Titan's Eve Concert Review!!

Finally, we have our Titan's Eve concert review for you guys! I wanted it up Tuesday, but my computer issues and earlier scheduled posts left this pushed back farther than I'd ever like it to be pushed back. So let's not waste any time, let's formally kick this review off, and hopefully I haven't forgotten too many details from it! So this concert took place on Monday night, which as you know, was both the Fourth of July & the end of our Titan's Eve contest for two band prize packages, and before I forget, congratulations to Gina-Lynn Scobie & Sativa Rose drummer Alex Palmer for winning the contest! As for the timing on Independence Day, the attendance did take a noticeable early hit due to a combination of the camping weekend and many potential attendees staying to watch the American fireworks, which helped lead to a later start time. Attendance did grow later in the set though!

Opening the show was local hardcore quartet Skull After Betrayl, and I have to say, this was probably the best I've heard them sound live so far! There's work to do, but their sound was more together and varied than we had seen at their previous shows, which is definitely good! Their set consisted of a mix of originals like "Death", "One In The Chamber", and "Zombitch", while also featuring select covers, including a solid rendition of Lamb of God's "Omerta"! I was happy to see many of their flawed parts from their last show amended, including the removal of Slayer's "Bloodline" (they need to work on the timing of it), Mike Vincent's deletion of most of his spoken word parts, and Adam Brett's slowly increasing bass abilities! Mike's diversifying his growling and screaming ever so slightly, and him and Justin's guitar abilities deserve more notice! I do want to see Mike incorporate more clean singing, or have Adam do backup, as it would help their sound, and they still need to work on timing on a lot of their songs, but it's not as noticeable on the originals. Things are looking up for Skull After Betrayl, hopefully they keep along this path!

Second were Sativa Rose, and if you were in for classic metal, these guys brought it in spades! Death metal too, I'll explain in a second. Sativa Rose are known for their high energy classic covers that, though lacking in vocals, are very proficient, and that continued on Monday with covers of everyone from Iron Maiden to Motley Crue and so forth! Andrew Angelic and Anthony Orazietti were as talented as ever on guitar, Alex Palmer's drumming was well on form, and Adam Veale's bass playing meshed as good as ever! Andrew didn't sing lead on any songs on Monday, ceding that spot to Adam, and in a surprise, guest singers for the second half of their set! Former Bring The Fallen guitarist Dan Souliere returned to his AtrophiA roots to sing lead on a cover of Megadeth's "In My Darkest Hour", then Dismembertainment owner Rich Moreland & Bear Hunters frontman Nik Deubel sang on a cover of Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell", before Rich handled lead for the remainder of the set, including on Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark At The Moon" and on all three of Sativa Rose's originals, one of which was brand new!

That was an unexpected surprise, and honestly, though I don't know if it's anywhere close to reality, Rich as Sativa Rose's full time singer for a death/classic metal hybrid band would be very intriguing! The fact that he learned their originals is interesting in itself! Nik and Dan did solid jobs too, and Sativa Rose on the whole had another entertaining set that we'll hopefully see more from very soon!

Headlining, of course, were Vancouver thrash quartet Titan's Eve, and being a big thrash fan already, I was really looking forward to Titan's Eve coming to town on Monday! Luckily, they did not disappoint, hammering out a short but sweet set of original thrash songs from their new album "The Divine Equal", including "The Tides Of Doom", "Becoming The Demon", and "Nightfall"! I wanted to compare their sound to a thrashier Demiricous, if that's accurate, but their brutal sound stood on it's own, especially when it finally got some good moshpits going! Brian Gamblin's harsh thrash vocals suited the songs well, and he and his brother Kyle shredded like mad on most of their songs! Very talented guys! Bassist Jesse Hord and drummer Casey Ory were great as well, and it was cool to see Casey get a drum solo, which we need more of locally, especially when he's as good as Casey was on Monday night! Titan's Eve were heavy as hell and kept things fast and aggressive to the point where I really enjoyed everything without having to nitpick the sound, which is a good sign! My only real complaint is that their set was short, but I imagine as they release more albums, their sets will get longer. Awesome headlining set by Titan's Eve, I hope they come back, as the Soo needs more thrash!

Awesome show on Monday night, here's hoping the next Dismembertainment show with out of town headliners (featuring the band on Jesse's shirt) will be just as good, and with a better attendance! It should, and we'll have more on that in tonight's news post, so stay tuned for that, and much more when it comes this evening! For now though, we'll leave you with my videos from the show, so here's Skull After Betrayl's original song "Zombitch", Sativa Rose covering Iron Maiden's "Aces High", and Titan's Eve playing their song "The Tides Of Doom"! Stay tuned for more news later tonight!