Thrown ft Crystal Lake, UnityTX & Graphic Nature Academy 2 Manchester, 25-04-2025

Samantha Potts
May 1
3 min read

Tonight at Manchester Academy 2 Swedish Hardcore/Metal core band Thrown have come to take over the Academy with support coming from Japanese metalcore band Crystal Lake, From Dallas, Texas Metal band UnityTX, And British Nu-Metalcore band Graphic Nature. This stacked line up is something to not be missed. Thrown ft Crystal Lake, UnityTX & Graphic Nature Academy 2 Manchester, 25-04-2025

Graphic Nature

Kicking off this evening is British Nu-Metalcore band Graphic Nature who come out in full force with 'Headstone' which get the audience into a craze of fans moving along to there sound. Graphic Nature jump and move around the stage capturing the audience with their sound they have an amazing stage presence and get the already packed out venues up and moving! Finishing there set on "Fractured" which really gets the kick off of this evening show a hit!

Graphic Nature Setlist

Headstone
Locked In
Sour
N.F.A
Killing Floor
White Noise
Bad Blood
Fractured

UnityTX

Up next from Dallas Texas, USA is UnityTX. From watching them do there on stage huddle You Know we're gonna be in for a treat with there high energy performance they automatically have the crowd under there control with there starting song being "World Of Malice" The crowd opens up and screams back every lyric to them. They just have so much they bring to the stage with them and they don't stop for their entire set with songs like "Playing Favourites", "Roc Sh!t", and "Hail Mary". There performance goes down extremely well with the loud crowd!

UnityTX Setlist

World Of Malice
Playing Favorites
Cross Me
Heinous
Bang Sh!t
Hail Mary
Diamond Diez
Ruckus
Roc Sh!t

Crystal Lake

The Moment I have been waiting for Crystal Lake from Tokyo, Japan takes to the stage and they absolutely came out with a bang! From the moment "Blüdgod" starts the crowd just starts up, They are a very skilled and talented band and no matter where you look on stage they are always just doing something which runs throughout their entire set. Crystal Lake high energy performance captures the crowd and fans start coming over the barrier making this one of the best performances of the evening! Other songs on there setlist include 'Denial', 'Re-Birth', and 'Apollo'. there powerful set leaves a high impression and I can say they did leave with a lot of new fans this evening!

Crystal Lake Setlist

Blüdgod
Disobey
Hail To The Fire
SIX FEET UNDER
Mephisto
Denial
Rebirth
Lost In Forever
Apollo

Thrown

We arrive to our final headliner of the evening Thrown under dark lights thrown come out in full force capturing their audience attention from the moment they touch the stage to the end the audience go wild for them! Kicking off there set with 'Backfire' there sound is captured by there dark and mysterious onstage presence which draws you in keeps you going through Thrown loud set is filled with songs such as 'Bloodsucker', 'Bitter Friend', and finishes on 'Greyout'. There sold-out show is just shows how much passion the audience has for the band! With there strong set they show how far they have come and what we can expect next from Thrown!