Saw Embryonic Devourment, Battlecross, Aborted, Decrepit Birth and Cattle Decapitation the other night. All the bands played great shows. It was my first time seeing Aborted and in my opinion they stole the show. A great lineup, see this show if it comes to your city.
Saw Embryonic Devourment, Battlecross, Aborted, Decrepit Birth and Cattle Decapitation the other night. All the bands played great shows. It was my first time seeing Aborted and in my opinion they stole the show. A great lineup, see this show if it comes to your city.
Was hoping to travel to see this one but things didn't pan out.
Have Mares of Thrace coming up on the 26th, and Marduk on June 9th.
Saw Embryonic Devourment, Battlecross, Aborted, Decrepit Birth and Cattle Decapitation the other night. All the bands played great shows. It was my first time seeing Aborted and in my opinion they stole the show. A great lineup, see this show if it comes to your city.
Yeah, Aborted played here a few months ago and it was really great. I'd really like to see Decrepit Birth's show...
Gonna see Decapitated on the 26th. I'm anticipating it, but Fucking producers picked a small, shitty venue.
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Oh come on. You said something about manliness in metal two days ago, in the gay lyrics thread and now you say you like new Nightwish. Fucking weirdo. Go fuck whores you poseur.
Just saw Decapitated/Baroness/Meshuggah at house of blues last week, man Decapitated KICKED ASS! I wish they were the headliners. Baroness were pretty good for what they are (wasn't too into them, but they were totally into their music and rocking out... definitely hard following up Decapitated but they had fun). Meshuggah were pretty good, were kinda boring (esp. compared to decapitated D but great show.
Went with my GF, she said Decapitated sounded like a pile of metal in a blender LOL... well kudos for her for staying the whole time, was freaking LOUD in that small venue.
Seeing a bunch of other bands this year too, Mayhem is gonna be amazing with Slayer/Anthrax/Slipknot headlining.
^ Mayhem's shows are fucking insane, you'll certainly have a great time. Saw them like two years ago with Taake, unbelievable gig. I wouldn't mind seeing Meshuggah and Baroness. Can't wait to see Decapitated, just a few more days...
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Oh come on. You said something about manliness in metal two days ago, in the gay lyrics thread and now you say you like new Nightwish. Fucking weirdo. Go fuck whores you poseur.
Vomitory - alright but gets monotonous after awhile.
Aborted - brutal as hell. holy shit! one of my favorites.
Within Temptation - i was huge fan when i was younger and it was nice to finally see them live. i sang along unashamedly lol.
Machine Head - awesome fucking show. their songs really pump up the crowd.
"IT FEELS GOOD TO BE ALIIIIVE!!!" burning cross Behemoth - i saw them 2 years ago on the big stage and now they were on a side stage and it was so much more intense. they had pyrodynamics, burning crosses, and no-hair Nergal had a real evil presence.
Hour of Penance - young italian dudes do blackened death metal and it was so fucking great i bought their cd.
All Shall Perish - good show but they didnt play some songs i wanted to hear. so much dust from the circle pit/wall of death.
Blood Red Throne - awesome band! perfect balance of brutality, speed and groove in death metal. and the vocalist was drunk and funny as hell.
Anaal Nathrakh - this was the most intense and apocalyptic black metal i have ever heard in my life. the vocalist is fucking insane. should check out their discography.
Dying Fetus - i was expecting them to be brutal as fuck and they were exactly that!
Devildriver - surprisingly good. crowd-friendly songs that are sufficiently heavy.
Trivium - they put on a cool show though Matt is kinda cheesy lol.
Ihsahn - he's got this atmospheric and proggy thing going on, together with death backup vocals, clean backup vocals, his own clean vocals, and his signature "shouting black metal" vocals. very nice.
Suffocation - second time seeing them and they are incredible as ever! lol Frank and his funny song introductions.
at this point my battery died so was unable to take more pics. fffuuuuu...
Arcturus - atmospheric and proggy as well. his voice is just beautiful. he does occasional black metal vocals too.
Children of Bodom - extremely entertaining show, quite impressive.
Dimmu Borgir - i was really looking forward to them, screaming like a fanboy. opened with Mourning Palace and went on with Vredesbyrd, Kings of the Carnival Creation, 3 songs from the new record and a couple more that escape me at the moment. i went fucking nuts as i sang along to "hatred, darkness and despair" into chugging riff of Serpentine Offering. they finished with Progenies of the Great Apocalypse, and Shagrath fucked up the lyrics a little but nobody gave a fuck. awesome end to an awesome festival.
Saw Deafheaven, Asiwyfa, Chelsea Wolfe and Russian Circles last night. Hadn't heard Asiwyfa or Russian Cirlces before; mostly went for Chelsea Wolfe, but I liked Deafheaven's debut and wanted to see them as well.
Deafheaven was decent, but I wasn't blown away. The vocalist has sort of a strange stage presence and a lot of the metal parts were not well mixed. Also, I feel like sometimes they just throw three minutes of post rock onto the beginning or end of a black metal track, but they don't do the best job of integrating the sounds. The drummer was really, really good though.
Asifwyfa are instrumental math rock/ metal band from Ireland and were really good. Excellent energy, chemistry and timing. I definitely want to check out their album now and would recommend seeing them live to anyone who is into that style.
Chelsea Wolfe was excellent. Her music has been described as gothic folk or doom folk. She's just sort of artist where whatever kind of emotion her song expresses you feel very intensely. She seemed unsatisfied with the mix but it sounded fine to me. Met her after the show and she was really down to earth and gracious.
Russian Circles was a solid live show, but I don't feel that they're doing anything special. If you've heard Red Sparrowes, Pelican etc. then you can't help but feel like Russian Circles is second hat. Still, it was enjoyable enough concert.
My summer and early fall concert schedule includes: Iron Maiden, Dead Can Dance, Fiona Apple, Swans and Agalloch. Pretty excited for the next few months of shows.
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Saw Lacerated and Carbonized, Incantation and Immolation last night. Fucking great evening.
Lacerated and Carbonized are a Rio de Janeiro band, young and promising, pretty good old school DM.
Both classic bands played awesome sets. Incantation is my favorite, so I had a really great time seeing them again. Immolation played a huge set (21 songs!), a lot of classics. Alex Bouks joined us after the Incantation show and watched the Immo gig until the end. Great guy, he had a few beers with us during the set.
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Oh come on. You said something about manliness in metal two days ago, in the gay lyrics thread and now you say you like new Nightwish. Fucking weirdo. Go fuck whores you poseur.
The Death To All show at Irving Plaza in New York was fucking hell. Something happened to the AC system and it was hot and humid as balls in there. My fingers pruned from the sweat and my clothes were drenched. Despite all that, the crowd/pits probably had the most energy of any concert I've been too. Amazing show despite one of the guitars being incredibly low in the mix.
Czech kvlt metal elite will gather this saturday to witness two norwegian black metal bands Mare and One Tail One Head along with support from Cult of Fire. I'm going to the show with Master_Yoda. It will rule.
^ Sounds fucking amazing. Have fun you sick, lucky bastards.
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Oh come on. You said something about manliness in metal two days ago, in the gay lyrics thread and now you say you like new Nightwish. Fucking weirdo. Go fuck whores you poseur.
but great show. 
Great taste, my friend.
