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Clutch / The Sword / Taint
@ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
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| It's not very often I get to go to a gig where I want to see all of the bands playing. There's nearly always some no-hoper locals or some inappropriately off-genre misfits to make you wish real life had a fast forward button. Hey, that's a good idea. That and a Real Life Google. I've lost my keys. |
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Due to higher than expected demand for tickets, this gig was moved from Rock City's Basement to the nearby Rescue Rooms. Sadly though, the promoters' bizarre policy of making half the audience miss most of the first act still carried through, so we only caught the closing part of Taint's set (we really need to set up a petition to do something about this). Either way, this time in particular it sucked the big one — Wales' heaviest were on fine form, gleefully smearing sludgy slabs of steaming metal pie in our faces. Any metal fan who has not heard their sole LP The Ruin of Nová Roma could spend their money on far worse.
If you read my reviews on here regularly, you may discover I appreciate the art of the riff above most other things. The Sword's debut album Age Of Winters demonstrated such an aptitude for this, I nominated it my Number One album of 2006. Indeed, in a live setting, this is the one thing that carries through the most. Every single moment of every Sword song has me banging my head along, and although the crowd seemed initially wary, they're all soon joining in (perhaps the playing of "Freya", featured in Guitar Hero II, had something to do with this...). A thoroughly enjoyable set, brought down by three things:
1) I still have no idea what vocalist J.D. Cronise is banging on about
2) They didn't play "Iron Swan". Bastards.
3) They were only on for about 20 minutes. Rubbish!
Anyway, if there's one band I would allow to force other people off early, it's Clutch. Since we last met them with Corrosion of Conformity, Clutch have released From Beale Street to Oblivion, a further exploration of the blues aspect of their sound. True to this, the majority of the set has a more laid back feel compared to previous years, but this is anything but detrimental. I managed to get a great vantage point in the increasingly sweaty Rescue Rooms, giving me a heightened appreciation of, for example, Mick Schauer's organ playing. The groovy organ, along with some seemingly random fat guy coming and wailing on a harmonica, really adds a new dimension to Clutch's sound. Even so, at the end of the day Clutch have all the aspects of the greats of hard rock - riffs, grooves, tunes, fat sweaty men ripping into their instruments, and a hugely charismatic guy with a beard at the front of it all. Clutch-me-do! |
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MatC
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08/05/07 | Reply
I was at the london leg of this one. We got an extra band: Witchcraft, scandanavia's most averagest Black Sabbath ripoffs. The chap from The Sword has the world's dudest guitar.
The fat harmonica man in Clutch was the singer from Five Horse Johnson...
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