2009年 Dec 22日 Tuesday, 14:44

Mon 21 Dec – Every Time I Die, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

Nobody would suspect that in a little venue called The Borderline tucked away off Manette Street near Soho would be host to probably one of the most intense nights of December. The last night of their UK Tour, Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster and Every Time I Die tear the place to shreds.
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Curiously, there were only two bands on show here: The already famous Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster supporting the very very famous Every Time I Die. It had turned into a somewhat battle of the beards, with Maylene's Touring Vocalist Schuylar Croom filling in for Dallas Taylor sporting a huge black frizzle and ETID's Keith Buckley wearing a nice tame stubble-fest. Beards aside, both MATSOD and ETID did a very good job, Maylene heats the crowd up with their blend of southern, hill-billy rock and metal, thrashing the crowds round with most anticipated tunes such as Darkest Of Kin and the new-fangled Listen Close. By the time MATSOD had finished, everyone was all ready for Every Time I Die, coming in with the opener Roman Holiday for their new album New Junk Aesthetic, then blasting into crowd favourites from the likes of Gutter Phenomenon's Apocalypse Now And Then and The New Black to the aforementioned new album's Who Invited The Russian Soldier?. Ending at about 10ish and starting at 8, the band figured it was way too early to call it a night and got on stage for an encore to play must-plays Wanderlust and fan favourite Kill The Music.

5/5
Bodies flying everywhere, dancefloor filled with stompers, ETID certainly knew how to bring the party to town.

EDIT: Thanks andiemiasma for pointing out that it wasn't in fact Dallas Taylor on vocals, it was indeed Schuylar Croom from He Is Legend. Heh, shows how much I pay attention to the finer details…