After reading that the prehistoric cavemen of Antediluvian were about to embark their skinned hooves into my territory, this was an immediate must attend. The rarity of their performances are perhaps are just as scarce as the information about them. If exposed to their purely organic and primitive castings, one might not know exactly how to embrace it. Contradicting the modernity of metal, and aesthetics as a whole. On this night they were joined by a collective formation of black/war metal legions, those of somewhat prominent Nuclearhammer & Adversarial, & Befouled Serenity. I have no idea of the set list of each act, but instead will attempt to describe the auras and impacts of the night.
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Befouled Serenity have been strictly a practice band thus far, honing their craft in an urban factory turned rehearsal space. A promising architect is being built under their name, shedding influence from noteworthy Swedish contemporaries. For the orthodox black metal worshiper, serving perhaps nothing more than a copious dose of simplified darkness and dexterity. This was their first outing and served to be quite an opening of devotion. Coordination was fine tuned by all, forging an intimating presence. Some memorable songs played were Summoning, and a special cover of Kristallnacht’s Black Flame Of Unholy Hate. Each to their own right penetrating a healthy feedback.
I was in the downstairs part of the venue during Adversarial, and did not see them. Although from past witnessing and evidently a down to the earth heavy approach, they covered new ground and made another offering for the die hards. After past instances of missing out on the toxic warfare of Nuclearhammer, either from lack of money or bad scheduling at fucked venues, I finally was able to catch them here. Perhaps it was meant to be, as it took me some conditioning to get used to them. For a relatively small band, they had a worthwhile amount of time to breathe their hate on stage. A special aspect with them is their main vox Barbwire Intensifier who also pounds the skins behind the drums. Repulser Doomhammer is the secondary frontman offering his verbal commands, and the trade off works on such perfect levels. They already have a respectable history, and took out the weaponry from a diverse collection of their discography here live. Nuclearhammer is a deviant experiment in audial extremity, and musicianship. In my own opinion they had a greater conception in the flesh than on their albums. Donning the well worn battle jackets, night shades, and hoods and blistering the perceptions of intensity. One attendant said it well “These are real fucking people!, Not a myspace page!”
Antediluvian were unannounced in their perplexity and wonderment. They were draped in loose fitting black robes covering their identities as modern man, and adorned with cattle bones strung round the neck. This was perhaps the very opposite of transcendence, nor was it romanticism but an experience of archaic grandeur. As a trio they are perpetually digger further into time and unearthing the fossilized metallic substances. They each stood their place as if completely an isolated unit from the people watching, letting elder forces meditate their limbs and ending up with a purely deep fitting cavernous aesthetic. Overlain with yet another alchemy of two vocalists, but i use this term lightly. It was a feign comparison to human articulation even that I heard coming from the mouths of each member. The instruments are the means to create attention and the neanderthal vocals were the sounds of warning and communication. Irhhhh, Rrrraaa. Ending in a climax, bathed in thick noise, and the bassist smashing the bones all over the ground.
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