Supports: Severe Torture, Destinity; Venue: Bibelot, Dordrecht (Netherlands)
By: Elvira Visser
Three metal bands on a Tuesday evening and I was worried about how many people
would show up. I was proved right, there were not as many people as these bands
deserve, but still there were enough people to make it a good evening.
| It was up to the French band “Destinity” to attract more people to the stage. Destinity exists for more than ten years and you could describe their music as trash/death metal but you can say there are a bit more extreme mixed with fast guitar riffs. Mick, the singer, is fun to watch he is literally getting his growls from his toes, his whole body is tense when he puts more energy and strength in his grunting. They have toured with bands like Cradle of Filth and Enthroned and you could see they are relaxed on the stage but I missed a little more interaction, which was, I have to admit, hard because the crowd was not willing to respond when they tried.There was one thing I did not like about their music and that was the clean vocals. Maybe it was just the sound in the venue but when there were clean vocals I could not hear Mick growling any more, it kind of disappeared. The clean vocals were not that good, and for me personally they could have left it out and add more keyboard. The bass-player, David, had some technical problems as well with his microphone, he was grunting on a cover of Amon Amarth but you could not hear him. So he gave up and just played. A bit sad because it sounded quite good. I was standing in front of him and could hear him without the use of his microphone. |
 It seemed that this evening “Severe Torture” had the most fans. Maybe because they are from The Netherlands. They got more response from the audience and even got a small pit going. It also seemed that communicating in Dutch was better for the audience to respond to. Dennis, their singer, was standing with spread legs moving his head, but it looked a bit funny because there was no long hair to head bang with.Severe Torture plays death metal in a more “old school” style mixed with some grindcore elements. It can be said that the guitar riffs were more brutal and very fast usually followed up by some more. Their latest release once again displays their ability to play in varied, pounding and raging tempo’s. But beyond that they took more time to work out the guitar lines resulting in more varied guitar play which sometimes creates a more groovy sound. |
 Then it was time for “Dew Scented” from Germany and they were ready to build a little party because Alexander the bass player was having his birthday and I think it was announced 3 times, and as a surprise his string broke. Lucky birthday guy. They played their songs quite fast and played many songs, expanded their performing time and therefore skipped leaving the stage and coming back for the encore, they just played.At one time Leif, their singer, said about a song: “This is actually a love song, it is about betrayal….and all good things in life.” Now I always find it weird to believe that the growling is about love and the fastness and enraged strength of riffs seem more to be about betrayal and anger to me than the beauty of love. Alexander (bass) and Flo (guitar) were not shy to show their skills and stepped forward to claim some attention for their own playing. The crowd responded with some screaming when they were not joining the pit. It was a bit sad that the lighting on stage was not that good, it was quite dark and the drummer was hidden in darkness but surely delivered his contribution. Leif thanked the crowd for coming out the see them on a Tuesday, thanked the venue for having them and said they had a great time on stage. That was something you could notice. They were pulling faces to each other and laughing. I think the crowd had a good time as well. |
Links:
Dew Scented Official
Dew Scented MySpace
Severe Torture Official
Severe Torture MySpace
Destinity Official
Destinity MySpace
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