Tom Hersey, Journalist

"I’m still honoured and flattered that us, a bunch of not very good-looking guys, get to travel the world."

"When you’re representing a person, you can just try and assist them and no one would take it personally if they didn’t like your ideas or whatever."

Black metal’s saviours or not (not), Deafheaven’s set tonight proves that these guys are still deserving of the praise heaped upon them.

Even the music we’ve written for Hollow Bodies goes over way better than the older stuff when we play it live.

"Of course it becomes hard to do that when you get dealt this sort of rotten hand, but it’s a very validating feeling to be getting to the other side of that."

"I thought for myself that I would probably be 24 years old and then die at that time."

"The mindset of King Crimson has always been that the music is always played like it’s the first time."

In the afterglow of these numbers, Helmet’s show is redeemed. But Hamilton and his band shouldn’t be promising to simply make do when their catalogue of material is so good.

It’s a thing of beauty. Weird, whacky beauty.

"W’ve never really pushed that hard to make stuff happen," says Isaiah Mitchell