10/25 EYEHATEGOD @ MIDDLE EAST DOWN(Official Recap Thread)[views:20536][posts:80]Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - [anal_cunt][eyehategod][goatwhore][howl][rampant_decay][randomshots][strong_intention] ______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 7:58pm - the_reverend ""] rd just finished. howl is setting upm. super mixed up crowd here and there are a ton of early birds. i would say 1/4 of the audience was here while RD was playing. amazing for a town that comes out at 9 earliest. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 8:41pm - the_reverend ""] this show is not sold out btw! get down here! |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 9:19pm - the_reverend ""] strong intention started off ok and progressed into better and better songs. same with the amount of people in the audience. there werent many at first, but by the end of their set, the room looked pretty packed. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 10:21pm - the_reverend ""] anal cunt wasnt a complete sloppy mess. still with out being a train wreck awesome, they were just regular old awesome. excellent song selection which added a lot to the set. also seth was in the crowds face A LOT. it was like all sing alongs. reminded me of older times... at one point, two guys from strong intention tackled seth and josh. i forget which song was on when they did that. they ended with a song that i think was on 33 songs, but for me is the "classic" AC sound. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 10:26pm - aril mobile ""] Couldn't make it. Sucks. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 11:00pm - goatcatalyst ""] aril%20mobile said:Couldn't make it. Sucks. And I was on the list too. Fuck me. At least Curb Your Enthusiasm was great. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 11:02pm - the_reverend ""] goatwhore is playing 1 million times better right now then at the palladium |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 11:04pm - the_reverend ""] Ben is the fist bump capitol of mass right now. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 11:18pm - the_reverend ""] what an epic goatwhore set. they played so well, but like with analcunt, it was the audience participation that ruled the even. one of if not the best set by them to date. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 25,2009 11:19pm - goatcatalyst ""] You should give him an Ashley Shaeffer dickslappin. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 12:02am - the_reverend ""] i wish i knew who that was... eyehategod is the fucking shitbomb right now. this set is monsterously unreal. the stage is crazy crowded, but they are so good. and the singer looks a lot like larry lifeless. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 12:15am - the_reverend ""] they are hitting a note over and over that is making me almost pee my pants. there is no way im getting to that sewage flow of a bathroom. |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 12:23am - grizloch ""] itt: eyehategod makes rev shit his pants |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 12:23am - grizloch ""] also itt: grizloch is jealous of anyone at eyehategod... and the rev's pants |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 12:55am - MikeOv ""] EHG wins again. If you've never seen them live, you've never actually heard them. |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 12:59am - Boblovesmobile ""] Wow.... |
| _________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 1:04am - MikeOv ""] the_reverend said: and the singer looks a lot like larry lifeless. "lol wut?" |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 1:17am - the_reverend ""] he looks like larry lifeless and phil anselmo had a kid. |
| _________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 1:18am - MikeOv ""] ok, well considering the hair and heroin addiction, I see the Anselmo connection... |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 1:32am - dar nli ""] so I went to this show, and learned that I can't really relate to EHG anymore, but they still rule. It was comforting to be at a cambridge show that was 0% hipster and 100% scumbag. I also learned that the rev lost weight and looks good, and that rich horror lost weight and looks like even more of an asshole. Can't wait to play with Kinslayer's kids, they're gonna be sooo cute. |
| ________________________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 1:34am - Crickets of the night ""] Dar is still alive? I heRd he was head chef at the Italian kit chen in meffa |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 1:42am - PatMeebles ""] I'm glad I made it |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:04am - the_reverend ""] awe shucks. working on pictures now. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:07am - the_reverend ""] oh, I see bobby in the crowd of AC. in every single picture (looking on my 23" monitor at full screen) there is smeone looking directly at my camera and one person doing something out of place. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:13am - the_reverend ""] I don't think I've ever seen that many people at the ME downstairs. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:15am - John Aubrey ""] went to the ny show and this one...so good,so so so so good |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:20am - brian_dc ""] EHG was a fucking champion. That ruled. