06-07.07.2004
MALEVOLENT CREATION
REQUIEM
CROPMENT
PANCHRYSIA
29th June 2004 - at DYNAMO WERK 21 - ZÜRICH - CH
presented by Hellfire and Metal Die Hard Front
review by dalia "gryphon_spirit" di giacomo
- all pics © by Stefan "Absolut_Evidence" Vogelaar
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Here we are! together with gryphonmetal.ch you will experience again some feelings and considerations suggested by a live show. And the show we are talking about is one the most Metal one can think of: this evening Malevolent Creation will display their "malevolent" aggression in Zürich , one of the stations included in their European tour 2004, coinciding or clashing with the release of their new album Warkult. Well, concerning Zürich it is actually more than a parallelism, from the moment that the album is released just the day before the show. And this is the point. Warkult l'unconnu! We will see that, with the exception of a couple of songs presented tonight, there is no much trace of the wonderful Warkult, beginning from the t-shirts available at the merchandise stand. I can anticipate that Mr Phil Fasciana and fellow-band mates will deliver a more than wonderful gig tonight, but the consciousness of having just gifted the Death metal world with one of this year best albums so far, is not so evident. Indeed The Will to Kill still seem to be the bastion. In few words The Will to Kill (that still remains simply excellent) should be renamed in The Will of not to Die , so much the band seems bound to it, not much concerning the set list in itself but for what it concerns the general atmosphere (it is at least the impression i get). But whatever. Hellfire has organized another of its great metal events (this time together with Metal Die Hard Front). And now it 's time for "Supremacy through ...Death"
This band, Panchrysia, was not announced , it must have been almost a kind of surprise for the venue too. Fact is that the whole schedule-time has been affected . The show must begin earlier. The concert begins practically at once after doors are opened. We reach the venue around 20:15 and instead of the usual nice relaxing and chatting before a show, trallala i find on the stage a band that practically has come to the final part of its performance, among the windmill of bassist and guitarist, roaring sounds and punishing drumming's . Sorry, i really have not the time to build me a pale idea about them, apart that they seem not bad at all and infernal enough. They should be a Black Metal band? They seem more Death/Black to me, concerning vocals too, though i think that an experience in more styles should be not stranger to them. Anyway after one song and a half the show is bye bye. Frontman (Zahrim??) thanks the (few) persons who have attended the gig: "thank you for joining us!". Nice .
Adding a couple of details, the venue is a Death Metal triumph. Kyle Symons has proved once more to be an impressive vocalist, even more mature than before , with a bit of theatrical superiority. Fasciana and Barret are guitarists that work without being primadonna's on the stage. Bassist Gordon Simms shows gloomy phlegm and a resolute bass playing. I don't know which of these Simms' characteristics is the more marked one. Dave Culross provides energetic drums. The rhythmic is bulldozing , the bruto -violence excellent, ennobled by catchy hook lines and loops of demonic attraction. A success. Quickly the pit is a fury of moshing and a public acclaim. Attention: no staff for macho's only! The beautiful and not weak sex is largely represented, some girls stand heroically the whirlpool of the moshing damnation.
Ah ah me not! I have an alibi: I still wear Italian heels: i stick to the wall, so, just to say, i could fear for my safety. But the songs are sublime, i don't enjoy the concert less than the others, on the contrary: every riffing, every bulldozing and steamhammering cadence is a source of addictive pleasure. Anyway a shadow flutters like a bat in this atmospheric venue: Warkult is mentioned just like to remember that a new cd is available. No trace of the smallest Warkult scenery. As far as i know, no Warkult t-shirts are ready to be bought: the tour 2004 dates are printed on the old The Will to Kill ones. I even don't know if new cd's are available at the merchandise, told frankly, in spite of the excellent gig, i've lost The Will to go and see. A couple of songs played live versus a more convinced enthusiasm from Kyle Symons towards the older pieces . Faster, faster! They were faster of what? On the contrary i think that Warkult is a wonderful album able to combine fastness, hyperblasting assaults and melodic hooks like the song Captured is definitely proving. Anyway tracks like Blood Brothers , Eve of the Apocalypse, and Infernal Desire remain killers. After a gig of pure intelligent "cruelty", the band leaves the stage among the general approval. Of course an encore is called, it is obvious, but the band replies with a not obvious delay. Translate this into "the band doesn't appear again at once". On one side, i am rather pleased cause those bands that immediately go on performing the encore make of it just an empty routine. On the other hand, MC let the crowd wait just a bit too long. Unfortunately this transforms some approvals into not very polite calls. Preceded by drummer Culross, Malevolent Creation re-take the stage almost in slow motion but the track Coronation of our Domain, with its hyperbulldozing cruelty and its cutting overdrive, bites everyone down to the ground. Revenge is sweet. "Thank you very much!" and the Florida veterans reach the backstage.
After getting the setlist, a group of fans sitting on the edge of the stage immediately warn me " oh no no! everything's wrong there, in particular the order of the songs!!". One of them...(and i presumed why he was... so informed...) shows generosity and adds, pointing to the list: "See! for example Coronation was played in the encore and not after Multiple Stab Wounds!!" Yes ok but the sequence from Preemptive Strike to Infernal Desire seems to be right. Right?
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