Concert - The Radio Rebellion Tour Featuring Behemoth, Job For A Cowboy, Gojira, Beneath The Massacre
Posted on November 16, 2007 at 8:00 am by admin
Toronto’s Opera House is starting to become a venue I frequent often, and on Monday November 12, a swarm of destructive terror descended.
Spending so much time on the touring circuit is beginning to harden Beneath The Massacre into full-blown road warriors. Vocalist Elliot Desgagnés now sports the beginning of his Grizzly Adams look as he and his band mates to the stage, mystifying the audience with their veracious technical skills, and machine-gun like drumming. They feature the most brutal single-note breakdowns that would suggest every other metalcore band from here on should simply give up, as Beneath The Massacre might as well officially win the award for the heaviest single-note breakdowns ever.
Having never visited Toronto before, and hot off the heels of their most recent album, Gojira invaded the stage. Bass player Jean-Michel Labadie mercilessly pounded the low end while guitarist Christian Andreu windmill spun his hair as he thrashed away. The man in center stage of course would be the charismatic Joe Duplantier. The setlist hung mostly towards new material with older songs being inserted. The delivery was super tight and quite close to the original recordings, with of course the added energy of the live performance.
Just as I expected, Job For A Cowboy’s opening song (or perhaps sample) was the instrumental segueway before “Embedded”, unexpectedly however, they quickly jumped into their live set with the last song from “Genesis”. The stage was adorned with canvas hangings containing the striking art from “Genesis”, as well as having apocalyptic imagery projected onto them for certain breaks between songs. Vocalist Jonny Davey was on spot with his vocal delivery, nailing everything just right while at times headbanging, or doing his signature hand movements.
Behemoth gained the most attention being the headliner of course, and played to a packed house. Their stage set featured glowing, upside down crosses, and frontman Nergal sported some new leather attire. With 4 band members all sporting long hair, it was a festival of windmill spinning in unison. The setlist was a mix of all songs, from past to present, with a break in between to desecrate the holy bible, then tear out some pages before throwing it into the audience to have it ripped to shreds. They didn’t spend much time off stage before coming back for an encore of two songs, one being a punk cover of a song dedicated to the women with “erection” in the title (it was slightly hard to hear, and unfortunately I was unfamiliar who originally played the song).
It was a night of blast-beats and brutality for the new generation, and shake up if you will from the tradition of older, more traditional death metal bands. All we need now is a tour to mix young and old to bring the generations together.
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