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:21am - brian_dc ""] Jay "Christraper" Inman was there, by the way. Shame on all of you for not telling me that he's in Deathamphetamine now. Or back in New England, for that matter. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:37am - the_reverend ""] rich horror and seth putnam are tied for best shirt. best hoodie goes to kevord... babby |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:39am - the_reverend ""] brian_dc said:Shame on all of you for not telling me that he's in Deathamphetamine nowmiss that dude. it's too bad there isn't a site some where that you could look at pictures of bands that have played and the members of those bands. I believe (looking at my pictures) that he's also and aviator. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:48am - the_reverend ""] pictures are uploading. |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 2:48am - love_is_a_fist ""] awesome show |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 3:20am - RichHorror ""] EHG was even better tonight than when I saw them here in '95 with AC, Dead & Gone and Neurosis. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 3:27am - the_reverend ""] if anyone sees any f'd up processed pictures, please tell me. my desktop is being an asshole. |
| _________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 8:42am - MikeOv ""] I think the "prison pussy" was my favorite moment of the night. "Don't be ashamed, brother. You got to fuck something!" |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 8:54am - brian_dc ""] the_reverend said: brian_dc said:Shame on all of you for not telling me that he's in Deathamphetamine nowmiss that dude. it's too bad there isn't a site some where that you could look at pictures of bands that have played and the members of those bands. I believe (looking at my pictures) that he's also and aviator. Pssh. There aren't any parts to this site other than the forum, silly. |
| _________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:35am - RustyPS ""] brian_dc said:EHG was a fucking champion. That ruled.you were there? How did we not see each other? anyways....rd was fantastic....howl was awesome....eyehategod were mindblowing....im still drunk.....and going to a funeral.....amazing |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:38am - brian_dc ""] Wow, I have no idea how I didn't see you, Rusty. I walked around aimlessly meeting random people from here, my childhood, etc all night. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:39am - the_reverend ""] keep drinking lots and there might be 2 funerals. |
| _________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:43am - RustyPS ""] the_reverend said:keep drinking lots and there might be 2 funerals.one can only hope |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:44am - snip_snap ""] this was the 1st middle east show i've been too where i was frisked and had my bag searched!!! fucking lame |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 10:00am - boblovesmusic ""] holy shit, those of us going to the MDF get to see them again! Fuck yeah! |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 3:23pm - reincremation ""] the situation at the door was kind of gay. first time in 30+ shows at the ME downstairs that i've been searched. bouncers immediately found our blades and show supplements and freaked out. we eventually convinced them to let us finish everything outside, and the one dude held my bowl and knife (swiss army, for fuck's sake) til after the show, which was kind of cool. but still, what the fuck? this has never been an issue before and obviously you don't bring bud/etc to use inside, it's for blazing outside between bands. maybe mike's probation had something to do with it? |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 3:27pm - boblovesmusic ""] snip_snap said:this was the 1st middle east show i've been too where i was frisked and had my bag searched!!! fucking lame One of the friskers recognized me and apologized for having to do it. He said that this never happens at metal shows, only hip hop/rap shows... |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 3:32pm - the_reverend ""] I got apologized to as well and they only looked and saw that I had cameras so I didn't get searched. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 3:53pm - Dr. Sphincto ""] fuckin awesome show this was. Saw ppl I haven't seen in a while Rampant Decay: Awesome set fast and to the point. Awesome Nunslaughter cover Howl: Heavy and Slow but din't really do it for me Strong Intention: Not Really my thing Anal Cunt: Amazing set, was worth it Goatwhore: Great blend of black/death with plenty of headbanging Eyehategod: Tight set, when was the last time they were in Boston? Plus I got in the shit's demo, met Ben Falgoust, Mike Williams and Jimmy Bower. |
| _____________________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 4:05pm - MarkFuckingRichards ""] EHG was fucking amazing. That show should have just been RD, Howl, AC and EHG; felt like the longest show ever. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 4:08pm - boblovesmusic ""] Rampant Decay: so good! 1 of Boston's bands. Delivering thrash/hardcore intensity that fuels hatred & viciousness! Howl: that set fuckin ripped! Stoner metal w/ thrashy.chugging riffs & a death metal bark! Awlsome riffs! Strong Intention: much better than the last time but still not fantastic. Thrash/hardcore. Not particularly original but quite enjoyable Anal Cunt: fuck yeah! Fuck yeah! Goatwhore: Wow, now that was some solid death metal right there! Awlsome riffs ranging from death metal brutality to black metal playing. If I didn't have a headache, I would've headbanged the entire set! Eyehategod: (coming from a newb) Wow... that was incredible! Words can't describe! The music was perfectly thick, sludgy & heavy. The audience response was wow! they are masters going from almost grind like intensity to a overwhelming doomy feel! It was glorious! Can't wait to MDF! |
