A celebrated ’85 presentation, but you gotta laugh at Lizzy’s get-ups. Getting past that, the band is spot-on, much more progressive than their reputation.
The sound is perfect, the guitars afire, Ripper executing his cool, ever-so-slightly rock-ironic stage moves, his effortless highs, his comfortable growls.
Recorded at the Brixton Academy on the band’s 25th anniversary, this DVD preserves the evening’s entire 23-song set, complete with oodles of special guests.
Expanding Senses censors much of the progressive Swedish death complication of Insanity for a blazing, super-high-fidelity attack of post-Bay Area thrash.
Before black depression poet extraordinaire Dax Riggs sobbed so eloquently for Agents of Oblivion or Dead Boy and the Elephantmen, he screamed for Acid Bath.
I’m digging the lion’s share of this thing, because it’s packed full of those shining-moment riffs that are the unanimous highlights of the past two albums.
Part guilty pleasure, part just goofy-doofy heavy metal, there are moments here that swell the breast, some that make you strut like a bad-ass thru the mall.