I’ve seen Oregon-based Agalloch perform live only once, but it was one of the best metal shows I’ve ever seen. I felt like the music was a living thing and it had completely swallowed me up. I was literally in a daze for a long time after the show ended at something like 1:30 am, and I hadn’t been using any intoxicants (except the music).
I’ve never seen Britain’s Anaal Nathrakh in a live show, but I hope that’s not too far off in my future. Their catastrophic, vitriolic style of black grind is another kind of all-consuming music, though quite different from Agalloch’s brand of melodic black metal.
Both bands performed at the Scion Rock Fest in Pomona, California, in March, and Scion released professionally filmed videos of the performances late last week. We’ve got a handful of them for you after the jump. Is it the next best thing to being there? No — the next best thing would be walking out of the venue having heard the whole show. But it’s pretty damned sweet.
After the jump, probably my favorite Agalloch song, “Not Unlike the Waves”, plus “Into The Painted Grey”, and then Anaal Nathrakh performing “When the Lion Devours Both Dragon and Child” and “Don Not Speak”. There’s one very weird thing about the AN videos.
Here’s the weird thing: The members of Anaal Nathrakh wear band shirts while they’re performing (what a shock!). Of course, they’re wearing the shirts of other bands (what a shock!). Scion A/V has blurred the images of those other bands in this video. Seriously? What the fuck is up with that? Is Scion afraid some other label or band will sue them for making unauthorized use of their names or images for commercial purposes? I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s a distracting nuisance. I hope this isn’t the beginning of some spreading phenomenon.
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I like Anaal Nathrakh’s bassist’s tattoo. Also, the shirt thing… it is annoying… the guys wearing band shirts on-stage is basically a free promotion. Would there even be any ground on which Scion could be sued? I mean, unless they’re selling these recordings I don’t think there is any sort of agreement that needs to be made.
Sucks for the bands on the shirts though, when I see a cool logo or design that I don’t recognize on a shirt of a musician/vocalist I like, I’m gonna try and see what band it is; like John Gallagher’s top in the vid for “Your Treachery Will Die With You”. I wish I knew what band that was…
That Dying Fetus video doesn’t stay still long enough for me to get a good look at that logo, but, it looks to be Kraanium. I have their Ten Acts of Sickening Perversity album and it’s fuckin’ brutal! http://youtu.be/WSERO9WJ8Bc
Good catch dude! Before I saw your comment, I captured this screen shot of Gallagher’s shirt:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dying-Fetus-Gallagher-shirt.jpg
And it does look to be a long-sleeve version of this Kraanium shirt for Ten Acts of Sickening Perversity.
https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Kraanium-Ten-Acts.jpg
There’s another shot in the video where you can clearly see “Ten Acts” on the sleeve.
I must admit it was the album cover that caused the purchase. I had to have it. Is that wrong?
No, of course not! As a licensed psychiatric professional, I can assure you that your attraction was a perfectly normal buying impulse. Now if you’d bought THIS Kraanium album because of the cover, we’d have to talk about it further.
https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Kraanium-Art-of-Female-Sodomy.jpg
Damnit man, maybe there is something wrong with me. I totally would’ve and may yet 😛
Call my office and make an appointment.
Now we’ll have something to discuss on our epic paddle-boat journey to India, pre-shark attack, of course.
Oh shit — the Indian “road” trip! One of the top 5 comment streams ever at this site. We would have plenty of time for psychoanalysis. Except I can’t remember which of us was scheduled to lose a leg to sharks in the Indian Ocean … If it was you, I could continue to talk.
Oh yeah, you can talk while I fashion the dorsal fin cod-piece!
For those who may wonder what the fuck we’re talking about, https://www.nocleansinging.com/2011/02/01/can-i-catch-a-ride-to-india/, epic epicness!
I would totally click that link if my grandmother weren’t in view of the computer…
Actually… I don’t think I would….
Thanks for letting me know what band that is byrd and Islander!
But I’m gonna have to tell you, that due to their song titles, I don’t see myself listening to them anytime soon…
Yeah, their stuff is probably more suited to Phro’s tastes 🙂
are there vids of any OTHER bands? where did you find there!?
Yes — so far, Scion has also posted Morbid Angel and Dark Castle. More will be coming. Here’s the link to the Scion YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ScionRadio17