Mastodon @ ABC, 7 June

Atlanta's Mastodon claim the ABC with a two part performance that reflects the punked mullet of guitarist Bill Kelliher tonight: business up front, party at the back. Wasting no time in delicately pitching their latest masterpiece in full with a concentrated and atmospheric reenactment of the proggy Crack the Skye album, the ferocious crowd rampage through the accelerated groove of Divinations as freely as they attack the mid-tempo grind of its soaring title track.

Part two is a much more energetic and familiar affair for the band, pulling faces and swinging wildly into the eccentricities of Blood Mountain's Bladecatcher and continuing a chronologically reversed trip of their favourite thudding adventures, thrashing and screaming past The Wolf is Loose, plotting assorted guitar lines through Leviathan's Seabeast and climaxing with the anthemic grunt of March of the Fire Ants from 2002's Remission. There's no chat, no encore, just the satisfying sound of modern metal's finest tearing the house down.