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With a hints of Celtic Frost and the postmodern anger and melancholy of Rev. Beloved staples of the New York hardcore punk scene in the ’80s and ’90s, there was a large local contingent here expressly for this set. The majority of the sold-out audience arrived in the moments before Sheer Terror took the stage. The set was shambly in an endearing rock ‘n roll fashion and not the tightest Phobia performance in their long history, but entertaining nonetheless. But he held it together, only falling over one time while still managing to not spill the PBR in his left hand. “We’ve been doing some things I thought I had stopped doing years ago.”īy the time Phobia came on, McLachlan was a wild card, his pants falling down during soundcheck. “We’ve been on tour with this drunk motherf*cker right here,” frontman Ralphy Boy said while giving McLachlan a loving pat on the head. The only one in the crowd with the energy to match the intensity of their music was a noticeably intoxicated Shane McLachlan of Phobia, who paraded in front of the stage in his own circle pit, a drink in hand. Taking the Stage: NYC purveyors of grind Disassociate opened the show early in the evening, startling the early arrivals, who stood some distance from the stage, perhaps still sleepy from the rainy day. It was only fitting that Eyehategod bring their NOLA sludge metal to such a locale. Next to the venue runs the Newtown Creek, the epicenter of the notorious Greenpoint oil spill, in which over 17 million US gallons of crude oil seeped into the soil over years of haphazard processing. Like the nearby Saint Vitus Bar, Kingsland’s extreme music shows are more accessible to the many who travel from Queens.

Situated at the top of Brooklyn among Greenpoint’s eerie, isolated warehouses, it also serves as a centralized and vital location for the local metal scene.

A pizza joint/dive with a crusty concert space in the back, the venue was an ideal spot for the loaded bill including hardcore legends Negative Approach, New York heavies Sheer Terror and Disassociate, and grindcore punks Phobia. Setting the Stage: The cold rain didn’t deter New York City’s punk and metal underground from catching the second of two sold-out headlining shows by Eyehategod at The Kingsland on Sunday night (May 12th).

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