Vital Remains -- New York City, NY -- October 1st, 2006

overkiller · #1 10-01-2006, 10:31 PM

Headlined by Dismember, but I'm not familiar enough with them to even attempt to post their set.

Fucking shit. I don't feel like typing out a long report but Vital Remains was goddamn awesome. The vocalist they're touring with does spot-on Benton vocals, so there wasn't really anything lacking there--and he was a fucking madman! Many times throughout their set he jumped into the crowd, continued doing vocals there, started furious pits, and was letting fans do vocals again and again. The guy was very cool. As for the other members, they are absolute beasts on their instruments as one would imagine, though the mix wasn't very good so it was hard to hear them at times and the snare drum wasn't loud enough (very very bad for a band with so many blastbeats). Other thing is that they didn't play any old stuff, but as I'm only really familiar with Dechristianize it didn't bother me. Here's the set, easy enough as they just played the first six tracks from the album:

1. Let the Killing Begin (Intro)
2. Dechristianize
3. Infidel
4. Devoured Elysium
5. Savior to None... Failure For All...
6. Unleashed Hell

Oh, and Dave Suzuki shaved his head

DethMaiden · #2 10-02-2006, 02:38 AM

How were Dismember though? I'd imagine they're pretty sweet live.

ChildrenofSodom · #3 10-02-2006, 02:51 AM

Yeah man....do you remember ANY songs that Dismember did?

overkiller · #4 10-02-2006, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ChildrenofSodom

Yeah man....do you remember ANY songs that Dismember did?

Sure. Let's see...

The God That Never Was
Time Heals Nothing
Autopsy
Dreaming in Red
Skin Her Alive
I Wish You Hell
Casket Garden
Silent Are the Watchers

...and that's all I can remember. They were fucking awesome. Really really great performers, they were all aces musically and their stage antics were just really fun to watch.

Grave was great as well, I'm only familiar with Into the Grave and Soulless, but they played the only songs I could've asked for, so I was really happy with them.

So yeah, it was a really good show.

ChildrenofSodom · #5 10-02-2006, 11:14 AM

sounds like an awesome.....I still need to buy God that Never Was though.....

can you compare it to any of their other albums?

DethMaiden · #6 10-02-2006, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by overkiller

Silent Are the Watchers

YES!

Death Metal is a great album

Div · #7 10-02-2006, 11:37 AM

Wow, that sounds like an awesome show. You don't see bands joining the crowds too often.

overkiller · #8 10-02-2006, 11:47 AM

They also played Where Ironcrosses Grow.

Bloodcurse · #9 10-02-2006, 04:42 PM

Vital rules....I knew Dave shaved his head weeks ago, Im friends with Tony Lazaro (mainman of Vital).

overkiller · #10 10-02-2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Bloodcurse

Vital rules....I knew Dave shaved his head weeks ago, Im friends with Tony Lazaro (mainman of Vital).

I get the impression that it's more Dave's band.