When we consider bands who have ascended to stratospheric heights of success in the metalcore sphere, The Plot In You is a name that can crop up. The last time this Ohio quartet were over in the UK, they packed out the 1.5k capacity Electric Ballroom in Camden with the demand for more. Now back a year later and making a considerable upgrade to the 2.3k capacity o2 Forum Kentish Town, perhaps due to a couple of the emotionally charged songs making the rounds on TikTok with users shouting out to their exes to the audio of FEEL NOTHING or the best crashout song going to Forgotten, the metalcore community on TikTok is popularising The Plot In You’s songs like never before.
A band hard to come by frequently on the UK touring circuit, Cane Hill (8) opened up proceedings for this night filled with crushing metalcore. And crushing is something Cane Hill do best. Their latest LP a piece of me I never let you find is a masterclass in letting the music do the emotional talking. Defined by its atmospheric, darker and heavier sound, songs such as Drowning Therapy and The Midnight Sun pack a punch live. If you are a fan of Cane Hill or you just ain’t, given their sparse UK appearances, you’d be the world’s biggest fool to not catch them live when they come over.
American legendary post hardcore collective Saosin (7) are perhaps the most experienced band on this bill. Having been around the block for the best part of two decades, so even just to say you’ve seen them is a tick off the list. Trying to condense twenty years of material into one seven song setlist came as quite the challenge but the band made the most of the little allotted support slot time they had on stage ripping through spanning ears of the band from their self titled all the way through to any material that followed.
Currents (8) are another band having boomed and blown up further through the admittedly powerful form of music discovery on TikTok. Their 2025 track Making Circles taken from the band’s EP All That Follows released a mere few weeks before their slot opening for The Plot In You shows that this band is hot on the lips of a lot of people right now. Lead singer Brian Wille whips his hair like a metalcore god on stage as the band year through a set that made them seem like they could be an on par co-headliner alongside The Plot In You more than just the lead support act.
Within seconds of headliners The Plot In You (9) kicking into opener Don’t Look Away the venue’s floor opened into a frenzy thrashing bodies, colliding to the breakdowns and screams coming from Landon Tewers and co including crowd surfers galore a girl crossing the barricade sporting a pair of the most luminous orange builder pants you ever did see even from the stalls to the back of the bar.
They say you should date inside your genre otherwise how can you explain songs like the scream loaded Divide, the relentless Forgotten a song guaranteed to get every member of the crowd screaming out “I have spent my life chasing things that have only brought me pain, in the end, when I’m dead, I hope it was for something” and closer of the night the unforgiving FEEL NOTHING perhaps some of the bands heaviest showcases on their setlist.
After this monster of a show, the band continuing to put out volume after volume in their series, next time The Plot In You plan to come back to the UK on their next cycle don’t be surprised to see this band headlining arenas next time around.
