Last night I got to Reggie's just as Predator was taking the stage. They played an enthusiastic set of crunchy thrash, the kind of shit that you listen to while drinking cheap beer and spray painting 666 on stuff to. I don't mean enthusiastic as crappy but admirable, just admirable since they were pretty good. They are a young band and if they keep going down the road of fucking rock they will be a force to be reckoned with in the future.
Souls Demise came on next. Their best parts were their heavier stuff and I dug the power metal tinged solos. They should just go ahead and play death metal! They got the chops for it and it would fit them tighter than a glove made out of the skin of baby Jesus or whatever, hail satan.
I've seen Whut? several times, and none of those times have ever involved a modicum of sobriety, except last night. I always thought Whut? were cool because I was drunk and it's the kind of music to be drink lots of beer while yelling, but it turns out they are a really tight, fierce, and uh good band. They play a bastard hybrid of hardcore and metal that's reminiscent of oh Lamb of God in a damn good way. Fuck yeah! Good for driving a monster truck to and maybe EXTREME flower arrangement.
I Decline came on 4th. What a deal, I was thinking, 5 bands for 12 bucks! At that point I was thinking that I Decline was going to be cool sounds like a something a cool straight edge HXC would be named, but I should have seen trouble coming when I saw that there were 5 mikes on stage. 5! They came on and they were loud. I like loud. Alas! They kept going. They played some really slick heavy metal, in fact it shouldn't be heavy metal, more like harder than usual rock. Despite their kinda cool psychedelicesque grooves and high energy they were aesthetically offensive to me. Bah.
I Decline had so much gear that Toxic Holocaust would seem under equipped to the casual observer. MAN. Toxic fucking Holocaust! Who'd thing that harsh songs heavily centered around the post-apocalypse that sound that they are being sung by some kind of satanic death robot would be so awesome. Oh wait, that sounds really fucking cool! Toxic Holocaust started off with Joel Grind growling, "Do we have any wild dogs here tonight?" before blasting into the song by the same name. He doesn't sound as much as an evil robot live but dude comes very close. They were fucking sharp, blazing through songs without falling into the trap of playing too fast as to render the songs unrecognizable. Ronnie's has very good sound and it's even better when good bands put it to proper use. At one point I saw some old dude moshing, I'm talking like grandfatherly old. If you're getting the elderly to mosh you are doing waaay better than okay. So I see this old guy moshing and it made me think, "Fuck you old man." Then I jumped into the circle pit. I'm not big mosh fan, most of the time I'd rather hang around the edges and pick people up than get into the fucking madness. But I decided that I couldn't just stand there while a guy who might qualify for medicare was out there. Of course I got caught in the whole thing as one is wont to do in a pit and it was a blast, but I really wanted to slam into that older gentleman You see how good Toxic Holocaust was? They made me want to hit an old person.
I also went to a really good show on friday night but I was really drunk so I can't remember any details except that all the bands are from Chicago and they rock. Oh wait, I do remember something... A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL.
You should listen to them!
Mickey
Liquor Store
Pink Torpedo
The Pleats
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