Incredible show tonight. I saw Derkéta, Noisem, Gorguts, The Black Dahlia Murder and Carcass tonight. Derkéta is a local all female old school death/doom band from Pittsburgh, they opened with a couple songs and they were pretty cool, nothing spectacular but they were really heavy.
Noisem were absolutely insane, seriously one of the most intense live bands I've heard or seen in my entire life. Completely blew me away with their intensity, energy, and raw fury. And oh my fucking god were they loud. I'm talking ear drum shattering, face melting, speaker exploding loud. My ear drums are still recovering as we speak. They didn't interact with the crowd all that much in between songs or even take any breaks between songs for that matter. They didn't have an intro track, they did their sound check and as soon as they were ready they started. They didn't introduce themselves or anything, they came out, destroyed the stage, blew the roof off of the place, said thanks and walked off. An experience I'll never forget. They earned a fan tonight.
Gorguts were amazing as well and they were fucking loud too. They were sooooo fucking heavy, I'm talking bone crushing heavy. They were so tight and precise with their playing and their new drummer is almost jaw dropping to watch. Their music really takes on a whole new life when you're there hearing it played live at that volume. It's like this unstoppable mammoth crushing everything in sight. The band's softer moments were just as intense as well, you could feel them sucking you in with every note, it was just awesome. I was just extremely disappointed that they played such a short set. I think they only played like three songs.
Now with The Black Dahlia Murder I was not sure what to expect and I know very little about their music. I just know they seem to be pretty popular and are some sort of metalcore/melodeath band. They actually surprised the hell out of me and played an incredible set. They had a ton of energy and enthusiasm. Lots of headbanging/thrashing/fist pumping moments. I didn't know any of the songs but I was headbanging, air drumming/guitaring to their shit I will admit. They were actually a ton of fun, I might actually check out some of their albums lol.
Carcass were great too lol. They played songs from pretty much every album and sounded sharp. I actually left early for their set because my feet were really tired and my knees were starting to hurt from standing for so long. And as much as love I Carcass I don't think I can sit through an hour and a half of their music. Which was how long their set was going to be. I stayed for most of it but I cut out probably a half hour early. I wish they would have lengthened Gorgut's set a little more and shortened Carcass's.
Anyways it was an amazing show, every band was great and put on an awesome performance. I'll remember it for a long time to come and I hope they do it again sometime soon in the future.
