Support for this tour comes from Sacred Reich, Vio-lence, Hirax, Midnight, and Interceptor. Having caught the tour on the final day of the run in Downtown Los Angeles, at The Belasco Theater, due to heavy traffic on the freeways and street, seeing red as far as possible, getting to the venue late was likely to happen and it did, arriving just in time to catch the third openers thrash titans Hirax!
Hirax have been celebrating their 40 years together, with the release of their newest album "Faster Than Death", they have been playing shows, including this tour for this past year. Tonight's performance may have lacked in a crowd but it did not disappoint. The crowd present still delivered that high angst energy, with so much momentum, everyone there embraced the "word" from the preacher that is Katon, main vocalist and sole original member since the very beginning! Having added some new line-up changes as of late, the new band members, kept the music flowing, nicely, making funny faces throughout. Vocal wise they were solid as always, with the vocalist doing his part interreacting with the fans, and giving his brief "preach" moments saying how this crowd was his and our metal families. If you're into fast and heavy thrash metal then Hirax is it.
HIRAX:
Following them would be Vio-lence, another thrash metal, who I had seen previously, but that performance was good, but tonight's was great! Much more enthusiasm given out. The crowd went insane, mosh pit being non-stop, crowd surfers going even crazier, with the band themselves, just giving it their all. So much energy it felt unreal at times, the performance felt that intense yet along so great. Truly another act to check out, to get that overflowing experience of good old thrash metal antics.
VIO-LENCE:
Wrapping up the evening would be the remaining acts next up Sacred Reich, another thrash metal band, whose energy was as intense or crazy, but more mellow yet fast thrash, if that makes any sense. The music was fast, it made everything work well together. You just felt more emotion when catching these guys live. The mosh pit felt like it was moving but not as intensely as previous acts. It felt more enjoyable or rather easy going, their thrash metal styling being edgy to say the least.
SACRED REICH:
Ending out the night would be Dark Angel, who I had never seen but heard of and after tonight, it was so worth it. Having waited so long for their newest album to release, let alone for them to tour again, this night would be one to remember.... Opening up with Slayer's "Reign in Blood", then an introduction of their own material, the rest broke out into new works, old classic working's, it felt never ending. The vocalist even got into the crowd quite a bit, joining in with the mosh pit, did some talks about our metal family, it was so much fun, and felt just goofy at times too. Like a never ending happiness energy that kept everything and everyone there intact. The band kept in check with one another, vocals sounded fierce, it just all pieced so well, it made it fun!
DARK ANGEL:
In the end, it was a thrash filled evening, with nothing but thrash metal acts, that kept that intensity and momentum going. If you weren't headbanging or dancing about, then you got engulfed with the music one way or another and it felt good.
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