Live Review : Decapitated + Signs Of The Swarm + Harbinger + Where Oceans Burn @ The Bread Shed, Manchester on April 1st 2022

It seems during the dramatic full stop that was lockdown, we seem to have reassessed our relationship with live music and we have realised that we potentially took it for granted. Three years ago, in those heady pre-covid times, I saw Decapitated in a barely quarter full Academy 3 (the smallest of the Academy venues). Tonight, the Bread Shed, a venue around the same size, is sold out, as have been most of the other shows on their elongated trip around the UK. It is if that hiatus has made us realise what is important, which is to actually get out there and support the bands we profess to love. Touring is the only way that acts make money in this new all-streaming no-purchase world and tonight’s capacity crowd shows that the message of see them or lose them is getting through.

Gig ReviewAuthor : Stewart Lucas2 April 2022The Bread ShedDecapitated, Signs Of The Swarm, Harbinger, Where The Oceans Burn, The Bread Shed, Manchester, 2022, Live Review, Stewart Lucas, Dominika KudłaComment

Live Review : Decapitated + Dyscarnate + Baest @ Academy 3, Manchester on February 12th 2019

Baest are first out of the traps tonight and their name translates from their native Danish as brute which pretty much sums up their very old skool approach to Death Metal. Their heads down lightning fast version of the genre may lack the subtlety and technicality of their touring partners, but for an ageing metal head like me it has a real charm to it.

Gig ReviewAuthor : Stewart Lucas12 February 2019Academy 2Decapitated, Dyscarnate, Baest, Academy 3, Manchester, 2019, Review, Stewart LucasComment