SMM gig review

I thought we were gash that night, but anyway ! -


"Next up weere Self Made Man - a quinetet with a lead vocalist who just shone like a metal messiah - you were entirely focused on this guy when the band started up as he delivered the lyrics with a passion that was intense even for this sort of music. The first thing you noticed about this lot were that they are clearly a much more "song-oriented" act in the sense that the lead vocalist clearly had a lot to say and he was gonna say it - lyrically a lot fuller than the previous band, the first track was very much a wickedly heavy brew of anthemic hardcore proportions, while subsequent tracks revealed their fondness for jerky, twisted time signiatures as the song seemed to change direction often several times within the same song! The songs here were altogether more "intricate" than F.M.W but, that said, they made up in sheer overpowering intensity what the previous band exuded in hardcore thrash fun. Their set built up to a raging inferno, with, I think, the fourth track a major slice of ultra-heavy, dense-riffing heaven, as the singer, for the next track,left the stage and proceeded to walk among us -stil hollering the lyrics like a thing possessed. All in all one storming performance that culminated in the track named after the band that ended the set on a sea of brutal intensity as the guitars, drums, bass and vocals hammered out the message."

From http://www.deadearnest.btinternet.co.uk/Dundee30.htm

It was from May 20th @ Doghouse with pigscum, cheers.