BASSAIUM opened for all (they were the promoters of the night). Death M. band from Tokyo that lately released their 2nd full lenght after a leap of 6 year. I'll tell you: death metal has never been on my list and probably it never will (except a few acts pending toward technical death/thrash), but I found their live performance great: great presence on stage, great technique and a lot of energy. I wouldn't be able to tag them by resemblance to other bands... death m. sounds pretty much all the same to me... But it was cool!
SHADY GLIMPSE followed on, opening the way to the thrash session. Young band from Shizuoka, with two albums at their back. Very enjoyable. A modern thrash with a very rich rythmic session, slow-downs and speed-ups, melodic inserts and a serious singing! I really regret I finished by messing up the camera settings during their show, ending distracted by that and missing the chance to shot them a bit more and to listen to them as I should.
KINGS EVIL carried on the duty kicking everybody's ass! Awesome thrash metal act. Founder members are from Sapporo, but the band is Tokyo based now. Reminiscenses from Destructions, Slayer, Kreator; former Metallica fast grinding technique; imposing and powerfull presence on stage. Not one single step, note, sillable out of place or redundant. Pretty much Slayer-like in their attitude... of which they also offered us a cover. Check out their site (one of the few with an English version!) and learn something about doing metal around here. Liked them very much! Guess I'll keep following them.
SURVIVE... Hell yeah! I went for them, you know! What an Aawesome show! As I mentioned on the blog's posting, they play a very modern thrash/MDM, influenced by many more styles. One single thread unify them all: power! I believe this was their first appearance on stage after the end of the tour in support of their new CD, the fifth full lenght. A flawless performance: ramming percussions, ripping singing, nuclear shredding... And great energy and spirit.
HEAVEN IN HER ARMS closed the night with three very long and intriguing tracks. Atmosphearic dark stage, without lights and just a couple of white neon scatered on the floor.
Astonishing quality of sound. Those guys must be sound fanatic (we waited a good half an hour for their appearance), because the result was really impressive. The tunes were not properly bread for the Cpt. theets (metal core/stoner with doom influences... Circle Takes The Square may be an appropriate comparison) and the singer voice sounded absolutely unhearable from the pit (I mean it... no voice!). Nonetheless they left me with the curiosity and the wish to give them and their music one more try, because they have great... huge technique and talent.
No throphys or goodies this time. Actually I badly wanted to meet Survive after the show and greet them, but had to give up and rush out. Indeed you smoky suckers have this damn habit of filling your fu*king lungs with smoke at gigs in lve houses... But you have to learn there is people like the Cpt. who terribly hate THAT smoke of yours... actually can't really stand it)! Well, I don't know what happened... low conditioning or what, but I ended by breathing in so much of it that toward the end of the show I really felt bad. Thought I was about to fainth there! Somehow I resisted until the end, but as music went off, I packed my rags and run out! I'm still blowing shit, now while typing!
But be sure i'll get them next time!
