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letlive. and Ratking live at Magnet House, Perth | 10 September 2025

letlive.’s Perth stop of their Sincerely Yours tour at Magnet House was an amped night of metalcore antics. With magnet house playing host to a punter-fuelled sea of black jackets, black dresses, spacers and tattooed scalps.

Ratking opened the night with foot stomping drums, heady power chords and visceral screams. Trying to warm up the crowd before letlive.’s set. The band eagerly tried to coax many of the death-circle shy punters to the front.

Thankfully, there were a select crew of die-hards who saw it necessary to start a death circle. With two punters high-kicking, and roughhousing to normalize the chaos needed to begin a sufficient death circle.

Heightening up the stakes by announcing their final song before letlive. Ratking managed to draw up a sizeable crowd who thrashed out to wailing guitar and screams that laid down more gravel than the renovation of a suburban driveway.

Crowd enthusiasm reached fever pitch when one punter jogged laps around the dance floor and pushing out high kicks like an Olympic gymnast.

[Note: it’s important to note the formation of a death circle is akin to the physics of nuclear fission. Two people isn’t enough to cause a chain reaction, however increase the death circles participation by several people and you have a maelstrom rotating mass of human bodies that will inevitably pull in any punter nearby]

Learning from experience, and noting where the ground zero would be for the next death circle for the next set [this strategy only partially worked, with the crowd nearly pulling me in a second time].

Trying to navigate the thrashing bodies of humans was like swimming against a giant tidal bore of g-forces.

Antics aside, when it came time for letlive.’s set, there was a barrage of screams. Emotional lyrics and punkish instrumentation. In between the hardcore vibes was an endearing sentiment felt from lead vocalist Jason Aalon Butler. Who in between songs expressed gratitude towards the crowd.

Expressing themes of gratitude for the local music scene, the ethos of letlive. being a gathering for misfits. Respecting women, growing older and gaining spiritual connection from taking shrooms.

With Butler exhibiting his physical prowess by deciding to refurnish the stage set-up by placing a large Marshall amp into the photo pit. Improving the Feng she of the stage. This only riled up the crowd with a few cheeky punters crowd surfing to the front of the pit.

It was a wild ride, with the band starting out with Le Prologue, and other tracks like Banshee, and Dreamers Disease. Butler and the band commanded a larger-than-life stage presence.

Butler and the rest of letlive. didn’t only provide punters with a place to enjoy quality rock music. They provided punters with a place to belong. Let loose and connect with other likeminded souls.

Photography by Adrian Thomson

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