With a sold-out crowd and a line-up that perfectly captured the modern alt-rock landscape, RØRY’s first ever show in the city proved to be one for the books.

Wolverhampton’s KK’s Steel Mill was packed to warehouse beams this Halloween, a sea of costumes (including one giant inflatable male member) and beer cups primed for the chaos ahead. And chaos is exactly what they got, courtesy of Newport’s finest, Skindred,  a band who have turned genre-bending, crowd-moving mayhem into an art form.

It was an eerily quiet night in Wolverhampton, though it being the night before Halloween may have something to do with that and with the early door time of 5pm, I assumed others were still to come after work. Arch Enemy would be kicking off the UK leg of their Blood Dynasty tour, but more on the attendance later.