Saw Evile for the second time (in less than a month!) Tues night on the Killfest tour in L.A. To absolutely no one's surprise, they were awesome again.
I had my trusty iPhone with crappy built-in camera, so apologies for the sub-standard pics...
I got there early, this time wearing my Evile gas mask shirt to show my support for the guys. Thought I was going to get there late and possibly miss their set (which would make me look really lame wearing their shirt), but fortunately, they opened the doors late. Found a spot at the front left corner of the rail after Woe of Tyrants' set...and proceeded to stay there for the next several hours!
Evile (with help) started setting up behind the screen. I yelled at Ol, Ben and Matt in turn as they came in. I made sure they saw my shirt so they knew at least one person was there to see them (haha). Unfortunately, I never saw Joel until the screen went up since he was on the far opposite side of me. I heard all kinds of 10-second covers for soundchecks - Maiden, Metallica, Anthrax, Pantera being just but a few.
Finally the screen went up, and the crowd had definitely increased in size by then. The band started into "Infected Nation" (this time bypassing the clean intro guitar bit) and it was on. I knew that they were going to be playing the same set (minus "Bathe in Blood") as last month, but it just as awesome to sing along to the second time!
The crowd reaction was great - a lot of them had seen Evile last month and were back for more. There were definitely more people singing along that I saw compared to the Kreator crowd. I even saw a couple other Evile shirts out there. The band looked and sounded good. Ol was in front of me and didn't hesitate to bust out the crouching ninja on our happy asses:
As with all good things, it was soon over and the band thanked everyone for coming out. I'm glad the crowd came out in force for the guys, and IMO it looked and sounded like the guys were thrilled about it:
As the guys broke down their set, I asked Ol if he had any extra picks and he handed me one. In case some of you were scratching your heads wondering what Weapon X was talking about above, here is the official "Old Rake" pick!
I'm curious, Ol - was the misplacement of the "d" done on purpose or a mistake on someone's part?
A cool souveigner! Unfortunately, I will only be able to use it to pick my nose currently, since I'm not much of a guitar hero except in air guitar.
The rest of the bands rocked, and Overkill was just unbelievable in their greatness! And I will back up Weapon X's assessment of the Warbringer frontman's snot rockets - he should have a permit for those.
Great show again, guys!