June 14, 2009 – The Drum and Monkey, Calgary, AB
At the Drum and Monkey, security were being fucks about letting people back in from their smoke breaks. Even if you’d see the same security guard eight times prior, they still wanted to look at your ID like they’ve never seen you before in their life. Shithawks. The Drum and Monkey has skinny, flimsy speakers which were guarded like Fort Knox by the bouncers so that nobody would run into them. Of course, people did. Opening were Warbird, who seem to be a local band on the rise. Some guy fell into the drums and security threw his ass onto the street from a door directly behind the band – convenient. The pit was more of a war zone for Toxic Holocaust, with their road manager standing in between Joel Grind and the turbulent action in front of them. Three or four more songs were played here as well, including “Gravelord” and “In the Name of Science”, two of this reviewer’s favourites’. Grind nuked the cross and the drum was emptied of its monkeys.
-War is Dyer
