Superjoint Ritual / DevilDriver

[StabMaster Arson]

Last night I saw these these bands at the Vogue in Indy. This is a REAL hardcore show. If you're into this kind of music and haven't heard either of these bands yet, you need to.

First there was a local band called Devil to Pay... they were pretty good if you kept in mind that they were local. A lot of the people there seemed to dig them a lot though.

Next, DevilDriver kicked every ass in the place individually... twice. They are fucking amazing. I wasn't too excited about them because I had only heard one song by them and it's Dez Fafara's (Coal Chamber) side/new project... not a big fan. They changed my mind midway through the first song. Download 'I Could Care Less', 'What Does It Take', or 'I Dreamed I Died'.

Time for Superjoint, Right? No, they decide that it would be good form to make the entire crowd to wait over a half hour before they come in.
Once they do come to the stage, their lead singer, Phil Anselmo, was so fucked up he couldn't finish a sentence. He told the crowd that they wanted to share the stage and to feel free to come up, then he punched a couple guys throughout the show. He introduced wrong songs and said that they were on the wrong albums. He tried to get the band to play a couple songs twice. Then, he started sitting down on the stage between songs, no talking, nothing, just sitting there for a few minutes at a time.
The band kicked ass, they just need to get rid of their frontman. I talked to their drummer after the show and he actually said that after last night Phil would be lucky to not get booted after the tour. The entire band minus Phil hung out after the show and were all really cool... their bassist remembered me from another show and bought a round of shots. All in all, a good time, but Phil's a douche.

Other bands the members of Superjoint ritual have been in:
Phil Anselmo: Pantera, Down, Christ Inversion, Necrophagia, Viking Crown, Wurdulak, Southern Isolation
Jimmy Bower: Down, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Assjack, Deride
Hank III: the Damn Band, Assjack, two self-titled albums
Joe Fazzio: Stressball, Assjack, Demonseed, Crawlspace, Wurdulak
Kevin Bond: Crawlspace, Crowbar, Demonseed