Exodus unleashes a Brutal all out Metal assault on Beijing

BejingDaze is reporting back on Exodus' first show in China. My ear drums are still buzzing, and I'm slightly surprised at the lack of bruises and the fact that nothing is broken on my body after last night.. why? one might ask… Because I went down to the pits of hell (or Mao Live House) with 2 walls of death and more moshing than I ever gambled for as Exodus descended on Beijing to help Painkiller Magazine celebrate their 10 years with help from China's own Suffocated and Japan's Grim Force.

Mao was packed when things got started with Suffocated who I had heard tons of great stuff about but hadn't had a chance to catch yet… until yesterday that is! They're pretty darn solid and had the audience jumping up and down, moshing, headbanging with pure unadulterated metal. as far as all the Chinese bands I've heard so far, I'm ready to give them the crown as the best one in Beijing if not China. I'm gonna have to catch them again and home to get my hands on their album sometime soon.

Next up was Grim Force from Japan. These cats were musically fantastic but I kept looking at them and thinking sushi! Good classic technically sound metal but they just lacked a little stage presence i felt. big big ups to their insane bass player who did not slow down at any point during their set. Their drummer was just as nuts with badaboums and badabangs all around. They got a hang of the audience around the end of their set and managed to get them moving around a bit.

so far so good… only thing was that by then, temperature inside the pits of Mao was going up by the minute!

Finally, it was time for E-XO-DU-S...

The rest of the band took to the stage before Rob "The Beast” Duke came out sporting an "infidel” T-shirt and getting things started… and the place went freaking nuts! Yours truly and Ruby immediately backed off to the back of the pit fearing for our safety! The band was not even 10 seconds into the first song and half the audience was prowling around the pit in a circle! impressive! It took Lamb of God a good 10 min to get things started properly a few months ago.

The band then powered on through a whole bunch of their latest songs, a few of which i didn't recognize but nevertheless enjoyed! I had read somewhere that Rob was not a big fan of singing the old stuff preferring to do their more recent efforts and that was definitely confirmed. There were definitely a few people in the audience lamenting that there wasn't enough oldies.

Oldies, goodies, modern shit… who cares! The band rocked the hell out of Mao Livehouse and the Audience gave back as much as they took from them… there was no freaking downtime in this show… If the crowd looked like they were slowing down, they got a little gesture from the band to keep it going.

They did eventually play a few of the oldies like bonded by blood, pirana, war is my Shepard and my favorite: and then there were none.

You can read the rest and view pictures of the performance at BejingDaze.

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Tags:  Exodus, china, tour  

BejingDaze    September 24, 2010