Intro
Temple Of Secrets
Souless City
Dream Stalker
Armageddon In A Can
Morning Dew
Cold Blooded Martyr
The Elemental
Speak and Distroy
Resurrection Playground
Game Show Host
Rock N Roll
Well the support band Dead Heaven were really good very much old school trad goth, great guitar melodies and I though I recognised them from a former life, and I was right as the singer was in the Band Counting the Mad whom All Living Fear supported at the Marquee in 1995, and also played with at the Nottingham Rock City all dayer in 96. Also for Corrosion this wasn't the best of shows, Paul's voice was really suffering, it was touch and go as to weather or not we actually got on stage, but we did, some songs worked well I was very pleased with Morning dew, but we rocked through, Paul went into Joe Cocker mode a few times but it didn't matter, everyone liked it and that's what matters.
Photos by Michael Johnson
Corrosion are usually introduced with the words 'stalwarts of the UK goth scene' or somesuch phrase, for although Corrosion itself is still a relatively new outfit, the two Corrosioneers, Matt and Paul, have plenty of past history in Matt's other band, All Living Fear. It's tempting to draw comparisons between Corrosion and All Living Fear, and certainly there are occasional similarities in the sound - particularly when sampled choirs break out on the backing track. That's a definite All Living Fear-ism. I remember Matt once telling me, 'When I write a song, I don't write a goth song - I write a rock song, and then I put a choir on it so the goths will like it!' However, by and large Corrosion are more rock than goth, and they kick up an impressively rockin' racket. Paul is suffering from a bad throat, but you'd hardly know it as he lets rip on the vocals and the guitar does that monster-riff thing. In fact, the riffs are so monster that I'm struck by the thought that Corrosion have, in truth, played themselves right out of the goth scene and into the rock pool. The band both looks and sounds like a classic rock outfit that's temporarily mislaid its bassist and drummer, and has decided to don a rather ill-fitting gothic cloak until they find them again. The covers give it away: a rather psychedelic 'Morning Dew' - hang on, isn't that a Grateful Dead song? - and, as an encore, Led Zep's 'Rock 'n' Roll', upon which Paul does a very fine take on Robert Plant's freaked-out caterwaul (and this with a sore throat!). These songs, I suspect, reveal where Corrosion are coming from...and perhaps where they'd like to go to. Whether they'll be able to take the goth scene along with them is a moot point, but I think the band are having too much fun just rockin' out to worry too much about their position in the scene. A good-time rock set from a good-time rock band, and again, just the sort of stuff that works well in the decidedly un-luxurious surroundings of the Devonshire Arms.
