wow.. can you say overbooked?? 8 bands on a tuesday starting whenever the lucky dog staff decides to roll in? good luck! seriously, i hope the bands don't get the shaft
it seems overbooked but it should be fine. The show would start around 8-8:30 with bands playing 30 min set, no complain here, the line up is solid as fuck and comunication wont be a problem, the Zircon crew handle things smoothly, at least what I have seen
first of all pentagram owns, second off, im pretty sure Nocturnum is no longer together, either that or they simply lost a guitarist. Anyone know one way or the other for sure?
post by anonymous at Aug 7,2007 3:21pm
Nocturnum are playing as far as I know, they went ahead with only one guitar and they seem ok with it.
wow.. can you say overbooked?? 8 bands on a tuesday starting whenever the lucky dog staff decides to roll in? good luck! seriously, i hope the bands don't get the shaft
good ol' Lucky Dog. i really, really despise that place.
If the mass amounts of cognitive dissonance, psychic confusion and symbolic violence that have gone into the artistic creations found on this split cd could be harnassed by the world's competing military powers, this planet would end up little more than a smoking ball of shit floating in space. Such is the ra(n)ge of emotion here: Darkness, despondency, hopelessness, disgust - with mass extermination as the only and ultimate solution. Oh sure, most already know that Watchmaker's punishing brand of grind-punk-thrash-death can kill small gatherings of people at fifty paces on an off-day, but this Hirudinea lot certainly up the nuclear capability of the disk a few notches. Or are they just pissed at the continuing chaos created by paved-over horse-and-buggy trails disguised as thoroughfares and The Big Dig?
Hirudinea, and Watchmaker are both from Boston and while there's no concrete evidence that the venomous anger emanating from this release doesn't spawn from the absolute frustration Bostonians deal with in attempting to navigate through the motorized pea soup they call traffic up there, you never can be too sure. When the dual throat-shredding attack of Hirudinea's Mike and Jay Beckwith bellow, "Always holding on/Get the fuck off...Just kill us!," are they philosophically discussing the perils of euthanasia or talking about just trying to get from Faneuil Hall to Fenway Park in less than an hour? Is Watchmaker's Brian Livoti screeching "Nuked To Ashes" his societal premonition or a solution to getting vehicles out of his fucking way so he won't be late for work?
Actually, Hirudinea's vastly entertaining cross of grind, power violence, 80's UK punk, black/death metal and crossover breakdowns - imagine Bolt Thrower, Man Is The Bastard, Discharge, Nunslaughter and old Norse black metal - is tempered with what could be interpreted as lyrical contradictions where in one song the band seem to decry religion and it's followers ("As Good As Dead") while asking for a higher power to exterminate humanity the next track ("Just Kill Us"). But these things are always open to interpretation. What isn't, however, is how Hirudinea batter the listener with acrimonious and irascible lo-fi mayhem; the militaristic drum patterns of "This I Command" give the endtyme riffs that much more potency while the revved-up Obituary grooves of "As Good As Dead" could start a killing spree.
Watchmaker will always be an accquired taste. If you can't stomach the sound of everything you hold sacred collapsing around your ears in a flaming, bloody heap, then avoid this chaotic fuckfest. Their sound is that of death-grind crossed with the likes of Whitehouse and Wold taken to an illogical conclusion. There are actually moments when it sounds like the guitars were recorded through a phone and, like Sodom's In The Sign Of Evil EP, that they might not even be playing together on parts of "Hoist Upon Canard." But somehow it manages to work; the unrestrained nature of the band is held together by Livoti's banshees-raping-demons voice and the fact these dudes have hateful sincerity oozing from every fucking pore. [www.bestialonslaught.com]
- Kevin Stewart-Panko
post by CADY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Aug 8,2007 1:21am
This show is going to be fun. A lot of great bands playing together on one bill finally!!
first of all pentagram owns, second off, im pretty sure Nocturnum is no longer together, either that or they simply lost a guitarist. Anyone know one way or the other for sure?
They're still together. One of the guitar players left the band on good terms. They will be playing with one guitar player for now.
post by IMMOLATION at Aug 8,2007 9:58am
Samantha said:
VomittingCarcass said:
first of all pentagram owns, second off, im pretty sure Nocturnum is no longer together, either that or they simply lost a guitarist. Anyone know one way or the other for sure?
