Post from: Metal Martyr

The first band on the bill to play was Rotten sound, a grindecore band from Finland. Not many people were inside the venue quite yet at this point but they put on a cool show. Aborted was next and the place was starting to fill up a bit and people loved these Belgian Death Metal dudes. If you’re not familiar with 1349 then chances are you don’t follow Black Metal much. Don’t worry, I don’t either. The Norwegian black metal outfit took their name from the year the black plague swept through Norway. Now I’m not in to Black Metal, but there are a few bands I kind of dig. 1349 came out full fledged in corpse paint and gauntlets (See pics below), as you can see and while there wasn’t anyone in the crowd with corpse paint on, it was obvious they had a following in the area.

This is where things went from “This is awesome” to “Holy sh*t, I can’t believe I’m actually here!”. Suffocation took the stage and it seemed as if the place was suddenly flooded with fans. The NYDM (New York Death Metal) veterans have been around awhile and were the only band on the bill that has played with Carcass before the reunion. I had heard of Suffocation a thousand times and everyone always told me how great they were but never made an effort to check out any of their stuff. Christ, what I have been missing! They said a new album will be out early next year through Nuclear Blast and you can bet I’ll be checking it out.

When Carcass hit the stage it was getting almost impossible to move around to get pictures. Not only that but they have the fog machines spewing out a load of fog that made it difficult to get good pictures.Regardless, it was amazing. I never realized how short Jeff Walker was. When the guys was doing the sound check Mike Amott and Bill Steer’s mic stands were much higher than Jeff’s and I wondered if it was just low or something. The guy doing the check did each one and left it as it was. I don’t think Jeff can be much over 5′3″. They played songs from just about every album to include Swan Song, which Mike Amott didn’t play on. After some time I put the camera away and just took in the enjoyment of the show.  You can see a few more pictures below.

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