VEIN
CLUB DADA
DALLAS, TEXAS
JULY 09, 2018
DALLAS, TEXAS
JULY 09, 2018
I should know better than to think that just because a thunderstorm rolls into Dallas at 6:00 PM, means cooler temperatures. I mean, it is Texas afterall, right? Walking down the street to Club Dada for the Code Orange - The New Reality Tour featuring Vein, Twisted Tongues, and Show Me The Body, I immediately regretted wearing my rainboots and threads that on any other day, would protect me from being cold and wet. There’s one thing I loathe even more than being cold and wet; it’s being outside where the sensation to chew up the air you’re breathing in before it goes into your lungs is real. Or where your entire body pees sweat for the sole fact that the thick, warm air soup surrounding you, forces out the water from your body to remain regulated. Despite my uncomfortability, I was more than willing to suffer so that I could finally see what all of the fuss was about with Massachusetts natives, Vein.
Now, the event on Club Dada’s Facebook event said doors were at 8PM, however when I got there around 7:45, a band was already playing. Y’all there is nothing that ticks me off more than when events on social media are wrong. What if I wanted to see the openers? What if I were covering the band or bands that played before the time on the event? Ugh! Luckily, I didn’t miss any of Vein’s set or there would have been a ruckus at the entrance, believe me.
Alright, I knew this show was going to bring it, I mean how could it not? I guess I’m always a little amazed or thrown for a loop when all hell breaks out in a pit in front of the stage. I mean everyone’s just standing upright, like regular humans and then all of a sudden there’s a melee of fast-moving appendages, flailing fists windmilling in a circle and marching like ants towards a fried chicken picnic.
Vein soundchecked as people started filling in the gaps on the floor in front of the stage and then that moment happened. The vacuum affect moment...is what I like to think of it as. Because right before some bands play - not all, mind you - but a few, that brief moment right before the band starts, where the audience is unaware that the note on the guitar is about to be plunked. And when it starts, the air is sucked out for a fragment of a second and then shoved back in with this force that creates a violent, physical reaction in the audience and immediately evokes a response unlike any other.
That happened last night. And through Vein’s entire set, the energy that stirred up the atmosphere in the clouds overhead, did the same inside Club Dada. Sweat, screams, movement, and energy fueled from Vein’s music pounded everyone watching them. Like a swarm of insidious baby vampires might react to a butcher, these fuckers flung themselves off the stage landing on the crowd or the concrete.
Impressively Vein takes the magnanimous pieces of hardcore and hard metalcore and cuts them out from the patterns of metal with surgical precision. These new pieces are stapled to the lows in Anthony and Jeremy's harmonious and gut wrenching vocal growls. This intentional hum of thrashing riffs are sewn up along with Jon’s chakra-shaking bass tone that pieced together becomes something harrowingly new. Song after song in their set is like being punched by Gandhi.
At the show last night hearing Josh and Jeremy’s guitars colliding with Anthony’s vocals, as goosebumps possessed my whole being, I realized something amazing; these glorious grinds from this spirited five-piece just carved out and created a new marker in the evolution of hardcore’s DNA that will eventually change the way music of this genre is written forever.
This my Lovelies, is like watching the Big Bang from a barker lounger while drifting in space. And as you stare at this rift, this Bang that is creating all kinds of things around you, remember this: moments like these only happen once in a lifetime. You'll probably never see this happen in front of your eyes again. So pay attention and hide and watch.
Vein’s impact on music will literally crease the dark matter and mark it - in 10 years, bands will be compared to Vein and in 20 years, rock journalists like myself will wish they could go back and watch this very thing happen before their eyes. And if they’re lucky, they will have that chance when the next Bang happens. But until it does, let’s count our lucky stars that we witnessed it with Vein.
The band remains on the road with a few more stops. Make sure you go see this tour if it comes into your town! Pinkie swear you will, ok?
