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Artist: As You Drown Venue: Whelans, Dublin Date:
4 March 2010
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What
a mix of bands on the bill tonight!! The gig started with Divine Chaos
(UK), As You Drown (Sweden), Warpath (Ireland) and lastly Vader
(Poland). Unfortunately I missed Divine Chaos, but I was ready and
waiting for As You Drown. Hailing from Sweden, this band have
chosen Death Metal as their genre and they have a lot to live up with
likes of Entombed and Unleashed laying down the gauntlet in the 90’s.
This
band are quite young in age and they formed back in 2003 (with a few
personnel changes over the last number of years). Technically this
band are good, they have managed to create an old school death metal
sound that brings me back to my Obituary and Morbid Angel days, however
in order to survive the music industry, this band need to carve out
their own sound. That is not to say they need to recreate the
wheel, but they need to find some element to their music that
distinguishes them from the rest of the pack. As You Drown is a
great name for a band, but only if you can read it. Come on lads,
it is 2010, isn’t it time we moved away from the scrawly writing!!!
The
band played a short enough set, but they we very tight and the crowd
enjoyed it. Included in their set was:
All from their 2009 release Reflection. Review by: Janice |
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