Breaking Benjamin / Chevelle / Starset / Kami Kehoe at Morton Amphitheater, Riverside (Kansas City) MO (2026-09-24)

intro music: Blow Me Away

I Will Not Bow
Until the End
Evil Angel (Drum Solo Intro)
Crawl
Red Cold River
Blow Me Away
Follow
Angels Fall
You
So Cold
Polyamorous
Dear Agony (intro, from tape)
Something Wicked
Breath
Awaken
Failure
Dance With the Devil
The Diary of Jane

Family System
Self Destructor
Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)
Pale Horse
An Island
Joyride (An Omen)
Face to the Floor
The Clincher
Send the Pain Below
Comfortable Liar
The Red
Mars Simula

p a r a d 0 x 1 c
requiem of the order
Carnivore
Brave New World
Monster
SILOS
a n n 1 h 1 l a t 1 0 n
TokSik
My Demons

PSYCHO
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
FADE OUT
DIRTY
THE END
LOVE IS A WEAPON
SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD
DOPAMINE

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A four-chapter volume of modern hard rock in one evening!?- now, that is ‘something wicked’!!

Breaking Benjamin is again spending their season on the road, with a summer/fall tour that began on September 2 and runs through October 24, hitting arenas, amphitheaters and outdoor venues across North America, and made a recent stop at the new Morton Amphitheater in Riverside (Kansas City) MO.

To add to the journey, Kami Kehoe, Starset and Chevelle opened the night in support, not only to round the night out as a full evening of entertainment but also highlight some of the directions modern rock is going today.

Kami Kehoe represents the new blood, Starset brings the science fiction and spectacle, Chevelle digs down and turns up for the riffs, and Breaking Benjamin comes through like sonic tank, to remind us all why their songs have survived more than two decades of changing tastes and trends.

We’ll start with the headliner-

Chapter 1- Breaking Benjamin: The Survivors

The Pennsylvania band, led by singer/guitarist Ben Burnley is still teasing an upcoming full-length album (as they were last year when we caught them live) but have released a recent single, “Something Wicked”, which has become their ninth #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart, with previous single, “Awaken” was just certified RIAA Gold.

Online, they can boast more than 8.5 billion combined streams worldwide and a social imprint of over 6.5 million, a testament to the band’s global influence and decades-long loyal fan base.

Their set began with, of all things, a PC booting up Windows XP (perhaps a nod to the tech of twenty-five years ago and their own beginnings) and their stage was virtually designed to resemble a weathered basement laboratory, complete with eroding brick walls, scaffolding, and three virtual windows behind the band that could show the great unknown, and would often close and lock down after a song, by virtual corrugated steel blast doors.

The set started strong with one of the band’s biggest hits, 2009’s “I Will Not Bow” then went further back with 2006’s “Until the End” from their Phobia album, with other nods to the past being a walk-on appearance from none other than Halo 2’s Master Chief (complete with glowing energy sword) during “Blow Me Away” and the virtual PC on-screen unofficially downloading the Breaking Ben music catalog using infamous file-sharing service, LimeWire.

Before anyone thought this was an imagined museum and the band was strictly playing a nostalgia set, new songs ”Something Wicked” and “Awaken” were played in the second half, rattling the cages, and proving that Burnley and band can continue their success streak and continue to release resonating new music.

Finishing the evening with “Dance with the Devil” and of course, 2006’s “The Diary of Jane”, Burnley may have been mostly in darkness and shadow for the set, letting the focus go to the other members, but their songs and energy did most of the needed talking and left the fans awestruck and still singing, on the way out to their cars.

Chapter 2- Chevelle: Grooves and Riffs for Days

Just before the headliner, veteran brotherly Chicagoland band Chevelle showed a similar down to business approach; but proved minimalistically, that the rock can hit hard just with a mastery of the basics.

The band is still out in support of last summer’s new full-length, their tenth, Bright as Blasphemy out last August via Alchemy Recordings. Because of a slightly tweaked setlist compared to other stops, we didn’t get as much of the new (but did hear recent single, “Pale Horse” a few songs in), with brothers Pete Loeffler [guitars, vocals] and Sam Loeffler [drums] along with bassist Kemble Walters, completely slaying a setlist covering their three decades of existence.

Without saying too much between songs other than a thank you to the fans and the bands on the bill, and showing their gratefulness for the last three decades, the band preferred to mostly keep their heads down, pull out the musical sledgehammers, and pummel with song after song, that even had the most bro manly men, shrieking with excitement.

Those few on the crowd that had grabbed a seat to catch their breath, were right back up for hits, “Send the Pain Below” and “The Red”, the latter finding the stage of course, bathed in red lighting. The bare industrial design of their stage was made more complicated and impressive, with a series of custom-built, backlit metal mesh screen panels flanking the stage behind each member.

Chapter 3- Starset- Out of this World

The Columbus, OH band’s elaborate science-fiction mythology themes have always been a part of their experience, but they continue to push their own creative boundaries. We’ve never seen a band, playing third on a bill of four, go to the extreme efforts they did to immerse the audience in their other-worldly theater.

Starset formed in 2013 and quickly gained attention with their cinematic music and presentation and have amassed nearly 5 billion global streams (more than 1.7 billion on Spotify alone) and earned RIAA Platinum and Gold certifications along the way.

Their instantly memorable set featured elaborate costumes, cinematic imagery, orchestral textures from a string section, and custom, semi-transparent metal mesh screen panels that provided a very unique 3D-like layered hologram effect. Because the mesh is semi-transparent, the band performs directly behind the panels. When hit with front projection, the screens displayed opaque sci-fi visuals and when backlit by the specialized lighting setup, the mesh became transparent.

The band began with recent single, “p a r a d 0 x 1 c” released last August and worked their way through older material, with more recent songs, “Brave New World” and “SILOS” seamlessly fitting it as part of the overall narrative.

Newest song, “a n n 1 h 1 l a t 1 0 n” was only released a few weeks ago, everything on stage turned a chemical green for “TokSik”, and the band ended with their breakout hit, “My Demons” drawn from their 2014 debut full-length.​

Chapter 4- Kami Kehoe- A new and rising force

One of KC’s own (born here, but raised in Vegas) Alt/hard rocker Kami Kehoe has a brand-new 15-track full-length, Love is a Weapon, released August 28^th, which follows the successful “Kandy” EP.

Pivoting away from that EP, which chronicled heartbreak and healing, the recent single, “The End” builds on the central theme of devotion and the aching promise of loving someone throughout distance, doubt and everything in between…heavy, but hopeful stuff.

Kehoe started and finished the opening set on the drumkit (playing them since age three) but was otherwise in constant motion, strutting left and right to engage with the crowd, make sure everyone was not too hot or cold, and generally inciting connective and positive celebratory chaos.

2024’s “Sleep When I’m Dead” was a breakout track, blends in some R&B influence with a lyrical admittance of indecisiveness. This openness is common in the rest of the songs to not only be lyrically honest, but to compose songs that are both high-energy and somewhat thought-provoking at the same time.​​