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Tombs played most of their upcoming LP at Saint Vitus with Primitive Weapons, Empty Flowers & Anicon (pics & videos)

photos by Caroline Harrison

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Tombs, Primitive Weapons, Empty Flowers, and Anicon teamed up for a show at Saint Vitus last Friday (11/8). The show served as a sendoff of sorts for Tombs, who left the following day for Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel)’s Mana Studios in Florida. The band will spend the next few weeks recording and mixing the follow-up to 2011’s Path of Totality.

Consequently, Tombs played most of their new album — which sounds very, very promising — at this show. (Primitive Weapons trotted out some impressive new tunes too.) We’ve got a full writeup and photos over at Invisible Oranges. Here’s an excerpt:

More people started filing into Saint Vitus’s performance space as Primitive Weapons set up their equipment. Initially, the crowd had formed the familiar horseshoe pattern around the room that creates a gaping, empty space in front of the stage. Once Primitive Weapons were ready to begin, Dave Castillo, the band’s manic frontman, ordered the crowd to approach the stage and chastised the probably-drunk couple sitting on the floor near the stage for getting in everyone’s way. The crowd obliged and Primitive Weapons launched into a furious, energetic set. Castillo isn’t one to shy away from getting in the crowd’s face and even touching people. I spotted two young guys appearing to flee from the front of the stage to escape Castillo’s attention.

You can check out the full writeup and photo sets over at IO. You can check out some of the pictures below, along with footage of all four bands’ sets. Make sure to give the Tombs footage a look; it’s a full-set video, so you can hear most of the songs from the new Tombs record before it’s even recorded.

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