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With roaring riffs and harsh vocals,Your Demise stormed the Camden Underground this January. Celebrating their new album of the same title, The Kids We Used To Be, The UK tour kicked off in London. Supporting acts Stick To Your Guns(US), Break Even(Aus) and Letlive (UK) shared the stage.

The opening band, Letlive, released their passionate 80's roots style hardcore punk, comparable to Black Flag and Bad Brains. The live set was well composed for an underground band, who's strong guitar and shouting vocals got the crowd jumping and singing along. They played the full tracklist from their new album, 'Fake History', but did a surprise cover of Black Flag's infamous single 'Fix Me' which got the crowd chanting along for their closing song.

The next band to take the stage was Break Even, a hardcore band from Austrailia. This was their first ever UK tour, and first ever UK gig but were received well by the crowd(half of the crowd was wearing their t shirts!). They opened with the intro from their latest album, 'The Bright Side' called sunrise, a very mellow acoustic buildup to the rest of the hardcore punk with emotion from this band. The crowd reacted well, with many of them singing along into the microphone, many mosh pits and a lot of activity. They finished with a more mellow, acoustic cover of their biggest single 'October 27th' a light way to finish a energetic, heavy set.

The main support act was next. Stick To Your Guns, a US hardcore band. Hard hitting riffs, and crowd vocals were rife throughout the set. They opened up with their new albums intro which got the crowd moving. During their hour set they did a whole playthrough of the new album, which got the crowd jumping onto the stage and singing along and pitting against the walls. They ended their hour long set with their title track 'We're what seperates the heart from the heartless' which included guest vocals from Ed Mcrae from Your Demise. At the end of the set they went wild, with a wall of death covering the whole venue, and then the crowd invaded the stage in a flurry of singing, fists and moshing.

Finally, the headlining act was to show. Your Demise, a hardcore band hailing from St Albans, UK hit the stage. This is their first album promotion tour, 'the kids we used to be tour". They opened with the intro of the new album 'MMX' getting everyone hyped up with its famous chant of 'Your Demise, 2010 b*tch!'. The next few songs were taken from the old album, 'ignorance never dies', the songs were 'blood ran cold', 'nothing left but regret'. Half way through the set, there was a fifteen minute break, they played their 'unknown dub' track, a dubstep track which got everybody dancing along to it. Once the set started again, they played an old song from the 2007 album 'thick as thieves' which was called 'No Half Measures' which got the whole crowd moving, and got them chanting their famous line 'see you, you c**t, ill cut you first'. They then proceeded to play their final song of the set, their tour and album title track 'the kids we used to be'. Once the set had ended, a crowd hungry for more songs chanted for an encore. They came back on to play their most famous track 'Burnt tongues' which involved a constant crowdsurfing, a wall of death spanning the whole venue and a whole crowd stage invasion of hardcore dancers at the end.