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The Obsessed
The Obsessed, Howling Big
The Obsessed, Howling Big @ Brooklyn Meadows, NYC, April 12, 2024,
Apr 26, 2024
Pictures by Matthew Berlyant
Internet Unique
It’s not typically {that a} present feels completely excellent, nevertheless it was such an event on this nice evening in Brooklyn. I relished the possibility to see veteran DC space doom/stoner metallic legends The Obsessed and as a substitute what I bought was even higher. Not solely was there an important Obsessed set, however I additionally found an important new (to me) band as nicely. I’m getting just a little forward of myself, although. Supporting the lately launched the wonderful Gilded Sorrow, their first album since 2017 and solely their fifth general in an over forty(!) 12 months profession, they performed a stomping, heavy set for an hour with materials spanning their complete profession. The final two albums (together with 2017’s additionally glorious Sacred) and 1994’s The Church Inside (their solely album on a serious label) had been hit the toughest, however no Obsessed set might be full with their first EP’s “Sodden Jackal” (the colloquial namesake of mentioned EP, although it was later re-recorded for Sacred) and older materials like “The Method She Fly.” For Gilded Sorrow’s “Stoned Again to the Bomb Age,” singer/guitarist Scott “Wino” Weinrich known as out warmongers and others, alluding to present occasions very a lot on our collective minds. In addition to the crushing energy of their set, one other cool factor is that Weinrich and the remainder of the band (together with new guitarist Jason Taylor) began establishing on stage proper after the openers, thus foregoing any pretense or rock star fashion build-up and including a communal factor to the proceedings, thus cementing or on the very least alluding to the very punk-like angle of separation between viewers and performer. And each bands and the opposite followers couldn’t have been nicer. I knew just one individual there (an web buddy who I acknowledged and met in individual for the primary time), however by the tip of the evening, it felt like I used to be a part of the group.
What made the present even higher was being blown away by the unbelievable Howling Big, a Nashville-based doom/stoner band who had been The Obsessed’s primary help up by means of this, the final evening of the tour. Calling them merely a doom/stoner band does them a little bit of a disservice, although, as their unbelievable concord vocals reminded this author of a minimum of Alice in Chains, but at different instances they had been as heavy as your common dying metallic band. It’s fairly a trick, however on this case, they’ve mastered all of those types and created their very own. I wasn’t acquainted with their materials earlier than the present, however they mentioned they had been enjoying their good new album Glass Future in full. Forty-five minutes later, I’d discovered a brand new favourite trendy band on this style. Wow!
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