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Wishyouweredead:

Another brutal dutch act which I never have heard of before and I’m glad I did tonight! The music had extremely fast grindcore parts and was variegated with superb mosh parts. I found some references to bands like Despised Icon and Ion Dissonance but with an own sound, so I really would like to see this band again. I was quite impressed!

Nadat we de avond hadden opgewarmd was het de beurt aan Wishyouweredead!!
Overduidelijk hadden we het te maken met ervarener spelers!
Ze speelden naar mijn mening Death/Metalcore met Doommetal elementen. Geweldig!!
Uiteraard was het hard, heftig en snel. Maar je kon zo goed op adem komen bij de rustigere stukjes!
Dus het publiek was niet te moe halverwege hun optreden als ze 220 BPM speelden.
Ja, ik zou zeggen dit is 1 van de betere moshbands! Ik was zelf even niet vol 100% aan het Moshen en bangen, ik was nogal moe van het rocken on stage.
Maar als ik dat niet was, had ik zeker uit m'n dak gegaan

On a weary winter night I went off to Middelburg, to a small pub where a couple of bands were intended to play. Yet, when we arrived (rather early, strange enough) we were told Cliteater wouldn’t show up because they were stuck in the massive snowfall and returned home, mission unaccomplished. Kutschurft were to arrive later that evening as they were heading to a snowy Zeeland, so at the beginning of the evening only Wishyouweredead were present. At some point of the evening it became clear that only the pretty local Wishyouweredead were able to play their set tonight as even Kutschurft decided to return home, at least their drummer did, the others stayed at a hotel in Middelburg that night. A sad story of an aggressive nature ruining an evening of grindcore, hehehe…

So, it was only Wishyouweredead that was able to present their hulking kind of grindcore, I have seen them one time before already in Goes on the Vrijbuiter Festival, and on that big stage in a rather empty venue it was hard to get the crowd going. At this occasion it was clear from the beginning that they wouldn’t have any problems with the audience in Middelburg. Despite how small this pub was, the crowd seemed to be pleased at the sheer violence by these guys from Vlissingen and Bergen Op Zoom, massive headbanging and moshing was the result. The band played quite some stuff from their latest demo (a review will appear as soon as possible on Vampire-Magazine). Still their music can be described as a mixture between Pig Destroyer, Rotten Sound and Bolt Thrower, which is still a very effective cocktail of brutality. In the wait for Kutschurft they decided to play some extra songs, though, they played all of their songs already, so we got a few songs for the second time. Maybe a bit unnecessary, yet a nice filling of the evening in our wait for the last band to show up, who in the end, didn’t. So a rather disappointing, yet understandable, end of the evening. Later on the news I heard that this was the worst case of heavy traffic ever in the Netherlands, with over 800 kilometers of traffic jam, so, Cliteater and Kutschurft are forgiven, see you next time!

WishYouWereDead. Marked as 'heavy rock' this was the understatement of the evening, this was full blasting death grind of a pretty decent quality. Mostly pounding in mid tempo with low but grooving riffs and maniacal vocals. I already had my doubts with the 'heavy rock'-label as soon as I saw three guys building up their gear wearing a Rotten Sound, Bolt Thrower and Pig Destroyer shirt. Funny enough these are the bands where they found themselves hanging in between. Having the deadly groove of Bolt Thrower, the fast drums of (the latest) Rotten Sound and the insane vocals of Pig Destroyer. This seemingly was a little too heavy for most of the audience, for most of the people fled to the café-area of the venue. Still, I was really able to enjoy this sheer violence. Though I would try to track down an interested bassist to back up the grooves and to fill up the empty spots in the music every now and then.