I've seen a lot of death metal shows as of late. Mainly because grindcore bands don't play the Midwest often. As far as death metal bands go Morbid Angel and Grave rank as two of the best in my opinion. If I had a list of my top ten death metal albums, both Alter of Madness and Into The Grave would be on it. Alters of Madness would probably be #1.First up was Grave. Concentrating on older material, mostly from the Into The Grave album. Playing Deformed, In Love, Day of Mourning, Hating Life, Into the Grave and Extremely Rotten Flesh all off that first album! The set was rounded off by other classics like Turning Black and newer tracks like Epos. Truly a great set. The only problem I had with it was it was way to short.
Dark Funeral played next and I have to admit that I don't know a lot about them, other than the fact that the guy who sang on Hypocrisy's first album was once a long time member. To be fair I am also not a huge black metal fan and the bands I do like are of the rawer persuasion. They played a good set that was maybe a bit to long, for me.
Morbid Angel like Grave played a set that was mostly dedicated to their older material. I don't think they played anything from the Tucker era. Alters of Madness was well represented with Maze of Tourment, Immortal Rites, Blasphemy, Lord of All Fevers, and Chapel of Ghouls. They played God of Emptiness, Angel of Disease, & Rapture from Covenant. A few from Blessed and Domination, the rest the set was from the new album.The highlight of the night was just watching Trey play, the guy is amazing. I just wish they would have had Sandoval and Brunelle back in the lineup.
