If there was any doubt that Snot could still reduce a room to absolute carnage, Chalk Brighton put that to bed pretty quickly. Joined by Eville and Graphic Nature, the Californian veterans delivered a set on 15 June that was sweaty, violent, hilarious and, somehow, still musically razor-sharp — the kind of show that reminds you exactly why live heavy music hits harder than anything else.
From the second they took the stage, the room was in pieces. Pits opened instantly and barely stopped for breath, with row pits, circle pits and a full wall of death all erupting across the set. Frontman Michael Knapp met that chaos head-on, hurling himself into the crowd mid-song and turning an already feral room into something even more unhinged. When their song 'My Balls' landed, the entire venue screamed the chorus back with enough force to shake the ceiling.
Support came from Eville, whose frontwoman made an immediate impression with a huge vocal performance and enough presence to summon a circle pit around herself when she enters the crowd, while Graphic Nature offered a set that was slightly less chaotic but no less heavy. Chalk’s sound was massive throughout, and the lighting hit the sweet spot: intense enough to match the violence in the room, but clean enough to make every hit, dive and stage-side near-death experience feel cinematic.
