Precious Metal: Pollution + Savage Skull + Misanthropy Legion @ Lit Lounge 010509

A true metal delight was in-store for all this evening in Lit's dilapidated quarters.  This was Misanthropy Legion's second go-around at Precious Metal, and I was sad to learn from Joe (guitars/vocals) that the group would soon be disbanding in order to pursue a different musical direction.  No matter, I still have their sticker on my snowboard.  Long live 'New Jersey Black Metal'.  Savage Skull was a speed metal tsunami and sounded like an old-school basement production-style black metal cover of 80's Bay-Area thrash.  They brought the headbangers out!  I was really into Brooklyn's Pollution - they were off the hook.  I'm thinking that the drummer was on some sort of synthetic form of adrenaline cuz my man was nonstop!

Pollution, from Brooklyn...

Precious Metal: Woe + Misanthropy Legion @ Lit Lounge 112408

Aside from Darkthrone, Carpathian Forest, Sigh, Mayhem and a few others, I'd never been a huge fan of black metal, but always appreciated its raw fury, penchant for controversy and unyielding individualism (until it became trendy, that is).  Fortunately, both Misanthropy Legion (cool name) and Philly's Woe brought an old-school vibe to the basement this evening that had me blasting Beherit's 'The Oath of Black Blood' and Blasphemy's 'Fallen Angel of Doom' when I got home, much to my neighbor's displeasure.  Evil is alive. 

All the way from New Jersey, Misanthropy Legion

Woe