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Brian Perry · 06-22-2006, 05:29 PM

The Chicago Tribune's review of Tuesday's concert is serious, yet hilarious; here are some excerpts:

Slayer, nearing its 25th anniversary, still looks as menacing as it sounds. Screaming commands at the capacity audience, guitarist Jeff Hanneman resembled a shell-shocked soldier who'd just crawled out of a bunker. Kerry King, whose tribal art-tattooed head bobbed as he manhandled his guitar, induced solos that squealed in pain and riffs that wilted from disease.

...disturbing video footage, sinister graphics, blinding strobe lights and drifting smoke combined with dive-bombing melodies and double-barrel percussion to give the performance the feel that hell's gates had opened.

Displaying animosity toward apathetic institutions and blind followers, Lamb of God swung a sonic wrecking ball of staccato riffs and stop-start tempos. The thrash quintet's metered approach occasionally became monotonous, but tunes such as "Redneck" and "Hourglass" possessed catch-phrase refrains that registered landslide effects.

Mastodon stormed and heaved its way through an impressively taut set, simultaneously shifting course and carving out opportunities to come up for air. A four-headed beast whose members worked to feed the collective whole, the Atlanta quartet bellowed vocal bridges, exchanged interlaced leads and combined on swarming harmonies. The rhythmic slugfest "Blood and Thunder" fought to the death while the unreleased "Circle of the Cysquatch" dizzied with rotor-chopping motions, indicating the group's further expansion into uncharted albeit accessible territories.

06-22-2006, 05:29 PM	#4 of 15
Brian Perry Member Location: Chicago, Home of the 1908 World Champion Cubs Join Date: May 1999 Local Time: 02:23 AM Local Date: 12-03-2008 Posts: 4,586	Re: Unholy Alliance Tour (SLAYER, et al.) The Chicago Tribune's review of Tuesday's concert is serious, yet hilarious; here are some excerpts: Slayer, nearing its 25th anniversary, still looks as menacing as it sounds. Screaming commands at the capacity audience, guitarist Jeff Hanneman resembled a shell-shocked soldier who'd just crawled out of a bunker. Kerry King, whose tribal art-tattooed head bobbed as he manhandled his guitar, induced solos that squealed in pain and riffs that wilted from disease. ...disturbing video footage, sinister graphics, blinding strobe lights and drifting smoke combined with dive-bombing melodies and double-barrel percussion to give the performance the feel that hell's gates had opened. Displaying animosity toward apathetic institutions and blind followers, Lamb of God swung a sonic wrecking ball of staccato riffs and stop-start tempos. The thrash quintet's metered approach occasionally became monotonous, but tunes such as "Redneck" and "Hourglass" possessed catch-phrase refrains that registered landslide effects. Mastodon stormed and heaved its way through an impressively taut set, simultaneously shifting course and carving out opportunities to come up for air. A four-headed beast whose members worked to feed the collective whole, the Atlanta quartet bellowed vocal bridges, exchanged interlaced leads and combined on swarming harmonies. The rhythmic slugfest "Blood and Thunder" fought to the death while the unreleased "Circle of the Cysquatch" dizzied with rotor-chopping motions, indicating the group's further expansion into uncharted albeit accessible territories.