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A small but patient crowd waited for the doors to open, a few tattooed youngsters flipped through Pentecostal trading cards while discussing how disappointed they were at the fact the show was in a licensed venue. What caught my ears was the new sound system they spoke of at the Paradise Community Church. Knowing those folk no expense would’ve been spared unlike the grubby sound here at Adelaide’s live music hell, Fowlers Live.

I’m not sure if it was some kind of ironic coincidence or just some smart arse’s idea of a joke, given their were many Christians in attendance but Slayer was the house music of the evening.

As Diabolos In Musica came to a close, I wondered why I had thrown this album onto South Road on a boredom induced Friday night. Then as the Killing Fields from Divine Intervention blasted through the speakers I remembered exactly why. Before Fictional Reality was able to fade out, the first band, Nazarite Vow took their positions on stage. It’s hard to really say what this band were like, as I spent most of the set walking around the room trying to escape the pummling I was taking from the over zealous kick. I gathered that they were some kind of hardcore/screamo outfit. The lead vocals were the scream/shout/growl variety while the back up vocals were delievered in a clean tone that was completely lost in the atrocious mix.

From my attempt to familiarise myself with The Seduction, I found there were a couple of bands around the scene with same name. I assume the one’s that played tonight were from Melbourne. The Seduction were a tough guy kind of hardcore outfit – well the singer was anyway – and the rest of the guys were typical hardcore geeks. The drummer produced a few moments of grind blasting glory, about the only glory in the set. Their cover of Nirvana’s Tourettes really missed the mark, lacking the spirit of the original.

The inventor of the cash register, James Ritty, came from Dayton, Ohio as do The Devil Wears Prada, a run of the mill generic metalcore band with the Christian gimmick. I know everyone needs a gimmick but seriously if these guys weren’t praising my man Jesus, they’d be just another metalcore band.

These guys sucked for a number of reasons:

1) They had a keyboard player that headbanged. Keyboardists that headbang are like drunk unlces that crack onto your mum at Christmas.

2) Their lead singer spent more time off the stage than he did on it, and when he was on stage his microphone technique was so bad that you could not hear anything he was screaming.

3) They bitched about having a crap show…I couldn’t hear if they were blaming the small crowd or just bitching in general, either way people that bitch about their day jobs suck, and should tender their resignation and get new jobs. The most exciting thing about this was the chair that found its way onto the dancefloor, whereby some douche took it upon himself to smash it, which took all attention away from the band.

This gig highlighted something important, the hardcore/metal scene has reached saturation point and is on the border of being a parody.

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