CONCERT REVIEW & PHOTOGRAPHY: Lord of the Lost returns to Denver after 10 years to the Summit Music Hall - SEE IT ALL HERE

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Lord of the Lost returns to Denver after 10 years to the Summit Music Hall September 24, 2024

Last night I had the pleasure of crossing a band off my bucket list. Lord of the Lost. I arrived at the Summit Music Hall a little early and talked with some of the security folks who I really enjoy because as a concert photographer they make me feel welcomed and at home. As I made my way into the venue, I had to work my way around the long line that had formed at the merch tables.

Touring with LOTL was Beasto Blanco, a band I had heard of but did not know much about until I saw they were on this tour. To my pleasant surprise Calico Cooper, daughter of Alice Cooper was a vocalist along with Chuck Garric lead vocal and guitarist who had toured with Alice Cooper. Beasto Blanco took the stage to a cheering crowd and opened their set with, “Run for Your Life” from their newly released album, Kinetica. With the lights dancing through the fog, the energy from the band was high right from the start. Calico’s outfit (see photo gallery) is a little hard to describe with her knee high boots, a studded belt around her waist, hand and forearm brace and carrying a baseball bat with spikes in it stalking the stage. But it was the contact lenses she was wearing that looked ghostly under the lights.

The crowd immediately got into the music and were moving about head banging and pounding the air with their hands. As the band moved through their set, there was no slowing down as the members moved about the stage interacting with each other and the crowd. Calico would join Chuck on vocals and at times she sang alone and made her way toward the crowd as if she was stalking them. Occasionally she pointed her bat at the crowd with an evil look in her eyes and at me as well. The band finished their set with “Breakdown” from their 2013 album, Live Fast Die Loud. As the band was saying good night, Calico asked the crowd who was seeing them for the first time, a lot of hands were raised and Calico said, Welcome to the family! That includes me and I'm happy to do so.

Beasto Blanco members:
Chuck Garric: Co-founder, frontman, lead vocalist, and guitarist 
Calico Cooper: Vocalist and daughter of Alice Cooper 
Jan LeGrow: Bass 
Sean Sellers: Drums 

Setlist:
Run for Your Life
Bad Thoughts
Freak
Feed My Frankenstein @Cover
Machine Girl
Grind
Lowlands
Beg to Differ
Nobody Move
Breakdown

LORD OF THE LOST

The crowd was ready for LOTL and there was a mix of young and old but leaning more towards the older side. One by one LOTL made their way on stage starting their set with “The Curtain Falls” as Chris Harms made his way on stage. Dressed in a black vinyl outfit and with the mic in hand poured out vocals as he moved about the stage. Right from the beginning, Chris was on move back and forth along the front of the stage as he sang. The crowd was loving the songs dancing and moving around, singing with the music. The energy level I watched on stage after I was photographing was amazing. Not only did their 19 set of songs cover over 20 years of their music, I was wondering how the band, especially Chris moving so much, carried this energy show after show. 

Songs going back to 2010 with, “Dry the Rain”, “Sex on Legs” from 2011, “Destruction Manual” from 2022. At times Chris would talk with the fans and engage them while he sang and the crowd loved it and kept moving right along with the music. Late in the set, Chris spoke out about the reason they were here and that it helped with their success over the years and said it “was because of you” our fans! The crowd roared in appreciation and the LOTL broke into the song I was waiting for, 2016’s, “Drag Me to Hell”. This was the song in the video I watched on YouTube so many years ago. The band finished their evening with, “One Last Song” from 2023. It was not a real big crowd this night but you couldn’t tell by the volume from the cheering fans that could have listened to a lot more from Lord of the Lost as they said good night.

I waited many years to see LOTL and I was blown away by their show, their stage presence and the selection of songs they played. Add to that, the pleasant surprise from the Beasto Blanco show as well. There are only 3 shows left in the tour, I hope you can make one of them.

Lord of the Lost Members:
Chris "The Lord" Harms – lead vocals, guitars, cello (2007–present)
Klaas "Class Grenayde" Helmecke – bass, backing vocals (2008–present)
Gerrit "Gared Dirge" Heinemann – piano, keyboards, percussion, guitars, theremin (2010–present)
Pi "π" Stoffers – guitars, backing vocals (2017–present)
Niklas Kahl – drums (2017–present)
Benjamin "Benji" Mundigler – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals (2024–present)

Setlist:
The Curtain Falls
The Future of a Past Life
Dry the Rain 
Loreley 
Destruction Manual 
For They Know Not What They Do
Raining Stars 
Sex on Legs 
Six Feet Underground 
Live Today (snippet)
Die Tomorrow 
Black Halo
Forevermore
Drag Me to Hell 
Blood for Blood
Unstoppable @Cover
We're All Created Evil
Blood & Glitter
One Last Song