17-09-2009 Apoptygma Berzerk

Venue: Knitting Factory, Los Angeles (USA)
By: Nina Mende

Tonight, my first night back in LA I went straight to the Knitting Factory to see an European band that is currently touring US and Canada: Apoptygma Berzerk. The band went through some major line-up change. Basically everybody was replaced besides Stephan. The new line-up includes Jonas Groth on keys, Thomas Jakobsen on drums and Brandon Smith (The Anix) on Guitar. So I was very curious how that would be.

As I entered the venue it was very crowded and you could see many Goths. More than I usually see at European Apop shows. They began performing shortly after I arrived. The cheering was loud as the guys entered the stage. It was weird seeing Apop with such a different line-up but things change and they all did a great job. You could tell the four guys had fun on stage and enjoyed their performance. For a song Chris Dinger (also The Anix) joined the stage to play guitar for a song. So did Logan (The Anix), he came up to drum one song while Thomas was playing guitar. There was a lot of action on stage not only because of all these people coming and playing for a while, but also because they were all moving around during their performance. The audience didn’t stand still either. They stand along as much as they could and cheered out loud after every song. Apop played old and new songs. As they performed “Apollo (Live On Your TV)” Benji madden came up on stage performing with them. Apop came back twice for encore. Everybody had a great time during the show.

Links:
Apoptygma Berzerk MySpace
Apoptygma Berzerk Official