After
having a fucking blast on my 5 days sail I thought I should continue
with what I started the days before, incl. of keeping high the
level of alcohol ;) And nothing may fit better than getting a
heavy Death Metal inferno that blown me away and run my mind clear.
This evening was actually supposed to turn out into kind of a
festival since it was planned that the guys from SUFFOCATION
tour join forces with the ones from the Deicide tour to conjointly
leave scorched earth. But as it is known that the European Deicide
tour got canceled for some reason turning this evening into a
normal chaos. It was not the worst thing, since mammoth packages
like that are not easy to take. Although, I would have seen the
one and the other band playing live from Deicide tour package
too…
Anyway, in best mood I headed out to Essen,
having a nice small talk with the New York Death Metal merchants
before the show. Stupidly most of timing I got wasted while looking
for the tour manager, handling the guest list and getting the
band together, so I have completely missed INSISION.
Sorry guys…
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DEMENTOR
• Half of DEMENTOR
show I missed as well while I still was twaddling next door. Slovak
death metallers played in front of approx. 50 metal heads not
taking any prisoners with their Death Metal mix of Krisiun’s
and Vader’s fame. The audience got bashed with high-paced
crushers focusing on current material from God Defamer
album released in May. Needless to say that the guys don’t
have anything to do with God… Technically spoken DEMENTOR
were quite ok, showing skills but their set was generally lacking
of great tunes and songs. So with that I left with an average
mind blank that did not make sense.
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DISGORGE
• Well, scenario looked quite different
minutes later when DISGORGE conquered the stage.
Audience has quadrupled and in the first rows there was something
like a different mosh pit on the spot. This level of energy got
me jumping up real quickly.The band’s death metal sound
mixed up with some Grindcore tunes I like much more, pleased me.
Funny this time I could not understand anything what was sung
by the new front man Levier, singing as if there were not any
lyrics at all. This would not have mattered to anybody if not
I guess ;) In the meantime five bands with the same name are roaming
around so I would like to point out that the band DISGORGE
I have seen here is Californians finest Death/Grind export who
– as far as I know - are waiting to unleash their fourth
full-length entitled Parallels Of Infinite Torture.
Great show!
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SUFFOCATION
• Finally anybody else has found
its way from the beer garden to the stage to properly honor revived
American Death Metal cult SUFFOCATION. After
a 6 year hiatus likewise anticipation and expectation has been
high. First barrier SUFFOCATION took with their
comeback album Souls To Deny which got
overwhelmingly accepted and rated everywhere. Although the band
was focusing on current material they played a kind of a best
of setlist through all of their releases. Just Jesus Wept
they did not play, although the crowd was screaming for it. Fans
got pleased with an amazing high-energy eruption of finest Death
Metal, convincing fans and skeptics not only that the old gentlemen
are still able to thrash but also that the guys might live up
to the leading role which got assigned to the band. There is to
sense out that there is heart’s blood in this reunion. These
guys really want to play, they want to thrash hardcore! The crowd
did appreciate and was not stopping while freaking out and banging
their heads off. And there is much more to come, SUFFOCATION
just warmed up… Way to go! Cheers!!! \m/
Setlist: Infecting The Crypts, Surgery Of
Impalement, Liege Of Inveracity, Thrones Of Blood, Effigy Of The
Forgotten, Breeding The Spawn, Torn Into Enthrallment, Subconsciously
Enslaved, To Weep Once More, Deceit // Pierced From Within, Suspended
In Tribulation (thanks to Markus from Exposed
Guts for the setlist) |