My flatmate Claus is member of metal band (I think if it has to be categorized even more, it would be Power Metal) and on October 27 I attended one of their gigs for the first time. They had already played some concerts before, but for some reason I hesitated to go to a place called “Orgasmatron”. Additionally they played gigs in Halle/Saale. (Today they play in Chemnitz). Anyways, this time they played in the social cultural centre “Die Villa” in Leipzig, so I gave in to eventually see them live. I am not much of a fan of crowds of people and loud environments, so I have to admit I haven’t gone there with too much enthusiasm. Still, I was really surprised, because Claus’ band is pretty good. (Plus I was on the “guest list”, muhahaha, GUEST LIST, you know, I am important).
Already seeing them do their soundcheck was like “Woah”. Yes, even though Claus is my flatmate I really haven’t had a clue what music they were actually playing, because I force him to play his keyboard with headphones to not drive me crazy.
FataL-Exception (the name was more or less initiated by Claus, being on a phone call with one of his computer science friends, who happened to have a fatal exception in his program…) played for around 40mins, but it felt like only 20. I was not bored one time, even though their slow song didn’t really do it for me. I have no clue what they sing about (which might also not be too important in the genre), but the music was outstanding and in my opinion they were the best of the three bands that played that evening. They surpassed my expectations of being just a regular amateur band, hammering on their instruments to let off steam. I loved the guitars in particular. In general I really do like music including lots of E-guitars and drums. The drummer came with a huge set of drums, however I wondered if he did to hide behind it, because he didn’t actually use all of it too much. But it looked good Also I adored Juliáns voice, even though as stated before, I have no idea what he was singing about.

I am unable to describe the music, because I am not good with words, luckily some of their tracks are available on MySpace and videos of that night’s performance can be seen on YouTube. I list the links below the member list and play list of the evening.

FataL-Exception
Julián- Vocals/Guitar
Marcus Wheel-Laugh – Guitar
Conrad – Bass
Claus – Keyboards
Ziege – Drums

They are in progress of recording their first demo CD at the moment. However there is already a CD available with two of their songs.

Setlist of October 27
My own desert
Until the end
Rise of ignorance
Tears of glory
Lost diamond
Salto al Vacio
Gemini
Evil red eyes

Links
www.fatal-exception.de (MySpace page. You can listen to Tears of Glory and Salto al Vacio there)
FataL-Exception YouTube Channel(You can see three videos of the concert there)
Facebook Page

I demand all of you to go to the YouTube Channel and watch the videos.