You look around to see if anybody else noticed the people in the mosh pit change, but as far as you can tell, everyone else is just grooving with the music.
There are a few animal people scattered amongst the rest of the audience as well, but you can't tell if they've been changed by the music, or if they were that way before as well - they don't seem to be as toned as the others though, so you lean towards them having been that way before.
What's also interesting is that the phenomenon seems to be very localized - only the people in the mosh pit got changed, and while anyone that enters later gradually gets transformed as well, it doesn't seem to expand beyond the outer ring of participants, which still means some minor expansion over the next few pieces due to everyone getting bigger and broader after entering, but aside from that, the effect is restricted to everyone in the pit.
You still are busy watching and listening, and still don't quite know what to make of the whole situation, when the music ends and the vocalist starts talking again. "Alright, I see we have some real party animals here! It's been fun, but we think it's time we let the next band get their turn - if you've enjoyed the music so far, make some noise!"
The crowd predictably starts hollering and cheering, and once they have a chance of being heard again, they continue. "Thank you, thank you - we'll be performing again tomorrow, so if you can't get enough of us, we'll see you then, but for now, we'll have to say goodbye!" - and taking a bow, they set down their instruments and leave.
You'd expect some workers to come and change things around so the next band has everything set up, but instead, everything above the stage's floor vanishes in a massive puff of smoke that quickly engulfs the whole stage.
You vaguely believe you can hear a mechanical noise in the background, but things stay quiet otherwise, until you see a pair of red lights in the fog - almost like eyes, but unblinking, and standing perfectly still.
Shortly afterward, several more lights turn on - some eye-like dots, some obvious stage or background lighting, and some you simply aren't sure about, but you hear some music in the background, so it's probably the next band's opening act.
This guess turns out to be true, and while the smoke clears up slowly enough that you can't see more than their outlines for the entire first track, you can tell that they all have glowing eyes, visors, or other shiny implements around their eyes and also move rather unnaturally, almost as if they have an easier time stopping their movements than starting the next one.
Somewhat fittingly, the music sounds much more artificial too - lots of electronic sounds that definitely didn't originate from anything other than a computer, and a dominating base thumping along with the beat.
As the smoke finally clears up, you get your first look at the new band, and somewhat fittingly, they're all artificial - the red eyes belong to a Terminator-esque robot sitting at the drum kit, the other dots you saw actually were lights on the visor of a strange, bipedal machine-animal hybrid whose entire face is projected onto a snout-like, black screen that reminds you of Daft Punk's helmets, and otherwise seems to be a mix of the fluffiest animal you've ever seen mixed with some chunky machine or armor parts, which doesn't seem to stop it from furiously tapping away at its Keytar with its clawed fingers.
The third member seems to be an almost stereotypical futuristic punk, complete with, a synth-leather jacket with neon highlights, slightly beat-up pants, a colourful hairdo, and softly glowing visor-like glasses in front of his eyes.
He seems to be missing an instrument, but shortly after you have that thought, you notice the microphone in his hand - which he uses to address the crowd.
"Hello to all of you stuck in the past - how'd you like our sounds of the future?"
Predictably, the crowd cheers, and both of the more robotic band members play a small fanfare on their instruments while the elaborate neon lights in the back flash rapidly.
"We seem to be missing our DJ, could you please join us as well?"
Suddenly, the DJ booth further back lights up, a hologram of a similarly futuristically dressed woman appears behind the table.
She bows, and then proceeds to pick up the headset and put it on her head - obviously she's also a person and not just a projection gimmick.
"Alright, now that we're ready to go, pull out your glow sticks and let's have some fun!"
And with those words - and lots of cheering from the crowd - the next track starts, with many people actually pulling out glow sticks and other assorted glowing implements from seemingly nowhere.
Everyone's moving to the beat again, and while the genre shift from the previous band is a bit harsh, and you spot a few people leave, most of them stay, and soon you find yourself in the middle of a sea of fog, sweat, and neon glow.
For a while, everyone's just dancing, but at some point during the second song, a big arc of lightning springs forth from above the stage and hits a very enthusiastic raver's glow sticks.
A few people around them gasp in surprise, but they are still dancing all the same, and once your eyes have recovered from the bright light, you see a small robot floating there, still dancing to the music.
This one seems to be styled after more modern "futuristic" robots, with lots of white plastic, sleek shapes, glowing seams, and an array of LCD lights for a face - and they're taking full advantage of the fact that they don't have a sense of balance to worry about, spinning their body around like a top.
A few more lightning strikes, and you can make out a pattern again - it always seems to hit the people enthusiastically waving their glow sticks around, and the result is always something futuristic, although it seems to be a lot more varied than the previous band's "big muscly animal person" transformation - from the simplistic, sleek robot that doesn't really look like anything beyond a vague humanoid shape to more elaborate robots from various eras of Science Fiction movies, Cyborgs, people that seem to be fresh out of a cyberpunk movie, and even a few living holograms, there is a lot of variance to what the people get turned into this time.
In fact, while there is a decent contingent of animal people this time around as well - including a massive robot styled after a lioness - there are also quite a few that stay human, and at least one of the holograms seems to be switching their form every other minute, with the only constant being their size.
More importantly though, the music is still just as fun to dance to, and while you do look around to see all the exciting changes, it's easy to lose yourself to the beat, and as a result, you quickly lose track of how long the new band has been playing.