Eyes Like Cyanide just know how to rock out plain and simple. Again, this is another band just dripping with technical ability, but all the shredding and thrashing in no way takes away from their ability to just put on a visually striking performance. The whole band was just running back and forth, climbing on anything available, head banging like human Gumby’s and even finding time to give a little love to their respective ladies all while putting the crowd at it’s boiling point (special props to guitarist Chris Palko for having the best metal stage faces in the NYC scene, I defy you to beat him). I think it may have been the booze mixed with the continuing onslaught of bands, but it was at this point that the crowd felt like it was time to open a pit, which was a pretty dangerous proposition considering the intimate size of the room.
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