 After a rather nerve wracking interview (My first
ever interview in fact) with stone gods, i get
ready to shoot.
Hate Gallery a metal band from various parts of
Scandinavia,the band pretty much kick off in high
gear, the set is littered with songs that are
most about social commentary, one song in particular
'The Idiots' is an anti reality TV song, and it
goes down quite well with the Birmingham crowd,
although he mentions no names in particular, its
fairly obvious hes having a pop at a certain reality
TV star who recently passed away.All the songs
are sung with venom and the band is very tight,
leading to pretty punchy set that runs by very
quickly.
The Black Spiders are a heavy metal band from
up north, they have an almighty sound, and the
band play the shit outta there instruments, there's
no real let up from these guys, got me headbanging
through most of there songs, whilst photographing
 them i might add,the set is full of heavy riffs
and great band energy, this band is pretty much
giving the crowd there moneys worth and the crowd
is loving every heavy metal moment of it, with
a performance like this, they will soon be headlining
similar venues.
Stone Gods - three words can describe this set
- METAL AS FUCK. Its been quite a while since
a band has truly blown me away, there album does
not do this band justice, a true live band, just
WOW, this band turned it up to 11 and then some.
The band kick off with Don't Drink the Water,
which for the most part has the crowd singing
the chorus,followed by You Brought a Knife to
a Gunfight, a personal favorite that has got me
shouting fuck you, with rest of the crowd. Next
up is a few acoustic numbers Magdalene Street
and Lazy Bones then out of nowhere is the first
cover song of the night, Whiplash which seems
slightly slower than the Metallica original, but
just as heavy, this is followed by the metal bands
of Birmingham tribute most notably Black Sabbath
riffs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Paranoid, this
 also happens to be Richie Edwards home gig, being
born just 10 miles away. This leads into there
heavy riff song, Knight of the living dead that
pretty much has the crowd either head banging
or fists in the air, or in my case both. after
a short break, the encore, kicks off with album
opener Burn the witch which has the crowd well
an truly pleased, then some controversy according
to the band, another cover song, but this cover
isn't of a metal band, its of girl group, Girls
aloud song Something Kinda Ooooh, this is probably
the best its ever sounded. then its finished off
with Oh Whereo My Beero, great way to finish the
set, leaving the crowd drunk with pleasure, you
don't get many gigs like this, FANTASTIC.And I
even left with the bass players set list, Result.
Hate Gallery 3/5
The Black Spiders 4/5
Stone Gods 11/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
