Wednesday, February 11, 2004
the pain is being brought tonight
So I'm heading over to the Masquerade later tonight, normally the home to awesome shows by the likes of Pennywise and the Genitortures, to check out Dillinger Escape Plan, the Locust, Your Enemies Friends, and the Wrangler Brutes. Now on paper this show looks to be a thrashingly good time, but for the life of me I can't seem to muster up any excitment about going to this show. Dillinger Escape Plan have been touring a shit load for the past three years, but since "Calculating Infinity," which came out in 2000 they've only been able to muster a 4 song EP with Mike Patton, that granted kicked ass, but came off as more of a novelty than a legitmate follow up to their last record. I've been told that label wranglings have held up the release of the record, but none the less my patience has been wearing a little thin. DEP has amased quite a following with new batches and sects of the hardcore community, so I don't think they run the risk of becoming irrelevant on a national scale, but none the less if all you have to show in 7 years is less than 25 songs, interest will innevitably wane. But who knows, I've seen these guys blow fire onstage, almost decapitate people standing in the front with guitars, and even seen them do covers of "Rebel Yell" and "My Michelle" with more furor and wreckless abandon than Billy Idol and Axl could ever muster even in their primes.
Which brings me to the next band the Locust. This is a group that only has 2 legitimate full lenths and have been together for about 8 years, and their songs ARE ONLY A MINUTE LONG. What the fuck is the deal here. These guys are always really fun to see live, their brown nuthuggers and faceless fly face masks are pretty tight, and a group that is willing and ready to call out dipshit fans in the crowd is always entertaining. But as the case is with DEP, the Locust has such a small output of material for the time that they have been around, interst a least me personally left a long time ago. Blast beats and keyboards are awesome, but for fucks sake TWO RECORDS. Christ, GBV has probably put out ten albums worth of unoverlapping material from that same time period, if not more. What's funny about that is that GBV songs are probably tougher to write than Locusts songs are. Now I know that's comparing apples and oranges, but the Locust have been receiving significant national attention and it's suprising to me that this has happened more or less resting on the laurels of a record that came out in 1998. Actually, I take that back. People are still shooting loads about Refused, and they've been broken up for more than half a decade, which is a whole different can of worms to open.
Hopefully I won't puke tonight having to mingle with all the dudes with haircuts that look like the back of their heads exploded, and hopefully these bands can restore some faith into my cynical ass. I'm going to keep my expectations low, so the chance of this happening can be greater, but if I see more than three white belts I gonna get in the pit and do some fuckin karate and have no qualms about it.
Woo-Ha
So I'm heading over to the Masquerade later tonight, normally the home to awesome shows by the likes of Pennywise and the Genitortures, to check out Dillinger Escape Plan, the Locust, Your Enemies Friends, and the Wrangler Brutes. Now on paper this show looks to be a thrashingly good time, but for the life of me I can't seem to muster up any excitment about going to this show. Dillinger Escape Plan have been touring a shit load for the past three years, but since "Calculating Infinity," which came out in 2000 they've only been able to muster a 4 song EP with Mike Patton, that granted kicked ass, but came off as more of a novelty than a legitmate follow up to their last record. I've been told that label wranglings have held up the release of the record, but none the less my patience has been wearing a little thin. DEP has amased quite a following with new batches and sects of the hardcore community, so I don't think they run the risk of becoming irrelevant on a national scale, but none the less if all you have to show in 7 years is less than 25 songs, interest will innevitably wane. But who knows, I've seen these guys blow fire onstage, almost decapitate people standing in the front with guitars, and even seen them do covers of "Rebel Yell" and "My Michelle" with more furor and wreckless abandon than Billy Idol and Axl could ever muster even in their primes.
Which brings me to the next band the Locust. This is a group that only has 2 legitimate full lenths and have been together for about 8 years, and their songs ARE ONLY A MINUTE LONG. What the fuck is the deal here. These guys are always really fun to see live, their brown nuthuggers and faceless fly face masks are pretty tight, and a group that is willing and ready to call out dipshit fans in the crowd is always entertaining. But as the case is with DEP, the Locust has such a small output of material for the time that they have been around, interst a least me personally left a long time ago. Blast beats and keyboards are awesome, but for fucks sake TWO RECORDS. Christ, GBV has probably put out ten albums worth of unoverlapping material from that same time period, if not more. What's funny about that is that GBV songs are probably tougher to write than Locusts songs are. Now I know that's comparing apples and oranges, but the Locust have been receiving significant national attention and it's suprising to me that this has happened more or less resting on the laurels of a record that came out in 1998. Actually, I take that back. People are still shooting loads about Refused, and they've been broken up for more than half a decade, which is a whole different can of worms to open.
Hopefully I won't puke tonight having to mingle with all the dudes with haircuts that look like the back of their heads exploded, and hopefully these bands can restore some faith into my cynical ass. I'm going to keep my expectations low, so the chance of this happening can be greater, but if I see more than three white belts I gonna get in the pit and do some fuckin karate and have no qualms about it.
Woo-Ha
