A very severe thunderstorm invited the around 200 fans quite early into the Kulturfabrik and soon the atmosphere was quite tropical in the hall. Maybe not the best requirement for a brutal death metal evening but nevertheless Resurrected started quite well. The band had almost a home match because they come from Krefelds neighbor town Duisburg and so they had a strong support with them that evening. That day they celebrated more or less their 30th anniversary (they already released 7 full-length albums) and introduced their new guitar player Christoph, who did their first gig with them. Although their style of brutal death metal isn't too much my cup of tea, they did a really good job. Playing some sort of death metal like Suffocation or Cannibal Corpse (whom I both really adore) they often incorporated more brutal death metal elements (especially the drumming) into their songs. Don't get me wrong, this isn't bad but at least for me after three songs a little bit too monotonous. But most of the guys in front of the stage liked it and that's the major thing!

Setlist: New Reign Rising / Urge To Murder / Bewareness Of Truth / Mutated Generation / The Overkill To Dwell / Human Killing Spree / Echoes Of Creation / Hidden By Disguise / Hellcome / Butchered In Excrement

After a short break chief Satanist Glen Benton and his comrades entered the stage. Having a great new album (with a shitty cover) on board they only played two songs from that. If you have ever seen Deicide you know that they actually don't live from the show but from their music. Glen probably had reached his daily number of steps already since he didn't move too much. But Kevin and Taylor, who obviously is already fully integrated into the band since he came in last year, did a fantastic guitar work and not to mention Steve's drumming. He was more the calm anchor, as always. And he was a little bit grumpy, too. When a guy yelled that they should play a fast song now, he called that guy a moron and said that he would cut off three songs off the setlist now and nobody would care because he would still be paid. I really had to laugh hard then. But apart from that the sound was cool and the choice of songs, too although I missed 'Dead But Dreaming'. Only the light was a little bit too reddish so that it was quite hard to make good pics from that show. Closing with 'Homage For Satan' that evening was far too soon over.

Setlist: When Satan Rules His World / Carnage In The Temple Of The Damned / Bury The Cross / Behead The Prophet / Once Upon The Cross / From Unknown Heights / Sacrificial Suicide / Satan Spawn / In Hell I Burn / They Are The Children Of The Underworld / Sever The Tongue / Scars Of The Crucifix / Dead By Dawn / Homage For Satan