The Heritage Hunter Tour: Opeth and Mastodon @ The Electric Factory.

Text by Chad Sims. Images by Art Andrews.

The Heritage Hunter Tour, featuring co-headliners Opeth and Mastodon, rocked the Electric Factory on Monday.

The bands are supposedly alternating who plays first every night of the tour. Mastodon ended this night and it was an awe inspiring event. They proved to me that there is no metal band that currently comes close to their blend of power, technicality and songwriting.  The majority of their set came from their most recent album The Hunter.

Opeth predates Mastodon by a decade and are obviously one of the latter band’s influences but at this show I was glad they played first.

They would have seemed anticlimactic had they played last.

Swedish metal band Ghost opened the show.