Last night I had the pleasure of going to a Monstrosity headlined show. I only got to stick around for about 5 songs of Monstrosity but the entire show was great. Opening the show was Bloodsoaked along with Morose Vitality, Dreaming Dead and Torn The Fuck Apart. I’ve seen Bloodsoaked and Morose Vitality play once before. Bloodsoaked put on a cool show as usual. Morose Vitality sounds so much better in concert and their singer, Dave, said that they are planning a full production full length album to follow up their last album Black Dawn of A Dead Planet. Black Dawn was recorded live in studio and honestly it doesn’t sound all that great and they know it. Hopefully this time around they’ll be able to shine a little better.

The band I was rather surprised by and became an instant fan of was Dreaming Dead. Dreaming Dead consists of Elizabeth Elliot, who sings and plays lead guitar. You have Samantha Perez who play rhythm, Mike Caffell on drums and Juan Ramirez on bass. Dreaming Dead is one of those bands that would best be described as blackened death metal with some thrash overtones and a lot of melody. Elizabeth stands at about 4′11″ and plays the shit out of a nice Fernandes flying V similar to Mike Amott’s ESP Tyrant. She does a mixture of low and higer pitched vocals sort of like Angela Gassow. These guys put on a great show and if you get a chance, check out their new album Within One. The other bands were great too. I’ll have more on that soon, with pictures. until, check out the songs on their Myspace, particularly, Manslaughter.