Letlive. Melds Post-Hardcore and Violent Stage Presence at Warped Tour
Jason Butler stepped onto the stage in Pomona, Calif., on Thursday afternoon and decided he didn’t need to look at any of the photographers in the media pit.
So when letlive. kicked off its set with “Le Prologue,” he jumped over them.
He went into the crowd, thrashing his body and screaming into his microphone while the rest of his band began creating chaos on stage in the form of a melting pot of metal and post-hardcore. Butler ran back and forth, shaking with no visible modicum of control, yelling away. All at once, nobody was looking at anything else besides the maniac with the microphone.
This was nothing new for fans who had seen letlive. before; Butler’s insane stage antics are a staple of the band’s live show. But for everyone who just happened to wander by the Monster Energy stage on Thursday afternoon, they caught a glimpse of the singular most unpredictable act on Warped Tour.
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