Saturday, December 22, 2007

urizen

celebrated my sweetie's first night of christmas break by toddling over to the ridglea theater to catch urizen, the arty prog-metal outfit whose new universe e.p. i just reviewed for i love fort worth. the boiler suit-bedecked boyzzz -- brothers thomas (gtr/vox) and daniel (keys/vox) drinnen, julio escamilla on octupus-limbed drums, and matt garrison (gtr) and james wicks (bass) handling the bits the drinnen's can't on stage (only have so many arms, y'know) -- played an hour's worth of toons from their new one and 2005 full-length autocratopolis, balancing bombast (in the best sense) with bits of business like having daniel don an oil-derrick looking apparatus (with a bowling bowl as counterweight -- nice touch) to hold one of his keyboards for a jan hammer/edgar winter-like solo turn, or a robot (ok, a guy wearing what appeared to be the casing to a window a.c. unit) that seemed bent on self-destruction even before thomas shot it down with a flamethrower gtr. associations abounded, from devo (the suits, the synchronized head movements) and zappa (the sarcasm) to faith no more and dallas-based shtick-rockers honchie, but overall, 'twas the most entertaining show we've seen in ages. also in the house: sam damask from austin-based thrash-funkers little brian and dave kaplan from local death metalers-in-transition benevolence. if you wasn't there, you missed it.

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