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This
DVD has been out for a long time but I want it to give
it coverage because someone paid for the postage. Plus,
I spent my lunch break yesterday checking it out and
wanted to make sure that wasn’t wasted time. Anyway, for
those who don’t know VOD or Vision of Disorder, well,
they were a hardcore band from Long Island, NY.
Apparently, judging from the fans that get airtime in
this DVD, they had quite the following in their
location. Like at the end of the show, you see lots of
them, rabid and mad, usually sporting crew cuts, some of
them bruised and bleeding, just walking out of the
venue and screaming ‘VOD’, ‘VOD’, then they drop
a lot of F-bombs, which is cool, don’t get me wrong, I
have nothing against coarse language but it just seems
like every other word anyone utters in this DVD is a
‘fuck’ or a ‘fucking’.
Dead in
NY documents the last show in Vision of Disorder’s career.
Or so it was thought as this quintet has been back together and
has even announced a permanent reunion and the impending
recording of a new album. The show itself is well-recorded, the
only problem being that there are so many strob lights going on
is almost impossible to catch a good glimpse of the boys on
stage. Regardless, the performance is impassioned. An opinion
that is certainly shared by all those in attendance. Them lucky
Long Islanders, oblige and proceed to beat the shit out of each
other. I guess you had to be there. Or you had to like the
music. I bought their first album way back when it came out and
it left me colder than a witch’s tit. But if you like the tunes
you’ll like this. The sound recording is crisp and has punch.
The riffs are all dull as a butter knife, but they are
inherently hardcore.
The set list
covers a few bases. The best songs from the debut were included.
I noticed that much. Also, along for the beating are others from
Imprint (Roadrunner, 1998) and For the Bleeders
(Go Kart, 1999). I haven’t heard neither, but apparently those
recordings show a more metallic influence in VOD’s sound. This
is shown in two ways; vocalist Tim Williams sports a Mastodon
T-shirt and in the bonus feature, The History of VOD, the band
actually claims to be one of the inventors of the metalcore
subgenre. As if that was something to be proud of. Well, maybe
it is. If you like this sort of stuff. But I wouldn’t know,
metalcore leaves me colder than a witch’s tit.
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