Metal Up Your Ass and all that Jazz Room V2

UMUR wrote:

UMUR wrote:

It seems an opening has come so that I may be able to attend this otherwise sold out concert: http://pumpehuset.dk/koncerter/symphony-x/ on Friday.

Symphony X, Myrath, Melted Space.

Great concert, although I got a bit too drunk to remember much...oh well that´s how it goes sometimes

Going to have to catch Symphony X one of these days, one of my favourite bands.

Nightfly wrote:

UMUR wrote:

UMUR wrote:

It seems an opening has come so that I may be able to attend this otherwise sold out concert: http://pumpehuset.dk/koncerter/symphony-x/ on Friday.

Symphony X, Myrath, Melted Space.

Great concert, although I got a bit too drunk to remember much...oh well that´s how it goes sometimes

Going to have to catch Symphony X one of these days, one of my favourite bands.

They certainly deliver live. A well playing band and Allen is a great singer and stage personality.

Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE!
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Was practicing E minor chords on bass earlier, and unintentionally played part of Metallica's Damage Inc. Big smile

If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme

Love to see them. They've quite a discography to choose from I guess!

Just got tickets to the Leeds festival, just for the Sunday - Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan and Kvelertak. Can't wait.

^That should be interesting. I´ll be interested to hear what you think of it.

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I´ve actually got a few gigs lined up for the rest of the year already:

First off the Copenhell Festival in a couple of weeks: http://copenhell.dk/

Then Dying Fetus + Black Dahlia Murder + Goatwhore + Ghost Bath in August: https://www.billetlugen.dk/da/event/dying-fetus-black-dahlia-murder-goatwhore-ghost-bath/billetter

Then Obituary, Exodus, Prong in November

and the day after that show Opeth in the Danish Radio/Television house for a sit Down concert.

Not bad.

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Went to see this gig last night - The Black Dahlia Murder, Dying Fetus, Goatwhore, and Ghost Bath.

I missed Ghost Bath, but a friend of mine said he hated it, so I´m not sure I missed anything. Goatwhore was alright. Decent playing and a strong vocalist, who changed his vocals from death to Black metal styled vocals throughout what I saw of the set (which admittedly wasn´t that much).

Dying Fetus crushed the venue. Damn those brutal grooves just Work perfect in a live setting. On album I´ve always found them a bit boring and one-dimensional, but I had a great time seing them live (my Brother loved them too).

The Black Dahlia Murder were tight playing, professional and quite humourous too, which is how I also remember them from seing them last time. Great show too.

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Oh fuck Toby Driver added fragments of my review to Kayo Dot's bandcamp

page: https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-house-on-base-of-sky-2

I can die now.

Edited by bartosso - 26 Aug 2016 at 6:22pm

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^ Congrats.

Thanks!!

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Back from the Leeds festival with mixed feelings. Some of the music was fantastic. The conditions though were disgusting (think I'm getting too old even for a one-day festival ticket - thank God I decided not to camp) with half-a-foot or more deep stinky clay mud covering the site making it nigh on impossible to get from one stage to another in enough time to see anyone. Also the turn out at The Pit (heavy stage) stage was pitiful. You could see on the faces of some of the acts like Mastodon they were far from impressed dragging themselves half way across the world to play in front of 100 pissed metalheads and punks, many of who had to leave early to make the hours journey across swamp to find their cars or coaches while in the background you could hear the funk rock of RHCP playing to several thousand people, few of whom could actually see them.

Of the few bands I got to see, Skindred were good fun as always. Benji Webbe is a great live front-man, delivering his reggae metal with style.

After catching a myriad of samey shitty alt rock bands (including Blossoms who are never off rock radio at the moment but were boring unless you were a teenage girl who likes a pretty face) I came across grungy punk band Milk Teeth. Excellent show and a shame we don't capture heavy punk bands here as they'd be a good fit.

Next up was Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, a supergroup formed by Dillinger Escape Plan songwriter/guitarist Ben Weinman, Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds, Alice in Chains vocalist William Duvall, Dethklok bassist Pete Griffin, and drummer of the Mars Volta, Thomas Pridgen. Their debut album is due out. I'll add them but it's not clear where I'd place them. I've seen them tagged as alt metal and mathcore, and from the show I'd say sludgy progressive mathcore is close. But they also do incorporate alternative metal, hard rock, prog rock and even a dash of funk. Perhaps I'll need to give the album a listen first.

Kvelertak were excellent. Not much to say. A wall of note-perfect sound and a great show.

Dillinger Escape Plan were completely brutal in a very slick way. The performance was top drawer and about the most energetic performance I've ever witnessed. Their brand of mathcore might draw a big audience normally but at an indie rock festival it was far too difficult for many in the audience to get their heads around it and there were plenty of bemused faces in the crowd who instead focussed on the moshing rather then the music. The disappointment at the lack of punters though was obvious on the band's faces.

Mastodon too looked underwhelmed by the turn-out but delivered the most polished performance of the day, really sludging things up on the night.

Some great bands but I think I'll be sticking to metal and hard rock gigs in future rather than these generic catch-alls, which don't work. And next time I'm going in a pair of waders.