State College got a full dose of nu-metal Wednesday night.
The Bryce Jordan Center was filled to the brim with a diverse crowd, ranging from moms to pre-pubescent teenagers and a heavy crowd of tattooed men with goatees.
Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin co-headlined the event, along with the female-fronted Texas band Flyleaf.
Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier -- who was fitted with a fashioned fedora -- repeatedly asked the crowd to get on its feet and make some noise.
"I want to see what Penn State's got," Gontier said.
The Canadian group, who sported a healthy amount of mascara and hair gel, serenaded the crowd with its breakthrough song, "I Hate Everything About You," getting the crowd to sing it back at the band.
Gontier advised the crowd to get the band's new album, "Life Starts Now," by any means possible.
"I don't care if you buy it, burn it or f--king steal it," Gontier said. "Just get it."
Opening the concert was Flyleaf -- fronted by Lacey Mosley, who wore a red dress over a pair of jeans and proudly showered the crowd with her vocal prowess.
Singing songs off both the band's self-titled and recent album, "Memento Mori," Mosley twirled like a ballerina as the band's guitarists jumped spastically on stage.
Before playing "Arise," Mosley told the crowd that they should reach for their dreams.
"Just because we're standing on the stage doesn't make us better than anyone else in this room," Mosley said to a cheering crowd. "Arise and be all that you'd dream."
Still, Flyleaf wasn't heavy enough for Jon Rooker, a Williamsport native.
Rooker, who said he came to see Breaking Benjamin, said Flyleaf was "pretty good," but he started falling asleep.
"I've just known them for a really long time, and I have all their old music," Rooker said of Breaking Benjamin. "I don't know a bad song by them."
Also making appearance at the show were the effects of alcohol, which caused a fight near Rooker and his friend Justin Snyder, also of Williamsport.
"The people started arguing," Snyder said. "And the drunk guy in the back punched the other guy in the face."
The man that was punched was wearing a cast. They were quickly escorted from their seats.
"There's been a drunk person next to me at every concert I've been too," Rooker said.
It was also a night of related celebration for Three Day Grace's Brad Walst, who turned 21 last night.
A stagehand came out, wished Walst a 'Happy Birthday,' and shared a quick drink with him.
