9.13: Wargasm (20th anniversary reunion), Steel Assassin, Raw Radar War, Razormaze, Superpower[views:19474][posts:74]Middle East (Cambridge, Ma) - [randomshots][raw_radar_war][razormaze][steel_assassin][superpower][wargasm] [show listing] _______________________________ [Aug 27,2008 9:46pm - alexc ""] [img] MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS, 8PM, 15 bucks advance/18 bucks at the doors Tickets available thru ticketmaster this will rule! |
| _______________________________ [Aug 27,2008 9:49pm - alexc ""] oh yeah, and 18+ |
| ________________________________________ [Aug 27,2008 10:44pm - thuringwethil ""] KNEE DEEP IN BLOOD |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 27,2008 11:12pm - the_reverend ""] CAN'T WAIT |
| _______________________________ [Aug 29,2008 3:47pm - alexc ""] top |
| __________________________ [Sep 3,2008 4:43pm - ""] http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1220722 |
| ______________________________ [Sep 5,2008 1:33pm - alexc ""] top |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 5,2008 3:21pm - boblovesmusic ""] My friend's the drummer for Razormaze and they kick ass as well! |
| ______________________________ [Sep 8,2008 5:24pm - alexc ""] top! |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 5:39pm - the_reverend ""] I need to tell someone to put me on the list with a photopass. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 6:14pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] Consider it done Rev, you're all set |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 10:28pm - the_reverend ""] awesome, this is going to be rad again. can't wait@ |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 10:47pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Sweet, my Metal friend Sandy is flying in from Cleveland on Friday and we are going! Guess I'll grab 2 tickets tomorrow at the IMPALED / PHOBIA show. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 4:10am - ThirdKnuckle ""] Rev is a photo pass something you secure through the venue or through us? -New At This |
| ______________________________ [Sep 9,2008 7:22pm - alexc ""] top, yeah my girlfriend would also like to know the answer to thirdknuckles question |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 7:35pm - the_reverend ""] oops, just saw the question. the bands just have to tell the person at the door. |
| ________________________________ [Sep 10,2008 11:58am - alexc ""] TOP DUDE TOP |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 11,2008 1:17pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] What time's the first band start? |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 12,2008 3:01pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] Doors: 7:30 Razormaze: 8:00 |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 12,2008 3:06pm - thuringwethil ""] Cool blurb in The Phoenix today! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 12,2008 3:45pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] Larissa are you going to the show? We have a li'l something planned that you'll appreciate...:2HORNS: |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 12,2008 4:14pm - thuringwethil ""] of course! PM'd you so it stays on the down low |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 12,2008 4:34pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] not tellin':2HORNS::2HORNS::2HORNS: |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 12,2008 4:37pm - thuringwethil ""] heh, awesome! |
| _______________________________ [Sep 13,2008 1:47am - alexc ""] TOP |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 10:28am - christopher ""] I'm psyched for tonight! |
| _______________________________ [Sep 13,2008 1:15pm - alexc ""] YEAH! |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 1:37pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] christopher said:I'm psyched for tonight! :NEWHORNS: >:] :NEWHORNS: |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 4:39pm - the_reverend ""] horat! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 4:55pm - the_reverend ""] horay that is |
| ________________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 5:49pm - jona hat work ""] HORRAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 6:09pm - GodlessRob ""] :doublehorns: |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 6:12pm - the_reverend ""] super power on a stage will be weird. I'm leaving in 20 minutes |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 6:28pm - GodlessRob ""] Brandon and I have 2 extra tickets if anyone needs one let me know. Leaving in 30min. WARRRRRRGGGAAAAASSSSMMMMM!!!!!!!! FUCKERS! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 8:09pm - the_reverend ""] wow... looong sets and lot of time. late show. razermaze: 8:10-8:40 superpower: 9-9:30 raw radar war: 9:50-10:20 steel assassin: 10:40-11:15 wargasm: 12-1:15 |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 8:11pm - the_reverend ""] razormaze. not razer |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 8:12pm - the_reverend ""] the guy at the door is the drummer from hero of alexandria and the guy behind the cash register was the guy, ben, who put on the biclops show the other week. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 8:40pm - the_reverend ""] razermaze: excellent band and it was no wonder they were on this show. Oldschool thrash metal reincarnated. tons of denim and headbanging. The floor was sadly empty for them in front. Besides a couple people (including myself);the room stayed to the back drinking. It's really amazing how many people are already here at the show. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 9:26pm - the_reverend ""] superpower: since I don't think deadlikedeath is doing much, the bassplayer in in superpower now. This is pretty much what I wouls have expected from their set. It sounded the best from the side of the stage. At this point, the show is running 15 minutes ahead of schedule. RRW will probably make it another 10 minutes ahead. Anyhow, they seasoned the set with whiskey and terry's trademark showboating. