New Albums Out This Month

[Helm]

Dude, I'm not even gonna attempt to play Necrophagist. But good luck. The most technical I can get is watchtower riffs, and then not 100% clean and always on the spot.


On other news, a week from now I saw Susperia (crap), Mortiis (more crap) and the newly reformed Obituary headlining. Whoever mixed up that bill needs to be shot. It's a small wonder Mortiis got out of there alive, but they did play a reduced set. Obituary. . . They were perfect. Tardy's voice was in great shape, much to everyone's relief, the drumming was perfect. Only West didn't seem like he was into it (just sitting there, playing his rifs and solos) but the rest of the band was really pumped by the second song when they saw what goes on in a greek metal live. Violence and bloodshed indeed. Speaking of which, I really got caught in a mosh bigtime in the encore and got punched and elbowed and kicked good. Anyhow, the set was a good 'best off' only they didn't play Find the Arise and Infected! I dunno. Still... great! A faulty guitar towards the end of Final Thoughts warranted for an improv drum solo that was awesome. A roadie held up another deep tom over the set to give Tardy a chance for some stage show. I really enjoyed them live. Even heard a new song. I hope they manage to stick together and do another album, since Obituary has NEVER done wrong in all their time (and nobody mention that anthology bullshit. Ask roadrunner).