LIVE FROM THE PIT: Bleed From Within, Disembodied Tyrant and Baest
- Jack Norris
- Mar 14
- 3 min read
Some gigs build slowly. Others explode from the moment the doors open. BLEED FROM WITHIN’s The Dying Sun tour stop at Stylus in Leeds firmly belonged to the latter. Before the first note had even been played, the queue was already snaking through the venue’s corridors, a clear sign that the night ahead was going to be something special. By the time the lights dimmed, the room was packed wall to wall with fans ready to unleash absolute chaos.
Opening the night were Danish death metal outfit BAEST, who wasted no time setting the tone. A long, brooding instrumental intro filled the venue while strobe lights cut through the darkness, building a thick tension before the band erupted into their set. For an opening act, the room was already impressively full and the crowd quickly responded with relentless energy. By the fourth song the frontman had already stepped down into the pit, delivering vocals right in the middle of the chaos as circle pits formed around him for the entire track. The movement never stopped – heads banging, bodies colliding, and the vocalist thrashing with an intensity that immediately pulled the crowd deeper into the night.
Next up were DISEMBODIED TYRANT, who took the atmosphere into darker territory. The lighting dropped into heavy shadows that matched the crushing weight of their sound, giving their set a far more ominous feel. The crowd fed off it instantly, opening up two massive walls of death that tore through the room. One moment in particular cut through everything: the vocalist let out a scream directly into the crowd that was so violently loud it forced a collective pause from the audience. The kind of moment that makes you physically stop and think woah. It was chilling, raw and perfectly suited to the band’s brutal sound.
Even between sets the energy refused to dip. SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s Chop Suey! blasted through the speakers and the entire venue instantly turned into a choir, with every voice in Stylus singing along at full volume. Yorkshire chants followed, echoing around the room and building anticipation even further as the stage was prepared for the headliners.
When BLEED FROM WITHIN finally took the stage, they did so to the unmistakable intro of BON JOVI’s Living On A Prayer, a playful moment that had the whole room singing before the band launched into their own crushing set. From there, the energy barely dropped for a second. Early on, the third song was briefly cut short as vocalist Scott Kennedy called for a wall of death. While the venue cut off the sound, he jokingly voiced his frustration, reminding everyone that this was a metal gig after all. Within seconds chants erupted “Wall Of Death, Wall Of Death!” and the pit split down the middle before the inevitable collision.
A standout moment came when the band performed Invisible Enemy alongside A Depth That No One Dares, a pairing newly introduced on this tour. Hearing the two together gave the show an extra emotional punch, the crowd shouting every lyric back toward the stage while bodies continued to surf overhead toward the barrier.
Midway through the show, the drummer delivered a speech joking about embarrassing his own family, offering a brief moment of humour that perfectly reset the atmosphere before the next wave of heaviness hit. Moments later God Complex had the entire floor crouching low before exploding upwards in a perfectly timed jump that shook the venue.
By the time I Am Damnation arrived, Stylus was in full meltdown. Hundreds of voices screamed the lyrics back at the band while the pit churned endlessly beneath a sea of crowd surfers.
As the final notes rang out and the lights slowly returned, it was clear that this was not just another tour stop. BLEED FROM WITHIN turned Stylus into a furnace of energy, proving once again that their live show is not just heavy. It is an experience that pulls an entire room into the chaos and leaves it buzzing long after the last riff fades. On this showing Leeds would not have had it any other way.
Words and photos: Jack Norris
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