Opeth, Mastodon and Khemmis Lay Waste to Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre [Photos]

Inertia Entertainment delivered an evening of heaviness from three talented bands as Toronto finds its footing after a painful two-year absence of live music. Opeth had a Toronto headlining show booked in 2020 a few weeks after the world got locked down that went on the wayside, so when this show was announced with Mastodon along for the ride, fans got very excited. Opeth is still cresting high on the wave of their most excellent 2019 album, In Cauda Venenum. They only performed “Heart In Hand (Hjärtat vet vad handen gör)” from the new album. This saddened me as the new album is so good that I would have been satisfied if they played the entire thing. Instead, the band went through seven more songs that touched on seven of their albums, keeping their fans who have been with them for over t...

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