SHADOWS FALL PERFORM A PUBLIC EXECUTION IN MANILA

And I don’t mean that they literally killed someone.

What The Shads did do is slay  — in the figurative, idiomatic sense of the word — a gimongous (15,000 people) audience in the Philippines last year, and filmed and recorded the event to boot. The result will be Madness in Manila, a new DVD/CD set the band is releasing on October 26.

Noisecreep is offering the first taste of the Madness in the form of a stream of “A Public Execution,” the studio version of which originally appeared on last year’s Retribution.

As for the quality? It’s Shadows Fall! On a bad day, these dudes still rip, and this recording doesn’t sound like they were having a bad day. I can just see Brian Fair’s windmilling dreads in my mind’s eye. It’s making me realize I haven’t seen these guys live in too long. Sad for me.

Check out the live version of “A Public Execution” here. You can pre-order Madness in Manila here.

-AR