It is starting to feel like Mount Olympus here in Edmonton with the amount of Greek Metal Gods that have graced our city in the past year, with such bands playing here as FireWind, Rotting Christ, and now Septic Flesh.
Relatively unknown to the mainstream, the group has been an entity in their native Greece since 1990. This semi-veteran level of talent, ability and skill really showed as they opened up for Cradle of Filth and Satyricon Saturday night at the Edmonton Event Center. Showcasing songs from their repertoire including some from their recent classically infused masterpiece album Communion, the depth of which is brought together nicely with the backtrack of an actual eighty piece orchestra they used while recording the album. Add in the ferocious vocal style and stage presence of lead singer/bassist Seth Siro Anton and you had an impressive showing by a band otherwise unknown to North American audiences.
This being the group's first time playing in Edmonton, not to mention doing a cross Canada tour, The Forge had the opportunity to find out what Septic Flesh (SF) thought of our city of champions.
Forge: How do you like being in Edmonton, and touring Canada?
SF: Honestly, it is probably one of the best shows we've had on the tour of North America, when the crowd did the wall of death* it was great!
Forge: You and Rotting Christ are both from Athens, any chance of you two touring together?
SF: Maybe, but not right now, they are great friends of ours, Christos (Guitar/Orchestral) has done some of the orchestral backtrack work on their album. With us still being at a different level than those guys, if we started touring with them, we wouldn't want people to think we got on the tour because we're friends. Someday we will tour, but not now. We are currently planning a tour that would include North America in the near future possibly with Behemoth, but that is still just talk. They are closer to our sound than the bands on this tour, these bands are not that different but they (Behemoth) are much closer.
(*a wall of death, is when the crowd splits and each side left and right come at each other, colliding with one another similar to a mosh pit)
A tour with Septic Flesh and Behemoth would be well received for sure, especially for Edmonton, a city that is constantly overlooked in favour of other cities in the eastern part of Canada or worse yet Calgary, just kidding Calgarians!
Bands like Septic Flesh, and their European counterparts unanimously agree that making the trip across is tough and when the rare tour including them on the bill crosses the pond, it is unfortunate that our city let alone the west gets left out of the party. We, the metal fans, need to show our support by going to these shows and who knows? Maybe we'll have a heavy metal version of the Calgary Stampede right here in our beautiful city of metal er, I mean champions, our own western Canadian version of Wacken.
Until that happens, keep the horns high Edmonton!
For more info about Septic Flesh check them out online@ http://www.septicflesh.net/
Relatively unknown to the mainstream, the group has been an entity in their native Greece since 1990. This semi-veteran level of talent, ability and skill really showed as they opened up for Cradle of Filth and Satyricon Saturday night at the Edmonton Event Center. Showcasing songs from their repertoire including some from their recent classically infused masterpiece album Communion, the depth of which is brought together nicely with the backtrack of an actual eighty piece orchestra they used while recording the album. Add in the ferocious vocal style and stage presence of lead singer/bassist Seth Siro Anton and you had an impressive showing by a band otherwise unknown to North American audiences.
This being the group's first time playing in Edmonton, not to mention doing a cross Canada tour, The Forge had the opportunity to find out what Septic Flesh (SF) thought of our city of champions.
Forge: How do you like being in Edmonton, and touring Canada?
SF: Honestly, it is probably one of the best shows we've had on the tour of North America, when the crowd did the wall of death* it was great!
Forge: You and Rotting Christ are both from Athens, any chance of you two touring together?
SF: Maybe, but not right now, they are great friends of ours, Christos (Guitar/Orchestral) has done some of the orchestral backtrack work on their album. With us still being at a different level than those guys, if we started touring with them, we wouldn't want people to think we got on the tour because we're friends. Someday we will tour, but not now. We are currently planning a tour that would include North America in the near future possibly with Behemoth, but that is still just talk. They are closer to our sound than the bands on this tour, these bands are not that different but they (Behemoth) are much closer.
(*a wall of death, is when the crowd splits and each side left and right come at each other, colliding with one another similar to a mosh pit)
A tour with Septic Flesh and Behemoth would be well received for sure, especially for Edmonton, a city that is constantly overlooked in favour of other cities in the eastern part of Canada or worse yet Calgary, just kidding Calgarians!
Bands like Septic Flesh, and their European counterparts unanimously agree that making the trip across is tough and when the rare tour including them on the bill crosses the pond, it is unfortunate that our city let alone the west gets left out of the party. We, the metal fans, need to show our support by going to these shows and who knows? Maybe we'll have a heavy metal version of the Calgary Stampede right here in our beautiful city of metal er, I mean champions, our own western Canadian version of Wacken.
Until that happens, keep the horns high Edmonton!
For more info about Septic Flesh check them out online@ http://www.septicflesh.net/
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