20/9/2006 Avoidance Of Doubt @ Bar Monsta

Subject	Avoidance Of Doubt @ Bar Monsta
PostedDate	9/20/2006
	This isn't the sort of thing I normally go and see, but as I play in another band with MikeE from Avoidance Of Doubt I thought I'd go down to check them out at Bar Monsta. It was certainly an interesting evening. Support was from Kreuzdammer who I guess would be described as a cyber/goth band. In spite of their image, they sounded more like a dance act playing through an almost inpeneterable wall of distortion. They were more interesting to look at than to listen to and not much in the way of actual songs was discernable through the wall of noise. They had a good frontman who kept the attention though. Avoidance Of Doubt were certainly more interesting to watch and to listen to. Their Goth/cyber/industrial/metal is influenced by Marilyn Manson and Rammstein among others. Machine/man MikeE sits at the back in his sci-fi looking helmet containing a built in cooling fan pounding out a rock solid beat while an uber-bass Goddess and ultra-goth guitarist grind out some crunching metallic rhythms. Frontman D-Void cannot be ignored as he runs round the room screaming and howling like a man possessed. Heads are banged!   I wonder if the spectacular wings which appear in some of the band's publicity photos will make an appearance in an 'intimate' venue like this? They do! It was certainly an interesting night and worth a trip to Camden on a Wednesday.