Hello!
Here is a short review of the show that we (does not matter who)
attended this last Sunday. The show once again took place at Flying
Machine (it seemingly becomes a tradition). First of all we had Puppet,
which I assume is a local band. Total shit, total shit, total shit!!!
Crypt Kicker
Taken from www.cryptkicker.com
Fortunately, they did not play long enough to bore me to death. Then,
all of the sudden, I spotted some folks belonging to From The Depths
camp moving some equipment towards the stage, which was very strange,
because they were not scheduled to play at all that night. However,
after some short tune up they did play a somewhat short set, which did
not even include my favorite "Bereavement". I also must note that for
whatever reason they played as a 3-piece that night missing both bass
and keyboard player. This fact certainly affected their performance, but
I still liked them! In the end of their set they yet once again played
Metallica's "Creeping Death" (?) with some big corpse-painted guy taking
over vocalist's duties. After them Crypt Kicker hit the stage. It was my
first acquaintance with one of Cleveland's favorite bands and I have to
admit they are pretty good. Not exactly my kind of metal, but still
pretty solid and, certainly, far above average KORN-Pantera-Machine Head
clones currently polluting the scene. Liked their vocalist too - guy has
a helluva of stage presence! SIX FEET UNDER... What can I say? They just
fucking killed! It was the biggest surprise of the night, especially as
I expected them to be total shit, according to everything I had heard
about them in the past, including their music and their (his - Chris
Barnes') personality.
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I knew they play brutal death metal and as Chris
Barnes used to growl in Cannibal Corpse for a while I thought it would be
something in the same vein (and I don't like Corpse said at least).
However, it turned out to be quite a different experience. What I saw
was very powerful, energetic and tight performance and what really made
the difference is the fact that the majority of their songs are played
mid-tempo unlike, say, Cannibal Corpse. All in all, what a nice
surprise! Manowar... After Six Feet Under played their set a lot of
people left the building, which made me laugh thinking how stupid they
were leaving right before The Best band, Kings of Metal started to play.
Six Feet Under
Taken from www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Villa/1976/
Other bands play, Manowar kills, you know! However, around 60-70 minutes
later I realized how stupid I was believing in all the hype given to
Manowar during their long and ugly career. First of all, it took
bastards way toooo long to get on stage, I was actually ready to go when
they finally appeared in the cloud of shit. They played VERY LOUD, which
is completely pointless INHO, because if your music is shit it certainly
won't help you to make it any better. It took me only 4 songs to realize
that Manowar is a total gimmick, there is nothing besides the image
which holds this band together and their image is even bigger and more
disgusting than that of Marilyn Manson!!! I say fuck'em!
Regards,
Andy.
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