I must admit, last night was my very first Murder City Devil’s show I’ve ever been to and it is EXACTLY what I needed.
In case you haven’t heard already, The Murder City Devils are touring once again this year and after a 5 year hiatus they are BACK WITH A VENGANCE!!

Granted, some of you may call me a bandwagon fan or newb or whatever, but at least I can admit that as soon as I heard my first Murder City Devils song only a year ago I was hooked. After months of scouring the web, finding talks of secret shows here and there that never really happened. I was blown out of the water when I actually read on their myspace (yes I still go on myspace sometimes) that they were actually announcing tour dates and the reunion was going to happen! From then on I did all the research I could, downloading every song I could (yes I actually BOUGHT some albums too “In Name and Blood” and “Thelema”) just to prepare myself for their next show.

I arrived in Pomona with my partner in crime and the person who actually played me my first MCD song, with a bottle of whiskey and cameras in our hands in hopes of trying to capture what we knew was going to be nothing short of radness. As soon as we walked in, we met up with a few friends, held back our giddy screams, and grabbed an empty spot on the floor to prepare ourselves for a show we have been waiting over a year for.

They opened their set with “Bear Away” and although the vocals were a little low for the first half of their set, the show was a solid 90 minutes of rock and roll. Take your first blowjob, the first time you tried coke, and the first time you fired a gun combine them, and make them all last 90s minutes. Then you will have something that feels what it’s like to be at a Murder City Devils show. OK Ok Ok maybe I went a little overboard with that one so, Ill save the horrible metaphors and ostentatious adjectives for another post, andjust let the footage speak for itself.

 

As a bonus, I got their opening song “Bear Away” on film.

MURDER CITY DEVILS – MURDER CITY RIOT