Tacoma, Washington, greats Botch wrapped up their reunion phase this past weekend, performing their two final shows at Seattle's The Showbox Theater.
The band's "Weekend of Dead Ends" marked the end of an 18-month reunion that found the Nineties mathcore favorites touring across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.
"The Best Boy Band Ever" played two identical, though king-sized sets at the venue across the weekend, with the Saturday night performance (June 15th) actually lining up with the band's original farewell show at the Showbox in 2002 (later preserved as live album 061502).
The quartet drilled through classics from their towering full-lengths, 1998's American Nervoso and 1999's We Are the Romans, as well as everything off 2002 EP An Anthology of Dead Ends. They also performed "One Twenty Two," their first and only new song of the reunion era.
Saturday night found vocalist Dave Verellen referring to the weekend as a "funeral," and while passionately throwing himself into the performance, he was vocally bummed about the prospect of never playing these Botch songs again.
In a nice bit of kismet, the final show also featured an opening set from Great Falls, the post-metal gloomsmiths Botch took on their most recent run of European dates. That band likewise features guitarist Demian Johnston and bassist Shane Mehling, both of whom having previously performed in Playing Enemy, who had opened Botch's farewell show in 2002. The weekend also featured opening spots from Mortiferum, Caustic Wound and Helms Alee.
You can check out official and fan-shot footage from both nights above and down below.
Botch setlist 06/14-15:
Swimming the Channel vs. Driving the Chunnel (pre-recorded)
To Our Friends in the Great White North
Mondrian Was a Liar
John Woo
Japam
Spaim
Framce
Oma
Thank God for Worker Bees
One Twenty Two
Vietmam
Transitions From Persona to Object
Hutton's Great Heat Engine
Afghamistam
C. Thomas Howell as the "Soul Man"
Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb
Hives (outro only)
