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Heavy rock act Bad Omens performed Saturday, Feb. 28, to a packed Little Caesars Arena (Photo by Bryan Kirks for Bad Omens)<\/p>\nBad Omens\u2019 latest road trek is dubbed the Do You Feel Love Tour, after a refrain from the show-opening \u201cSpecter.\u201d<\/p>\n
And rest assured there was plenty of affection for the Virginia-formed heavy rock band from a packed Little Caesars Arena on Saturday night, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n
Much has happened for the quartet since it first played in the metro area 10 years ago (almost to the day) at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac. Back then it had just a couple of singles behind it, with its first album still six months away. Now Bad Omens is an undeniable global headliner and leader in its genre, with an aggregated fusion of styles \u2014 metal, metalcore, emo, ambient \u2014 that hits hard but is still mindful of melodies.<\/p>\n
Bolstered by plenty of pre-recorded backing tracks, Bad Omens certainly had its share of high-octane bangers such as \u201cLimits,\u201d \u201cNowhere to Go,\u201d \u201cArtificial Suicide\u201d and \u201cAnything > Human.\u201d But, along with Saturday\u2019s show openers Beartooth and England\u2019s entertainingly mysterious President, it applied a dynamic sensibility that keeps fans on their toes \u2014 moshing, crowd-surfing and even dancing to electro-fused songs like \u201cV.A.N.,\u201d \u201cWhat Do You Want From Me\u201d and the epic \u201cImpose,\u201d the latter one of four 2025 singles that vaulted the group\u2019s popularity even further.<\/p>\n
Bad Omens certainly greeted its moment visually as well. Saturday\u2019s 90-minute show delivered an ample amount of spectacle, with 14 angled LED screens above the stage and three more on the sides and behind the band, as well as lasers, smoke jets and enough fire to melt the hockey ice beneath the arena\u2019s seats. There was even a \u201cplot\u201d as five cryptic messages \u2014 portrayed with an old school cassette recorder on the screens \u2014 between the 18 songs; the contents were largely lost on the crowd but definitely provided a sense of drama that set up each set of ensuing songs.<\/p>\n
And despite frontman Noah Sebastian\u2019s assertion that he was \u201cextra nervous\u201d on Saturday, the group\u2019s performance was spot-on, the live and synchronized elements synced tightly together, and with the special effects that accompanied every song. (He also noted that drummer Nick Folio had worked for Little Caesars Pizza for \u201cabout two weeks\u201d before one of Bad Omens\u2019 tours.) Confetti rained over the general admission floor during \u201cImpose,\u201d while the encore \u201cConcrete Jungle\u201d\/\u201dDethrone\u201d closed the night like an aural sledgehammer.<\/p>\n
Heavy rock act Bad Omens performed Saturday, Feb. 28, to a packed Little Caesars Arena (Photo by Bryan Kirks for Bad Omens)<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s other acts teed things up nicely for Bad Omens, deploying much of the same kind of sonic synthesis. Bearthooth\u2019s fifty minutes was driven by frontman Caleb Shomo\u2019s physical charisma and infectious enthusiasm (not to mention wisdom in not mentioning the band\u2019s hometown of Columbus, Ohio \u2014 never a great selling point in Michigan). And President made good on the intrigue surrounding it; nobody knows who the masked troupe \u2014 with monikers such as The President, Heist, Protest and Vice \u2014 really is, but that\u2019s only added to the intrigue and its half-hour Detroit debut was certainly strong enough to bring fans back for more.<\/p>\n
President also finished with a late-set, recorded message that, \u201cWe came to build a movement, a sound, a future\u201d \u2014 a sentiment that rang true for all three bands on Saturday. And in their collective hands, that future seems undeniably solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad Omens\u2019 latest road trek is dubbed the Do You Feel Love Tour, after a refrain from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[17876,967,143,145,144,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-199810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-concert","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}