With great anticipation, most of the metalheads in Houston crowded into the White Oak music hall to catch a massive bill headed by one of the most stories names in black metal, the inimitable Beherit. The excitement was memorable.
For those who have never been there, White Oak is more like a mainstream venue: big speakers, lots of staff, functional bars and toilets, and actual rules, which makes it a bit odd for a metal venue but rather comfortable, thanks in part to the powerful air conditioning.
The show began with True Iron Will who brought out a hybrid between mid-paced black metal and 1970s punk with just a hint of RAC, a solidly professional show with songs that were designed to sound good instead of simply ranting like most political or emo punk.
They were followed by Unholier, who might be of greatest relevance to Pentagram (CL) fans for this type of early heavy metal done up in necrotic form with underground metal technique, like Mortuary Drape fused with Nunslaughter. High energy and really antique vibes.
After that came Morbosidad, the band that it seems many of the audience were there to see, which plays a type of black metal based on dramatic statements like GBK, basically the first track from Drawing Down the Moon mixed with Exhumed and Krisiun, a variety of war metal that makes a grand statement and then returns to the same three riffs.
After this Imprecation took the stage with a very professional show that sweated the details without it being obvious, having the integration of all songs into a coherent whole like the last EP but with a focus on both old and new material, giving a precise and energetic performance that packed in songs like machine gun fire but since their songs are distinct from one another did not become a monolithic wash.
Finally some time after midnight Beherit took the stage. NHV has been trying to combine his interests in ambient music and black metal for some time, and did so here by wielding the microphone like Avicii while triggering sound effects and manipulating tones through a complex-looking panel.
A three-piece band covered the black metal side while NHV handled vocals, creating an interesting fusion of Satanic techno and black metal. In my view, the black metal fusion works best when the digital elements serve as a lead instrument and the black metal becomes a backdrop, reducing drums and vocals to timekeeping so that guitars can lead and within that, keyboards and sounds can develop themes through texture.
The result was one of the more interesting shows of recent vintage. The classic Beherit songs shined through but were enwrapped in a variety of other sounds, offering both an enhanced context and another instrumental voice.
The band banged out a mixture of classic and newer black metal songs without much commentary, creating a comfortable suspension of disbelief and savage detachment. In my view, the area NHV wants to explore peaked with Celebrate the Dead, where digital instruments served like a lead instrument within the framework of black metal.
Somehow the normie audience has discovered Beherit, so lots of dudes rolled off of Reddit and showed up, which led to moshing by people who clearly did not know the songs while giant clouds of weed vape floated up from the audience.
The venue has a naturally awkward sound profile so they tend to overpower amplification, especially bass, creating a type of shuddering reverb that often washed out the material. On the whole, it was a legendary show, mostly for the work of Imprecation and Beherit.
Tags: beherit, Black Metal, houston, imprecation, morbosidad, true iron will, unholier
Drawing down the moon and Oath of the black blood desperately need a remaster or re-recording with an up to date sound similar to Engram, and then tireheB would shine again.
But… functional toilets? What are you saying that it’s commonplace for live show places to have nightmare toilets like in “Candyman 1992”?
Being an introverted fucker that lives in proximity of the woods, I don’t have much experience with going to shows, so that’s why I’m asking.
I wish more venues had toilets from hell.
Instead it’s more common for some shrexican security douchebag to tell me to stop leaning on the balcony railing while I’m drinking whatever bullshit $12 microbrew they have that I don’t totally hate.
The main metal venue in Houston, Black Magic Social Club, is famous for the women’s toilet flooding out the venue once every few gigs.
The one venue near me that consistently had decent-great metal acts roll through ended up getting condemned about ten years ago for over 40 building and fire code violations. Plenty of those were probably frivolous, but there’s no denying that it was an absolute dump. I think it was mold spores blowing out of the AC (when they bothered to turn it on) that ended up being the nail in the coffin. There was a second metal friendly venue, but it had mysteriously burned down a few years earlier.
I was already kind of done with the live scene by that point, but it kinda sucks for youngsters dying to see their favorite old school bands that are still touring given that they usually don’t come by these parts anymore.
Anyway, it’s good to hear the Beherit concert was mostly a success.
