Saturday night at Maxwell’s in Waterloo saw a very Death
Metal friendly night with the likes of six bands from Canada! Cynaptic, a band
we have talked about before from the Kitchener area, Profaner, the 2016 Wacken
Metal Battle Canada winners who played the largest and loudest Metal festival
in the world! Ending Tyranny, Technical Death Metal goodness from Brantford
followed up, with Unbeing from Montreal afterwards playing their signature
style of Instrumental Metal, their InstruMetal. Hometown heroes Aepoch played
main support tonight and last but not least, our headliners Beyond Creation!!
Cynaptic
kicked the night off with some Death Metal goodness, showing off kicking off
quick as tonight lineup was packed, there was no time for messing around.
Showing off their single “Mental Imprisonment” as well as a bunch of other
songs that will undoubtedly be on their debut album as well as a cover of Death’s
“The Philosopher” they got the audience nice and ready for an extreme night.
The band knows how to play their songs and play really well, their downfall
comes in their stage presence as only lead guitarist Ian Engstrom really moved
around more than just swaying back and forth. The band is still rather new so
it’s to be expected they won’t really know how to control the stage like some
bands do, regardless of size, but other than that one complaint, Cynaptic have
gotten better and better with each show I’ve had the pleasure to catch them at.
Profaner
followed up and brought the noise, this is my third time catching these guys
live, I even had the pleasure to see them at the Wacken Metal Battle finals
just to see them win and get to head to Europe for what has definitely been the
biggest show they’ve played. The guys in Profaner know how to control an
audience, between headbanging riffs, melodic Death destruction and crazy
shredding. These guys have grown a lot over the years and they’re definitely
going somewhere fast. If these guys ever come around near you, definitely worth
checking out.
Ending
Tyranny once again show off their Technicality tonight showing off old songs
and new songs alike, although the bands set did get cut short due to time
constraints, they managed to show off a brand new song right at the end of
their set they sounded crushing, anyone who’s a Tech Death fan will definitely
be pleased with the new material. Ending Tyranny are always a pleasure to see
live and for the most part you won’t be able to headbang, you’ll be too busy
watching the insane technicality of everyone in the band.
Unbeing
were cool, this was my second time seeing them live and while they play some
great riffs and have some killer hooks, there’s just something about purely
instrumental bands I can’t get into. Nonetheless, if you do like Instrumental
bands, chances are you’d be able to get into these guys really easily because
unlike most, they don’t just rehash the same riffs for five minutes and call it
a song, they change it up and play some really good stuff.
Aepoch
are the hometown legends who really don’t need any introduction to anyone in
the local scene, while it must have been a dream for these guys to be playing
main support for Beyond Creation, it’s not as if they didn’t work for it. Over
the course of five songs these guys showed they deserve the recognition they
receive playing one of the stronger sets I’ve personally seen from them.
Everyone in this band seems so comfortable on stage, that being said, guitarist
Bobby Chournamany is the only member who really doesn’t have much of a stage presence
live and a shadow is easily cast over him by each of the other members during
any section that doesn’t involve him playing a solo. All in all though, killer
show from the boys in Aepoch, who are slowly moving away from the songs in
their EP and clearly hyping up the debut album that will hopefully be coming
soon.
Last
but not least, the absolutely destructive Beyond Creation, again, I’ve had the
pleasure to see these guys many times now and just like every other time, these
guys killed it. Playing a lot off their most recent album “Earthborn Evolution”,
with some gems off of “The Aura” mixed in, the boys in Beyond Creation showed
why they’re top of the food chain when it comes to not just Canadian Metal but
all around Death Metal! If you haven’t seen these guys yet and like anything
you’ve heard from them, get to a show and see them, they’re just as tight live
as they are on record and Simon Girard’s voice has so much more power live, it’s
rather unbelievable until you see it live for yourself. 
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