Apologies to Vomit Forth for missing their show but an early flight to Dublin, hotel shenanigans, At Patrick's chaos and an early start time all meant that I had to miss their set.
I did manage to get into the venue just as 200 Stab Wounds (8) took the stage and they started as they meant to go on with some gnarly death metal. Buzzsaw riffs, growled/snarled vocals (which oddly were the cleanest of the night). The Ohio four piece were brutal and ballsy ploughing though tracks that mainly came from their most recent release Slave To The Scalpel.
Causing the crowd to go wild with every song they preached the how being a band that were self.supoorted meant that they had to restringing and tuning their instruments in between the songs. This didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the Irish fans or the band who really brought it.
Speaking of bringing it. Pittsburgh deathcore mob Signs Of The Swarm (7) slowed the pace but increased the aggression. The start stop nature of deathcore makes it what it is a genre and Signs Of The Swarm do it really well, furious blast beats and gutturals that lead into breakdown upon breakdown, making way for the muscle bound bros to tighten their snapbacks and bounce off each other.
The circle pits traded for slam dancing as their vocalist encouraged as much violence as humanly and legally possible. Deathcore can be hot or cold with me and Signs Of The Swarm do it quite well but it does sound a little samey by the fifth song. Still they managed to keep the fire burning with their outright aggression.
It's about setting a tone though with support bands and with OSDM and deathcore the metalheads of Dublin (and an errant Welshman) are ready for the techincal brutality of death metal's premier environmentalists Cattle Decapitation (8). A slow build intro set the tone, dark ominous synths and light show as the stormed the stage with the first of five from newest album Terrasite.
Terrasitic Adaptation unleashed the band in the best way, ear punishing drums from Dave McGraw and one of the gnarliest but cleanest bass tones from Olivier Pinard, who's technicality can't be overlooked when it smashes you in the face at over 100dB. We Eat Our Young and Scourge Of The Offspring continued the newer tracks before they took it back to Monolith Of Inhumanity with Dead Set On Suicide, their 2012 album as far back as they go into their back catalogue.
5 come from their newest album, 3 from Death Atlas and 2 from The Anthropocene Extinction, all of the tracks getting the entire floor undulating like a Dune sandworm. Cleaving their way through the blitzing rhythm section were Belisario Dimuzio and Josh Elmore guitars, peeling off light speed modern death riffs that bring together goregrind and tech death, as Travis Ryan's vocals erupt with all the shrieking, growled, shouted styles present across the extreme metal spectrum.
Levelling The Academy Cattle Decapitation showed why they are one of the more reverend acts in the death metal world with some technical death excellence
I did manage to get into the venue just as 200 Stab Wounds (8) took the stage and they started as they meant to go on with some gnarly death metal. Buzzsaw riffs, growled/snarled vocals (which oddly were the cleanest of the night). The Ohio four piece were brutal and ballsy ploughing though tracks that mainly came from their most recent release Slave To The Scalpel.
Causing the crowd to go wild with every song they preached the how being a band that were self.supoorted meant that they had to restringing and tuning their instruments in between the songs. This didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the Irish fans or the band who really brought it.
Speaking of bringing it. Pittsburgh deathcore mob Signs Of The Swarm (7) slowed the pace but increased the aggression. The start stop nature of deathcore makes it what it is a genre and Signs Of The Swarm do it really well, furious blast beats and gutturals that lead into breakdown upon breakdown, making way for the muscle bound bros to tighten their snapbacks and bounce off each other.
The circle pits traded for slam dancing as their vocalist encouraged as much violence as humanly and legally possible. Deathcore can be hot or cold with me and Signs Of The Swarm do it quite well but it does sound a little samey by the fifth song. Still they managed to keep the fire burning with their outright aggression.
It's about setting a tone though with support bands and with OSDM and deathcore the metalheads of Dublin (and an errant Welshman) are ready for the techincal brutality of death metal's premier environmentalists Cattle Decapitation (8). A slow build intro set the tone, dark ominous synths and light show as the stormed the stage with the first of five from newest album Terrasite.
Terrasitic Adaptation unleashed the band in the best way, ear punishing drums from Dave McGraw and one of the gnarliest but cleanest bass tones from Olivier Pinard, who's technicality can't be overlooked when it smashes you in the face at over 100dB. We Eat Our Young and Scourge Of The Offspring continued the newer tracks before they took it back to Monolith Of Inhumanity with Dead Set On Suicide, their 2012 album as far back as they go into their back catalogue.
5 come from their newest album, 3 from Death Atlas and 2 from The Anthropocene Extinction, all of the tracks getting the entire floor undulating like a Dune sandworm. Cleaving their way through the blitzing rhythm section were Belisario Dimuzio and Josh Elmore guitars, peeling off light speed modern death riffs that bring together goregrind and tech death, as Travis Ryan's vocals erupt with all the shrieking, growled, shouted styles present across the extreme metal spectrum.
Levelling The Academy Cattle Decapitation showed why they are one of the more reverend acts in the death metal world with some technical death excellence
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