All I can say is HOLY FUCK! Last night I went to a concert that my company was putting on. We had two local bands (Death Valley Driver [kind of a Crowbar meets Lamb of God band] and Orchids Curse (extreme prog screamo something)) open up and they got the crowd pretty amp'd up.
What came next completely blew me away. GOATWHORE. The brain child of ex-Crowbar & Acid Bath guitarist Sammy Duet. Louisiana groove blackened death metal. Absolutely fucking insane. Their bass/percussion bombastic assault is without a doubt the absolute tightest rhythm section I have EVER heard. These fuckers played so damned loud and heavy they actually blew the speakers apart above the stage.
Now I went through my black/death metal stage almost seventeen years ago, and really havent looked back at it, but these guys - these guys made me love death metal again. It was an absolute pleasure to meet the guys and drink with them, shoot the shit about the industry, people we know in common etc.
Closing the show was Canada's own 3 Inches of Blood. I've never been a fan of theirs, even though the vocalist sounds like a clone of a younger Halford while singing about metal, battle, vikings and the like. But they broke out into a medley of covers (Rush, Sabbath, Dio) and that got me to pay a bit more attention. Had a stellar conversation with their guitarist after the show and I wish we could have talked longer, we agreed to stay in touch via email as 3 Inches is on tour for several more months promoting their newest album.
Today, after waking up at six a.m. yesterday, working for 12 hours, rushing home to shower, change and rush to the venue and have my senses bombarded until 330 AM not getting any sleep and returning to work another 12 hours all I've been doing is BLASTING Goatwhore's newest album Blood For the Masters. Fucking EPIC.