From The Skies was laying it down with a fierce brutality as
I made my way into the Montage Music Hall Saturday night. I’m not the biggest
metal fan — I do like it, though — but the sound fit my mood perfectly:
cold and pissed. The music blasted out and up thick and angry to about 50
hardcore fans gathered around the stage as if it were a baggage carousel at the
airport.
Headliner Aggressive Betty writes great, straight-ahead
metal tunes (the band has been doing so for a dozen or so years) and delivers
them unrelentingly. But the mix on stage Saturday was a little thin. I think that
happens when the guitars are so loud that the soundman can’t feed them through
the P.A. I think the trick is to turn it down so you can ultimately turn it up.
At least I got to see a woman in her 60s (I’m assuming)
head-banging front and center. My mom never headbanged at any
of my shows.
This article appears in Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2014.
