Hate Eternal -- Austin, TX -- June 15th, 2011

smearCampaign · #1 06-16-2011, 10:49 AM

Venue: Emo's (inside)

Vital Remains
Icons Of Evil (w/ Where Is Your God Now intro)
Savior To None... Failure For All
Dechristanize (w/ Let The Killing Begin intro)
Hammer Down The Nails

Origin (incomplete, a bunch of songs from the new album)
Finite
The Burner
Antithesis
Portal

Hate Eternal (incomplete, not in order)
Haunting Abound
Bringer of Storms
Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
King of All Kings
Hatesworn
I, Monarch
Powers That Be

The death metal fans of Austin turned up and filled the indoor stage area of Emo's for the first night of this tour. We got into the venue while the Austin industrial metal veterans SKREW were closing with Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame. Abysmal Dawn were up next and while I am was not familiar with their material beforehand, they sounded really solid and I would have no problem seeing them as an opener again. Vital Remains played a fairly standard set list, but they sounded great. I would absolutely kill to see something from Let Us Pray sneak into their sets. We left the venue for a bit after Vital Remains and came back during Origin's last 4-6 songs. The pit was active throughout the night and people were stagediving and crowdsurfing from the small stage all night. Origin's frontman asked the crowd if they heard a new album that came out last week and then he said, "not our record, the new Morbid Angel bitches!" and started laughing and the crowd burst our laughing as well. I am not familiar with their new record, so you can assume that new tracks comprised most of their set. The crowd was definitely the largest and most intense during Origin and I was surprised when a fair amount of people left before Hate Eternal. Even though some of the crowd had dispersed, Erik Rutan and co.'s opening notes sent the hardcore fans straight to the pit. There was no doubt that Hate Eternal was bringing the heaviest and loudest sounds of the evening.

Abysmal Dawn had about 3 shirts for sale. Vital Remains had 4 shirts plus gym shorts and girl booty shorts as well as a DVD. Origin had the most merch; probably 8 shirts plus a work shirt, CDs and a custom glass pipe with 'Origin' in glass on it near the mouth piece end and devil horns around the bowl part for $30. Hate Eternal had maybe 5 or 6 shirts plus the limited edition vinyls of their most recent two albums.

Abysmal Dawn played about 30 minutes as did Vital Remains. Origin had about 45 minutes and Hate Eternal played about an hour. The show ended around 1:15 am.

mankvill · #2 06-16-2011, 11:17 AM

jd091 · #3 06-16-2011, 11:25 AM

Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I am excited for this tour! It's been a while since I've seen a death metal band live. This sounds unbelievably tits!

endless_pain · #4 06-16-2011, 12:31 PM

I'm really looking foward to this show! Do you happen to remember how much the shirts and cds were going for?

John The Drummer · #5 06-16-2011, 12:46 PM

I love Vital Remains, but they really need to change their writing style (i.e.: Playing the song twice to make it longer)

Either way, i'm stoked, next Friday for Seattle!

NecroRob · #6 06-16-2011, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by John The Drummer

I love Vital Remains, but they really need to change their writing style (i.e.: Playing the song twice to make it longer)

Either way, i'm stoked, next Friday for Seattle!

This, all of it

OraclesofAgony · #7 06-16-2011, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by John The Drummer

I love Vital Remains, but they really need to change their writing style (i.e.: Playing the song twice to make it longer)

Either way, i'm stoked, next Friday for Seattle!

They need to change their set up a little bit too. They've been playing the same 5 or 6 songs for years.

I mean Dechristianize and Icons of Evil aren't going anywhere, but they should play some songs they don't normally play from Dechristianize and Icons of Evil with them. I would say they should play some old stuff but I don't think that will ever happen.

BTW, does anyone know who's playing lead for Vital on this tour? When I saw them on their small headlining tour last year they had the guitarist from one of their support bands playing lead for them.

smearCampaign · #8 06-16-2011, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by endless_pain

I'm really looking foward to this show! Do you happen to remember how much the shirts and cds were going for?

I know the shirts for VR, Origin and Hate Eternal were all $20... I know that Hate Eternal's new CD was $12, Origin had a CD/DVD, but I'm not sure how much it was.

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Originally Posted by srm90

BTW, does anyone know who's playing lead for Vital on this tour? When I saw them on their small headlining tour last year they had the guitarist from one of their support bands playing lead for them.

I did not recognize the lead guitarist, it wasn't someone from the opening bands.

larvtard · #9 06-16-2011, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by jd091

Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I am excited for this tour! It's been a while since I've seen a death metal band live. This sounds unbelievably tits!

You and your whitechapel shows...

jd091 · #10 06-16-2011, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by logAnarchy

You and your whitechapel shows...

But really, last bands I've seen have been Converge, Trap Them, Rammstein, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Symphony X. The last "real" death metal show I saw was last fall for Nile. I guess Amon Amarth is technically death metal, but they don't have that same speed or brutalness of "real" death metal.

And yes, I had fun at the Whitechapel show. Fuck you too.