CHIODOS END THEIR ANNIVERSARY TOUR IN ANAHEIM WITH RAW ENERGY AND ZERO APOLOGY
Chiodos returned to the House of Blues in Anaheim to close out the All’s Well That Ends Well 20th anniversary tour, delivering a final night that felt heavy with memory, emotion, and release. For the crowd, it was a celebration of a record that shaped a generation. For me, it was the last show of a nonstop year spent documenting live music from the pit.
The room filled fast, and the energy never dipped. Fans pressed against the barricade, hands wrapped around the rail, voices rising in unison as each familiar lyric hit. The barricade shook—not from chaos, but from feeling—decades of connection surfacing all at once in a space built for moments like this.
Chiodos performed with a sense of purpose that matched the weight of the night. The songs felt worn in, not worn out, carried by lighting that shifted between intensity and restraint. Nothing about the set felt like a throwback. It felt present—alive in the way only music tied to personal history can be.
As the final notes faded, the night settled into something quieter but lasting. The end of a tour, the end of a chapter for the album, and for me, a fitting way to close out a demanding year of shooting live music. Emotional, loud, and deeply human, Chiodos in Anaheim was the right kind of ending—one that reminds you why you keep showing up with a camera in the first place.
