This next section of review is by Kurt! As mentioned I’m sorry to the band that I had to miss their gig! Overtime the band seem to be getting a little more darker and serious lyrically, and played tracks from across their career. More thrash than Death I’d say and they were maybe the fastest band of the night. They also had tons of cool merchandise too! The quartet are probably the most traditional band with an excellent mix of thrash and death. Illyrian, formerly known as Hellborn Death Engines, were the veteran band of the night, and have been on the scene for well over a decade. The band had an album (ETERNAL CONFLAGRATION) a couple of years ago, but we were treated to two new (as of yet untitled) songs! Did we see and hear a world premier? Only the band knows for sure! I’d like to see them play more often. The second last cut ‘Flesh No More’ was a highlight for me. They had good energy a nice mix of tempos. I couldn’t do it! Even the bassist contributed back-up vocals fro a nice three-prong vocal attack. The vocalist had a nice deep guttural delivery and he was accented a lot by a higher back-up growls from the drummer. The quarter hit the stage at 10:00 pm and started to rip it up at a faster tempo than Stench Of Death. Snakepit has been around a few years but do not seem to be as active. Most of their set was drawn from their recent, independent, 2022 CD, AETERNUM ATER’ It was a great start to the night! They were crushingly heavy but at the same time brought a nice old-school, ‘easy-listening’ type of Death Metal. The singer was pretty soft-spoken between sets and there was not too much head-banging coming from the band but everyone was having fun. The band kicked off the night with a batch of slower, groove oriented Death Metal, not unlike Obituary. They had done a split EP with headliner Detherous, a few years back but I had not heard it yet. This was the band I was most interested in only because they were the only band on the bill that I had not seen them before. By the time the four band bill got going at 9:00 pm there was a decent crowd of about 150 death metal maniacs. The delay was mildly annoying but I have seen Detherous a number of times so I wasn’t so bad…until I later earned they open a night the a classic cover of Demolition Hammer’s ‘Skull Fracturing Nightmare’! If things had been on time I could have seen a good chunk of the headliner! Oh well, it was a Saturday and that is rock and roll. The doors opened an hour late and when I got in, the first band had not even set up their gear yet! Normally, I would not mention it but I had to leave at 11:30 pm to go do my Metal radio so I knew instantly I would miss the headliner. My first show of 2023 and it was a heavy one! All local Death Metal! It was a nice Saturday night but as soon as I walked in I knew it would be a bit sloppy. Illyrian, Snake Pit & Stench Of Death Calgary, Alberta.
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