Die No More Album Launch

So, Die No More's album launch was on the 27 at the Brickyard, and me and a couple of mate were lucky enough to get ticket's. Three bands for a fiver was a good enough deal for me, and considering the showcase of talent on display, was more than worth it!

Motherload kicked things off (which was a minute after we got in) in brilliant style! It was the bands first time in Carlisle, and while I felt there was a disappointing turn out for them (roughly 60 or 70 people) we made sure they felt welcome with the rock worlds greatest etiquette, headbanging and forming a three man mosh pit, until one of us ended up with a bruise on our head (amazingly it wasn't me) and then moshing some more!!!

I'd like to use this part of the blog to praise their brilliant bassist, Burl, who was truly into his shit, swishing his hair about and slapping his bass as if it were the last thing he'd do! And for once, you could actually hear the bass, at times being louder than the guitar!

The singer was pretty good on the crowd control side of things too, at one point stopping the song completely and telling us we weren't loud enough, gaining an equal measure of laughs and "Fuck You"'s from the crowd!

Next up we had Seek Solace In Ruin, a band that songs have the 'ability to fuck the listener in the face'. They started things off with their song Arterial Faliure, and it's fair to say that all hell broke lose after that!! A fair bit of space was made for the craziest mosh pit I've been in (and I've been in one on a trampoline). I was literally bouncing off the walls in rhythm to their songs.

Seek Solace's bassist, Nicky Studholme, encouraged the moshing from the stage, signalling to people to get back in, and the whole band helped in organising a wall of death, in which I fell to the ground and really fucked up my knee (it's over a week and the bruise looks worse than when I first got it). That's when you know you've had a good time!!!

There were some intresting moments during the set, such as the two times when Nicky came into the pit, at one point holding his bass out to me so I could lick it. Right at the start of their final song their singer, Joe Fryer, pretty much threw himself down onto the stages floor, fucking up a stage dive, and then lied there for a while as confused fans stopped the mosh pit to see if he was alright. The guys left the stage and then returned to finish the song (essentialy an encore for a support band, which must be an honour), with more crazy moshing erupting!!!

Finaly we had the band everyone had came for, Die No More! There weren't any crazy mosh pits, seeing as everyone was fucked from Seek's Solace's set, but there was a hell of a lot of headbanging. During the first song of their set, we were warned by a member of the Brickyard that we had to stop shacking the rail we were holding onto, in case it came off from the force of our shakes!!

Die No More certainly know how to work the crowd, getting us all to sing along to songs we hadn't heard of and giving shouts of "HEY" in time with certain drum beats. Mind you, the vocals could have done with being turnt up a bit, as the instruments were so loud (note: never turn down the instruments unless you're a pussy)!

Throughout the set singer Marc Farquhar commented on how the crowd were slowly getting warmer, and then he released most of that heat when they played Oblivious as the crowd sang along to the chorus and looked in awe as lead guitarist Kev Smith played the crazy introduction solo. And then Die No More left the stage...
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Only to return to the chant of "ONE MORE SONG" that went right through the crowd. And their final song was the song that will forever be in Die No More's set list, the brilliant Council of War, which has a chorus with the chanted lyric "DIE NO MORE" so you can imagine what the crowd was like at that point!! FUCKING MENTAL!!

Overall a brilliant night. Now, you need to check the bands out!! Motherload's album can be bought here in a special fanpack edition,  SEEK SOLACE IN RUIN have an EP that's avaliable for free download here and Die No More's EP can be streamed here, or bought here and their new album Elected Evil is available worldwide from 3rd November! Keep rocking and I'll be uploading a review of that soon!