Beartooth

Beartooth emerged from frontman Caleb Shomo's basement in 2013 and has built a large streaming audience since. Their 2023 album, The Surface, debuted atop Billboard's Alternative and Hard Music charts. Pure Ecstasy is their sixth album and their first on Fearless Records, produced with Jordan Fish, who has also worked with Bring Me the Horizon.

Expect heavy riffs and the crushing breakdowns the band is known for, mixed with the cleaner, more polished sound Fish brought to the record. Some songs lean into pop and gospel touches, so the set moves between brute force and more open, melodic moments. Steelhouse Omaha holds about 3,000, so the room feels big and loud rather than cramped.

The new songs are the main reason to go. They are the most personal material Beartooth has released, dealing with Shomo's public coming out and the years that led up to it. Hearing that music in a full downtown Omaha room gives it a weight a recording can't quite match.