Disengaged, Bane of Existence, Ravage and Gut (not the imaginary german band) at the middle east upstairs, 472 mass ave, cambridge ma
18+, 9pm. i think it's like 6 dollars or something wacky like that

It's disengaged's cd release party, as well as Dorchesta Ed's birthday, not that many of you know who Ed is, but you could meet him, he loves talking about guns (great ice breaker)

the show was awesome, within a few people of a sell out capacity, and still half the people were there until 1 AM!!

thanks to everyone who came out to the show

oh yeah, monday the 23rd at bill's bar
noosebomb, bane of existence and trauma concept

another good time, maybe some of you can come out to that

it was a good time indeed i still can't belive all the people on a monday nite

yeah no shit,
the moshing to bane of existence was pretty fun
i didn't know so many people knew the words to your songs

so, someone print out the skinny for that show.
lay down a review dogs.

ok i will do it:
All the bands played really tight sets, probably the best set I have seen from all 4 bands
Gut opened, they are a bluesy thrash band with touches of death metal and hardcore. The crowd loved them, people bouncing around and singing along. They played a 30 minute set, a good mix of fast thrashier songs and some slower more jam/bluesy type songs.

Ravage, boston's favorite metal band, played second and the crowd went fucking nuts, as half the people came to see them. Everyone was singing along and shit. Their new drummer was awesome (he is also in cryptic warning) so they were right on the money. great mix of iron maiden, judas priest meets danzig. I would say those guys are probably ready to start headlining smaller clubs in boston

Bane of Existence was 3rd, and if anyone has ever seen them on full sound system then you will know what I am talking about. It was basically a wall of noise, but not to the point were it was just indistinguishable noise because again quite a few people were singing along, mostly to the older songs from the red invasion split.
Then of course, a pit broke out which was pretty fun. The girls ruled that one, especially Stephanie from ALL LOCAL and soundcheck

Disengaged headlined because it was there CD release party (which sold pretty well I might add). There was still a good 50 people there past midnight to see them. their songs are a variety, ranging from in your face thrash songs, punk rock anthem songs and their 2 newest songs which are pretty epic (can't stop bleeding and the ocean).
The end of their set was the 90210 theme song which turned into madness on stage when the bassist kicked the guitarist into the singer who then repeatedly began jumping into the wall, then the guitarist threw his guitar into the bass drum (it went straight through it), the bassist dove into the drums, then the drummer nosedived over the drums and the bassist, onto one of the guitarists. always a fun time seeing disengaged.


For a real review check out next month's noise and soundcheck, people from both those magazines were there.

that pretty much summed it up

a great nite of local metal

hey joey
can i use that review for the massachusettsmetalshows.cjb.net show reviews page?

sure, just leave off the part about for a real review eat a dick or whatever I said

cool i will add it tonite

awesome,
i love the middle the east now
Shred rules.
i am trying to do another show there