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 10:18pm - the_reverend ""] raw radar war: before going on, they waited the clock out a little bit but even with that, they were done with more than 15 mintes to spare. I really really hope there isn't 2 45 minute breaks. The set through those speakers was audio gold. Ever this sounded so good. The bassist did his not looking at the crowd thing for the whole set. If you look at my pictures, you might not even notice him. They raced through their set, looking at the set lists while playing the ending of one song so that they didn't stop. Their songs are only 1-2 minutes long and on stage it's a seemless integration of all the songs. It plays very well on stage, but makes the set that much shorter. im glad that their seemingly miss matched status on this show made it that much better. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 11:24pm - the_reverend ""] steel assassin: they were once again awesome. I think they played the last wargasm show. Heavy metal and the vocals are campy or annoying. The band (from back stage) basically forms a wall to the audience. Sort of weird when I was trying to get shots of the crowd cheering along for them. Good stuff. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 13,2008 11:38pm - the_reverend ""] good show! |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 1:29am - thuringwethil ""] haha that was like the first show i'd been thrown out of for being drunk and silly in A WHILE jumping up on stage during the Venom cover, BEING SILLY AND OBNOXIOUS I lost my glasses during that IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOO WORTH IT THOUGH great fucking show |
| _____________________________ [Sep 14,2008 1:57am - ZJD ""] witch hunt played this? |
| ____________________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 2:02am - todayistheday nli ""] i think he just posted their review of last nights show in the wrong thread |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 2:12am - boblovesmusic ""] MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING FROM THE AWESOME OF WARGASM!!!! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 2:32am - christopher ""] awesome vocals on the Venom song thuringwethil, hahaha good show. Rich Spillberg ripped shit on the guitar. The pit was far more violent then I expected. ...how did wargasm end? I left once it turned around 1. also; did every check out the amount of puke that was in the mens bathroom. GNARLY. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 3:13am - the_reverend ""] that show, woot! |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 3:20am - Whoremastery ""] FUCKIN AWESOME...HAILS TO THE GASM...to hear wpa around was a treat...even merits girlfriend...fuckin classic! |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 7:19am - GodlessRob ""] Fucking AWESOME show! I am old, cause damn I hurt. The pit was fucking insane!!!! more when I wake up... |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 8:23am - thuringwethil ""] yeah I'm feeling the metal ache too nice |
| ______________________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 9:04am - DogbiteDaveHumphreys ""] fuckyeahfuckyeahfuckyeah how old school was this? Lots of old metalheads come out of the woodwork and back from the grave for a truly inspired night of metal. And puke in the bathroom. Awesome. |
| _________________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 9:46am - GodlessRob@KRF ""] thuringwethil said:yeah I'm feeling the metal ache too nice I was going to ask you if you were ok. Looked like you hit pretty hard. But then again fuck it, it's all about the metal and all the aches and pains are, and always will be, fucking worth it!!!!!!!!!! Razormaze - first time seeing you guys, you really brought it! You guys kicked a lot of ass. Oh and Alex, I want my XL damn it! j/k. Raw Radar War, Superpower - I was not familiar with your music before last night, but now I will be. Everyone sounded really tight. Although the low end coming out of the monitors was WAY overbearing, it really crushed a lot of the definition. I def. want to check out some recorded tunes. Steel Assassin - what more can I say... Falzone sounded fucking great last night, the band was super tight and killed a lot of ass. WARGASM!!!!! FUCKING WARGASM!!!!!!! Bob, Barry, Rich - You guys, by your performance last night, have proven yet again that you have earned, and deserve the position of being the legendary thrash band that you are! I haven't seen a pit like that at a "local" show in years. You all absolutely SLAYED last night. For me it's been 16years since I have seen you and it was so worth the wait. You guys made us all feel like family and a family we were! All the old timers came out last night and really showed how strong this scene was back in the day. Dwyer it was good seeing you again, Dave Demonic it was really good meeting you, and talking to you bro. Whore, what can I say bro? It was killer meeting you and talking shit all night! I am really stoked you were down with the shit we were listening to after the show. We'll see... Oh and yea, yeti hunting at the Hock is so on! All in all it was one of the best shows I have been to in a long ass time. I will be feeling this for a long time! Fucking horns up! True Boston Metal at it's finest! |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 10:29am - Whoremastery ""] yes...fuckin hockomock is a must bro...good meeting you too..i saw people last night i havent seen in 10 years or more...good times..im sore as fuck..i guess im gettin to old to pit. well jam! |
| ________________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 11:53am - thuringwethil ""] yeah that was ouch best metal show I've been to in decades |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 12:24pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] christopher said:the amount of puke that was in the mens bathroom. GNARLY. :pukeface: Yeah, and it stayed there for hours, you think they would've cleaned it up! GodlessRob@KRF said:Dwyer it was good seeing you again You too bro. The bassist of STEEL ASSASSIN looks like he could be your older brother. I have had METAL NECK for the past month! So many show and fests this year, wrecking my neck for sure, need a break, haha. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 1:27pm - thuringwethil ""] the ladies bathroom was pretty clean the blower didn't work though livin' on THE EDGE, rarrr! |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 1:28pm - thuringwethil ""] by the way Steel Assassin were great, and I was sooooooo entranced with Razormaze. I felt like I'd walked through a late-80's thrash time portal |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 1:36pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] My friend Metal Sandy from Cleveland was impressed with STEEL ASSASSIN and she got both CDs and a shirt, good times! |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 1:50pm - thuringwethil ""] yeah Dwyer I couldn't find her on your myspace |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 4:59pm - thuringwethil ""] awesome. Sandy is metal. |
