MACHINE HEAD celebrate Burn My Eyes’ silver anniversary.

MAMA ROUX’S, BIRMINGHAM

OSIAH

Up against an expectant crowd of extreme grind diehards, Sunderland’s OSIAH win us over with their nihilistic soundtrack of tech-death ferocity. Bodies collide amidst a barrage of skull-rattling bass drops, subhuman gutturals and lurching grooves, the visceral pull of songs like Humanimals

proving that UK deathcore is alive and spin-kicking. Only a band of CATTLE DECAPITATION’S veteran status could open with the as-yet-unheard The Genocide

then hurtle into demented classic A Living, Breathing Piece Of Defecating Meat like it was nothing. It’s the jump-off for a deluge of ragers from The Anthropocene Extinction

and Monolith Of Inhumanity. Forced Gender Reassignment’s vicious squall hypes this crowd to rabid levels, and the inclusion of four more eviscerating cuts from new album Death Atlas reaffirm why the San Diego outfit remain such a thrillingly brutal proposition. Travis Ryan switches between affable banter and beast mode on a dime. “I forget what our last record was!” he jokes, all smiles before ripping into riff-fuelled Not Suitable For Life with the force of an enraged bull. Meanwhile, a blistering encore of Manufactured Extinct and Your Disposal ensures tonight’s aural assault ends on a gut-punching high. SOPHIE MAUGHAN