Neosis take all the theatrical and dramatic
elements of putting on a show and completely abandon
them in favour of continuous playing. Not even
any distinctive sign that they’re even about
to play like a drop of lights or an introduction,
they just start playing straight after soundcheck
rendering crowd members both startled and confused.
Initially musically I was intrigued as I’d
heard great things about then and their thick
progressive style is right up my ally, after 3
or 4 songs though I found myself quite bored of
it and I thing that’s because as I said,
they abandoned all the entertaining element of
putting on an interesting gig. Barely audible
and minimal crowd interaction, everyone on stage
is pretty stationary, as people start leaving
the room to pursue drinking and other means of
self entertainment the band only has themselves
to blame as they put no effort into capturing
the attention of their peers.
Revoker are the band that start it all up, previous
acts failed to entertain or light the fire needed
as preparation for what’s to come next.
Not Revoker though, they’ve dragged their
asses here from Wales with their entourage of
chunky riffs and aggressive tempos with the sole
purpose of provoking the complete annihilation
of this little venue. This is a show the way it
is mean to be performed; capturing the attention
of your audience through interaction and participation;
it also helps when you play music that has catchy
lyrics followed by extremely thick deep breakdowns
allowing sing alongs and broken bones. Proper
introduction and showmanship alongside some of
their best tracks like “Thief”, “Psychoville”
and “Stay Down”, Revoker manage to
leave a trail of sweat, blood and bruises in their
wake but most importantly everyone is good and
ready for tonight’s headliners Chimaira.
Chimaira strode out like predators ready to take
us all by the throat. Being veterans in the metal
community for the past 14 years even though every
member apart from vocalist Mark Hunter has changed
more than once the band are still going strong.
Considering the amount of times the band has had
to unfortunately let us UK fans down people are
still turning up in force to witness the show,
after everything it shows just how well they play
to have everyone stick around this long waiting.
Every nights set list varies from night to night
but tonight we got some real gems from their 6
album discography latest of which being “The
Age of Hell” from which we got the likes
of “Born in Blood” and “Year
of the Snake”. Whilst sometimes I don’t
understand his reference points I respect Mark
Hunter’s valiant effort at relating to his
audience as it pays off, with not even an aggressive
tone he manages to raise hell with bodies flying
all over the place especially during “Pure
Hatred” and “Power Trip”. After
closing with “Resurrection” the band
leaves the stage with no encore, even so it’s
not only me that leaves pleased with that I think
everyone in attendance will remember that for
a while, don’t forget about us this time
though lads eh?
Neosis – 2/5
Revoker – 4/5
Chimaira – 4.5/5
Review By James Webb
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