| Now Find a show to go to! Jul 10 (Fri) - RICH HORROR'S PARTY MACHINE #4: Composted, Embryonic Cryptopathia, Rampant Decay, Macerated - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) 7/10 - Composted, Embryonic Cryptopathia, Rampant Decay, The Leviathan's Mandible, Macerated @ O'Briens in Allston[views:52883][posts:237]O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) - [composted][embryonic_cryptopathia][macerated][rampant_decay][randomshots] [show listing] ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 3:26am - RichHorror ""] Poor Dave. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 3:29am - the_reverend ""] did EC have something playing behind them? I kept hearing growls with mike's mouth not near the mic that I could see. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 3:30am - RichHorror ""] He's a sorcerer. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 3:47am - the_reverend ""] burn him as a heretic. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 3:49am - RichHorror ""] Black metal and Excitebike give him magical powers. |
| ___________________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 7:49am - markrichardsdead ""] This show was a fucking blast. Being at work right now and trying not to die seems impossible, but it was well worth it. Thanks to everyone who came out, especially Grizzie and Vesper from Psytoxia. Motherfuckers drove from NY and even provided the fish (his name was Leo, RIP). |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:04am - boblovesmusic ""] OH man that was fun! |
| ______________________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:04am - dogbitedavehumphreys ""] You people are racist against fish. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:09am - boblovesmusic ""] now I'm hungry for fish tacos... |
| _____________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:55am - pam ""] My head hurts a little and I have a bruise from the human wrecking ball that spilled my beer all over me. Good times. I enjoyed all the bands. That never happens. Nice job, Rich! |
| _____________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:58am - pam ""] hahah @ Anthony's business face. [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 10:37am - RichHorror ""] UN: boblovesmusic's twitter reviews-- Macerated: excellently done! Thick & brutal technical slammic grinding stuff! Embryonic Cryptopathia: semi short bursts of pleasing noisey death/grind chaos. Rampant Decay: they're so vicious and full of hatred thrash/hardcore sound that they could inspire cute fluffy happy bunnies to kil in cold blood Composted: They are so much fun! And yet incredible musicians at the same time. Slammy grindy death metal with all the fun of a surfer band Overall: Nothing quite like having a large inflatable fish come flying at your head. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 10:37am - RichHorror ""] pam said:hahah @ Anthony's business face. [img] Silly slam is serious business. |
| _____________________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:13am - MikeOvDecrepitvde ""] This show was a good way to start a long Friday night. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:21am - RustyPS ""] major lulz for this pic: [img] oh Wren |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:21am - boblovesmusic@thecoolidge ""] I loled at that one too! |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 12:06pm - xgodzillax ""] pam said:My head hurts a little and I have a bruise from the human wrecking ball twas probably me... |
| ______________________________ [Jul 11,2009 12:43pm - GUY ""] best rampant decay set yet. show was over way to quick |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 12:46pm - RichHorror ""] Thanks man, I agree. Yeah, it was quick but I figure it's better to have everyone play when people are still there and not after people start to lame out and go home. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 12:49pm - xgodzillax ""] [img] SMASH GRUNDLEZ |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 1:05pm - the_reverend ""] 1 second after that, elliott's guitar strap got segregated from his guitar. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 1:07pm - RichHorror ""] Composted should put all the best Leo mosh pics in their next CD. |
| ___________________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 1:17pm - markrichardsdead ""] We'll put a memorial shrine in our practice space and a picture of him with "RIP 2009" under the CD tray of our first full length. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 1:26pm - RichHorror ""] The series of Leo mosh pictures and Eliot enjoying the fuck out of a cupcake are the greatest things I've ever seen in my life. |
