Sun 7/31 @ 2PM
Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when that sub-genre of heavy music known as death metal was in its prime, some of us craved earsplitting bills like, for instance, Death, Pestilence and Carcass, to blow away the bits of hair metal cotton candy that got stick in our brains. With its throbbing, hyperspeed beats, dense wall of guitar, vocals once descibred by someone I know as sounding like “a toilet being flushed,” and more-disgusting-than-thou lyrics, it was an antidote to the Bon Jovis, Poisons and Whitesnakes of the era.
Buffalo’s Cannibal Corpse was one of the masters of the style. Album titles like Butchered at Birth and Tomb of the Mutilated, two of their early ’90s classics, tell you all you need to know. (The jacket art reveals still more, but the squeamish might not want to look).
Bassist Alex Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz have kept the band going across the years and even have a new-ish album, 2014’s A Skeletal Domain. The other members have all been around since the ’90s so this isn’t the rhythm section with some new guys — George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher has served as the flushed toilet … er, singer … for over 20 years.
They’ll be headlining one of those marathon shows we used to love back in the day, with Nile, After the Burial, Suffocation, Carnifex, Revocation, Krisiun and Slaughter to Prevail joining them at the Agora Theater for a show that starts mid-afternoon and goes until the week hours. If you recall wistfully those band jam Tuesdays at the old Flash’s in Kamms Corners where 15-year-olds did their best Cannibal Corpse imitations — heck, if you WERE one of those 15-year-olds —then you might want to check this one out. Tickets are $26 in advance, $30 at the door.
Cleveland, OH 44103