“I thought I had walked into a geriatric home for a second, but you [expletives] proved me wrong,” Papa Roach lead singer Jacoby Shaddix yelled while hanging from the pillars in the middle of Otto’s stage.

That quote wrapped up the entire night as chaos, better known as crowd surfing and moshing, broke loose at Otto’s Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway.

California-native Die Trying opened the show with a small crowd of about 70, but managed to get some people headbanging. This led into the Reach 454 set, which really got the crowd going as the first mosh pit busted open.

“It feels good being up there,” 454’s lead singer Rene Mata said after the set as he wandered through the crowd. “We had to get the crowd going a little bit, but it was definitely cool.”

The crowd gradually grew as those watching Dysception in the Underground made their way upstairs in time for the beginning of the Nonpoint set, which increased the size of the pit. But after an exhausting set, the crowd became restless as a chorus of “Papa Roach, Papa Roach” echoed through Otto’s.

Darkness.

Screams from the crowd grew louder.

The blue glow of blacklights illuminated the stage, and dark silhouettes of the men in black walked out.

Louder.

Shaddix hadn’t made his appearance, but guitarists Tobin Esperance and Jerry Horton started with heavy riffs as the lights gradually faded into red.

Shaddix jumped into the red light and let loose the melee of toe-rattling bass and glass-shattering screams. The mosh pit started without hesitation.

After a couple of songs, Shaddix decided he didn’t want to stay on the small stage, so he jumped over the barriers onto the waiting crowd.

And it didn’t stop there. He decided that crowd surfing wasn’t enough.

It’s time to mosh.

He wove through the crowd, followed by his microphone chord, and hugged everyone in his way. BAM. He slammed into another person, and the pit started.

Arms are swinging, legs are kicking, people are loosing their balance, bodyguards and bouncers are freaking out.

“Everybody sit down for the rest of this song. Everybody sit down,” he yells.

He found his way back to the stage and eventually ended the set with “Between Angels and Insects” and left the legions black and blue.