Suicide Silence & Fleshgod Apocalypse in Glasgow

Suicide Silence is an American deathcore band formed in Riverside, California, in 2002. Their music pairs down-tuned guitars and breakdowns with death-metal vocals, heard on albums including The Cleansing, No Time to Bleed and The Black Crown. Their best-known songs include “Unanswered” and “You Only Live Once.” In 2008, Suicide Silence performed on the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour, which placed the band in outdoor amphitheatres across the United States. In 2012, after vocalist Mitch Lucker’s death, the band brought guest singers together in Pomona for a memorial concert. The performance was filmed at the Fox Theater and released as Ending Is the Beginning: The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show.

Fleshgod Apocalypse are an Italian symphonic death-metal band formed in Perugia in 2007. Their music sets technical death-metal riffs and blast beats against orchestral arrangements and operatic vocals. Key releases include the albums Agony, Labyrinth and King, while “The Violation” and “The Forsaking” are among their signature songs. The band performed on the 2011 Summer Slaughter Tour, appearing on a North American lineup headed by The Black Dahlia Murder and Whitechapel. In 2016 they supported Epica on The North American Principle Tour, then co-headlined The Elegy of Emptiness Tour with Shadow of Intent in 2022. Fleshgod Apocalypse concerts have used a full metal-band lineup alongside symphonic arrangements and operatic singing. The soprano role in that lineup has been performed by Veronica Bordacchini.