Boston metalcore outfit Bury Your Lifeless performed their closing dwell present final evening, September twentieth. The veteran outfit selected to correctly shut out their 24-year profession on the annual ‘New England Steel & Hardcore Competition‘ in Worcester, MA. Fan-filmed footage of that set has been shared on-line.
This swan track set took place after vocalist Mat Bruso shocked his bandmates and the group’s followers throughout final yr’s ‘Furnace Fest‘, saying it might be his final Bury Your Lifeless present. After deciding this previous spring that his bandmates wanted a correct sendoff, this closing present was booked. Bury Your Lifeless didn’t come alone to final evening’s set, as a number of visitors, together with the band’s ex-vocalist Myke Terry, have been current and took half within the present.
In the direction of the top of the set, Bruso addressed the viewers, explaining that this efficiency can be his final for good this time, whereas additionally shouting out his bandmates, together with drummer Mark Castillo and guitarist Brendan “Slim” MacDonald. Bruso advised the viewers of that pair, “that is their band and I had the privilege of borrowing it for the like 20 fucking years.”
Bruso would later go on to inform the group, “if this band has ever meant something to you earlier than, simply know you imply a lot extra to me than you may probably ever understand, for altering my fucking life.”