asunder and corrupted at asakusa extreme, october 9th, 2006
For some time, I've been worried about, how to write my concert reviews. how much detail should i go into? if i start talking about words such as `grind`, `jun-jun`, and "discharge-ish," non musicians will grow confused, but if i stop to explain every subgenre, musicians will become excruciatingly bored.
Recently i have hit on a solution of awesome ingeniousness--
Instead of reviewing bands myself, i took a registered nurse to the gig and asked HER to review the bands. Although she has seen a whole bunch of dead bodies, she has never seen a heavy metal show in her life, so her opinions will be pure and unbiased. Forthwith is her frank reaction. . .
BUTCHER ABC
su19b
I guess they were pretty normal. (!!??!!) they were a little scary. The singer even came into the crowd a little. I left in a hurry! I thought he looked like a junior high school student! Plus his feet were naked, it was strange.
FUNERAL MOTH
I didn`t see them.
COFFINS
They played a really long time. The music was just so-so, except the singer bears an uncanny resemblance to Buddha, so I was marvelling at that the whole time they played. Also his singing sounded like Mongolian (Tuva throat singing), I thought.
GALLHAMMER
This was the best music band! Because of the interplay between the two vocalists. The guitarist in particular really sounds like a man. Vivian has a cute face so I'm pretty jealous of her.
CORRUPTED
I must be stupid, but they were so slow, I kept thinking, when is it going to start?? I don`t remember the music at all, but the fans were amazing. Totally squirting beer every which way. Out of the mouth like a whale! It was scary and the most fun band of the evening.
ASUNDER
That`s the band from america, right? They were ok. This band`s vocal was the loudest. They had more melody than the other bands, it was a more deep and complex emotion. When the drummer sat down I thought his septum piercing was an oxygen feed, and I kept looking for the tubes it was connected to. So I spent most of the performance laughing at my own mistake. I thought the guitarist with crutches had a fracture. Perhaps he could come to my rehabilitation center.
Asunder's tour van--
HEALTH QUESTIONS
Which band looked the healthiest?
SU19B, because he must be healthy to go around barefoot!
Which band looked like they needed to go to a hospital?
Gallhalmmer looked like they had the most trouble with health. So skinny. I thought, gare they ok?h
The guitarist from asunder has bronchitis. What is the treatment?
medicine is available, but not so important. Mostly, he should avoid things he has a sinus allergic reaction to, go where the air is clean, avoid the very dry air (Tokyo`s winter air for instance), and get some rest.
ok, hope you enjoyed the first (and last) Nurse Metal Review.
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