Slipknot new mask revealed

Written by: David Harrison

April 10, 2008 · Filed Under Allegedly · Comment 

Slipknot masks ain’t what they used to be

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The Sword & Saviours at the Underworld

Written by: admin

April 4, 2008 · Filed Under Live, Review · Comment 

When: Thursday April 3rd. Where: Camden Underworld.

Saviours: If you want unashamed guitar heaven, you have walked into the right room. The Underworld is heaving, and Oakland California four-piece, Saviours are on stage. The lead guitarist is a skinny dude with a very nice Explorer, and quite suitably a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt. Metal at it’s purest, some might say, while dissenters may dismiss it all for being way too derivative. But we all know that doesn’t matter here - these hard riff-laden tracks are to be enjoyed for the shameless guitar celebration that they are.

Saviours kind of have a Ricky Gervais timing. Just when you think the Riff Assault should break off, they carry on for an extra few bars. It keeps building the tension in the process, so when that break delivers, it does it with so much more and really does hit home.

Despite the gruff doom mongering and ‘Into Abaddon’ title of their first album, the band are pretty chirpy and excited to be there. After the gig they head straight to the Merch desk, like any good American band should and encourage us to buy some of their marvelous T-Shirts.

The Sword: Their track ‘Freya’ cropping up as a enjoyable level on Guitar Hero 2 computer game was a weird break for the band. Just a slow tip of the hat, and after a quick double-take of “who the fuck was that!?!”, we all went onto iTunes and tried to find them. They popped up on a Clutch bill as a support act last year - now here they are, suddenly at the end of their first full UK tour. The Sword have fianlly arrived properly (in London at least).

Now I would be lying if I said The Sword were quite a different booking to Saviours. Both are wall-to-wall axe-worship. If you don’t like loud guitars and leather jackets, you are probably at the wrong gig. If you are happy with Big Fucking Heavy Metal, and not too bothered that you can’t hear the lyrics about Norse Gods having a wrestle, then The Sword are for you. Perfect - I’ll be Dungeon Master, can you chalk up the d20 please?

“If you like riffs,” lead singer and guitarist J.D Cronise tellss the crowd, ‘this one has a lot of them’. Those are pretty much the only words we get out of him this evening. The crowd have gone mental and I take a spin in the Mosh which is quite erm… full of grown-ups.

Excellent gig - best show I’ve seen for ages. The crowd are in a fuzzy euphoria afterwards.

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