ORIGIN, IMPALED, HOUR OF PENANCE

Day Of Violence

11.06.2008 Berlin (GER)

ORIGIN in Berlin? I can’t to hide the fact, that hearing this message, I was a little bit excited. Like for a horde, staying rather still as the underground band, but assembling a few famous names, the European tour was certainly a good occasion to watch the crew from Topeka in action. Adding to this all yet the quality of her albums and a presence of another US band, specializing itself in brutal and soaked with blood art of death metal extreme – IMPALED, a pretext to visit the K 17 club again was more than convincing, especially having to travel only a few S-Bahn stations.

The start of concert, announced previously at 20.00 PM, has met a small delay, beginning itself finally one hour later, but every cloud has its silver lining, cause the more of people have appeared meantime, so entering inside the club could to watch the first of the supports by the public, composing itself of at least 100 people. Although the number of people wasn’t so drastically small, I can’t to admit however, as that the reaction for the performance of first band can to name as enthusiastic. The Italian HOUR OF PENANCE, a quartet playing a brutal death metal, influenced partially by an American school of this art (the presence of the band in Unique Leader becomes in this case absolutely not accidental), wasn’t maybe not so bad, but knowing the hundreds of bands playing in this style, sometimes even better than the guys from the fatherland of spaghetti and Lamborghini, the lack of more spontaneous acts by the people, absolutely it’s nothing strange.

Very visible stays however the fact of worship by German metal fans for the guys from IMPALED. It was already my second meeting with this crew, which I have watched before two years in the same place, while the guys were spreading the microbes during unforgettable Gutting Europe Tour with MONSTROSITY, DEEDS OF FLESH and VILE. A permanent feature of four Californians, being on the stage a doctors of pathology, surgery and virology became a love to the uniforms, so they have played then their gig, wearing the black dungarees, now then – a tan-coloured shirts and black ties, reminding a little bit the uniforms of Nazi fighters (if inside the club would find oneself the hidden member of Antifa – the German organization, fighting against the Nazis – the show probably would be boycotted, cause for the idiot every pretext to row is good, especially knowing oversensitiveness and the false interpretations by the groups of German society), but the American flags on the right sleeves, very fast have shattered all of wrong suspicions. Can’t to forget of course about the scenery, mirroring itself by the skulls impaled on the micro-stands and the special effects like for example the spitting with a fire, performed by Ross Sewage. The most important stays of course the music, so the skills of Sean, Jason and Raul should to remain any of doubts, concentrating oneself however on the tracks, which everybody had an occasion to hear, the mad butchers have presented a profile of whole their discography, playing one after the other: ,,G.O.R.E”, ,,Gutless”, ,,Dead Inside”, ,,Rise The Stakes”, ,,Preservation Of Death”, ,,Trocar”, ,,Up The Dose”, ,,You Are The Dead”, ,,The Last Gasp”. The reaction of maniacs was more than positive, but asks the Berliners for a more tracks weren’t however heard, because the sweat, covering the faces of musicians and soaking their shirts, was the best visible witness of the tiredness. If the guys would have the endurance of cyborgs, probably would play something else, but as they are only the humans of flesh and blood, being of course the favourite theme of their songs, nothing strange, that it must be the end.

IMPALED show is over, so Ladies and Gentlemen – before of us the star of the evening – ORIGIN! The show of the heavy weight’s representatives was exactly, as I have imagined myself: brutal, brutal and once again brutal! The Americans, although have appeared themselves on European tour without the second guitarist (the lacking element of killing machine was unfortunately Jeremy Turner, famous from his short episode in CANNIBAL CORPSE before four years), performed the show without the rules of humanity and whichever one of respect the international law. The fury and hatred included not only in sounds and lyrics, but setting free from the throat of James Lee too, was sensible everywhere. Even without a second guitar the destroying strength of ORIGIN music was ripping to shreds, remaining the bloody chunks on the floor, on the walls and even on the ceiling. The one of important, even irrevocable for ORIGIN element of the killing mixture was of course John Longstreth, whom all naughty children knows from the drum spectacles in ANGELCORPSE and SKINLESS. His experience, becoming of course better and better, finds the reflection in this band too, so maybe his ultra fast bombardments, slowly closing to him a place between the leaders of blasts, who knows? Although the best of the albums from ORIGIN discography stays in my opinion ,,Informis, Infinitas, Inhumanitas” (by the words of John, the first, which has serious reasoned the interesting of people with a band), I was very satisfied, hearing a stuff from him (,,Implosion Of Eternity”, ,,Perversion Of Hate”, ,,Portal”), not forgetting of course about the gems like ,,Staring From The Abyss”, ,,Repicrocal” or a few new blasts (,,Wrath Of Vishnu”, ,,Finite” or performed as the ending of show ,,The Beyond Within”), smashing like a 10-tone hammer, using to destroy the old buildings. Well, after this kind of violence nobody could to stay alive. To this day I am wondering myself – how have I this all survived…?

P.S. Very special thanks goes to Olli Schreyer from Legacy Magazine. You know surely why, brother.