Monkey time in Baltimore! It's awesome Old Man Gloom are back. It's too bad At the Graves couldn't play this show, but oh well.
I missed the first band and all but the last song of Passage Between. The latter seem to open most of the good tour shows that come around. They seem to get better every time I see them, though. Ilsa, the heaviest band in DC, were next. Not much needs to be said on them; I love those guys and they always fucking rule live.
Lastly, Old Man Gloom brought the simian rage. Interspersing tracks from their new tour-only album "NO" with cuts from all their other releases, they played a satisfying 50-minute set. The climax was when they played most of the monumental single track from Seminar III, "Zozobra." Notice the "most"; they inexplicitly left out the awesome coda with the guitar solo. My only other complaints were that the bass was a little too loud and they could have played a lot longer, considering the show was over before 11. That's nitpicking though; it was a rare treat to finally see them and in turn I seriously enjoyed it.
Download the show: 050612 Old Man Gloom at Ottobar
-Ben
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