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Underoath on tour with Ayrton Mistrals

American rock band Underoath has hit the road on its “Blind Obedience” tour featuring Ayrton Mistral fixtures from Sonus Pro. Based in Moorestown, New Jersey, and with offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, Sonus Pro is a lighting, video and audio rental, production and design house specializing in touring, anime and gaming, and conventions.

For Underoath’s “Blind Obedience” tour the company is furnishing all the lighting and audio equipment and Sonus Pro’s Director of Touring Accounts, Lenny Sasso, is serving as the Lighting Designer and Programmer. Underoath kicked off the 24-city, cross-country tour, which features special guests Periphery and Loathe, in Silver Spring, Maryland, on March 3 and will wrap in Nashville on April 2.

Sasso has a history with Underoath having previously worked with band management and on lighting design for some of Underoath’s festivals and European dates. The “Blind Obedience” tour is the first with Sasso’s own lighting rig and design. He has the Mistrals stacked two each on six U-torm towers upstage of the band. He explains how the fixtures act as bridges in certain songs: “In ‘Dangerous Business’ there’s a big audience chanting moment where we point every Mistral to the audience, and they go pure white with a big gobo look. It happens two or three times during the set and fills the room with a beautiful look.”

The band’s performance of “Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear,” starts low with a guitar. “The Mistrals slowly fade in to match the guitar, then open wide so a gobo fills the stage and complements the the rising swell of the music”, adds Sasso. He notes that the tour marks the first time that “we have no DMX on stage. We go straight from CAT5 to a Ubiquiti switch on stage so each fixture is its own node; we cut the amount of cabling and theoretically there’s zero latency.”

(Photos: Randy Edwards @randyedwardsphotos)

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