| _________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 5:17pm - scarab ""] yes, the mighty wargasm appeared once again at the middle east to lay waste to the metal masses who turned out in their finest ripped denim and leather. for those of you who don't know, wargasm was the band that, goddammit, should've been been huge. but bad business dealings and the like erected a wall of misfortune which proved to be too high for even these warriors to scale (um, what?). they released three albums and one ep during their time together in the late 80's/early 90's, and did a comeback in 2004, which was released as a live dvd last night. last night's show in turn was recorded for a future live album. they played everything off of the classic "why play around?" album, including, yes, "le cou cou". a couple of covers were thrown in by the likes of motorhead and venom, with rich moving to drums, barry to bass, and bob to guitar for one tune. there were also some other gems tossed into the set, including a facemeltingly awesome "enemy mine" off of the criminally overlooked "ugly" album. let me tell you something right now. rich spillberg plays guitar so goddamned fast that i half expected a police officer to appear onstage and write him up for speeding. seriously, this dude just shreds, and everything is tighter than a virgin nun's asshole. no clams here, no sir. and everyone basically sang/shouted along to every fucking word, which made bob mayo's job that much easier. and of course barry spillberg just powered the whole thing along at light speed. completely inhuman. unbelievable. fucking knee deep in blood, my friends. knee fucking deep in motherfucking blood. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 14,2008 6:16pm - alexc ""] GodlessRob@KRF said: Razormaze - first time seeing you guys, you really brought it! You guys kicked a lot of ass. Oh and Alex, I want my XL damn it! j/k. ass. I'm ordering some this week due to all the requests. You'll be notified accordingly! This fucking ruled so hard. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 6:34pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] I wanna thank Alex & Razormaze, Dave Tree & SuperPower, Jonah, Pat & Raw Radar War, and the Steel Assassin crew for a great night. Also The Rev for all the pics, the Middle East sound crew, and everybody who showed up! We've done 2 shows in the past 13 yrs and you guys have always brought it. Oh & Larissa for... her enthusiasm! |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 7:07pm - thuringwethil ""] haha yeah sorry about that Bob, hope I didn't geek it up TOO badly goddamn you guys sound amazing. KNEE DEEP IN BLOOD!!! |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 8:02pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] "Revenge!" |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 8:18pm - Whoremastery ""] just think..we get to do this all again next week! |
| _______________________________ [Sep 14,2008 9:59pm - alexc ""] Bob, thank you dude. Last night was so amazing. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 14,2008 10:54pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Whoremastery said:we get to do this all again next week! I believe you mean THIS WEEK! I will be at OPETH with Jenni Rotten though. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 7:45am - ThirdKnuckle ""] no worries, Larissa, all in good fun we have it shot w/5 video cameras too... |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 8:15am - thuringwethil ""] uh oh. close ups of me falling ass over tea kettle. haha, WITCHING HOUR! |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 10:25am - deadlikedave ""] this was my first time playing mid east down, it was a blast, thanks for all who came early to check everyone out...this show was so good. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 4:23pm - the_reverend ""] wargasm: I was secretly bitching about how late they were going on. Midnight! Arg!!! Most of the time in between the different bands looked long on paper, but with all the people there were there to talk to, it went by wicked fast. Then wargasm hit the stage and the room was packed. People went crazy. I was just trying to stay out of video's way while getting shots. It sort of didn't even hit me that the show was happening until 10 minutes in when I heard Bob belt out "Knee deep in blood!". Once that graced the stage, imho, the stage was set. People raged. Even though it was basically known that they would be doing all Why Play Around?, people seemed to be surprised over and over about the songs that they were playing. ALL WPA people means ALL OF THE RECORD WHY PLAY AROUND?. 'nuff said. after so many years not together (then playing the show in 2004), this was definitely the better of their sets. More energy, More slamming, and More people getting booted. That's how you know it's a good show at the middle east. Don't count the number of people through the door coming in, but the number of people tossed out the door. like miss larissa. I hope that the show in RI re-lives the 80's and is a slam-pit heaven just for one night. |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 15,2008 7:07pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] Rev do you need a photo pass hook-up for Club Hell? let me know |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 20,2008 1:59am - the_reverend ""] I wished I went to the club hell show. oh well. This show was so good that i didn't go to another during the week. |