Unfortunately the Belgian hardcore punks Reproach cancelled their supporting slot for tonight, so we were immediately treated on a set from Sweden’s Victims. Arriving a bit late, I rushed into the venue still wearing my coat. Unfortunately it seemed my high hopes were ungrounded, for what I saw was a pretty standard straight forward (punk) hardcore band. I had hoped for a fierce performance by a band with a face of its own, in the six songs or so I saw I didn’t detect that at all. A bit of a letdown, for this band does feature some known Swedish underground musicians and I heard nothing but good stories about previous shows. Maybe next time…

 

Personally I am not that impressed with Municipal Waste’s new album Massive Aggressive, I feel it is a bit more calm and serious than its predecessor. I thought they passed their highlight already, yet as soon as their show started I was instantly proven wrong. These guys still have it for sure! The crowd went nuts instantly and kept going with walls of death, circlepits, stage-diving and all the insane shit that goes down mandatory at a show of the Waste. A nice selection of tracks of all their albums was played for the frantic crowd that seemingly still hasn’t had enough of these leaders of the thrash/hardcore revival, and by the looks of the band itself, they’re far from done as well. The sound was perfectly in order tonight, I especially focused on the drumwork by one of the best metal drummers in the world, mister Dave Witte. He really lifts the already great riffing material to a higher level with awesome fills and rolls throughout the whole set, amazing work! As I said, I was proven wrong by these lads, they’re not done and will only get bigger and bigger in the future. I bet I will find myself checking them out many times to come in the future, you should too!