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Machine Head, Entombed, Misery Loves Co.
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Surely this must be one of the gigs of the decade! How often do you get three famous, fast, riff-heavy bands together on a bill like this? Well to be truthfull, the last time MH came to Glasgow! Last time they brought Napalm Death, Coal Chamber and Skinlab as support. Could this possibly top it?

As usual in this venue, the openers were already most of the way through their set by the time I got in. From the short glimpse I had of them ('Feed The Creep' and a couple of others I can't remember), they were on top form. Blisteringly heavy, and with a nice crisp sound, they somehow failed to elicit a proper reaction from the crowd. I reckon people were just saving themselves for the wall of noise still to come.

Entombed have to be congratulated. I've seen them four times in 1997 and I'm still not bored. By comparison, I saw Paradise Lost four times on their Draconian Times tour and they got duller each time. The final time I saw them on that tour they looked really uninterested in what they were doing, which has now proved to be the case. Entombed's power comes from the fact that you can see they really enjoy what they're doing and put everything into their shows. Their singer, LG, is the Swedish equivalent of Napalm Death's Barney Greenway: with their relentless moshing and crown interaction they'd make a most excellent duo. The uninitiated would probably think they were monotonous, and possibly, cheezy, with their onstage antics, but that isn't true! The band have a sense of humour, don't forget that. Most of the crown really got into them thankfully, it's just a shame most of the teeny metallers there to see Machine Head didn't know how to appreciate it.

Machine Head unfortunately didn't live up to my expectations. Crap drums, badly sync'd lights, bullshit diatribes were all in abundance. A lot of the songs were barely recognisable until the chorus, as many of my friends agreed. I think the novelty has worn off. An ace first album stuck them up their own arses, which led to a mediocre second album and bad personalitys. I dunno, maybe I just had a bad night, but I was really let down.

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