10/29/2025
LIVE REPORT! 10/24/25 🇺🇸 American Legion, Post 92
A tremendous evening of Death Metal across several styles was enjoyed at the American Legion - a place that we’ve quickly grown fond of - enjoying affordable vodka’s in support of the cause.
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FRAGMENTATION opened the affair with a heavy hitting, slammy style of Death Metal that would satisfy a myriad of tastes, with rhythmic passages abruptly transiting to harmonic, dissonant interludes, reminiscent of Immolation and other greats, a very fitting opener to kick off what was left to come!
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TRUST NO ONE, the most recent headliner on a Classic Steel show, left the lights on and nothing to the imagination as their pummeling, punchy, sound backed a vintage performance by frontman, Coach. With each set, Vlad Garcia elevates the pulse of the band, with his fills adding the perfect flourish to TNO’s signature sound.
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HACKSAW - this is a band we’ve been dying to see. Sharing members of Bloodtied and fronted by Colin Keough, a man who LITERALLY has ‘OUGH’ in his name, we expected a searing live performance to match their latest output, “The Way, The Truth, The Light.” There is so much to come from this incredible quartet. The new guard is in good hands!
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ISOTROPY are a force to be reckoned. With Derek Roddy on the kit, and back lining the entire show (thank you), the entire night experienced the best drum sound yet heard at the Legion. Beyond Roddy’s still S-tier percussion, the band plays a style of Technical Death Metal that would satisfy the most mathematical among us, yet never get too cute to be heavy.
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Lastly, DRIPPING - featuring paisan Sebastian Russo, also of the 🇮🇹 diaspora, brought their one-of-a-kind sound to the Legion, with equal parts Tech and Slam piecing a performance that is both seismic and intergalactic at once. A rare frontage by bespectacled rockstar, Alvar Antillon put the final cherry on top. A truly magnificent eve in support of the veterans!