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Deadlock concert

Last week I had the fortuity to catch Deadlock live, playing with another German band called Neaera. All the bands I’ve seen here thus far have been major international metal bands hailing from elsewhere in the world (wait, a single exception: Caliban). The types of metal I listen to aren’t very well represented in Germany, where metalcore reigns supreme (case in point: Caliban).

Deadlock, on the other hand, are straight up melodic death metal, though they do tend to lean on metalcore-inspired breakdowns and open string riffing. But whatever, they’re great, and it was nice to actually hear a vocalist yell “Danke schön!” to the crowd at the end of a song.

As good as the show was, it definitely had its downsides. The band is very young. They’ve only one CD to their name, meaning that their set consisted entirely of songs from a single album, just mixed up in order. Thank god for the fresh order, at least. But this is obviously their first major tour, as the band members were very visibly tired.

The female vocalist would waver out of tune every now and then, her voice at times noticeably ragged. I’m sure other than their studio time, she’s never sung this much in her life. She’s also sore from being on stage, as she kept favoring her neck, certainly from all the headbanging she’s been doing.

So as not to sound like I fell in love with the girl, I’ll now mention another band member: the lead guitarist. He played his sweaty heart out, but had to several times break away from a band-wide headbanging session in order to concentrate on his playing. Even then, he still messed up the descending pull-off riff in the solo to We All Shall Bleed, which I’m happy to say I got a video of.

Overall it was awesome to see some German bands kick ass in Germany, with German fans going nuts. The male vocalist even gave the mic to the crowd to let them open up We All Shall Bleed with the “Come on motherfuckers!” the song starts with.

There are also a few pictures up from that night, but I didn’t take very many. I was pretty pleased with the video

External link to the video here.