Napalm Death and Dying Fetus @Amplifier, Perth (01/09/10)

Fri 3rd Sep, 2010 in Gig Reviews

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Only a searingly hot offering of Napalm and Death could comfort Perth’s metal masses on such a chilly first day of spring. Luckily it was delivered in spades that night, permeating the venue and melting the last advances of old mate winter.

Blasting out fresh from the womb were Maryland death metal slammers Dying Fetus, delivering somewhat the ‘opium of the masses’ with Praise The Lord. The near capacity crowd feasted on it’s punishing grooves and tasteful two handed fret tapping wizardry. How do you follow up such a blistering track? Easy. Back it up with Your Treachery Will Die With You taken from 2009’s Descend Into
Depravity. A simple choice it seemed when observing the relaxed nature of guitarist/vocalist John Gallager and the astounding skills of bassist Sean Beasley as he followed Gallagers every fret move.

Drummer Trey Williams kept the pace varied to emphasize their trademark slam, his drums cutting through the mix perfectly. His precision had every head in the place banging to the undeniable grooves of killer cuts such as, One Shot, One Kill, Conceived Into Enslavement and Grotesque Impalement. Gallager barked like a pit-bull chasing parked cars calling for mosh pits and fury throughout the set, to which the punters happily obliged. The only thing that may have been lacking was a light show, but as they say, with grooves like
that who needs shitty cellophane colored par-cans to emphasize them.

After the main course Gallager encouraged the punters to Kill your
Mother and Rape Your Dog to complete Perth’s second ‘tus experience in as many years. The icing on the proverbial cake.

As If Perth needed more genre defining bands to grace it’s shores. Napalm Death have been here before yet people seem to be just as stoked as if it was their virgin visit. The crowd packed tight into the small amplifier room eager to get a glimpse of death metal/grind core royalty. With fuck all ado Napalm whipped the crowd senseless with a barrage of blasting grinding goodness, the crowd all to happy to take the beating and scream for more.

Something about a Birmingham cockney’s stage banter is instantly hilarious.”Wifout statin’ the bleedin’ obvious, or in case ya didn’t know, we are Napalm Death.” Vocalist Mark Barney Greenway announced shortly before tearing into Suffer The Children.

They blazed through a fairly no frills set -in the delivery anyway. Guitarist Mitch Harris’ pick scrapes and scratches were clearly audible, bassist Shane Embury had no bass amp, merely running his bass direct to the PA-with a distortion pedal of course. Barney stormed around the stage screaming and screeching, as if possessed by some retarded demon. These actions merely emphasised their punk roots and ethos.

On the catalogue side of things, they covered it perfectly for any die hard fan, although with a fourteen album history, the task can’t have been easy. Digging back to their fist release with The Kill, Scum and the second long You Suffer gracing the set list and left people in absolute shock. If you blinked you would have missed it.

A cover of Nazi Punks Fuck Off by The Dead Kennedys went down a treat as did Smear Campaign and Time Waits For No Slave. Barney then announced that Siege Of Power would be their last song and proceeded to pummel the crowds ears for the final round. Afterwards punters agreed that no encore was necessary, twenty one punches to the face was enough, and they were soon left to mop up what blood had been spilt or take happy snaps with their grind core heroes.

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