Playing to a somewhat smaller audience than they probably deserve, Finnish folk metal pioneers Amorphis take to the stage amongst a sea of dry ice and launch into a performance designed to please both hardcore fans and newcomers alike.

Playing to a somewhat smaller audience than they probably deserve, Finnish folk metal pioneers Amorphis take to the stage amongst a sea of dry ice and launch into a performance designed to please both hardcore fans and newcomers alike. Looking surprisingly tanned for a group of Finns, the band appear to be in good health and push plenty of energy into the songs, vocalist Tomi Joutsen in particular becoming a blur of flailing dreads and pumping fists. Hitting Black Winter Day and other classic material from their groundbreaking late-nineties period, the group throw in enough new material to showcase their current sound, ably bridging a gap between their two incarnations.

Following Devin Townsend – or Devin Town Send as the big screen captioning would have it – is no easy task but thankfully Fear Factory are blessed with a stellar sound that makes their material sound positively apocalyptic. While their Sonisphere set was a sometimes embarrassing spectacle due to fraility of Burton’s clean vocals, their appearance here today is infinitely more convincing, and the decision to end the set on with a handful of numbers from their career best Demanufacture means that things end on a high.