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Fucking savage!
Nice.
Is Hoglan on drums?
Quote from: Ducky on February 21, 2025, 02:01:56 PMIs Hoglan on drums?
of course. and his wife playing guitar. family business
Looked at a few vids of these lads recently and jaysus they look and sound bad.
yes bai
Bejaysus. Tempted by this am I.
I'm in. My inner child is very happy. Throw in "The Promise of Agony" and "Leave Scars" as an encore and I'll be even happier.
Will head up for this. Hopefully it gets a decent turnout for a Wednesday night.
Cool, never seen them before. Should be a good show
Quote from: Pentagrimes on February 21, 2025, 05:33:02 PMThrow in "The Promise of Agony" and "Leave Scars" as an encore and I'll be even happier.
Fuck yeah!
New song released, and it's pretty shit
It was written by Jim Durkin, I presume that's why they went with it. It's pretty crap alright.
Fucking hell that's poor. What's going on with those vocals??
Yeah the vocals are horrendous!
Any idea of stage times yet? Is there any support act? Trying to plan the night around public transport options.
No tickets available on TM so must be sold out.... 50 euro to see them play a one hour set is pushing it but looks like people are willing to pay that.....
Doors 7
Schizophrenia 7.30
Dark Angel 9.00
Quote from: Bogmetaller on June 10, 2025, 12:04:58 PMNo tickets available on TM so must be sold out.... 50 euro to see them play a one hour set is pushing it but looks like people are willing to pay that.....
Tickets still available on TM
Love to hear something from Time Does Not Heal, 'Pain's Invention, Madness' would do nicely.
Turnout was poor for this, wasn't bowled over by the gig either.
Was wondering if it would be, saw that the London date was downgraded to the 500 capacity Underworld
Yeah when it was announced I thought there'd be fierce excitement but it was a little pricey, support were shit and I don't think the new material helped ignite interest. And all said and done the gig was only ok.
An interesting one last night - loved the way there was space to move around rather than being wedged. The front man was drawing heavily from the cliché handbook but what the fuck was Hoglan doing wearing sunglasses for the whole show?? Overall,it was good craic but that might have been the pints and the nostalgia I felt being in the Academy for the first time since 2019
I thought it was deadly myself but I'm hardly ever at gigs these days so any sort of night away from the wife and kids must have me easily pleased.
Gene Hoglan always has the shades on doesn't he?
Quote from: Grim Reality on June 12, 2025, 11:20:05 AMI thought it was deadly myself but I'm hardly ever at gigs these days so any sort of night away from the wife and kids must have me easily pleased.
Gene Hoglan always has the shades on doesn't he?
Oh is that his thing? Didn't realise that - still it's pretentious enough. Was there 500 there total last night dya reckon??
Price put me off, 50 odd quid seemed way too much for a band of their size, without any sort of package lineup
It was a class gig!!
Yeah it wasn't a great turnout, which meant that you could walk straight up the front center. Grand job!
The band played their socks off. Yeah the singer was every bit an American cliché, but he gave a lot of energy to the room. He's not tall, so it was like where's Wally looking for him when he was frequently mingling with the crowd :laugh:
Gene is a beast and the two guitarists sounded great when they were soloing, I thought that maybe the riffing volume could have been louder at times.
I caught the last couple of songs from Schizophrenia and I enjoyed them. Again, the guitar solos sounded good, but the riffs were almost inaudible where I was standing on the right, being drowned out by the drumming which, to be fair, sounded fucking savage. The happiest looking drummer I've ever seen in a metal band? Some contrast between him smiling the whole time and Gene sitting there with his shades on.
Some strange antics in the mosh pit but that's Dublin for you I guess!!
All in all, a great evening's entertainment, might have had a better turnout if tickets were about 15 squids cheaper maybe. They clearly don't have a 50 euro draw power.
Thoroughly enjoyed it, Dark Angel destroyed and great to hear those Time Does Not Heal tracks, I literally thought it was going to be Darkness Descends front to back with maybe a couple of other early tracks at the end. Fuckin' opened with Time Does Not Heal!
Schizophrenia I can take or leave, picked up a couple of cds and I dig their enthusiasm and talent but the songs aren't quite there for me overall. Mind you I didn't tell the vocalist that outside when he signed my purchases.
The Schizophrenia stuff is some of my favourite meat-and-potatoes metal from the last few years. The outro riff of "Stratified Realities" is chef's kiss good.
Would love to have seen this, "Time Does Not Heal" is my favourite thrash album. Oh well.
I'm halfway through listening to the album right now and picking up on a lot of stuff that I wasn't getting last night so they've gone up in my estimation over the last half hour or so, must look out for the end of Stratified Realities shortly so!
Thought it was great myself. Support were grand, I'd be tempted to check them out after that even though I reckon it could be a bit repetitive.
Dark Angel were class, maybe the atmosphere was a bit subdued due to the attendance. Yeah, nice to be able to move about freely with pints in hand and not worry about getting shoved constantly.
Is €50 steep for what we got? I don't think so, it's pretty much in line with prices these days. Considering you're paying nearly €8 for a drink.
Shocking merch though, the usual case of retarded back prints.
No I disagree 50 was steep for Dark Angel and a lightweight support. It was definitely a factor in the low turnout, as someone said 15 cheaper would've swung it.
To put in perspective Testament/Obituary/Destruction is 63, there's a fourth band on the bill who's name escapes me but you're getting bang for buck there.
Yeah, I didn't begrudge the ticket price at all and also will echo the point that it was great to get about with pint in hand and down to the front handy. Didn't buy a t-shirt either, just the Schizophrenia cds.
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on June 12, 2025, 03:41:36 PMNo I disagree 50 was steep for Dark Angel and a lightweight support. It was definitely a factor in the low turnout, as someone said 15 cheaper would've swung it.
To put in perspective Testament/Obituary/Destruction is 63, there's a fourth band on the bill who's name escapes me but you're getting bang for buck there.
Nervosa. Not bad but I wouldn't bother to see them headline.
~€40 would have been a more appropriate price for Dark Angel IMO, unless they had a better support.
Can someone here confirm that their singer is nearly 60?? Is he straight edge or something??? :laugh:
Quote from: Giggles on June 12, 2025, 12:12:28 PMThe happiest looking drummer I've ever seen in a metal band?
I said that to Thorn after their set had finished, "Either he's in a lot of pain, or he's the happiest drummer in the world." Enjoyed Dark Angel a lot, great opening with Time Does Not Heal. Not overly impressed with the shirts though, tour dates on the back? No, let's just put some of those slogans instead.
First time seeing Dark Angel live (hopefully not the last!), and it was a good night! I went mainly because they were performing "Darkness Descends" in its entirety, but I enjoyed the first half of the show quite a bit too. Rob's vocals didn't bother me at all, he actually did a nice job keeping the crowd engaged. He's already 60, I didn't know! That said, I get where some of the criticisms are coming from overall.
As for Schizophrenia, they were decent and definitely put in the effort to hype up the crowd, but something just felt a bit off or missing.