 When
the Murderdolls first burst on the scene back
in 2002 there was major hype surrounding the band
so when they went on hiatus back in 2004 there
was a lot of talk about would the Murderdolls
ever regroup, this went on for many years until
they regrouped back in 2010 for the release of
their second album ‘Women And Children Last’,
and to coincide with the release the band played
a one off show at the Garage in London and also
took part in the legendary Ozzfest a day later,
not long after these shows the Murderdolls announced
their first full length UK tour in over 6 years
and soon added Black Veil Brides and The Defiled
to the line up for what could possibly be one
of the biggest horror rock tours of the year.
 When
I got in the Academy tonight the first thing that
I noticed was that there was a very diverse gathering,
from people imitating the face paint of The Black
Veil Brides to people with their full blown goth
attire on, to your average looking metal heads
of all ages, it was a great mix and you could
instantly tell that everyone was here to have
a massive party.
The Defiled took to the stage at the early time
of 6.30pm and played a set which consisted of
6 songs, throughout the whole 25minute set the
band maintained high energy running and jumping
around the stage at every opportunity, the keyboard
player from The Defiled had amazing stage presence
and physically could not stay still so spent the
majority of the set moving his keyboard about,
playing up to the various photographers striking
many scary faces in front of their cameras, the
set that the Defiled played may well of come across
short but they defiantly psyched tonight’s
crowd up and helped create pure energy in the
pit.
 There
was a 15 minute break after The Defiled finished,
so a big curtain got hold up at the front of the
stage whilst The Black Veil Brides set up for
their set, the time soon went by and before you
knew it the curtain was down and The Black Veil
Brides and taken to the stage.
Now I have been a fan of The Black Veil Brides
album ‘We Stitch These Wounds’ for
a little while now but I never in a million years
expected them to blow me away live like they did
tonight, within seconds of taking to the stage
frontman Andy Six had already launched himself
into the crowd which was met by a flurry of screams
and shouts of “We love you Andy” from
their female fanbase, when on stage Andy came
across like a man possessed, he could not keep
still and had the perfect stage presence for a
front man with the way he put 110% into his performance,
if he was not screaming out his vocals, he was
talking to the crowd, if he was not talking to
the crowd then he was in the crowd singing and
within the 30minute set that The Black Veil Brides
had Andy managed to join the crowd on a mammoth
6 occasions.
 During the start of the second song a member of
the audience shouted to the band “your gay”,
Andy picked up on this straight away and spoke
to the crowd to say “we have a cock sucker
in the crowd, that guy over there likes cock”,
Andy handled this really well and we never heard
from the idiot again and at the same time it proved
that you don’t mess with Andy or any members
of The Black Veil Brides.
The band played through most of their well loved
songs such as ‘All Your Hate’, ‘We
Stitch These Wounds’, ‘Sweet Blasphemy’
and a couple of others and it was so good to see
the crowd singing along especially considering
that this is the bands first ever outing to the
UK and they got such an over whelming response.
If you are one of those people who judge The Black
Veil Brides by their look or even think there
album sounds a bit weak, you really need to head
out to their next live show as they have the style,
songs, energy and overall tight sound that will
blow you away.
 Next up were the Murderdolls, and 15minutes before
they were due to take to the stage the chants
of “Murderdolls, Murderdolls” were
echoing across the venue at a fast pace but before
you knew it the lights were down and the band
took to the stage to the opening piece of music
of ‘The World According To Revenge’,
before then blasting into ‘Chapel Of Blood’,
The Murderdolls had the crowd in the palm of their
hand from the second they took to the stage right
until the last beat of ‘Dead In Hollywood’.
Like expected the set was like a big greatest
hits with a massive mix of songs from both albums
to please the old and new Murderdolls fans, the
songs that got the biggest reactions were ‘Slit
My Wrist’, ‘People Hate Me’,
‘197666’, ‘Nowhere’ and
one of my personal favourites ‘Summertime
Suicide’ which had the whole of the Academy
signing along.
 The band seemed to be having the time of their
life on stage with Joey Jordison, Jack Tankersley
and Roman Surman often crossing paths across the
stage, Racci Shay did a great job smashing the
hell out of his drum kit whilst playing up to
the crowd with various poses, whilst Wednesday
13 totally rocked out whilst nailing his vocals
with perfection.
If you recently saw any of those videos online
that stated there was tension within the Murderdolls
camp, tonight’s show was enough to prove
otherwise as The Murderdolls were on top form
and blasted through their 1hour and 30minutes
set like their lives depended on it.
Overall tonight’s show was the perfect
package tour, The Defiled got the crowd going,
The Black Veil Brides showed signs of a band that
is soon to be massive and The Murderdolls rocked
like they had never been away from the scene.
The Defiled 4/5
Black Veil Brides 5/5
Murderdolls 5/5
Review By Trigger
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