Morbid Angel in NOLA

[Hitoshura]

Happened to be strolling past the house of blues and saw a vaguely familiar looking dude on the corner and thought "hey that looks like Terrance Hobbs"

I walked up to the box office and discovered that this tour happened to be in town this very night

after missing the Boston show I am very excited to stumble upon the tour on my little mini vacation down here

[Nick]

How neat for you

[Hitoshura]

very happy stormy in this period

i may report back later, more likely thursday when I am back in ein massachusetts

[arborist shrub tarkington]

he found the tickets in a mysterious red bag

[User]

haha, how fortuitous

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice.

[Abzu]

I love this story already

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So how was it?

[Nick]

He died

[arborist shrub tarkington]

it was the bag

[Hitoshura]

it was excellent an unexpected surprise that really made the trip worthwhile. i was in town on account of helping a (now-former) roommate move down there, and was dreading it mainly due to a change in plans that required us to drive his shitty deathtrap car all the way down.

i missed the first two openers due to needing food, but i caught all of suffocation. i went in with low expectations since they're touring behind a new album, but they did 2-3 tracks off that and everything else was oldschool pre-hiatus stuff, and they absolutely nailed it all. leige in particular seemed sped up considerably. their new singer is a very respectable stand-in for frank, and his air-drumming timing is impeccable; dude was holding it down mid crowd-surf at the end of MA's set when the rest of the tour came on stage.

it was the last stop on the tour and at least inbetween songs it was pretty apparent steve was losing his voice. no issues with the performance itself though, they played a pretty great set all around. very refreshing to see them playing the steve era stuff, crazy to think it's been more than 10 years since i last saw any of these songs performed. but as has been discussed by others, vadim von definitely isn't an ideal secondary. notably, the outro lead from ageless really wasn't up to snuff, which is confusing because it's not a particularly demanding one

i was especially happy to catch up with trey for a few minutes before the show, we chatted quake stuff for a bit. i wanted to try and get in touch after the show, but by the time it was over i was absolutely exhausted and decided to head back to the hotel. i walked about 15 miles that day and sobered up twice before the show.

i have been in extreme sard mode since returning home but once i have some motivation i will get some pictures uploaded, maybe

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[Abzu]

:xx::::::

[User]

nice stormicus, you did a nola win

[Rufus T. Firefly]

hey stormy what happened to Derek from Suffocation?

[Nick]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

sorry, forgot to post the video:

phpBB [video]

I tried searching on google but didn't come up with anything.

[zim]

at 6:10 after the first song he mentioned derek was sick and is at home taking care of himself

also the hard-on bearer to the left of the stage around 8:30ish is on point with the air drumming

[Rufus T. Firefly]

oh I must have missed that

[zim]

i got worried that he might have also left the band so i started watching that whole show, hah

[Hitoshura]

i completely forgot i took a few photos of this show, i'll try and remember to post them over the weekend. i was posted up just behind that hard-on bearer that took the footage of suffocation's set, at least for MA's set anyway

[Josh]

i dont want to see another post in the chapel until a fucking release date is announced. a song, the title, the artwork, the track list, anything. this is fucking dumb

[zim]

chill out mang, let's enjoy the hype while it lasts

[Shredlord]

at 6:10 after the first song he mentioned derek was sick and is at home taking care of himself

Is that code for rehab?

[Josh]

chill out mang, let's enjoy the hype while it lasts

yeah, no. I fucking want it now

[Phantoon]

I just hope the tracklist isn't like:

Warped
Brutalic
Insane
Frenetic
Typhooned
Burnt
Poisoned
Mauled, etc

[zim]

i'm more concerned about the actual songs than whatever silly names they might have

[Phantoon]

Well that goes without saying, but the first piece of information we might get is a tracklist, and worst case scenario lame song titles turn out to be an indicator for actual lame songs once we hear them. I remain positive though.

[Nick]

i'm more concerned about the actual songs than whatever silly names they might have

This. Every song could be called dick farts for all I care.

[Phantoon]

Sure

[Josh]

I just hope the tracklist isn't like:
Typhooned

this one made me bust out laughing

[arborist shrub tarkington]

maddened