Reports Giacomo Slongo
Picture Moira Karola
Five years. It has been a long time since the last Italian origins of John Gallagher, Sean Beasley and Trey Williams, the powerful trio best known by the alias “sober” Dying Fetus. A five-year period during which everything happened all over the world and vice versa, but which clearly did not affect the popularity of the American group in our area, which, having beaten Bel Paese on tour with Nasty, Cabal and Frozen Soul in February last year, managed without much effort sold out in the third round of this European summer tranche, drawing a diverse audience to the Legend Club in Milan, eager to reconcile (or make first contact, as the case may be) with the writers of the forthcoming Make ‘Em Beg for Death.
So among the typical death metallers and young adepts of the deathcore revival, fortunately intrigued by the true origins of the movement, a look into the green space of the Milan club is one of the essentials when we finally arrive around 9.00. evening, with Modenese Karmian, who, as we hear from the audience, says goodbye, making way for the second guest of the evening …
Metalitalia.com is following the news MODERN SLAVERY since the debut on Napalm Records “Damned to Blindness” and since then we can say that the only thing that the band from Reggio Emilia lacked was a tribute to a style that has always made dynamism, efficiency and modernity the lenses through which they direct their creative eye by filtering the cases of bands like Aborted, Despised Icon and Job For a Cowboy in a punctually lively and exciting way.
Right after the release of “1901: The First Mother” last May on Fireflash Records, it takes very little for the quintet to set up and release their proverbial shockwave, which – for once – is lucky enough to break into an amiable audience. to breakdowns and death-core contamination.
Sounds and volumes could be more precise, but these are still secondary details in the overall picture of the show: if Giovanni Berserk confirms himself as an authoritative frontman both in managing vocal registers and in interacting with those present, then the instrumental sector, led by bass Mirko Bennati and with guitar by Luca Cocconi (both in the hardcore Browbeat legend) does just as well, striking a perfect balance between muscle and brain, between power and ingenuity, hits like the recent “Radiate All the Earth” or the more outdated “Obedience” perfectly combining a mixture of groove and set list technique that – without much surprise on our part – will end up humiliating the efforts of some heavily pumped international realities. Guarantee of the Italian underground and much more.
Analyze the band’s concert every time DYING FRUIT it’s like talking about an old friend, one of those people who can’t disappoint or pull a bad joke. True, our last memory of the Baltimore line-up (Dagda Live Club in Retorbido, August 2018) was not exactly the best, but certainly not because of the weak performance of Ours, but rather because of the eerie sounds they made. we still remember today – grudgingly -.
In short, the years progress, the bellies too, but the moral is that John Gallagher and his comrades, if put in the right conditions, are systematically able to completely defeat the competition and place themselves among the best live bands. in the world, at least as far as death metal is concerned. Same tonight, with a system worthy of a band of their caliber and a lineup designed to please new fans, boost the hype around the already mentioned “Make Them Beg for Death” (expected September 8th via Relapse Records) and bring their lifelong old guard into delight.
If you start with a mega-classic like “One Shot, One Kill”, it’s actually a declaration of intent, alternating between pieces like “Battered” and “Compulsory Violence” with very ancient “We are your enemies” and “Grotesque Impalement” sends the audience on a path of feverish excitement and decayed reactions in the pit, with a trio who at that point – of course – already have a victory in their pocket to continue the concert. T
sooo haunting and brutal six-string Gallagher riffs (now permanently transformed into a beard/cap/long hair look), vocal skirmishes with his partner Beasley are too insistent, Williams’ rhythmic drawings are too dynamic… of Dying Fetus is a proposal born for in order to play live, in a dialogue between death, grind and hardcore, to leave him stunned by his fluidity and rendering, which in turn is comparable to what was on the record.
A physical overwhelming strength only achievable after decades of experience and thousands of concerts in his training program, and which even this Thursday at the end of July was able to make a difference, and then degenerated in the finale of the ferocious bracket “Pissing in the Mainstream”. “/”Kill your mother, rape your dog.” Masters are not accidental.
Set list
One shot one kill
got beat up
We are your enemy
Unbridled Fury
in the trenches
Grotesque impalement
Forced to cruelty
Praise the Lord (Opium for the masses)
Betrayal will die with you
From the womb to the waste
Not the one to fuck with
pissing in the mainstream
Kill your mother, rape your dog
CARMIAN
MODERN SLAVERY
DYING FRUIT
