Concert: Job for a Cowboy, All Shall Perish, Animosity, Annotations of an Autopsy
Posted on December 05, 2008 at 5:17 pm by admin
There was a previous interview who simply let it out of the bag for The Embassy in London, Ontario. The place is practically famous, and it’s a dump, and practically any signed metal band on tour passing through Ontario has to play there once in their lifetime. I won’t get into the details, but if you know how bad washrooms can get sometimes…
There’s two downsides to this show – first Hate Eternal couldn’t make it, as the band mainman Erik Rutan required some surgery. I was really hoping to get a chance to talk to him, because I grew up on the album “Dominate” by Morbid Angel, and he wrote half that album. Don’t worry Erik, I’ll see if I can get some Frank Mullen impersonations filmed and online to wish you good luck!
We also unfortunately missed the opening band, Annotations of Autopsy. I’m not too familiar with them…
Now Animosity I’ve heard about for awhile. They’ve been in the scene for quite some time, and now have three full-length albums under their belts. Some people might tag them as “deathcore”, however when I think of deathcore, I think of a whole bunch of tremolo picked riffs, smith blasts and a bunch of single-note breakdowns, which Animosity has been moving away from. Are they still a merger of death metal and hardcore though? Their songs moved from hardcore chord runnings to death metal blasting. The vocalist certainly had a fun time running as far as he could on that small stage, though some of the members did some to be concentrating at their instruments.
But now it was time for All Shall Perish, who surprisingly opened with a song from their very first album, which was a little strange considering they only just released a new full-length which gained quite a lot of critical acclaim. Their set list actually had an even amount of songs from all three of their albums, likely not focussing primarily on “Awaken the Dreamers” due to all the slow songs on the album.
The crowd began to gather heavily, causing many to bang their head in appreciation as the bands power poured onto the audience. I honestly didn’t get much of a visual for the band, as I was either trying to survive the people crammed together, or I was crowd surfing.
Unfortunately I personally wasn’t able to see Job for a Cowboy, however the official Way Too Loud punk guy Luke did. Here’s what he had to say -
For the final performance of the night, the spotlights went completely dark, as it was near impossible to see the stage from the back of the Embassy. Then as soon as the lights came back on, Job for A Cowboy ruptured into one of their well-known songs as most of the audience moved as close as they could to the barrier-less stage. The entire crowd was glued to the dudes in the band and sang along to some of the deep growling parts where the band would stop and let the audience finish the line. Crowd surfing slowed down for the last show, which security was policing due to some guy who accidentally hit one of the spotlights with his foot while surfing the crowd (and I’m pretty sure that guy owns this site). JFAC doesn’t have many tunes to choose from, but they were able to mix it up quite a bit with a long set, as well as trying out two new unreleased tracks on the crowd, which, according to Jonny, “are untitled”.
In all, it was surprisingly crowded for a cold Thursday night in London. With more new bands sharing the stage and touring with agreeable full-on death metal (even though Hate Eternal was unable to play that evening), perhaps there’s hope.
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