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Deeds Of Flesh Intense Hammer Rage, Omnium Gatherum, Psycroptic The Enigma Bar, Fri 25 Jun Lovers of extreme metal were certainly spoilt last month, getting the chance to see two esteemed American metal outfits (Exhumed, and Deeds Of Flesh,both from California) within the space of a week. Deeds Of Flesh's show attracted a very healthy crowd: the numbers already quite large when Tasmanian three-piece goregrind outfit Intense Hammer Rage took the stage. Utilising a rather unusual drum kit and with all three members involved in the job of vocal delivery, they did a good job of warming the crowd up, playing songs with such twisted titles as Killed Two Birds But Only I Got Stoned, What You Don't Know Wants To Hurt You Bad, and Reach Out And Cut Someone. Sole local supports Omnium Gatherum proved very popular with the crowd, inciting people to mosh and go nuts the instant they started playing. Theirset included material from every stage of their now-quite-lengthy career, including Deeply Felt Intensity, At a Glance, A Frown On The Face of Mars, Sinking In, Freedom Of Life, and Irate Oration. Vocalist Brad Peacock proved a source of much additional entertainment between songs, deflecting the occasional gibe from a heckler in the crowd with wry put-downs and comebacks. Tasmanian death metallers Psycroptic, paying their second visit to Adelaide so far this year (is this the first metal show here that has featured two Tasmanian bands I wonder?) were also enthusiastically received, as they always seem to be. As usual, they played a fairly no-nonsense set, and evoked an even more energetic response from the audience than O.G. had. Their set consisted mainly of songs from their most-recent album, 'The Scepter Of The Ancients', and they also treated the crowd to a brand new song Death metal band Deeds Of Flesh's performance was preceded by an atmospheric and imposing-sounding pre-recorded intro before the band launched into their set. A three-piece like Intense Hammer Rage, Deeds Of Flesh also had more than one of its members taking care of the vocal side of things: in its case, both the guitarist and bass player. Like the bands before them, they put on a no-frills show, concentrating on simply churning out their own brand of musical brutality rather than engaging in any over-the-top stage antics or other theatrics. Not surprisingly, songs from their latest release, 'Reduced to Ashes' got a play (Infested Beneath The Earth, Human Trophies, and Banished), but they also played a lot of older material too (Cleansed By Fire, Path Of The Weakening, Trading Pieces and Deeds Of Flesh). Their performance was tight, and those who came to see them certainly were not disappointed.  |
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