thrash metal
New York City-based thrash metal band Anthrax who released their eleventh studio album, For All Kings, on February 26, 2016 via Nuclear Blast, performed at the Pacific Coliseum supporting the Slayer Farewell Tour last night (May 16).
Read MoreGerman thrash metal band Kreator, who released their fourteenth album, Gods of Violence, on January 27th, 2017 via Nuclear Blast, which serves as the band’s first studio album in almost five years since 2012’s Phantom Antichrist, marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career, performed at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver last night with death metal band Obituary, black metal band Midnight, and metal band Horrendous.
Read MoreApril 2, 2016 - Quick reblog for Aesthetic Magazine.
"Norway-based black metal band Abbath, who released their self-titled debut album on January 22nd, 2016 via Season of Mist, performed at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver last night as part of the ongoing Decibel Magazine Tour with Oakland, CA-based doom metal band High On Fire, who released their seventh album, Luminiferous, on June 23rd, 2015 via E1 Music, extreme metal band Skeletonwitch, who released their fifth album, Serpents Unleashed, on October 29th, 2013, and Swedish death metal band Tribulation."
Setlists
Tribulation
Skeletonwitch
High On Fire
Abbath
October 4, 2015 - Ah, more metal at the Rickshaw! I thought I had learned my lesson from the Vogue but we had some more mishaps with the press list again and I was unable to photograph local act Pyramidion so I apologize ahead of time. Furthermore, Polish tech-death act Decapitated, was unable to arrive - most likely due to border issues.
Despite this, we had four more bands for the night. The first being Dead Asylum, a local melo-death/thrash metal band. Although I felt some of the stage presence was lacking, the technical skill and musicianship definitely made up for it. I can imagine it'd be hard to move around when your fingers are flying up and down your fretboard!
You can sample some of their music on their facebook page here.
Shattered Sun took the stage next, coming all the way from Alice, Texas with their thrash infused metalcore. Although different in terms of their style of metal, Shattered Sun held their own making use of their small stage and crowd interaction. Frontman Marcos Leal constantly got the crowd to form walls of death, circle pits and slamdances.
Their latest record, Hope Within Hatred, was released earlier this year.
Soilwork, originally Inferior Breed, a melo-death band from Helsingborg, Sweden was next on the roster. News from another photographer revealed that the normal lighting guy had been shafted and replaced by the band manager which means the set was blacker than the blackest black times infinity (a metalocalypse reference, for those who didn't get the joke.) Despite this, the energy was high and what you'd expect for a smaller show, nothing outstanding but always with the die-hard fans racing to the front to shout their favourite lines.
Soilwork's tenth studio album, The Ride Majestic, was released in August.
And up next came Soulfly, formed by ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera. Coming from Phoenix, Arizona, the boys from Soulfly not only integrate elements of groove, thrash and death metal but also Brazilian tribal and world music as well. It was an understatement to say that the fans lost their shit within seconds of them arriving on stage. To further this statement, although we were able to shoot throughout the prior bands' sets, we were escorted out by the venue security within the first three songs due to the amount of crowdsurfers that had whizzed by our heads!
Their tenth and latest record, Archangel, was also release in August.
Setlists
Unfortunately there are no setlists for Pyramidion and Dead Asylum.
Shattered Sun
Soilwork
Soulfly
