Photo by Greg Cristman
Gregory R. Cristman

The Power of The Riff East day 1 in pics & video (Pentagram, Agnostic Front, Negative Approach, Hoax, Xibalba, more)

photos by Greg Cristman

Pentagram / Agnostic Front at Warsaw 9/1/2012
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Saturday built upward from Alpha & Omega and Xibalba, young hardcore bands from California; the crowd endured Hoax, from western Massachusetts, a band with only a couple of EPs, whose volatile singer came down from the stage to the floor, inviting physical aggression and getting it. And the lineup worked toward the clomping meat-and-potatoes, early-’80s hardcore of Negative Approach — established in Detroit 1981, reformed in 2006 — and Agnostic Front, established in 1980, reformed in 1997, from New York and don’t you forget it.

Agnostic Front’s set was the hometown party: beefy guys from the old days at CBGB came out to support the band as it played uniformly streamlined versions of songs from the ratty old records “United Blood,” “Victim in Pain” and “Cause for Alarm,” responding to calls for circular mosh pits, pumping their fists to the generalized anti-authority chants: “We gotta stick together/and fight ’em all now!” And then many of them cleared out, leaving a sparser crowd for Pentagram, the early doom-metal band from Virginia whose prematurely ancient singer, Bobby Liebling, persists with effort. -[NY Times]

Saturday (9/1) was the first night of the two-day Power of The Riff East extravaganza, filling up Warsaw with a mix of doom enthusiasts (there to see Pentagram perform all of Relentless), old school hardcore kids and others who like it loud. Pictures, setlists and video from the show are below.

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Power Trip – Power of the Riff East 2012 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

Alpha & Omega

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Alpha&Omega – Power of the Riff East 2012 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

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Xibalba – Power of the Riff East 2012 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

Hoax

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Hoax – Power of the Riff East 2012 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

Negative Approach

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Agnostic Front – Power of the Riff East 2012 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.

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Pentagram – Power of the Riff East 2012 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo.