Mindsnare

I saw Mindsnare twice last weekend. Fuck, it's hard to try and find words to describe the Mindsnare experience.  It's like nothing else in the world matters for half an hour. You just get lost inside it. Whether you're trying to wrestle the mic from Matt in a pile on, standing their banging your head to a breakdown or being amazed at how tight a bunch of geriatrics can be haha, it's all there. Bulldozed, Hangover from Hell, Cold, Among Us, In Reach of No Man, Gallows. Every song blows most other bands out of the water with pure metallic hardcore fury. 

It didn't occur to me until after the shows that this could be the last time I see Mindsnare. It's almost painful to think about this as a final tour. I can remember how blown away I was when I first heard Mindsnare around 3 years ago now. I can remember how excited I was when I saw them a couple of months later. I guess that all good things must come to an end someday, but it's hard to think of Australian hardcore without Mindsnare. They always seemed like the one constant. Everyone else breaks up except Mindsnare. 

long live Mindsnare.

Also, the rest of the bands that played ruled. Dropsaw are better than ever. They've gotten a lot heavier and I think it seems to suit them better. I picked up their new album 'Victims or Killers', it's great. Meatlocker were cool, can't really say they're 100% my thing, but they do it well. I like their album/EP/whatever. Suffer Some More were okay. I really don't know how I feel about the band sometimes, sometimes I really like them, other times they bore me a bit. They made a post on their myspace saying they were going to cover a Buried Alive song tonight. They didn't end up doing it. I was a bit bummed. Buried Alive are great. We missed Germhead and Die Go Die at the Gold Coast show, but Third Strike were good. I think they sound really washed up live though. I don't know why, Mindsnare and Dropsaw sounded fine? Overall, it was a great weekend. Probably the best I've had in a longggggg time.