 Well
what was there to say about getting to the academy
2 tonight, try to get in and was told there is
no guest list, luckily it was just the promoter
forgetting to give the guest list to the box office,
D'OH! I also missed Doctor Who for this as well!
Totally Missed the first band on, by the time
i got in for the second band, they were about
to start, when After the Burial got underway,
the look on there faces, they did not look they
could be bothered to be there, that pissed me
off, seeing as some people there were there to
see them, it doesn't make for a good vibe. The
venue wasn't even a 3rd full tonight, but no excuse
for not having fun, the front man/singer seemed
game enough though. The music was very repetitive,
the lead guitarist was good, but the music on
a whole seemed very generic, the scream/squealed
vocals, wasn't really working for me tonight,
they can be hit an miss, tonight was miss. The
rest of the band finally got into it near the
end of the set, but starting off, looking pissed,
wasnt on for me!
Next up were Caliban, a band i heard many hear
had came to see, so i was hoping they'd be good
and prove the que hype! Well i was happy to see
the band were up for it after the previous band,
but the music it was ok, the vocals were more
screamo stuff, but i could barely hear the drums
over the drone of the guitars and bass. There
were some decent heavy melodic moments, but they
were few and far between. One thing i noticed
was that the first few rows were really into Caliban,
then there was a gap where a half arsed pit opened
up, then what looked like statues, the majority
of the crowd just stood there and looked on, apparently
they just weren't all that, but they put on a
good spectacle at least.
 Headliners were Emmure, just another band like
the ones that preceded them, im pretty sure you
could have just changed there set list around
and no one would be the wiser. A cheesy line the
singer said was, this is for all the decepticons
out there, before launching into Soundwave Superior.
There set sounded pretty much similar throughout,
id tell you you more of the songs they played
but i could hear the vocals too well, the lyrics
couldn't make them out really! They put on a good
visual performance, the frontman constantly moving,
occasional looking like a rapper, spitting his
verses throwing his arms out there. But on whole,
the performance seemed average, nothing really
setting them a part from any other of the bands
that played, they all could have headlined as
the musicians all seem competent enough to do
such a job, basically tonight, there were 4 bands
that sounded very much alike, i think anyone normally
would like some variation, to break things up
a little, but tonight it was all very samey!
After The Burial – 2/5
Caliban 3/5
Emmure 3/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
