Death Metal

So yesterday I went to a concert. There where several bands of Trash, Death and Rap Core type. The audience was not that big and it was actually quite chilly inside the venue. That is a first for me, especially since I know that out side I would be sweating.
The bands where:
Ikillya Call themselves death metal on their home page but it sounded much more like a combination of Trash and Hard Core. They had a Mark Zuckerman look-a-like on guitar and Martin Lawrence look-a-like on base-guitar.

The Judas Syndrome playing Death Metal with some other of kind strange type singing in the mix. The stage was not comfortable for them, they had such different acts in the band that it looked very disparate. During their show the moshpit-bizniz happened, read on.



When Everything Fails according to the flyer: I never managed to actually hear what they said their name was and it seemed no one else did either. I only heard that they came from Syracuse and had to puzzle my way to their name. They are a trashy band who looked Brooklyn HC, covered Pantheras Mouth of War as well as one more song that I could not make out, had blatantly stole the riff from welcome to the jungle and probably was the band I would most like to see again. I think they called them selves the dirtiest rock band out there. And maybe not, you should have seen the base players shiny white shoes... but I liked their stage performance.

Hung, a Death metal band who among them had a violinist, and their music made me think about Rough Trader. I did not like the singer as much and the drummer seemed to have some background in jazz. This does not charm me, being allergic to jazz. But the violin gave the music a kind of folksy feel sometime that was interesting.

Slam one Down was a Power Trash Death band as far as I could tell, only saw their last song though so I might not be correct on this. Their singer looked like a Finish Metal Hero anyway and that is always credited.

I guess I should say that none of the bands felt like something that I will follow from now on, but that several of them gave me some interesting thoughts.
There was also the interesting part of the concert when about five people started a mosh pit in front of the scene. The rest of us, maybe 20 backed up when they in a manner never witnessed by me before started wind milling their arms, cartwheeling and break dancing more or less one at a time not to kill each other. They where throwing imaginary punches and kicks in every direction and sometime I wondered if they even kept their eyes closed? It looked more aggressive but foremost more random than any moshpit I ever part took in. I stayed out of it this time I can tell you that, but I was impressed by the short guy who cartwheeled in. That is a move you do not see every day.