Dying Fetus @ Concorde 2, Brighton. 16/09/2012
One of death metal’s most legendary and offensively named bands
return to Brighton for a night of beer drinking, hair-spinning madness.
As part of the Fatality Big Weekend, which saw female-fronted grindcore
band Iwrestledabearonce headline The Haunt the previous night, Dying
Fetus brought their old school sound of technical death metal to
Concorde2.
In support tonight is Arizona’s hugely successful outfit Job For A
Cowboy who perform a brutal blend of nu-school flavours often referred
to (reluctantly or pretentiously) as deathcore. Their set is tight and
crushing, but mostly it helps to highlight how much of an iconic
influence our headliners have had on countless amounts of bands since
their birth in the early 1990s. We were tempted to make a jokey link
between the word ‘birth’ in the last sentence and the name ‘Dying
Fetus’, but it was never going to be in good taste.
Another thing that’s not a good taste is mosh sweat flicked out of
the hair of somebody and into your beer, which if you stood too close to
the pit tonight was inevitable. Beer does taste good, but as the guy
next to us was keen to demonstrate you don’t necessarily have to drink
it. Instead he chose to nonchalantly spray it over the crowd in front
with a series of overarm flicks of the wrist before casually strolling
into a circle pit.
Fetus play a varied set that spans almost their entire existence as a
band, churning out tracks like ‘Pissing In The Mainstream’, ‘Your
Treachery Will Die With You’ and ‘Procreate The Malformed’. The crowd
react brilliantly to new songs ‘Subjected To A Beating’ and ‘Into The
Trenches’ as the band effortlessly switch between slower, chugging riffs
and double-kick led lightning speed guitar work. The slow and heavy
parts have the crowd swaying in demonic unison before bursting into a
frantic pit of beard and Cannibal Corpse shirts.
As the band leave the stage, and we pick the hair out of our drink,
the DJ plays Perry Como’s ‘Magic Moments’. Unless you witnessed it,
you’ll never truly appreciate how entertaining it is to hear groups of
metallers whistling this as they walk home along Madeira Drive.
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