This show was the only one billed for Italy as part of the Summoning Thunder tour
which has been butchering its way around Europe for the last 10 days. With a bill
comprised of 4 bands covering very diverse genres it was an eager if slightly small number who turned out for the occasion.

Blistering their way into set opener ‘Silent Divide’ ANTERIOR are doing their upmost
to upstage the bigger bands on this bill and are making light work of it. They shred
their way through the set playing tracks from their debut album ‘This Age Of Silence’
with guitar wizardry being thrown back and for between both guitarists and a fearsome
group of windmillers going nuts at every opportunity.

They have the crowd well and truly salivating when the time comes for NYHC band
TOO PURE TO DIE to bring the noise. They throwdown some beefy, stomping
songs from the same school as bands like Bury Your Dead and The Acacia Strain and with
a very gymnastic and bonecrushing set played out it’s a shame the crowds response wasn’t
a little better.

Next up are prog/stoner/hardcore/southern metal kings A LIFE ONCE LOST with a barefoot Bob Meadows
up front looking like jesus in a tye-dye they lay it down heavy and relentless.
They drop tracks from newest album ‘Iron Gag’to great effect but still manage to bulldoze
the crowd with classics like ‘Vulture’ and ‘Hunter’raising the gathered into a ruckus ready
for the almighty Himsa.

They’ve been around this neck of the woods before and it shows as they storm their way through
everything from classics to new numbers from ‘Summoning Thunder’.They’ve got it all going on tonight
from wardrobe malfunctions to guitar solo beer swilling and even a bass player jumping onto the sofa
sidetsage to catch his breath before tearing back to centre stage to join the fray. With songs
like ‘Big Timber’ dragging everyone into the pit and singer John switching roles with photographers
it’s a laugh a minute.They try to finish tonight on newest album title track Summoning Thunder but the
crowd wants more so they return to the stage and finally disembowel everyone with