| __________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 4:09pm - brian_dc ""] I love 4 band shows. Felt bad that people were so disinterested in Goatwhore, though. I prefer me some Soilent Green, but that group of folks never seems to disappoint. |
| _____________________________ [Oct 26,2009 4:24pm - |an ""] sound for EHG was fucking mammoth, holy shit! we need more good metal shows like this at the middle east, I only remember hearing about a handful each year or so. |
| ______________________________ [Oct 26,2009 4:29pm - blue ""] Glad I showed up late extra high. I enjoyed the frisking, I was highly aroused. Glad I left me herbs in the car. Sorry rich. Goatwhore were great, despite the 65273 times I've seen them. EHG put me in a total trance, and made me love (good) solid state amps all over again. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 4:46pm - PatMeebles ""] the frisking part was weird, but I just looked at the guy and said "what, you think I'm capable of hurting people??" and he let me go |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 5:10pm - RichHorror ""] I didn't get frisked but saw it happening and thought it was weird. |
| _________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 5:16pm - RustyPS ""] RichHorror said:I didn't get frisked but saw it happening and was jealous.fix'd |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 5:32pm - goatcatalyst ""] RichHorror said:They looked behind my balls and down my pee-hole, which I found comforting. Tee hee |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 6:14pm - demondave ""] It's a shame I could not make it to this. I've got all sorts of scheduling things to sort out, so I haven't been able to go to shows since the NEDF. I would have loved to see Rampant Decay's Nunslaughter cover. (I hope you played Cocaine) RichHorror said:EHG was even better tonight than when I saw them here in '95 with AC, Dead & Gone and Neurosis. I was at that show. Isn't that the one where Seth sang for EHG? If I remember I was hanging out with Judy from the late Fast Forward Records for half the night and got really drunk. Some guy flipped out during the opening riff of EHG and started swinging fists. I was standing to the left of the stage, not even near the pit, and he clocked me. I turned to punch him and a girl was trying to claw at him. Apparently he was swinging and hit a couple of girl too. (No Rich it wasn't you.) I got all ripshit and followed the guy as he got pushed towards the pit and sucker punched him down. A few more guys came up to me and started to babble about how it wasn't cool to do that.... blah blah ... egalitarian ... blah blah.. .. the scene should stay together ... blah blah... -- oh and how they were going to kick my ass. So me knocking that guy for clocking me was oppressive, but hitting the girls wasn't.... I realized that I didn't know who was who in Boston and who were friends with who, so I just went back to the bar. Great show though. I would have liked to see this one |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 7:14pm - aurhghgh ""] that Eyehategod, AC, Neurosis, Dead & Gone show was in 97. it was the best Eyehategod performance i ever saw.... ... until last night!!! fuck!!! what fury! aggggggh. the whole set kicked ass more than anything i could've imagined, but the highlight of the night was the anticipation during the intro - just grating and insane feedback, all of the band members are lurching and bobbing back and forth... then that first hit, fuck. so unbelievably fucking good. so heavy. as for Goatwhore - they're tight and on a riff-by-riff basis they write some sick shit. but like a lot of Soilent Green material, they absolutely have NO idea how to write a fucking song. at all. i couldn't remember one goddamn thing about their set. couldn't differentiate the tunes. they just write these endless non-stop chains of stapled-together riffs that have nothing to do with each other, and it sounds like the songs are generated by a random computer algorithm. Ben Falgoust's (sp?) vocals are literally the exact same over any riff, too. he really needs to change that shit up. it's that fucking style where nothing is ever said on the 1 of the beat, only on the 2. i think if they knew how to actually arrange all of those intense riffs then they'd actually get some momentum from their set. the closing tune, the Celtic Frost-style one, however, was great. the riffs actually fucking related to each other and there was a pause in the tune every now and then. Anal Cunt was sick as hell. played old noisecore shit, Vaginal Jesus tunes, Seth was being fucking hilarious. Josh Martin looked like a fucking child molester hiding in the woods and Tim Morse looked like Al-Qaeda. |
| ________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 7:27pm - robing ""] ROUND 4 TONIGHT NYC!!!!!!! YES FUCK! |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 7:27pm - quintessence ""] God damn ive seen some good shows this year, but this might be the best yet. EHG sounds 1000x better live and the middle easts sound was perfect. |
