All Photos & Text by Darryl Reid
“Well that was fucking insane”.
These are first words heard in the dead silence immediately after Toronto’s Column of heaven destroyed a local venue here in Ottawa and I have to say that this is the best description ever to describe their live show . It’s not often that a band can make a room erupt into total chaos the moment the first chord is rung out. Column of heaven did just that with their genre defying style of music that combines elements of power violence (what does that even mean anymore?), Hardcore and various styles of Metal. Live they are scary good with the aforementioned ability to turn a venue upside down. I’ve seen them twice these pictures are a mix of those two shows.
I rarely fear for my equipment (camera flash etc) in a pit: but during column of heaven I was convinced this was the show my camera would get destroyed (fortunately; only my knee and not my camera got fucked up-we have free healthcare so fucked up knee is cheaper than fucked up camera).
Along with Absolute, Kremlin, School Jerks, S.H.I.T and Column of heaven: Toronto is representing some insanely good punk these days.
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September 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm
how did u do that ? the man is focused but the lights are like moving. if i just lower the shutter speed, the man would be like moving too right ?