| _____________________________ [Jul 11,2009 4:05pm - pam ""] xgodzillax said: pam said:My head hurts a little and I have a bruise from the human wrecking ball twas probably me... Yeah it was. If you didn't do it someone else would have...I wear a beer every goddamn show I go to. You'd think I'd have faster reflexes by now. ;) |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 4:51pm - madoakdevin nli ""] i missed this for the stupidest reason. i smoked a blunt at like 9:30 and passed out until 1 today. hahaha. good weed rules. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 4:55pm - RichHorror ""] That sounds like a great reason. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 6:07pm - the_reverend ""] pam said: xgodzillax said: pam said:My head hurts a little and I have a bruise from the human wrecking ball twas probably me... Yeah it was. If you didn't do it someone else would have...I wear a beer every goddamn show I go to. You'd think I'd have faster reflexes by now. ;)your reactions are getting slower. I told carina that I gave you a hug and you smelled like babies. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 6:24pm - RichHorror ""] I can't believe I didn't punch Pam in the face. |
| _____________________________ [Jul 11,2009 6:52pm - pam ""] RichHorror said:I can't believe I didn't punch Pam in the face. Just hugs from Rich Horror last night. I think I prefer that to the punchisizing of my face. |
| _____________________________ [Jul 11,2009 6:53pm - pam ""] the_reverend said: pam said: xgodzillax said: pam said:My head hurts a little and I have a bruise from the human wrecking ball twas probably me... Yeah it was. If you didn't do it someone else would have...I wear a beer every goddamn show I go to. You'd think I'd have faster reflexes by now. ;)your reactions are getting slower. I told carina that I gave you a hug and you smelled like babies. hahaha |
| _________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 7:06pm - W3 nli ""] awesome times were awesome, good to see RD getting some love and just awesome to see some good scumbags out at OBs. your slamz got in the way of my conversation, shut up faggots. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 7:12pm - the_reverend ""] it reminded me of this sitcom episode http://www.tv.com/yes-dear/baby-baby-not/episode/556335/summary.html I'm downloading that season now so that I have show some of the pictures from it... needless to say the men's memories and the women's memories are vastly different. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:56pm - RichHorror ""] pam said: RichHorror said:I can't believe I didn't punch Pam in the face. Just hugs from Rich Horror last night. I think I prefer that to the punchisizing of my face. I sold out. |
| _____________________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 10:42am - MikeOvDecrepitvde ""] RichHorror said:I sold out. Only if you didn't get arrested after your set. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 12:12pm - RichHorror ""] My sellout is complete. |
| ____________________________________ [Aug 18,2009 2:17pm - RichHorror ""] From http://munster-iv.blogspot.com Though the huge multinational trip is looming -- need to get some groundcloths in stat -- there are still local shows that need paying attention to, like this one, which was pretty much as awesome and as ridiculous as might have been expected going in. I left right from work because I had some crap to take care of that ran late, but was pretty much on time until I got to the part where some idiot had thought it was smart to close 33-50% of Storrow Drive westbound for concert parking, instead of making people take the train and use their feet like they ought to. This wasted everybody's time and led me to hustle a bit after caching my vehicle, because I didn't want to miss Macerated. Fortunately, I got over with time to spare, and had the chance to drink a beer with a nice high water:chemicals ratio, apologize to Mark for not letting him know I was coming down in advance, and buy a CD off Rich before the bands started. Macerated [5.5/7] I have a history of prejudice against bands without bassists; such is well-documented here. Despite this drawback -- as mentioned in some other venues, Macerated's sound wasn't maybe as tick as might have been desired -- the actual music offered here was pretty damn cool. Their set was relatively short, but they kept up at a high level throughout, with a lot more of an old-school brutal sound than might have been expected on this bill, or with this kind of lineup. Part of this may have been the equipment; the guitarist had at least a seven-string, maybe an eight, and did a really good job of keeping a thick low-end going as well as slashing out the riffage. As mentioned previously, this band had some good merch, but didn't charge much for it, and additionally spent a lot of time away from their merch table during set breaks. While this is understandable (nobody's going to begrudge band members the right to pack up, watch friends they see two or three times a year via tourdate trades, and get some food down), this may have led to decreased sales, which would be a shame: good bands from 500 miles away need and deserve a hand getting to their next gig. Embryonic Cryptopathia [5/7] There have been rumors that this is an active band about as