  For starters, the music was absolutely horrible.  Awful, awful, awful.  I seriously think the two singers might have some rare case of mental retardation, Tourettes, and under-developed vocal chords all rolled into one.  The odd thing, though, was that they played with an insane amount of energy and the crowd went nuts. 

The Trail of Dead mixed up their set list quite a bit, drawing from all of their albums.  I can’t say I’m that huge of a fan of their latest (and not-yet-released) album, So Divided, but they only played a song or two off of it.  They played the first track from it and messed up a few times.  The singer told everything they were still kind of learning it and were going to stick with ones they knew.  As expected, songs from Source Tags & Codes were awesome being that it’s their best album, in my opinion.  Unlike most critics, I happened to be a big fan of their last album, Worlds Apart, and the songs they played on there were the best ones live.  They just sounded monstrous. 

The band has been infamous for playing their hearts out and breaking their instruments in the process.  Last Saturday was no exception.  These guys really went all out when they played.  It was pretty impressive.  As I left the show with my ears ringing and my body exhausted from such a hard-hitting show, I talked to my friends that went to Union Station for the party.  They were ticked off that they paid $35 for free drinks and food only to find that everything ran out by 10:30.  I think it’s safe to say I made the right choice.