Soulfly, Crisis, and Twelve Tribes
So we get there
a 'lil late and missed out on most of Twelve Tribes
set. But from what I heard, they put on as good of a
show as they sound on their new record "Rebirth of
Tragedy", which I enjoyed very much where the sound
is very much the new wave of metal, but still stands
clear of the pitfall what is the Western Mass
Killswitch Engage sound. Where vocalist Adam Jackson
and band work out a finemixure of heaviness and
structure giving Jackson room to sing, but yet stay
heavy. The crowd of course, this being the Palladium,
knew 12tribesand made them feel welcome, screaming and
singing along to the songs. Next up was Crisis. I
haven't seen them since '96 and back then I didn't
really care for them, but this time around they seemed
to have their live act a 'lil better together. Where
Karyn was dancing around to the music, and even let
the band improvise some too. Great texture for the
live element, but again I still wasn't converted into
a fan. Finally after making fans wait an extra 20mins,
Soulfly comes out and live really is where they belong.
I'm not a huge fan of their last work, but that
didn't stop Worcester from getting behind Max and the
new edition of Soulfly, (who as in the last
record I am not a fan of). Marc Rizzo and his backpack
looked so stupid, jumping around and acting rockstar
tough. Bobby Burns looks so out of place being the only
white guy on stage. I think Max had his best bass player
in Marcello, but again, not my choices to make. The set
was plagued by audio trouble as first Max's vocals got
cut from the mix, then snare, followed by one guitar
after the other. At the point where Max lost his mix
in his monitor, he kinda was pleased, let the soundguy
know, and since they were covering Seps, Max needed all
the snare in his mix. But since the soundguy wasn't
moving fast enough, Max for the first time ever was not
playing his guitar, and this wasn't like a moment that
was planned as Max isn't a frontman, and hence had no
idea what to do. So he just flailed around and
pick-motioned his hand as if he was strumming an
invisible guitar. But even though this all seems like
it would make for a horrible show, Soulfly again make
it clear that their arena again is in the live one. Oh
Yeah, did I mention they covered "Territorial Pissings"
by Nirvana. INDUBITABLY!!!!!!!
Reviewed by: Godawfulcommiepigfuckingbastards