GOREFEST — The Eindhoven Insanity (review)

GOREFEST — The Eindhoven Insanity album cover Live album · 1993 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"The Eindhoven Insanity" is a live album by Dutch death metal act Gorefest. The album was released through Nuclear Blast Records in August 1993. It´s a live recording of Gorefest´s May 30th, 1993 performance at the Dynamo Open Air festival. At this point Gorefest had two full-length studio albums under their belt, and naturally the nine tracks featured on "The Eindhoven Insanity" are live renditions of tracks from "Mindloss" (1991) and "False" (1992). Six out the nine tracks are from the latter, two are from the former, and the closing track is just an audience appreciation track with no music.

The sound production is decent considering that this is a 1993 live death metal recording. It´s just seldom that death metal live albums are greater than a band´s studio recordings, and they often end up just being lesser and more flawed versions of tracks you already know and remember with much better production values and without performance errors. It has much to do with the nature of death metal shows, which are simply best experienced live in person. The energy and atmosphere of a show like this one isn´t really felt through the speakers when experienced in this format.

When that is said Gorefest deliver a solid performance and tracks like "Confessions of a Serial Killer" and "Reality - When You Die" are always crowd pleasers. The audience certainly sound like they enjoy the show on the outro audience appreciation track "Eindhoven Roar". There are several amatuer video recordings of this show available, and it´s obvious from the video material, that the audience enjoyed the show with massive moshpits, headbanging, and a lot of people being carried over the safety fence during the show. Evaluated only on the audio from the show a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted. Watching the video material and listening to the audio is the best way to experience this show.
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