napalm death and more live review

well last night i went to the observatory in orenge county to....observe some bands. let's start with the first band. downspell. they were from alaska. did i mention they were from alaska? oh and they were from alaska. they only said it about a thousand times. the music was pretty good deathcore. metal archives calls it metalcore/death metal.....deathcore. pretty good considdering the genre of music they play. then after the unknown downspell came the classic thrash band attitude adjustment. they seemed to have lost some of the punk from the sound and play much tighter and a little slower. barny from napalm death came up to sing a song. it was pretty cool. and they actually played songs off the demo and destruction's end flexi! yay!! next came exhumed.....lame! i've never heard exhumed before except when they covered a samhain track. the high vocalist sounds like an emo kid now. and he acts like one on stage with the croud. he actually got the crowd to say swares. how lame can you get? he was just another lame ass performer. how you all doin tonight? i can't hear you! shut up for a second and maybe you'll get to hear us idiot. the chainsaw durring a song was nice though. so was closing with a seige cover. next came repulsion. barny sang with them too. repulsion was great! everything was amazing about the set. and the singer could actually still do it! i guess the only problem i had was they didn't play every song off all 6 demos haha. next came napalm death. i thought they were gonna be the last band honestly. so did the croud i guess. now i know nd has no original members and is a tad more metallic than 87 but it was a great show! barny's voice is way more gritty and i love it that way. mich's voice was cool with some nice echo effects and his clean vocals were haunting. i've always thought of nd as a punk band with metal trappings and i beleive it even more today. also greenway's rants between songs were awesome. ps danny's drums were so crazy i couldn't follow it. after that came municipal waste. i was actually ready to leave at that point when a few old friends came up and we talked some. mw is an okay band. it doesn't take any ammount of brain power to get them and the lyrics. seriously how many songs about getting drunk can you have? it got annoying. plus repulsion, napalm death, and not least attitude adjustment should be way after them especially attitude adjustment. hell they created the sound mw rips off and sees no reason to alter. it's fun party music but really that's all. no meaningful lyrics. i'd like it more if they were at least before napalm death. seriously it felt like the long beach grand prix where they run the indycar race then they have a sports car race after so if you want to wait out the crowd you have something to watch. half the people left after napalm so that's what it felt like. that municipal waste was the throwaway band after the legends....which they are! like i said i like mw. they're fun. but after napalm death? that's like when mr. manson went on after slayer. what the fuck? btw nd did a cool repulsion cover as well as some other short songs (they closed with you suffer) and municipal waste did what every crossover thrash band does and covered s.o.d's united forces. as much as i love s.o.d seriously everyone's done it. maybe that's why people don't like this retrothrash thing that's been going on for some time now. i enjoy the music but am not the biggest fan. overall it was a fun night. btw the dj at the shows is a god. kiss of death by satan and a weapon song were played. obscure nwobhm. i was like is that??no! wait yes!!! hell we went in just as nuns have no fun by mercyful fate was playing. that's when i thought wow something cool is happening. so thank you for playing obscure metal whoever you are. overall i had fun. heard a lot of music and talked to some old friends. good night

municipal waste the fatal feast cd

well first of all it's the 400th post for this blog! holy satan. thanks to everyone for directly and indirectly suporting this blog. the list is too long especially the indirect part. people who don't even know my blog exists have suported me just by being themselves. love ya all. anyway this is mw's 5th album. they're not on earache any more sadly. they swiched to nuclear blast, an old hardcore punk label that's gone metal. i hear sepultura is on the label as well. anyway i'm not the biggest mw fan.. i find the music fun but unoriginal. the 4th album massive agressive was kind of a yon in thrash circles. it seemed uninspired and more serious. so what do we have this time? the intro waste in space is a weird little number completely different than anything you'd expect on an mw album. then it kicks right into repossession and it seems like the band got back the old energy and humor. songs like covered in sick the barfer? haha. the production is perfect as always. the vocalist of nuclear assault makes an appearance on one track. the band seems to enjoy what they do and they do it well. dave wit's drumming is great as always. tony sounds like his old self on this one and it's quite cool. overall this is a pretty fun crossover record. the album will be released april 10th in the states and april 13th everywhere elce. you all should buy a coppy and get it on cd don't download from itunes. get this and bang your head!

municipal waste waste em all lp

i have a big problem with this band. i like the music and listen to it but something stops me from loving this. i cant think of it oh yeah i know what it is. it's complete fucking unoriginal crossover thrash. i mean really unoriginal. now i enjoy cryptic slaughter and s.o.d but i'd never want to start a band that sounds just like them. well municipal waste don't share my view it seems. these guys are stuck in the 80s i think with all the other thrash revival bands. it's kind of sickening to tell you the truth. however if you want to mindlessly headbang (as i do sometimes) this is a musthave. very fast music with a great production. they would never really change up the sound on future albums (though the new one isn't quite as fast) but if you like mindless thrash get the 4 albums. oh and i can think of two things mw stole in the naming of the band and the album. first of all the name is a ripoff of chemical waste who i'll review in a future post. also waste em all is well yeah i don't have to tell you. it's still pretty fun music but just not very original. still get it if you like crossover. and fly on top of the world!