In June 2013, fresh off A Flash Flood of Colour—the album where St Albans' Enter Shikari first wove electronics and rap into post-hardcore, transmuting political rage into a dance manifesto—the British band, born in a teen garage in 1999, shredded the Download Festival stage in Donington, an annual rock event where their frenzy counterpointed headliners Iron Maiden. Rou Reynolds' hour-long whirlwind of improvisations, with synth surges and guitar walls, reshaped the festival grounds into a rebellion coliseum, where lyrics of resistance scaled to festival grandeur under summer skies.