Mastodon + Kylesa + Intronaut at the HOB NOLA.
Great show. Mastodon played the entire new album in order for "set I", then the keyboardist left the stage and they went on to play the best and heaviest of their previous records, including Crystal Skull, Iron Tusk, The Wolf Is Loose, Seabeast (!!! the song I wanted to hear) and a massive Hearts Alive encore. They were obviously concentrating very hard on playing the new material well, and they did a superb job, with great visuals full of spacey wormholes and plenty of Rasputin. With the old stuff they really started smiling and cutting loose, and the crowd responded to both old and new with equal fervor. My GF, my friend and I got a primo place right behind the SBD, its my new favorite spot in the HOB.
The openers were both awesome, which is always a treat. Kylesa is a chick fronted band, a real heavy dirty thrashy deathy thing with a touch of psycedelia. But the real treat was Intronaut, which was death metal type vocals over heavy and cererbral music that was absolutely impossible to dance to, very jazzy. I ended up buying their LP at the show and will listen to it later tonight.