I’m surprised that given your reputation, you haven’t had any physical altercations attending Houston shows. The Mexican poopstain that runs the YouTube channel, JOABA, did a video yesterday gloating about how he witnessed a racist, drunken skinhead get his ass kicked at the Beherit show. According to JOABA, the skinhead threw a Roman and proceeded to shout,”WHITE POWER!” several times before he was confronted by a large Latino member of the crowd. Apparently, roughly 80 to 90% of the audience in atttendance was Latino, and didn’t take too kindly to the skinhead’s display of racial pride; confirming the adage: mess with the bean and you get the burrito. After getting in his face, the grande Latino fella proceeded to push the skinhead to the ground where said skinhead was then summarily stomped out by the Latino fella’s carnales. When the stomping concluded, the skinhead was then dragged through the audience (in front of onlooking security) and chucked out the door. While I think the skinhead was an irresponsible buffoon who brought the beating on himself, the way in which he was handled spoke volumes about the honor (or lack thereof) of the crowd at the show. Rather than fight him one on one (tbf the gordo Latino probably still would have trounced moronic skinhead), the muchachos and their pinko enablers opted for lynch mob justice instead of honorable combat. Such is life in the big city, sorry, I mean Así es la vida en la gran ciudad.
As someone who saw the incident in question from about three feet away, the bit about the other guys jumping in to stomp him didn’t happen (and the guy it happened to wasn’t a skinhead, it was a long haired dude in an NSBM shirt). The first time he got shoved down, some folks stepped in to try to break it up, which probably got mistaken for folks stomping the guy while he was down.
If the guy in question is who I think he was (it was dark in the venue, so I’m not 100% sure), it’s a guy who has shows to get shut down before because of his dumb edgelording antics, so even if he had gotten stomped in by the crowd, I wouldn’t be shedding any tears for him.
No, Latino presence was less than 40%. The Trump repatriations are doing something.
I am not a good “racist.” In fact, this was never an interest of mine, except that it became essential because of the environmental angle.
The fact is that if you want to save Earth, you want mono-ethnic nations which are self-sufficient.
Full stop.
Me? I just want the best outcome, and tend to enjoy a lot of people from different backgrounds. If this offends people… deal with it. I can’t help you here. I am from the South. We love lots of people without believing in the Irish-Wop-Yankee illusion of “diversity.”
I chuckle when people talk about the “far-Right.” Bitchtits, I am the real far-Right:
* Monarchism
* Caste
* Eugenics
* Ethno-nationalism
* Social Darwinism
This makes the Nazis quake like the neurotic bedshitters they are.
It should be added that, in nearly 20 years of going to shows in Houston, I’ve almost never seen the hispanics have problems with the guys wearing NSBM shirts, and if I had a dime for every white person I’ve seen with a shirt trumpeting the purity of their aryan blood with a hispanic boyfriend or girlfriend, I’d be a multi-millionaire. One known dipshit got dragged out after acting like a dipshit; there is no larger pattern of there being a real danger in being “sketchy” in the Houston metal scene.
This is cynical, but I think most Hispanic folks “nate higgers” more than they are concerned with what Whitey is doing.
I think a lot of it is that modern hispanics are inherently mixed race (dark skinned people being named after a region of Europe is the clue), and want to identify more strongly with the half of the mix that has had success in the U.S.
I’ve done a fantastic job if I say so myself pretending to be a guy, when I’m the hottest blonde imagineable. Thanks for not being retarded simps, you’ve helped me a lot, I’m older and wiser now.
There was some guy that looked like a walking fedpoast out in front of the venue wearing an Absurd shirt. Your tax dollars at work as he hands over the name of anyone stupid enough to talk to him about far-Right ideas. The bar was selling beer in pints, I think the Anglos won. I had a Mexican girlfriend once and met her family and I think being Mexican is very complicated and not really relaxing at all.
How do walking fedposts look?
I’ve chatted with them on the internet, but never thought to imagine what those operatives would look like in person (I don’t live in the US)
I’ve have read some posts here complaining that you censor comments, but since I haven’t experienced that and you’ve been cordial to me in the replies, I took it as disgruntled falsehoods. However, I sent two replies in on Monday (one to Cynical and one to you) that have not been posted. Both of the replies contain the YouTube link of the incident in question. I don’t have many rules that I abide by; with that said, I am a free speech absolutist with ZERO tolerance for censorship. I hope that there has been some sort of mistake, and that my replies weren’t posted as the result of an error rather than purposeful censorship. I would hate to withdraw my support of this website due to DMU prohibiting dialog.
Yeah, the spam trap caught them. I think they should stay there: this site is not an interface to YouTube and influencers.
