I’M STILL CLEANING THE CORPSEPAINT OFF MY FACE
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 11:30am by Vince NeilsteinThis past weekend was “The Blackened Weekend” here in NYC, a 3-night series of metal shows put on by the same folks behind the Mastodon / Neurosis show a couple of winters back and the Pig Destroyer / Brutal Truth / Repulsion joint this past summer. Krallice headlined Friday’s show with support from Liturgy, Malkuth and Orphan, while Black Anvil teamed up with Skeletonwitch to destroy the very same venue (Brooklyn’s Union Pool) on Saturday night. Last night’s weekend-ending show was the grand poobah of The Blackened Weekend headlined by the grand poobah of doom supergroups, Shrinebuilder. The band put on an energetic show to a packed house at Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge — a curious choice of venue for a metal show but by no means a bad one — that, as expected, highlighted elements of all of the band-members’ respective “other” bands in the best possible way.
Friday night’s Krallice show was a rager — Union Pool was packed to the gills and even spawned a moshpit, a rarity for these types of shows. Though I had some difficulty with Krallice’s recent release Dimensional Bleedthrough, the band absolutely smoked live and proved that their show-stealing set at last winter’s Scion Rock Fest wasn’t an anomaly. Check out some fan-filmed footage from right up-front below; I doubt anyone’s going to sit through all 20 minutes, but at least watch a sample or let the audio play in the background while you go about your morning routine. The audio quality is even pretty decent.
-VN
Krallice | NYC @ Union Pool | Friday 13th November 2009 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.
great footage
The show at Le Poisson Rouge last night was, indeed, pretty killer. I was bummed that Rwake, being one of my very favorite bands, only had time to play four songs, but at least two of them were new and pretty damned awesome despite being unfamiliar.
Liturgy brought the rage. It was my first time seeing them, and I’m not without my criticisms, but right the hell on for a quality local band to be holding it down with Rwake and Shrinebuilder.
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Shrinebuilder, having not listened to any of their tracks prior to the show, but I was really impressed. It’’s always a treat to watch / listen to / be destroyed by Dale Crover’s drumming. Al’s bass parts ruled, Wino’s psych-y guitar tripouts were pretty epic and Scott Kelly brought the mean. I thought things might get mean for a moment when he waved a photographer’s camera and flash out of his face (dude was cramming it right in there, like he was with CT all through Rwake’s set), but it was not to be. If I had one negative thing to say, it’s that Kelly’s guitar tone sat too far down in the mix most of the time… I’d have liked to be able to pick him out more.
I sat through all 20 minutes and loved every second
great band. so who’s gonna be the first to rip on colin for wearing tight jeans?