I can imagine some bands who fit perfectly on tour... many bands. But this time, CHANG FFOS and SUMA fit perfect even though you can consider these two bands different.
I think this makes this gig a must see because you will enjoy two ways to understand aggressive music.
If we compare this show with a boxing fight, there is no KO anywhere... but CHANG FFOS wins by little. And they win because of their originality.
Put into a coctail bottle BLACK COBRA's discography together with a bunch of records of FUGAZI and shake energically...
Though their performance is not a blast, what they do is efficient enough to feel blown off.
But it is difficult to centre your attention on something specific but the drummer: he is the soul of the band. He sweats pure energy on his playing. You gotta take into account twisted melodies and continuous changes of rhythm and speed on each song.
Simply awesome and shocking.
SUMA results a bit different. Prepare to enter on a stoner trance atmosphere. They play –for those of you who didn’t tasted this band before- some kinda down-tempo-stoner riffs repeating again and again that wraps you during songs.
Frontman –or may I say “backman” because he positioned himself behind the band- looks like a recently escaped from a psycho-mental asylum because of his acting: he moves heavy imaginary energy balls in the air, moving hands like if he were practicing a kind of oriental relax art, playing slowly with a torch like if he never seen any before and staring to the eyes of each one we were there completely absent, completely outside of the act and rhythm... resulting pretty strange.
But don’t fear him: I talked with him at the beginning of the show and obviously he was a normal guy...
Niiiiiiiiiiiice show.
So DIRE GOSPELS Tour is a MUST SEE, bros: a skillful choice putting both bands together. Don’t miss’em!!!!!!
Check them live and buy their merchandising.