The reason I posted the YouTube links was to address points made by you and Cynical that JOABA contradicts in his video. Since it was the source of the thread, it seemed relevant to present it to viewers of this site. I’m afraid you lost me with the influencer comment. I would hardly consider JOABA an influencer; then again, I’m also not an authority on the “scene.”
Maybe, but (1) I would like to keep influencer-style culture away from the site, and (2) YouTube is the opposite of free speech and I only grudgingly support them for metal videos. Let us keep those people away from here; they are poison. I have no idea what the reality of the situation is and can only report my observations. There were fewer Hispanic-origin people (HOPs) at this show than I consider normal for a Texas show. There are also fewer HOPs wandering around Houston, so I suppose this is consistent. I saw a few Graveland shirts, but the only Burzum ones I recall were the Kanye West versions. What does it all mean? I could not tell you here. Thank you for hearing me out.
No worries, senpai. For the record, there was no malice intended on my part with this post. The YouTube algorithm recommends a bunch of different metal related channels (Almost Human, Ruthless Metal, JOABA, the retarded, attention starved HellsHeadbangers guy) and they are virtually all trash. Outside of what I see online, I know nothing about the Texas metal scene, community, or whatever you want to label it. Hence, I opened a dialog about a reported incident at the Houston venue for further edification. I appreciate your taking the time to offer your own detailed take on the matter from your perspective. Godspeed! \m/
There is no way that comments are blocked, given the quality of some of the comments that are let through, rofl.
Maybe if you tell people to commit crimes; I haven’t tried that.
The one thing they sometimes do is to remove the word [African-American], perhaps for self preservation
Yes, we do not want to end up like Poast or Voat
Didn’t see this but there were definitely a lot of drunk beans acting like retarded faggots
While I do agree that the guy was being an edgy retard, He should have expected there to be mob justice at a majority hispanic show.
I had a similar experience at the NY show; I like that there was an emphasis on the ambient aspects within a black metal skin. NHV’s vocals had a technological edge like a transmission from another dimension rather than the seductive whisper of the recorded Drawing Down The Moon. He carried himself like some sort of shaman leading a ritual.
It seems the supporting acts on this tour are local to the region, Impure (serviceable raw metal), Battle Ruins (hardcore) and Departure Chandelier (surprisingly good Napoleon-themed band with keyboard emphasis) opened in NY.
There were a number of Beherit fanatics but there were also a lot of people who looked out of place, random people who did not wear any metal-related accoutrements, lots of young women, one wigger for some reason.
I had to wait in a 2 hour line while the openers where playing to buy a shirt from the official Beherit merchandise table
Brett, what do you think is a rational approach for people of mixed race in your proposition for mono ethnic societies? There are the basics of working together to increase the groups status and proficiency, but the whole mono ethnic part is out of the question from the outset.
There’s a lot involved. I believe only time and the right pressures can make the process organic and hopefully good and functional.
BTW, the idea of beign deported to Mongolia sounds hellish to me. a sea of grass and sand with no cover, like an endless killing ground while third world hundreds of millions massacre each other and starve and cannibalize for years until an equilibrium is reached. Eventually making teepees of human bone and skin becomes a reasonable shelter.
Mongolia has its beauties. Any place can be made excellent with some work.
There are places for mixed-race people, but the point is that no society can survive diversity or admixture.
What are those places you refer to?
I just thought trying to breed into whatever race one is mixed with, going for what is more dominantly present genetically could be useful. You try to install that same idea into your offspring and hopefully they unto theirs, and eventually you have whats basically the original respective race with some hopefully positive genetic diversity (now processed into something more cohesive) added in.
Genetic diversity is rarely what people think it is. In fact, it seems to me that foreign influences reduce it because the recombination loses so much. I am thinking of the various mixing zones, like Eastern Europe for Eurasian, middle Eastern for Eurasian-Ergaster, and Mongolia for different Asian mixes. Most likely, modern humans came out of Europe or Siberia and mixed with Denisovans in Asia, Australopithecus in southern India, and Ergaster in Africa, making four root races out of the same basic substrate plus some local mixing. One thing I would warn for the mixed-race: hybrid vigor lasts one generation and then crashes, so finding kids of one of your ingredients makes the most sense. Usually mixes tend toward one part of their heritage over the others. This would mean that, for example, someone of European-Asian ancestry who showed up as more “white” would want to stick around in Eastern Europe, while someone who identified as more Asian might move closer to Mongolia. Personally I think many places are going to experience a revival not with the “multipolar world” fantasies of the BRICS, but a natural consequence of the West withdrawing. This also saves everyone from trying to live up to an ideal from ancient Europe that is about as relevant to most ethnic groups as a bicycle is to a fish.