long as I've been actually going to DIY shows in Boston. This, though, was the first time I'd actually seen them play, and the first or maybe second time I can recall seeing them on a bill. Though the set was far too short, EC executed masterfully, with short, sharp, heavily blackened bursts of death-grind pummeling the audience. You might not expect the black metal elements at a show like this, but that's before you notice the large numbers of Hirudinea and Witch Tomb members in this band; then, it becomes clear that this is the other side of that coin, the more grind-heavy side of that absolute blackened worldhate music. Hella god stuff; no idea when they're playing again, or if they'll have anything recorded by then, but a band to watch for in any case. If there was anything odd about this set, it was that EC was debatably more costumed than Composted; while the "sports" theme the latter band had going on wasn't the most well-implemented themegag the band's ever done, this is still something. Rampant Decay [5.5/7] Mr. Rich Horror has put on, in concrete and scientific terms, a metric fuckton of shows, including this one, since I returned to the Northeast from overseas. I have been to many of these shows. He has also had an active band throughout, whether the name be It Will End In Pure Horror, Rich Horror and the Screaming Nervous Breakdowns, or at this point, Rampant Decay. Despite this guy running a large part, if not the lion's share, of heavy music in eastern Massachusetts, I had to date never seen his actual band, for three years either missing shows due to illness, schedule conflicts, or outside commitments, or going to shows and being bummed that his band had to cancel. It boggles the frickin mind. So I eventually do actually see Rampant Decay, and what is the upshot? A hella good band that makes Rich's commitment to promotion entirely understandable, thickly slurrying the line between metal and punk to the point where other promoters might not book them on punk or hardcore shows as being too metal, or metal promoters give them a pass as too punk. This is, of course, dumb, given the quality of the music, which mixes the best elements of Carnivore and a moshpit fistfight to create high-class DIY music that doesn't care nearly so much about genre as it does about getting wasted and headbutting somebody in the jaw. Rampant Decay could also have gone on longer than they did, but it was a good set regardless, and hopefully this ridiculous streak is over and I won't have to wait another three goddamned years to see a very active band from my home area again. Composted [6/7] On this sad occasion, two members left the Composted family: Eliot "the BlackNess Monster" Bayless, who separated amicably from the band to pursue a career in actually getting paid to do music stuffs, which was taking off to the point that playing in an active death metal band was starting to interfere, and Leo the inflatable fish, who was beaten, stomped, and eventually hit by a car while trying to cross Harvard Ave. Yes, seriously. (Photo credits to Rev. Aaron, obviously.) That Leo survived to that point was something of a miracle, and may be a record for a Composted inflatable prop; practically everything else that gets thrown into the audience dies in a matter of a song or two, but Leo kept on trucking the whole set, flying through the air, getting punched and sat on, bouncing off everyone and everything, and helping Composted demonstrate that they are, yes, among the best slam-death bands out there, because while everybody may be able to lock in and drill siqq breakdownz khed, there's only an elect few that can do this while getting hit in the face with blowup fish and not miss a beat. I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the best Composted set I've seen, but it was damned high quality, with solid slam-death making up for a slight decrease in gag volume. More so than for Rampant Decay, people got moving and violent -- towards each other as well as the inflatable fish -- but nobody got facewaffled and Eliot (on the floor because O'Brien's only has so much stage area) didn't even drop his guitar after he got run into, despite the strap separating from it. Good times, to be sure. Eventually, the music stopped, and the band packed up, and people danced and made gang signs to the first Body Count disc, which was somehow on the club sound system, and then I hit the trail, saw Leo bounce off the windshield of some totally oblivious motorists, and hiked back to pick up my car again. Having gone right from work, there was no downtime, so I was feeling pretty beat, and as a result didn't pay attention on Route 1 and ended up detouring through Lynn and Swampscott for no discernable reason in the process of getting home. Three or four shows left, then it's off to Europe with whatever I end up hauling. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 16,2009 2:46pm - boblovesmusic ""] Way overdue pics from this show plus a couple from another show some highlights: [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] |