The bands that we didn't wanna see all actualy played before 6, so we just arrived at 6 on both days. We were pretty fucking tired by the end of the night though, what with 6-7 straight hours of standing and thrashing and all.
On Saturday we arrived at the tail end of Gorgasm's set, which was awesome for us because that was the last of the "never-wanna-see" bands for that day.
Skinless played at 6ish, and if i remember correctly, they had the shortest setup time out of any bands over both days. Everyone in the band looked way younger than they do on their DVD, but they totally destroyed. Before they came out they had some babe in leather booty shorts, fishnets, and a gas mask dragged out from behind the amps by some hessian also, with a gas mask. They fought until about halfway through the set, when they gracefully stumbled away. The band had tons of energy and played Tampon Lollipops and Scum Cookie, among other favorites. They didn't, however, play the title track off of Sacrifice to Survival, which i was hoping for.
^------a shitty shot of the skinless girl talking to some guy already covered in wouldn't-be-hot-if-not-in-bondage-gear girls
Alarum played next, and they were a weird choice to feature at the show, but they were awesome nonetheless. They were a Watchtower/Athiest/Death fusion, but they had a unique style based partially in their australian origin. They covered Piece of Time by Athiest and Flooding of Emotions by Death, both which were excellent and got the crowd pumped.
Butcher ABC played at 8ish, and they were a pretty decent goregrind band from Japan. I don't know much about them outside of that the jams were pretty catchy. They sounded kind of like Exhumed. The gasmasks have microphones taped to them, and they were selling aprons at their merch table.
Machetazo played next, and they were pretty fucking intense, but i couldn't recognize any jams in particular, but i don't think anyone else could either. They were a lot like a mexicanCarcass. before they played their last song, they had half a dozen people come out with bandannas over their faces and hats on, and shot the shit out of everyone with supersoakers full of hawaiian punch. My hair was stiff for the rest of the night.
Anata played after Machetazo, and they would have been awesome if their gear were mixed higher. For whatever reason, their stuff didn't sound like it was as close as it should have been. Also, i have no pictures because we were on the outer edge of the pit towards the back for their set, so we were busy keeping the circle up and getting beer spilled on us.
After Anata, some gaylords left the front, leaving Adept and I room to get up front for Demilich, who were fucking
awesome. The best part about them was that for the entirety of their set, no one looked very interested in being at the show. CHalk it up to being drunk, chalk it up to being artists and not musicians, or chalk it up to just plain disinterest, but it didn't make their set any less awesome. They played Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep last, and the crowd went insane for it. His vocals were obscenely deep, and the three guitarists added a lot of texture to the songs. I particularly like the picture i took where the light's glare looks like a demon talking the singer.
The final band we saw on Saturday was Haemorrhage (who, until just now, i thought were Vital Remains with all new members), who were a complete surprise. They completely smashed my expectations, and stomped on the remains. The songs were catchy as fuck, and as a side, one of the guitarists was this cute chick who must have been spanish due to the size of her ass. The singer looked and sounded just like Ricky Ricardo and really got into character as a god-hating, human-eating, self-mutilating demon covered in blood. I wish i took more pictures but i was too busy being crushed against the barricade and banging my head to get my camera out for anything past the second song. A lot of the pictures i took of them came out shitty anyway, so here are the two good ones.
We left after these guys, mistaking them for Vital Remains, who were scheduled to headline that night.
edit: Just as a side, i originally thought the last band we saw was Vital Remains but it was in fact Haemorrhage. Makes sense, what with Vital Remains being Deicide 2 and the members of Haemorrhage being half as old as VR and like 12 times as spanish. Shows what i know. Good thing is, though, i can still hate Vital Remains for being boring and uncreative.