If mixed race people swear to not have children, surely they could stay instead of being banished.
Not everyone should have children anyway, including those of the founding ethnicity. There are too many humans, and therefore, the genetic top 50% should be the ones who get to breed. That, and because eugenics is generally good
Obviously none of this is actually going to happen, but by thinking about it, one can reach insights about what is true, beautiful, and good
Read the classics, whatever that means to you, from Zen monks to Briton druids. Do exercises to strengthen your spinal discs and avoid spinal injuries. If you’ve pulled through long enough you’ll be matched to a literal harem of women who are exactly your type genetically, or even better you’ll be the hetman of getting all your men wedded. Saturn is returning as king of the age.
World pagan revival when? Hopefully after the monarchism kicks in.
My spine is all fucked from playing too many ARPG’s like Last Epoch and POE, but it was worth it, because I get to reign as the supreme queen in cyberspace forever. Take that dslily.
Brett, what do you think of Eloy?
The Tesla guy? Give him his weed back.
Haha, no. The German band. Check out the albums Floating and Inside. You’ll hear how they influenced Steve Harris and others.
Poseidon’s creation is a standout track, other than that can Ocean deliver more than aquarium music?
DAD MUSIC UNDERGROUND
There, fixed it for you Brett. You get to keep the same acronym.
Anyhow, you all have fucking terrible taste in prog. i was going to say, “At the risk of derailing…”, yet it’s hard to know what is and isn’t derailing when the blog’s proprietor is constantly posting advertisements for dad rock concerts, fictitious confectionary beers, and the kind of hipster jizz-rock once avidly discussed on the NWN forum. Eloy, for fuck’s sake. Seriously, there are about a gazillion better prog bands, and you hipster morons zero in on a lame, third tier symphonic prog band that no one ever cared about except a few stoned German university students circa mid-1970s. Next thing you’ll end up with all the Marillion fans squatting here. Then you’ll be sorry, and no doubt sorrier still when emerges the collective consciousness of having only yourselves to blame—a bonfire fuelled by the craven idols we shall cast into the flames. Burn, Beherit. Burn, burn Emperor, burn “With Strength I Burn”. The phoenix of good taste rises from those ashes, shedding the demons who whisper the names of shitty bands in your chromosomally abnormal jug-ears, a shit litany burrowing its way into the last decrepit shreds of your brain-rot. Friends, you have a choice. Die here, alone, or take my hand and live.
Was there ever a band of less merit
than the plodding and nodding Beherit?
Morbosidad?
They’re almost as bad,
and so Brett’s up their ass like a ferret.
I lol and then remind myself that there could be children watching me and imitating.
There once was a man who blamed kites
for destroying the things that he likes:
“They get tangled in things,
and pull all of the strings.”
— perhaps I misheard the word “kites”.
Golly! I like to think that it was the beloved crow all those years ago in the DLA forum who changed my registration name to this, and really for the better. Although, Kosmik Ki*es was a high second choice, but the thought of Jesus flying around like Goku or the Superman was simply joyful.
It improves life if at least some of us have whimsical usernames. Either that, or we can use numbers and dogma: FIST CHRIST #1788, KILL POSEURS #666, ABORT TARDS #420, etc.
I was at the show, I found the massive crowd bizarre but I guess the incessant online presence of metal and it’s appeal of transcending trends finally caught on with a crowd that would normally be doing something else. That’s fine I’ve been watching Morbosidad and Imprecation live about 15 years and they put on a strong showing, but Imprecation more so. I find it hard to look past the general crowd retardation, I had no idea there was a balcony in the venue as I would have been up there. Brett is still spoken of as an unknown spectre of vengeance as this is yet another time I was at same the show and failed to locate him, just to shout “sodomize the weak!”, maybe someday.
All observations seem accurate. The crowd was a mix, some sensible people in there, but up front was mostly the poseurs and weekenders who wanted to show off the rare metal shit they bought on eBay and act like dickheads in the pit. I think for them, it was just something to do. Sorry we missed each other, but I’m easy to miss, since I’m a wispy gay Black Hispanic Jewish midget.
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