Well, I've been off the boards long enough to be proclaimed dead. I'm sure there've been some killer discussions going on while I was dragging my wretched corpse up and down Honshu, I'll just have to catch up later.
For the time being I'd like to offer a review of the Beast Feast festival last weekend in Tokyo.
I should start off by saying that I live in a very small town in Northern Japan, and haven't been to a concert in just about a year.
The biggest dissapointment was that I had to work Saturday, and didn't even make it into the city till Sunday afternoon. Just in time for Morbid Angel. They played a lot of older material (just as well, seeing as I haven't really listened to them for about 5 years.) but the sound quality was poor, and over distorted. I could hardly tell which song they were playing. Then came a bunch of Japanese and American bands which I wasn't familiar with, and didn't do much to impress me. However, there were some very sexy metal babes present, whom with I took the opportunity to make aquaintance.
One Minute Silence (the singer sounded Irish???) did a very annoying and repititous 45min set. which after a couple more Japanese bands (Bat Cave was decent, very offensive vocalist by Japanese standards) and then came the headliners...Machine Head and Pantera. I used to listen to these bands in high school, and am familiar with their early material.
Preface: I went to karaoke the Friday night previous to the concert.
Conclusion: Yours truly may be tone deaf, but the way Mr. Flynn was crooning into the mic last Sunday was enough to make your dog hide under the back porch.
Pantera put on a good show, and was joined by various other artists throughout their performance. I was glad they played lots of the older shit that I knew too.
Dissapointments: Machine Head, not seeing Slayer
Highlights: Pantera, the metal babes
Looking forward to the Candiria/Cryptopsy show in October.
take it easy
For the time being I'd like to offer a review of the Beast Feast festival last weekend in Tokyo.
I should start off by saying that I live in a very small town in Northern Japan, and haven't been to a concert in just about a year.
The biggest dissapointment was that I had to work Saturday, and didn't even make it into the city till Sunday afternoon. Just in time for Morbid Angel. They played a lot of older material (just as well, seeing as I haven't really listened to them for about 5 years.) but the sound quality was poor, and over distorted. I could hardly tell which song they were playing. Then came a bunch of Japanese and American bands which I wasn't familiar with, and didn't do much to impress me. However, there were some very sexy metal babes present, whom with I took the opportunity to make aquaintance.
One Minute Silence (the singer sounded Irish???) did a very annoying and repititous 45min set. which after a couple more Japanese bands (Bat Cave was decent, very offensive vocalist by Japanese standards) and then came the headliners...Machine Head and Pantera. I used to listen to these bands in high school, and am familiar with their early material.
Preface: I went to karaoke the Friday night previous to the concert.
Conclusion: Yours truly may be tone deaf, but the way Mr. Flynn was crooning into the mic last Sunday was enough to make your dog hide under the back porch.
Pantera put on a good show, and was joined by various other artists throughout their performance. I was glad they played lots of the older shit that I knew too.
Dissapointments: Machine Head, not seeing Slayer
Highlights: Pantera, the metal babes
Looking forward to the Candiria/Cryptopsy show in October.
take it easy