Buried Future at Electric Earth
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The sledgehammer brutality of bands like Death, Cannibal Corpse, and Suffocation is no longer reserved for the guy who hangs out at Guitar Center. Unadulterated death metal, thank evilness, is finally in vogue. On Friday night, a horde of teenagers packed into the Electric Earth Coffeehouse to celebrate what was supposed to be the CD-release party for Madison death-metal band Buried Future. Too bad there weren’t any actual CDs.
“I really want to send my thanks to UPS for not delivering our fucking CDs on time," joked vocalist David Labedz. Undeterred, the quintet plowed forward with a set that drew mostly for the still soon-to-be-released Symphony Of Unnecessary Surgery. The band opened with “Tertiary Thrust,” which Labedz insisted was about the economy. (We'll take him at his word, because his growls were indecipherable.) The machine-gun riffs of Bobby De La O and Jesse Hendrix crashed violently into the blasting rhythmic double-knots of drummer Phil Harrelson and bassist Andy Knutson.
Most impressive was the onslaught of uber-technical guitar solos from De La O, whose fingers were a blur of sweeping, tapping, and shredding. After a ridiculous drum solo from Harrelson, Buried Future sent the few kids remaining in the room into chaos with the brutal set-closer “Vivesection,” which was the sonic equivalent to Morbid Angel being tortured with a jackhammer.
The show opened with a blistering set from Madison metal veterans Dissent And Revolt, whose spastic, hardcore-infused death metal whipped the audience into a moshing frenzy. After Dissent And Revolt closed with a math-like sludge of “Dripping From Our Tongues,” Minneapolis’ Iron Thrones took the stage, pushing hushed melodic passages into a blitzkrieg of broodingly melodic riffing and fuzzed-out bass textures. Unfortunately, Iron Thrones vocalist Adam Clemans was sick and couldn’t make it, but that didn’t stop the remaining three members from ripping the room apart with their epic metal-songwriting. The tightly stitched rhythm section of bassist Curtis Parker and drummer Peter Clarke locked tightly into the enviably diverse guitar-work of Steven Henningsgard. The set closed with a 12-minute, doom-fueled opus entitled “Cover Of Smoke,” hitting the audience with a final, syncopated punch in the gut.
