Solar Powered Sun Destroyer / Misery Index 04.14.2009

#15
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Solar Powered Sun Destroyer
DC 9

Even though I was warned numerous times by the SPSD myspace to arrive before 8pm, I only got upstairs at DC9 at 8:09pm. So I missed 1/3 of their set, I suppose. What I did see was excellent and I think mainly new songs because I didn't really recognize any of them. There were a lot of people up there too, which is good for them.

#16
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Misery Index
Landmine Marathon
Drugs of Faith
Salome
Rock & Roll Hotel

The door guy at R&R Hotel said I was one of several people to show up with DC9 stamps on my hand and I did recognize a couple of people from being at that first venue. I managed to catch this whole show, minus a few minutes of Salome. Salome is a 3-piece death metal band with a blonde female singer who sounded a little like that woman from Arch Enemy. Very cool.
Drugs of Faith are another 3-piece, except that their chick plays bass instead of sings. Their set was very short, but I guess that's a function of grindcore.
Landmine Marathon was awesome - definitely one of the best bands I've seen in a while. Very high energy, death-grind and they also have a female singer (for those keeping track). I don't think I'd seen them before but they all looked so familiar, maybe I have? At any rate, they played a mix of older and new songs that they burned right through, although their set was longer overall.
Misery Index also kicked ass. This being the third time I've seen them, I guess they've finally started to make an impression on me (even though the leg-tattoo guy wasn't there). They had a pretty long set, mixing old and new stuff. I guess they've got a new album out and they're going to Europe, so they got that going for them, which is nice.
I should also add that R&R Hotel also has Strongbow (it's Bowtime!) and I really like that place. Also, I need to invent a bar/club hand stamp remover that works better than rubbing alcohol and exfoliating products from LUSH because it just doesn't look good to be going to work on Wednesday with the remnants of several stamps on my hand.