| ________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 7:28pm - robing ""] Aww shucks thanks guys! |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 7:39pm - aurhghgh ""] yah, the sound was literally PERFECT in the club. last show i was at was Repulsion, Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth in Brooklyn and the sound was like forks going into my ears. last night was 100000%. it sounded like the recordings being played at 200 decibels. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 8:00pm - RichHorror ""] demondave said:I would have loved to see Rampant Decay's Nunslaughter cover. (I hope you played Cocaine) Nope, Buried Alive. |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:02pm - demondave ""] RichHorror said: demondave said:I would have loved to see Rampant Decay's Nunslaughter cover. (I hope you played Cocaine) Nope, Buried Alive. no, your cocaine song |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 9:24pm - the_reverend ""] aurhghgh said:the highlight of the night was the anticipation during the intro - just grating and insane feedback, all of the band members are lurching and bobbing back and forth... then that first hit, fuck. so unbelievably fucking good. so heavy.I was standing by the drummer. that anticipation was killer. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 10:10pm - RichHorror ""] demondave said: RichHorror said: demondave said:I would have loved to see Rampant Decay's Nunslaughter cover. (I hope you played Cocaine) Nope, Buried Alive. no, your cocaine song haha oh yeah, always. |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 10:15pm - PIGTAILS ""] This show was best EVER!!!!!! EHG I can't wait for them to come back!! And the photos are wonderful Rev! |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 26,2009 11:05pm - xgodzillax ""] PIGTAILS said:This show was best EVER!!!!!! EHG I can't wait for them to come back!! And the photos are wonderful Rev! you spelled CRISIS wrong. you should probably use spell check before youre allowed to speak. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 1:48am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1182813244712 |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 1:44pm - DJDJDJDJDJDJ ""] Thanks guys! aurhghgh said:yah, the sound was literally PERFECT in the club. last show i was at was Repulsion, Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth in Brooklyn and the sound was like forks going into my ears. last night was 100000%. it sounded like the recordings being played at 200 decibels. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 3:26pm - brian_dc ""] AUTOPSY_666 said:http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1182813244712 ah, man. I was really hoping for EHG video. Logical guess is that it will have its own video at some point, I hope. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 3:27pm - the_reverend ""] the front where dann was wasn't steady enough a place to film. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 3:28pm - brian_dc ""] nards |
| __________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 3:34pm - brian_dc ""] I just want to relive Blank over and over again |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 3:35pm - quintessence ""] I saw Josh filming A/C and EHG the whole time from the side with a decent camera. I will have to find out where that video is. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 3:35pm - goatcatalyst ""] There were a couple video cameras on the boat. Possibly the coolest show ever - and I've seen some shit. Not to take anything away from this show. Robin is a fucking great man. Bummed I missed it. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 4:24pm - PIGTAILS ""] A mistake from 07 went to fix it recently and my phone was aggravating me then I figured no one here would care BTW grammer man 666 I think your missing apostrophy in your last post... |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 4:28pm - the_reverend ""] dwyer spell bad? that's unpossible. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 27,2009 4:32pm - brian_dc ""] Dwyer's last post in here was a link. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 28,2009 10:29am - t2daeeknli ""] aurhghgh said:yah, the sound was literally PERFECT in the club. last show i was at was Repulsion, Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth in Brooklyn and the sound was like forks going into my ears. last night was 100000%. it sounded like the recordings being played at 200 decibels. good sound could not have made that show better. this tour package played a booze cruise the night before + pig destroyer and - rampant decay/a.c. what a fuckin show that was. |
| _______________________________ [Oct 30,2009 9:35pm - howl ""] I just wanted to thank everyone for making our fucking night. That may have been the best show we ever played; it was unforgettable. Robin, the Rev, and everyone reading this, thank you very much. Vincent |
| _________________________________ [Oct 30,2009 9:44pm - RustyPS ""] howl said:I just wanted to thank everyone for making our fucking night. That may have been the best show we ever played; it was unforgettable. Robin, the Rev, and everyone reading this, thank you very much. Vincentyou guys were fantastic ....and I'm blaming this show for me being pretty sick all week, which is why I'm not at Rich Horror's birthday bash right now |