October 8, 2008 Salt Lake City
Burt's Tiki Lounge
Zodiac beckoning the spirits of impending madness that fuel this band, w/a black-bladed boot knife poised to slice his own throat
Lord Dying providing a breakneck assault from his axe of evil
Ricky The Gorepig strangling his bass in a blackened fury
Tony at his non-euclidian drumkit inciting frenzied chaos
The Zodiac's hate is all too real. This is not posturing, it is sonic assault--the true voice of the heathen
The bloodletting is real as well. You can see the boot knife hilt jutting out of his pocket. Zodiac used it to slice open his forehead and cheek at first. Then he sliced a wide open cut on the inside of his forearm a quarter inch deep. The blood began flowing freely and when he whipped his head back, droplets flung out and spattered me in the audience.
The music itself was a torrential outpouring of pure bestial hatred and rage, shifting from sporadic blastbeats punctuating an evermorphing guitar and bass attack that ranged from sinister oldschool blackmetal to an evil hybrid of death-thrash.
Thus ends another helter skelter performance of sonic annihilation from Iconoclast Contra, Salt Lake's own metal underground voice of the heathen.
Lord Dying providing a breakneck assault from his axe of evil
Ricky The Gorepig strangling his bass in a blackened fury
Tony at his non-euclidian drumkit inciting frenzied chaos
The Zodiac's hate is all too real. This is not posturing, it is sonic assault--the true voice of the heathen
The bloodletting is real as well. You can see the boot knife hilt jutting out of his pocket. Zodiac used it to slice open his forehead and cheek at first. Then he sliced a wide open cut on the inside of his forearm a quarter inch deep. The blood began flowing freely and when he whipped his head back, droplets flung out and spattered me in the audience.
The music itself was a torrential outpouring of pure bestial hatred and rage, shifting from sporadic blastbeats punctuating an evermorphing guitar and bass attack that ranged from sinister oldschool blackmetal to an evil hybrid of death-thrash.
Thus ends another helter skelter performance of sonic annihilation from Iconoclast Contra, Salt Lake's own metal underground voice of the heathen.
Witchhaven from California never showed up. They missed out on the real deal over here. There were no punks at Burt's that night, nor were there any regulars. Just us metalheads got to enjoy a devastating performance from my friends Anthony, LD, Tony, and Ricky. Anthony and LD hail from the ashes of Ibex Throne and are also currently active in Gravecode Nebula; Tony plays guitar in The Obliterate Plague and was formerly in Taught By Birds and Anima Nera. Ricky is from the goregrind band Devoured Alive.
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