You can order their newest release from Closed Casket Activities entitled errorzone by clicking here. And follow the band on social media for all of the news, tour dates, and band updates: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Also, make sure you look out for my review of errorzone on Metal Pulp And Paper or follow me on the Cherri Bird page for all the deets on Vein! You can also find the fun on Instagram and Twitter as well!
Til Next Time - MRML - Cherri
Article Tags: @metalpulpandpaper @veinma @closedcasketactivities #ontour @codeorange @twistedtongues @showmethebod
All images © Cherri Bird Photography 2018 for Metal Pulp And Paper, all rights reserved.
Now, the event on Club Dada’s Facebook event said doors were at 8PM, however when I got there around 7:45, a band was already playing. Y’all there is nothing that ticks me off more than when events on social media are wrong. What if I wanted to see the openers? What if I were covering the band or bands that played before the time on the event? Ugh! Luckily, I didn’t miss any of Vein’s set or there would have been a ruckus at the entrance, believe me.
Alright, I knew this show was going to bring it, I mean how could it not? I guess I’m always a little amazed or thrown for a loop when all hell breaks out in a pit in front of the stage. I mean everyone’s just standing upright, like regular humans and then all of a sudden there’s a melee of fast-moving appendages, flailing fists windmilling in a circle and marching like ants towards a fried chicken picnic.
Vein soundchecked as people started filling in the gaps on the floor in front of the stage and then that moment happened. The vacuum affect moment...is what I like to think of it as. Because right before some bands play - not all, mind you - but a few, that brief moment right before the band starts, where the audience is unaware that the note on the guitar is about to be plunked. And when it starts, the air is sucked out for a fragment of a second and then shoved back in with this force that creates a violent, physical reaction in the audience and immediately evokes a response unlike any other.
That happened last night. And through Vein’s entire set, the energy that stirred up the atmosphere in the clouds overhead, did the same inside Club Dada. Sweat, screams, movement, and energy fueled from Vein’s music pounded everyone watching them. Like a swarm of insidious baby vampires might react to a butcher, these fuckers flung themselves off the stage landing on the crowd or the concrete.
Impressively Vein takes the magnanimous pieces of hardcore and hard metalcore and cuts them out from the patterns of metal with surgical precision. These new pieces are stapled to the lows in Anthony and Jeremy's harmonious and gut wrenching vocal growls. This intentional hum of thrashing riffs are sewn up along with Jon’s chakra-shaking bass tone that pieced together becomes something harrowingly new. Song after song in their set is like being punched by Gandhi.
At the show last night hearing Josh and Jeremy’s guitars colliding with Anthony’s vocals, as goosebumps possessed my whole being, I realized something amazing; these glorious grinds from this spirited five-piece just carved out and created a new marker in the evolution of hardcore’s DNA that will eventually change the way music of this genre is written forever.
This my Lovelies, is like watching the Big Bang from a barker lounger while drifting in space. And as you stare at this rift, this Bang that is creating all kinds of things around you, remember this: moments like these only happen once in a lifetime. You'll probably never see this happen in front of your eyes again. So pay attention and hide and watch.
Vein’s impact on music will literally crease the dark matter and mark it - in 10 years, bands will be compared to Vein and in 20 years, rock journalists like myself will wish they could go back and watch this very thing happen before their eyes. And if they’re lucky, they will have that chance when the next Bang happens. But until it does, let’s count our lucky stars that we witnessed it with Vein.
The band remains on the road with a few more stops. Make sure you go see this tour if it comes into your town! Pinkie swear you will, ok?
You can order their newest release from Closed Casket Activities entitled errorzone by clicking here. And follow the band on social media for all of the news, tour dates, and band updates: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Also, make sure you look out for my review of errorzone on Metal Pulp And Paper or follow me on the Cherri Bird page for all the deets on Vein! You can also find the fun on Instagram and Twitter as well!
Til Next Time - MRML - Cherri
Article Tags: @metalpulpandpaper @veinma @closedcasketactivities #ontour @codeorange @twistedtongues @showmethebod
All images © Cherri Bird Photography 2018 for Metal Pulp And Paper, all rights reserved.