Last week I returned to the Reverb Lounge in Omaha for Kentucky metallers Savage Master. I am not super familiar with the band, but I do have one of their albums. It was more about just getting to a concert again since things were so slow last year.
I was late to the show, so I missed the first two bands. So, I apologize to Phuzz and Phantom Crypt, but I did not get to see those bands. Ungoliant was the band on stage when I arrived and I have seen them several times now. It is interesting how much they have improved since the first time I saw them a few years ago. Nebraska does not have many great metal bands, but Ungoliant is making some big strides lately. I need to pick up an album by them. I have a small collection of albums by Nebraska bands, highlighted by Xenomorph, Cellador and Garoted.
As I said, I was not real familiar with Savage Master other than the one album I have, which I do enjoy quite a bit. When the singer of Ungoliant said that Savage Master was going to melt our faces off, I kind of chuckled, but holy hell did they put on a great show. It was a lot more theatrical than I anticipated, not to say it was something like Ghost, but there were aspects of that. Singer Stacey Savage did a couple of quick wardrobe changes throughout, usually a cape or a leather jacket, and utilized props on a few occasions. Once she wielded a ritual dagger against the band members' throats. Which brings me to the band members, all of whom were hooded and masked. The massive bassist even wore a cape. Savage Master ripped through their set, about ten songs, with almost no speaking to the crowd. They just got up there and proceeded to melt the faces off the entire crowd. It was one hell of a show.
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