36 CRAZYFISTS & DEVILDRIVER // THE FORUM SYD // 25 FEB 09

My ears are still ringing, having just seen one of the most epic line-up in recent times, All That Remains, 36 Crazyfists, Lacuna Coil & the mighty Devildriver!

I don’t want to bore you with all the tracks and setlist information, lets just say all the bands went off. Personally I wasn’t a huge fan of Lacuna Coil (European metal has more than a hint of campness and pantomime about it I find) but respect to the lead singer, who crowd surfed in nothing more than a bra and skirt during Devildrivers’ blistering set! I’m sure the 18 year olds though Christmas had some early haha. Oh by the way, this is her….

Exactly!

What I really liked about the show was the real sense of community and camaraderie between all the bands, 36 Crazyfists came and did shots with everyone in the crowd after their set, there was no egos, everyone was there to just have a killer time. At one point during 36CF’s set, the crowd parted right down the middle, like a rugby match prior to kick off. And when the drums hit – BOOM everyone ran into each other, wall of death style. Bad to be in it, awesome to watch haha.

I ended up going by myself, but it was great, I forgot a little bit what live music is about (sitting in an office with a stack of CD’s next to you will do that), but this show reminded me why I love gigs, it’s real people connecting with each other, loosing their minds and being totally passionate about their favorite artists.

To see two of my favorite bands (36 Crazyfists & Devildriver) on the same bill on the same night was amazing and it sure as hell didn’t disappoint.

You can see photos from the show right here

Watch the latest single from 36 Crazyfists below (can’t see it? clicky click)

Enjoy!
Alex

Devildriver

I’m off to go and see these guys live with 36 Crazyfists Sydney next month – let me see those devil horns!

DevilDriver – I Could Care Less

From AllMusic.com
DevilDriver has amplified every facet of their sound. They’ve turned their backs on the kind of plodding melodic obviousness that kills credibility on the raging metal side, instead hardwiring a vicious catchiness right into the guitar lines and Fafara’s esophageal grind. Drummer John Boecklin slays on “Bear Witness Unto” and in the furious time-shifts of opener “End of the Line”; actually, Boecklin pretty much slays throughoutFury. “Grinf**cked,” besides having the best name on the record, also exemplifies DevilDriver’s union of black melody to razor-sharp playing. “Pale Horse Apocalypse” is a traditionalist thrash workout, and “Before the Hangman’s Noose” approaches the hard-tack American metal of Lamb of God.

The slower pace, spiritualism, and double bass tussles of “Sin & Sacrifice” seem like a tribute to European metal. Fury of Our Maker’s Hand is such a severe turn away from the falter of their first album — and a turn toward something hungry, focused, and ready to be devoured by metal faithful everywhere — that DevilDriver may have made their true debut the second time around.

Listen to them on their official MySpace page.

Alex