Exhumed and Beyond Creation in Mexico: a balance between technique and brutality

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Photos by Alfredo Alvarado

Forum Inde rocks It hosted a great event with two giant exponents of the death metal. Each one with its very particular style, but having as a coincidence a beastly dedication and a power that made the walls of the premises shake, people went to the call, making an appointment early to enjoy the opening acts of the national bands Genetic Disease and Vulgar Adiction, both very well received and with a great performance in their presentation. Once this part of the show is over and with a large capacity in the venue, we were ready to receive the first star band of the night.

Beyond creation and virtuosity

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Beyond Creation takes the stage and immediately the place shows off its best entrance with all the people who applaud and cheer the beginning of the presentation with “Entre suffrage et mirage”. Your death metal technical and experimental has people hypnotized and celebrating each note as we can see in “Surface’s Echoes”. Are you having fun? question Simon Girard to the microphone and before the positive response, he attacks with “Ethereal Kingdom” and "Algorythm”.

After a brief interlude the band resumes the show with “In Adversity” and “The Inversion”, while the 4 members shake their heads moving their long hair from one side to the other. Beyond Creation handles a level of technique and virtuosity IMG 0627supreme that it is necessary to recognize, and that it has positioned them in a short time as a benchmark band in the most experimental and progressive metal; however, when he sets his mind to it, he also knows how to step on the accelerator and unleash the slam on the track. While they were playing songs like “Binomial Structrures”, “The Afterlife” and “Earthborn Evolution”, Canadians did not stop thanking people for their support and it is not for less: I dare say the vast majority of the attendees were fans of them. “¿Quieren un poco de lo viejo?” proposes Girard before interpreting “Coexistence” from their 2011 debut album “The Aura”, and please his older followers. Beyond Creation acaba su presentación con “Omnipresent Perception” which opens a good circle pit in the middle of the track, but in the end he decides to go back and give away “Fundamental Process” con la que ahora si se van entre aplausos y un enorme reconocimiento a su talento. Hay que decir que terminado el acto de los canadienses el foro luce una entrada menor a la inicial, lo que es señal de que en efecto y como sospechábamos muchos pagaron su boleto solo por verlos a ellos. Pero los que nos quedamos estamos ansiosos porque sabemos la hora sangrienta y de la masacre se acerca…

Death, mutilation and a lot of metal

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The blanket that adorns the stage has changed and now the letters of Exhumed. The lights go out and we hear the theme of the Mexican series in the ambient sound “El Chavo”, para que cuando la banda hace su entrada se nos “chispoteé” la “garrotera” y empecemos a repartir golpes y empujones desde el principio. “Decrepit Crescendo”, “Necromaniac” y “Coins Upon the Eyes” are a sample of those who will wait for us all night with riffs pounding and a guttural power that is a delight for those of us who enjoy the most extreme and vomiting rhythms; what is verified when the gate of the mansion of pain creaks open to our eyes, so that we take our room in the house of pain with “In My Human Slaughterhouse”.

IMG 0883Exhumed In addition to the musical, he also likes to use the performance to make his performance much more versatile and enjoyable, which is evident when the Dr. Butcher hace su aparición con su traje quirúrgico manchado de sangre y blandiendo una sierra eléctrica al estilo “The Texas Massacre“, antes de que la banda toque “Limb For Limb”, sin duda un tema mucho mas cercano al grind that at death metal. “Necrocracy” and “Night Work” siguen incitando a la gente a los golpes y los empujones, y lo mismo la gente es lanzada por las catapultas humanas hacia la barrera en “Distorted & Twisted to Form” and “Casketkrusher”, what a spinning in the moshpit as you shake your head to the rhythm of Slaughtercult” and "All Guts, No Glory”. As if this were not enough, the auction with “As Hammer To Anvil” It is as its name indicates a heavy blow to our necks that keeps the adrenaline to the fullest, and it is also where the band, despite being American, apologizes for Donald trump, saying fuck off.

“Vamos a tocar ahora algo de 1995” he announces with his raspy voice Matt Harvey, y en el sonido ambiental una grabación que parece un disco rayado empieza a repetir una y otra vez la misma palabra: “Torso”. That is the warning for us to prepare for this song, which in less than a minute and a half in duration is an ode to the dismemberment and sick speed of the singer's guitar strings, along with those of Sebastian Phillips on the other lyre, who at the end of this song shines with a solo from his instrument that is highly applauded. Sadly, the already lowered audience decreases a little more since the closing time of the subway is approaching and many fans prefer to miss the rest of the show rather than lose public transport. A pity because those of us who stay continue to enjoy the extreme rhythms with “Forged In Fire”, in which Dr. Butcher It makes the guitar sparkle when played with a handsaw. “Waxwork” y “Death Revenge” they keep the slam and spirits on fire, and people run and jump from one side to the other in the now wider space available in the middle of the track while the musicians thank at the end of the song the delivery with their palms in the air all up to the stage . With “Deadest Of The Dead” and “Matter Of Splatter”, the band decides to say goodbye momentarily.

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The scream of “oe oe oe” stays alive on the forum and Exhumed he does not make himself beg for long and returns to the stage to give us a couple of other songs. Beginning with “Defenders Of The Grave” in the first instance, but giving us a gold closure with “Open The Abscess” with everything and a snippet intermediate version death metal de la canción “Detroit Rock City” original from Kiss. All decked out with the latest appearance of the Dr. Butcher who holds in his hand a severed head that splashes blood to the fans closest to the barrier. In this song the band gives their all in power and bestiality above the stage, while below everything is a party when Dr. Butcher he throws himself into the people and is carried up in the arms of the people from one side to the other.

This is how this great night of death metal, with two very different proposals and very disparate approaches, but that leave us as a summary that very much in its own way; so much Beyond Creation how Exhumed They are power and guarantee on stage, as well as bands of a marked simplicity with members of both groups going out to live and take photos with the fans at the end of such a good event.

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