They're still together. One of the guitar players left the band on good terms. They will be playing with one guitar player for now.
Charlie left?
post by VomittingCarcass at Aug 8,2007 10:05am edited Aug 8,2007 10:28am
ya, he told me when i talked to him a couple weeks ago.
post by IMMOLATION at Aug 8,2007 10:27am
VomittingCarcass said:
ya, he told me when i talked to him a couple weeks ago. How was the show?
mortalis: I can't wait until these guys are just a guitar and a kickdrum. Someone make that in to photoshopped reality. The guitarist did a really good job on the drums. I was sort of surprised about that. They tried to cover stripped raped and strangled by unfortunately missed it. The sound coming from the stage was a little lacking.
beyond revenge: decent death metal and just out of the studio, but the sound once again was lacking. Something's up on that stage tonight.
hirudinea: what a wonderful punch to the head. Take carnivore, impaled, forest of impaled and original carcass. Mix it together with grindcore's original hate and that's hirudinea. They started off late because they were late, but man. The sound guy must have found the volume knob finally. They were loud and clear. Plus, you could walk from one side of the stage to the other and still hear everything. The soon to be ex-downfall lent them drums. Their set was over too quickly. Maybe 4 songs. Can't wait to see them one day at the new o'briens.
downfall: probably the highlight of the night was the brujeria cover of pito wilson (or the Jello Biafra song). Not my favorite brujeria song, but I was the bestest! Like I said before, the sound was loud and clear. To prove that fact the bass dropped from his shoulders and it was so noticible. This was definitely one of their top sounding sets that I've seen of them. there was even a touch of the crazy mosh at the end.
nocturnum: the sound was a bit labored. Mostly during the beginning of their set. As it got towards the end, the sound got better. I guess they had 2 guitarist until recently, but that dude left. The vocalist had a pedal and did some crazy vocals like he was in dimmu borgir or satyricon. I ran out side during the end of their set to take some snaps of zircon standing in an alley.
zircon: I have never been in an alley quite so smelly as the alley I was in with zircon. Their set was rockin' mostly a wall of black metal goodness. The new guitarist works perfectly in the band. Good for them.
candy striper death orgy: they kicked out an undestructible killing force. The slamdancing was in full force in time for their set. I love when eric says "this is an old csdo song" but they are all old songs. Ahaha. See you guys sunday.
post by timjohnny at Aug 15,2007 1:00am
wtf is wrong with some sound guys? they take it upon themselves to dish out good or bad sound quality for bands, based on personal preference or fickle shit. your job is to get good sound for bands who have taken the time to cart all their shit out, let alone drive from who knows where, with whatever reponsibilities the next day and usually for no or little money. some people can't roll out of bed at 8 pm and walk up the block in their shitty neighborhood for work at the lucky dog and then go home and sleep until noon.
and as far as SR being banned, no one ever said that explicitly... it just might be a little bit awkward...
Hey Rev,thanks alot bro for coming back into that wretched dark alley to get the new band shots,I'm anxious to see how they came out. This was the best tuesday yet there.
post by Deathz at Aug 15,2007 1:03pm
the_reverend said:
mortalis: I can't wait until these guys are just a guitar and a kickdrum. Someone make that in to photoshopped reality. The guitarist did a really good job on the drums. I was sort of surprised about that. They tried to cover stripped raped and strangled by unfortunately missed it. The sound coming from the stage was a little lacking.
beyond revenge: decent death metal and just out of the studio, but the sound once again was lacking. Something's up on that stage tonight.
hirudinea: what a wonderful punch to the head. Take carnivore, impaled, forest of impaled and original carcass. Mix it together with grindcore's original hate and that's hirudinea. They started off late because they were late, but man. The sound guy must have found the volume knob finally. They were loud and clear. Plus, you could walk from one side of the stage to the other and still hear everything. The soon to be ex-downfall lent them drums. Their set was over too quickly. Maybe 4 songs. Can't wait to see them one day at the new o'briens.
Hey Reverend did he say by any chance when he's leaving?
my loss... 
