Excision at The Armory

“225,000 watts of bone-crushing sound.” It’s a statement that sounds like exaggeration and hyperbole. What does that even mean? It was on every poster promoting this event. Well after 3+ hours hanging around the Armory from nearly every angle, I understood what that meant. No matter where you stood, whether it was center of GA, the stairs by the entrance or up in VIP, you felt every single drop, beat and wub that Excision had up his sleeve. It was the closest you were going to get to an earthquake in Minnesota. And, even better, every single person in the crowd was eating it up from start to finish.

Headbanger is the moniker for an Excision fan. By the name alone, one could probably guess what it was like to be posted up in the center of GA, where I spent the majority of the night. I was a good 100 people back from the front, but there was still the headbanging that I usually only see by the rail of a concert. It was the passion I see at a metal concert mixed with the hard beats of an EDM show. The closest I ever got to something this intense was during Bassnectar at Electric Forest, and I was beyond the rail for that one. On top of all this, a mosh pit opened up where I was standing. Scary to begin with, but with a couple thousand dollars of camera gear in my hand, I nope-d out of there quickly.