Morgue orgy are first on stage, a great
name I have to say, the music however drifts between
heavy, catchy and head bang worthy to heavy and
noisy, the vocals are
Death metal vocals, which while obviously suiting
the music, to me is just annoying and rubbish,
many will disagree. The one surprise is the keyboards
going for a gothic sort of sound, there not bad,
and adds a much needed layer to distract me from
the vocals. The guitar work is pretty good and
the guitarists and bass player even spare a little
time while playing to pull faces at the camera.
There a lively sort of bunch but with little room
to move about on due to the amount of gear on
stage. It's a real mixed performance music wise,
with good parts and bad which it fluctuates between
regularly.
 Warlord UK are the second band of the night, there
a band I have seen before. The performance tonight
is probably on par when they supported napalm
death last year, but not sounding as good, probably
just down to the PA. The guitar work is still
very proficient as is the drumming, I'm still
not a fan of the death metal vocals, but that
should surprise no one by now. The music being
melodic and thrashy is good to listen to at times
while getting messy at others. They played angel
of death at the end of their set, its good, it’s
not slayer but still good. It's a solid performance
tonight.
 The Rotted are the main support tonight another
band I saw last year at the napalm death gig.
There more of a thrashy punky sort of band. The
vocals are more growly and squealing that alternate
between the two. The music isn't really all that
palatable at times verging on just noise on the
most part, the band just going at it as fast as
possible which is fine but it doesn't really grab
my attention if anything it makes me want to ignore
it if anything, leaving it a hard task to pick
out positive points and review them. The slower
parts are easier to listen to but only just the
crowd for the rotted has thinned out after warlord
UK had been on, which says there's not too many
fans in the house tonight, even between songs
there's no cheer from anyone when a songs announced,
it's an average set by an average metal band.
 Evile, an 80s thrash metal sounding band, my
sort of music, they really are head and shoulders
above the rest of the bands on display. I have
to say there newer material is easily as good
as some of their older stuff, catchy heavy really
easy to listen to and head bang along too, and
the vocals, finally clean vocals, evile my vocal
saviours! This band really should be bigger than
they are, it's a shame they wasn't about in the
80s, or they would be huge now I'm sure. I'm thoroughly
enjoying the likes of five serpent teeth, killer
from the  deep, who are about to die (what a tune)
Cult a new tune, it's pretty damn awesome, a proper
head banger. The crowd finally showed proper signs
of life as soon as evile started. Its' not as
hot in the venue as I was expecting, thankfully!
Thrasher, decent in to madness, infected nation
and long live new flesh are other set highs, especially
thrasher, it's awesome.
They close their short set with armoured assault,
great way to finish an excellent set after seeing
some average bands tonight, evile finally got
me out of the funk I was in since the first band
came on, and topped off what would have been an
also ran night.
Morgue Orgy 3/5
Warlord UK 3/5
The Rotted 2/5
Evile 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
