BeijingDazeTales of Live Music From Beijing's Mostly Underground Rock Scene..

Sep
24thExodus unleashes a Brutal all out Metal assault on Beijing for their first show in China!

My ear drums are still buzzing, and I’m slightly surprised at the lack of bruises and the fact that nothing is broken on my body after last night.. why? one might ask… Because I went down to the pits of hell (or Mao Live House) with 2 walls of death and more moshing than I ever gambled for as Exodus descended on Beijing to help Painkiller Magazine celebrate their 10 years with help from China’s own Suffocated and Japan’s Grim Force. Mao was packed when things got started with Suffocated who I had heard tons of great stuff about but hadn’t had a chance to catch yet… until yesterday that is! They’re pretty darn solid and had the audience jumping up and down, moshing, headbanging with pure unadulterated metal. as far as all the Chinese bands I’ve heard so far, I’m ready to give them the crown as the best one in Beijing if not China. I’m gonna have to catch them again and home to get my hands on their album sometime soon. Next up was Grim Force from Japan. These cats were musically fantastic but I kept looking at them and thinking sushi! Good classic technically sound metal but they just lacked a little stage presence i felt. big big ups to their insane bass player who did not slow down at any point during their set. Their drummer was just as nuts with badaboums and badabangs all around. They got a hang of the audience around the [...]