Jacksonville, Fla.-based alt-metal act rolled into on Wednesday touring in support of its fifth studio album, “Superfiction,” scheduled to drop June 28 on Eleven Seven Music/SonicStar.
Along for the ride were Spokane, Wash. band Oceans Divide, Irish rockers Kopek and Memphis, Tenn. group Egypt Central. Oceans Divide and Kopek had similar sets — effortlessly executed and musically solid, but both leaned too heavily on vocals to carry the performance and lacked overall stage presence.
The band with the most interesting set of the night was Egypt Central, the only group with a memorable stage presence and the only one to initiate any sort of crowd movement. The foursome has been at the forefront of the Mississippi Valley rock scene since the release of its self-titled album in 2007, and has found some radio success with “You Make Me Sick,” which closed the set. But they have yet to reach headliner status nationwide. The set gave fans a preview of songs from the band’s new album (set to be released May 17) including the single “White Rabbit” — a track that has serious potential to push EC higher up the ranks of the national active-rock circuit.
By the time Cold hit the stage the crowd was thinning out, but those who stayed left fulfilled as the set offered everything one might expect from a Cold concert: singles such as “No One,” and “Stupid Girl”; the band’s biggest hit, from 2003’s “Year of the Spider” (which was placed too early in their set); the new single “Wicked World,” which was well-received. Despite front man Scooter Ward’s vocals suffering from being under the weather, there was little to fault in the execution of the veteran rock band’s set.
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Paige Montgomery is a Denver-based freelance writer. Check out more of her work on Facebook.
