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A STELLAR performance by Angus Khan on Friday night!! These guys are clearly experienced performers, the set was just as exciting visually as aurally. There's really nothing better than their brand of good old hard rock mixed with a just the right touch of punk and metal, played heavy on the guitar and accompanied by a bubble machine shooting soapy goodness all over the stage and crowd.

Then Warship took me by surprise by being COMPLETELY AWESOME. I love From Autumn to Ashes so my sadness over their break-up led to skepticism about their former members' new project, but I am now enthusiastically converted. Their bio claims that "it’s hard to imagine a sound even heavier and more musically challenging than that of Long Island metalcore innovators From Autumn To Ashes, until you hear Warship, the crushing new project by FATA members Francis Mark and Rob Lauritsen.." - I could not have said it better myself, so I'm not going to try to. Their set was incredibly powerful and dually impressive seeing as Mark belted out all the vocals while playing drums, which isn't too common and just can't be easy. If you haven't checked them out yet, go to Warship's myspace page now!!

Last but not least, the weird but ever-so-entertaining Goblin Cock. I'd give them bonus points just for playing in those forboding wizard robes, but would you really expect anything less? These guys have stage names like Lord Phallus and Loki Sinjuggler, and wrote the liner notes to their album in runes. That being said, they play some pretty mean doom metal, proving that frontman Rob Crow (of Pinback, and about 20 other lesser-known bands) may be even more versatile than we give him credit for.

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See you soon!
-Ella Devine