Once more we were delving deep into the origins of death metal, with Obituary as our guides...

As you might remember, we had already seen Obituary once this summer, at Metalcamp, but as the band is heavily touring festivals in the summertime, as are we, we were bound to run into each other sooner or later again, and so it was here at Brutal Assault that we did.
The band kicked off with an extremely heavy yet rock-riffing instrumental song, to which the large, pressed crowd responded very well.
I was a bit confused though, as I couldn’t remember hearing Obituary use instrumental songs in their set before. And not as an opener either, more of these songs appeared further into the set; maybe John Tardy had some issues with his voice, which prevented him from screaming too much…

Even so, the entire band seemed enthusiastic about playing here; and honestly, who wouldn’t be, with such an enormous crowd, which Obituary had, in front of them?
Still, even with this extra power the band was pounding out, I couldn’t bring myself to connect with them in any way, even though I tried, and when the end of the show came crawling in form of Evil Ways and Slowly We Rot, I can’t say I joined in with the unanswered encore wishes from the rest of the crowd.