Live Review: Municipal Waste, Scalphunter, Beer Fridge

The poor virgin Rosemount Hotel played host to a crazed thrash line-up on Friday night and left a knocked-up whore with a nicotine gum addiction. Dirty south legends Beer Fridge kicked off the revolution marking the return of one of WA's best exponents of the surf/punk culture, blasting out Killing Off My Brain to let the city slickers know the insanity remains intact. With a new album Tales From The Trashcan on the way it's time to lock up your daughters. Generally, entering a thrash pit you expect a few injuries here and there, but when a 110 kilo English rugby player leaps off the stage and enters the fray you're basically checking into hell early. The juvies scattered as behemoth Scalphunter frontman Steve Knoth joined the party blasting out most of the set at ground level. Thick chugging bass and soaring vocals of Desensitise kicked off.  The punk beats came thick and fast, nun-tight and power riff tore holes in whole new places and Knife set the crowd alight. Huge cheers for the classic sound of tracks such as Plastic Army delivered the goods straight to the arteries.

Single-handedly driving the thrash revival for over a decade US heroes Municipal Waste went the hard yards on the metal circuit and can now safely kill it with a headline tour of their own. The toxic machine launched into overdrive as Unleash The Bastards kicked off the set in perhaps the most fitting intro track of all time – the killer bridge riffs there inciting a small riot up the front setting the tone for show for the ages. The Waste played it all – Mind Eraser, Drunk As Shit, Sadistic Magician elicited roars, a Wolves Of Chernobyl verse triggered the pit and The Art Of Partying brought the night home. This was some next level shit.