But first, Leeds very own dirty rock and roll messiahs John Holmes are here to get us all loud and larey for their performance. Boasting an incredibly beefy sound and drawing references to the Dukes of Nothing and Motorhead the intimidating presence of the tattooed & beardy Holmes crew seemed to be exactly the kind of thing the bloodthirsty pit of psyched up metallers wanted to hear. Although their rebel-rousing cover of Ash’s ‘Burn Baby Burn’ may not have.

As soon as they finish their set and the room’s small and sweaty confines become even more stuffed with every imaginable nook and cranny crammed with people, the air of anticipation weighing heavily in the hot and smoky atmosphere could be cut with a knife.

Before long the four members of Converge march into the stage, plug in their instruments and with a brief “hello, we’re Converge from Boston Massachusetts”, they launch into the grindcore blitz that is ‘Concubine’ and the whole building erupts into a storm of bodies thrashing their arms, heads and whole bodies around to the band’s mesmerising and altogether cathartic noise-core attack.

Onstage though the furiously wild and chaotic aggression is getting scary. Without pause for breath they leap into the second track off last year’s universally acclaimed ‘Jane Doe’ album, ‘Fault & Fracture’ it’s feral intensity reverberating throughout Camden and the surrounding boroughs. New song ‘You Fail Me’ off their forthcoming album displays some deeply savage riffwork before the dizzying blur of scalic madness that opens up 'When Forever Comes Crashing', both guitarist Kurt and bassist Nate flailing their instruments around their head & crowdsurfing while executing it’s frankly stupefying riffwork with staggering precision.

Ending their set with the constant head-butting of 'The Saddest Day' everything just goes utterly insane. Drums are getting smashed and kicked over, both guitarist’s are crowdsurfing and if vocalist Jacob isn’t being battered by the windmilling and kung-fu acrobatics in the pit he’s slamming from one side of the stage to the other evidently under the belief that for the 45 minutes they have onstage the band is completely invincible!

Some of you reading this may find Armageddon to be a more enticing proposition to tonight’s activities. To those present they’ve just been shown the exact reason why they got into extreme hardcore metal in the first place.