Ok, to make things perfectly clear, I did not go to this show for Job For a Cowboy. I have seen them before and was not overly impressed. I went for a band called Animosity, who kick ass. Now that we got that out of the way, you can now read on knowing I'm not going to start karate kicking to the Bree Bree.

The entire lineup of the show in order was Annotations of and Autopsy, All Shall Perish, Animosity, Hate Eternal and Job For a Cowboy. I have video of two Animosity songs and an extra treat we were given by All Shall Perish.

To start, there were no local bands opening thank god, because now that The Deep broke up thanks to their drummer joining Arsis (who now recently got replaced in Arsis) the only bands that seem to be playing at The Venue are high school bands. So Annotations of and Autopsy opened. Just as their first song starts I have my hand in the air and the guitarist throws a AoaA jacket into the crowd which gently lands in my hands. (I swear it had nothing to do with the fact I was a foot taller than all the scene kids around me waiting for JFaC) Too bad the jacket is almost too small and the second it gets wet will shrink to the point it will be like Chris Farely wearing David Spades sports jacket...except I'm not a fat man...it's just a little coat. It's free, so I'm not complaining. Anyway, I can't say I have enjoyed Annotations debut album "Before the Throne of Infection" but they can belt it live. I'm sure the scenesters were impressed with the pig squeels. Now what makes it even better is the singer has an awesome British accent.

All Shall Perish, they were supposed to play third, but as everyone noticed as we were piling in, there was no Animosity merch booth, just after their set starts I see Leo Miller the singer of Animosity walk near the stage and talk to some ASP members. We are informed that Animosity had a wheel fall off their trailer and just made it so they had switched spots. I for one was there for the Animosity so if was a huge relief to know my $15 was not spent in vein. Now, I see that something is up with the line-up of ASP, its not the rythm guitarist they are supposed to have. About halfway through the set the singer introduces the live member as Luke Jaeger from none other than Sleep Terror, which had me all sorts of excited. Him along with the lead guitar for All Shall Perish had a little guitar duo in the middle of the set which I caught the last half on video.

Animosity, fucking Animosity. 2nd time I have seen them live, last I saw them was in may just before I was about to take my finals, I had been kicked in the back of the head/neck by the biggest motherfucker at the show and had a hard time holding my neck up for a few days. I enjoyed the show nontheless, this time however, there are more people to form a nice human wall between me and the kids practicing karate. Anyway I love Animosity, their shows deliver. Here I have two barely audible, shakey videos of two songs. One is Holy Shackles from the album Empires and the other is Terrorstorm from their newest album Animal. 

Hate Eternal, honestly, I was expecting more. I like their music and tried to get into their performance as much as possible, but there was too much girl pants wondering what in the hell was being played on stage. Seriously they were all in shock, I kinda wish I had some video of all the kids who are visible in the above Animosity videos just sitting their with mouths open. Anyway, as they were just about to start their set the drummer starts freaking out and stops the whole thing as his laptop falls off it's perch. I could hear him yelling crap at the singer, he is seriously pissed off because someone messed with his stuff. It affected their show, it was weak to say the least.

Job For a Cowboy, seen em before wasn't impressed the first time. Umm, pretty much everyone who is going to read this blog hates JFaC, I honestly just don't care. However I didn't want to stand up front with my arms folded across my chest so I moved my hair around a few times. What else to say about them? Well they played 2 new songs for their album due out next summer I guess. Well the first new song which still goes untitled was heavy as fuck, has no pig squeals and the second sounded like a rehased Knee Deep from their Doom EP minus the pig squeals. Speaking of pigs, the singer has evolved to a ManBearPig because the squeals are pretty much a solid bark. I'll have to alert Al Gore MBP is touring the US. We must all work to stop ManBearPig.