So, this is going to be the first entry or what.

Last Saturday i saw these to cool bands.

Ideoblast only did cover songs of bands like bad religion, black flag, dead kennedys, kid dynamite, slime and a whole lot of other stuff, but all done with intense, napalm death-like vocals. they were really great.

HMS have the funniest Band Name on earth, as long as you´re speaking german.
But beside their name, they also are the coolest slayer cover band out there, they´re propably even better then the original.
If you should ever have a chance to see them, do it.
I am still south of hessen...

The records say it was 1994/95 (they are not quite sure). I was listening to a compilation record from bitzcore, the first song on it was "animal day" by a band called leatherface.
Although i really liked the song, i was overwhelmed by a flood of brilliant bands on this record (like articles of faith, flag of democracy, poison idea, verbal abuse...).
Nevertheless, i soon started looking for records from this particular band. As they had just split up, the only record that i got was the "live in oslo", which is still the best live record in my collection today, and the reissue of "cherry knowle" on bitzcore.
The years went by and i slowly forgot about the boat.
Then one day in 1999, i was looking for records from a band i had just discovered called hot water music, when i realized they had just put out a split LP with leatherface. Yes, leatherface, they got finally back together and were releasing new songs. Brilliant songs!
Yet, their masterpiece had already been written, and i finally got my hands on it: mush (no, not mosh).
its the perfect record.
Starting with "I want the moon" and "how lonely", then some filler tracks which other bands can only dream of to write, going towards 3 absolute highlights:
not a day goes by => killer track
not superstitious => best song ever written if it wasn´t for a song called
springtime => best song ever written
The rest also includes some amazing songs like "dead industrial atmosphere" or "in the real world".
The record is ending with one of the coolest cover versions: "message in a bottle". A great song and i don´t even have to bear sting singing it.

Now stop reading this bullshit - buy the record!

Frankfurt, Nachtleben 05-06-07

After i convinced a friend of mine, who just got back from a trip to china, to go to the show, we met the guys from antitainment in the front of the venue.
In the nachtleben, cool shows have become really rare over the past few years, although they had some cool ones in the mid of the nineties there like civ, good riddance or strung out.
Second Monday started the evening. I can´t really remember what they were playing, so it can´t have been that bad, as i then certainly would remember.

Antitainment was up next, beeing the local band from frankfurt.
I really liked it, although they played some new titles and omitting some that i really love.
You can check their myspace site to hear some mp3s. It is a mixture of classic punk/hc and very modern sounds including a lot of samples and weird keyboard stuff.
The crowd was pretty lame this time (due to the high prices on beer, i think), and the singer/guitarist dropped his microphone at least 3 times.

Headliner was these arms are snakes. They were advertised as a band having ex-members from botch, wich made me curious. Botch had been an incredible live-band.
These arms are snakes don´t sound like Botch at all, although they really are great musicians. The problem was the singer. He was just a little too active, hectic, rolling on the floor and spitting...
Now what sounds like a great performance was in this case a little too much.
Besides, i really don´t like his singing voice.

After the concert we had to leave pretty fast, as marko had not yet recovered from his china-trip (Which saved a lot of money because of the expensive drinks they offer there).