What a nice way to end a week of piracy: alone in the port for ten days, pizza in the belly and my preferred mastif from hell - Hellhound - in my face, at Crescendo live house! I love those boys!
Din't manage to be on time for all the other bands sheduled to appear (Dollache, Freaksxx, Assertion, Apologist), nor I even tried to: show started at 17:30, but seas patroling and pizza refill proved to be longer than expected. So I ended up there around 20:00 just in time get the closing of Apologist's show. And luckyly! Because I have to confess that little could be more far away from me than their music (a rather unappealing black/death m.). Yet the singer is a real character and I relly laughed out my lungs at his jokes and friendly thrash talk!
Anyway, Hellhound wiped out the place! Started as usual with buddy Crossfire sipping from a bottle of old Jack D. and the show didn't last very long, but they hit our asses with a battery of classics plus a couple of shells from the new album (out on Sept. 9.). The titles are already a program: "Metal Psycho" (cool pun played on the English psycho and the Jap. SAIKO, which means "awesome, the best") and "M.E.T.A.L Education". By the way, a free sample CD with a rough mix of the two new tracks was awaiting each headbanger at the entrance (check it out •HERE•). The house wasn't really filled up, but everybody went on fu*king fire! Dudes, they're pure old school heavy metal... A mix of Anvil, Exciter, Raven... So simple, so immadiate, so catchy, but so freaky incredible! Horns up and busted neck even without alcohoolics! I'll tell you, I'm seriously considering the possibility of a raid to Germany, to check them out where they're going to play this November. I just need two busy months as this past July, and you can bet your ass I'll be on my way! And then go back and forth to L.A. every 2 months, of course!
But I love them even more, because after the gig, when I went to greet them at their merch. stand, buddy Swordmaster called me aside and gave me a very nice souvenir: the video bootleg of one of January 20th gig I missed! Hot stuff, guys: the original film of the two crammy vids currently on yT (check below)! Port Royal brotherhood can get it complete from the server, obviously. Blog sailors, instead, will get only the yT teaser below for now.
Live footage from 20/01/2008 gig (from yT):
