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Karma: 0 |  | Death In Blood/UNcerta 11/09/06
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Here is a review of our gig with Uncerta at Blastbeats last month, posted on rockthenorth.com by my mate Russ.
So this was probably the best two quid i have ever spent. First time i'd been to Blastbeats, and it was a proper eye opener. Hotter than Hell (even the walls were sweating!) and crammed to the rafters, the crowd was about to be treated to two of the brutalest bands around.
Death in Blood kicked things off in style and it wasn't long before the mosh pit started. It seemed to me that there are two kinds of punters at blastbeat gigs, mentalists and bystanders. The mentalists turned the moshpit into a big comic style cloud of flailing fists and hair, while the bystanders edge away from the loonies with terror in their eyes.
A couple of Death in Blood's tunes are beginning to take on the anthemic status, as choruses were greeted with raised fists and chanting. Despite some slightly dubious Iron Maiden-isms (three guitarists lined up together, foot on the monitor style) they have managed to nail down a sound that is all there own, and that straddles the boundries between metal and harcore nicely.
They also have the worlds most mental drummer!
Uncerta I had never heard before, but I had caught the buzz about them and was looking forward to seeing them. Rumours are that there is interest from the lables, and after witnessing them, i can see why. From the opening song (sorry, don't do song titles - all i heard was mumble mumble!) there was a definate polish about the band, and a level of maturity beyond there years. To me, they seemed influenced by Machine Head and Pantera (though which really metal band isn't?), they were tight as fuck and with a singer who posseses an impresive grunt for a wee bairn.
Again the crowd went bezza, with circle pits, crowd surfing and a wall of death causing the floor of pure to shake. Death in Blood drummer Dave "Slayer-Dude" began the leaping from the amplifier stacks, which culminated in a tandem jump from him and Liam, and a very brave female jumper, whose tits kept trying to escape her top.
Pick of the bunch for Uncerta was a cover of the Anthrax classic 'Caught in a Mosh' which went down a storm, impressive given the fact that the song is older than the lads playing it.
All in all, a hell of a gig. Neither band would have looked out of place in the Bay Area of San Fransisco in the mid eighties, when thrash metal was born screaming, and both showed the likes of Trivium and BFMV up for the sanitised, glossy slop that they are.
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