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Toxic DEATH – Live Review 6/5 Stars

 

A side project has never been so prominent, in fact it worries me that they are so much better than the originals. Ok, so they’re not a side project they’re a cover band, with hardly any of their own songs… I can live with that.

After hearing that the name toxic DEATH, I didn’t know what to think. After hearing they were a screamo band covering Disney songs, I was seriously ready to just type their name into Google and give them 1/5 a star.

                  But, 20 minutes before hand, I had the diligence to check out a few of their songs on myspace, NOT what I was expecting.

                  An hour later, after spending most of it in the toilets, (the support act being - Toilet vs. Shark NOOOOOO) I finally resurfaced to the ‘fashionably late’ Screamers. What a kerfuffle. Seriously?

                  Anyway, after launching into a Heavy Metal version of ‘When you wish upon a star…’ I was scarred for life. But not in a bad way. I’m telling you watching these guys it’s like musical Viagra; you will never understand the feeling unless you’ve been there. And they almost turned me, not in a sexual way (well nearly), but there was me thinking I was a bona fide Disney kid, are here I am, my ears still ringing, my brain whizzed up as if it had been stuck in hamster wheel – on 100MPH.

                  What makes this vision even worse, is the adorning baubles and bubbles, against a backdrop of what looks like a sticky tape ‘toxic’ sign, and blood and green stuff everywhere. It’s a clash of two cultures, two cultures that shouldn’t even be within seeing distance, let alone spitting distance, especially a band (that have been signed btw, seriously!) committed to mixing Disney and screamo.

 

                  And guess what, it works…

    

                  With a couple of there own songs littered throughout the set such as ‘organelle in a cell,’ and ‘pieces of meat,’ the aptly named toxic DEATH, are destined to go far. Along with classics, such as a ‘whole new world,’ ‘We Rock,’ and the seriously catchy ‘You are the music in me,’ I thought it could get no better, but as soon as the Hannah Montana covers started to appear, the crowd went wild. The singer Zoë, showing the true emotional turbulence of ‘Best of Both worlds,’ that Hanny Montanny could never do.

                  The pair of Screamo-ers are just electric, injecting as much adrenalin and electricity that is reciprocated only in anticipation from the fans.

 

                          If you were worried about the state of their health before, wait until you’ve experienced your own Toxic DEATH event.