Cannibal Corpse

Well bloody hell!
last friday (viernes pasado) I went and saw Cannibal Corpse in Bogota and yes the stories about the south americans loving and going mad for their metal was not exaggerated!!

I went with my mate from work Micheal Lawless (no relation to Blacky) he has been in Bogota for 2 years and saw Slayer in Bogota he is also an awsome bass player and he can speak bloody good spanish which came in pretty handy getting into the gig as you are about to find out!!!

Well the night began with a couple of beers round Mikes apartment he was really ill but didn't want to miss out on the corpse. So we get in a taxi and give the driver the address. Now everybody I asked in the past week had not known where the hell the venue was so it did not look good. How hard can it be to find a venue that no one had heard of in a city of 8 million people just look for the dirty metallers yes? No it took us 40 minutes of driving around to find the place and it was only after a few phonecalls and the taxi driver stopping to ask a portero (a guy who is like a secruity guard) where the place was that we were lucky, thankfully he was a metal fan and knew where the gig was being held.

Well we got there to find a fuck off que to get in, well what I thought was a que to get in you had to que to get through into a courtyard and then you had to join another que to get into the venue. During this time we befriended and group of Colombian metallers and chatted, well Lawless did I just tried to understand what they were saying.

As standard metal proceedure would have it we didn't bother buying tickets so here was another problem. There seemed to be no organisation at all and what was more like organised chaos we eventually got into the gig with the colombian guys who told the guys on the door that we had come all the way from England and Austrailia to see Cannibal Corpse I then passed the guy on the door 150.000 pesos and we were in!!

Now this is the loco part as we got in to what looked like a small aircraft hanger the guys on the door closed the massive metal industrial doors behind us locking us and about a 1000 other metallers into the room. This left about 200 metallers outside locked out of the gig even if they had bought tickets I didn't feel that guilty I was in a warehouse about to watch Cannibal Corpse in Colombia!!!

As the gig went on the metallers outside did not go away they were banging on the doors and making one hell of a racket outside. By this time Lawless and I had been seperated by every metaller in the room going mad to Cannibal Corpse in England you can stand and admire the spectacle but not in Colombia they go nuts!! I had also noticed that there were no toilets inside (and after drinking beer before hand this was a bit of a problem) and no security guards whatsoever.
Cannibal Corpse were damn good playing the usual 'fucked with a knife' and 'strip raped and strangled' from their back catologue but as they got half way through the set the doors to the building started to shake and at one point these 10 foot industrial metal doors nearly left their hinges and crushed many a metaller. After this some bright spark decided to open the doors letting much needed air into the room but also 200 metallers all ran in full pelt towards the stage flattening everything in their path.

The gig carried on with amazingly no fatalities until Cannibal Corpse finished early due to their bass player being ill. I then walked out of the hangar to find mike and get into the first taxi we saw home!!!

Oh and next on the list is Exodus, Overkill and Gorgoroth!!!! Yes this place is Metal!!!!