Review: Bury Your Dead + The Haunted 9/8/2005

#29
September 8, 2005
Shadows Fall
The Haunted
Bury Your Dead
Gizmachi
Recher Theatre, Towson MD

So apparently Bury Your Dead and The Haunted can play 'Bury Your [fucking] Dead' on the same stage and the universe doesn't implode or anything. Oh, and get well soon Eric! If human saliva was good for treating burns....oh, uh, so the show went as follows:

I don't know what a Gizmachi is but it's very loud. I read somewhere that they were discovered by Slipknot. Anyway, they're from Orange County NY, which is apparently not totally devoid of musicianship of various kinds. Musically it's kind of like Into Eternity was eaten and digested by a nu-metal band in an institutional brown shirt. I thought they were pretty OK. Their drummer was awesome and the bass player has a big ol' neck tattoo, so you can't go wrong with that.
2.5/5

I'm still so excited about The Haunted that I forgot Bury Your Dead played second. Anyway, Mr. Neck Tattoos (Eric) is out of commission because he "burned his face off" [my initial reaction to this was *shaking head and sighing* 'boys']. The girl at Ritz Camera will be so disappointed when I print these photos and he's not in there (her reaction last time: 'whoa, that guy has a lot of ink'). Anyway, very short set but still awesome even one man down. BYD always gets the crowd into a mosh - although it was a fairly small crowd due to the fact that Madball was over at the Ottobar (tough choice for me too, although I've seen Madball at least a dozen times though I still have a crush on Freddy from my own NYHC days plus they are/were Tshaka's favorites). The highlights: pink sombreros and switched instruments. The lowlights: none. I love going to the last show of a tour - it's prank night!
5/5

I feel like I've been waiting all my life to see The Haunted, even though I was only apprised of them by Death Metal Roze and {insert clever nickname for SH here} sometime last year. Although I seem to recall one Mr. Ian 'MTV' Robinson espousing their wisdom back when I had MTV2 as well. My neck still hurts today from headbanging. They pretty much only did songs from the first album and the latest one and they didn't get to play nearly long enough. I can't wait to see them again with Meshuggah. Oh Mr. Haunted you are perfection. Shadows Fall's singer came out for a song and there was some naked BYD drummer action going on as well, but I don't really know what that was about. I need to learn Swedish. Is it OK to have your own band's name on your pants?
5/5

Uh, Shadows Fall. How the hell do I know so many of their songs? Those are some crazy dreds, white boy.

Random stuff:
-obnoxious kids yelling crap before the show started
-I still think the Recher looks like the stage for an elementary school play
-Baltimore has a tattoo museum (how apropos)