(Our friend Ben Manzella caught the November 29 stop (at The Observatory venue in California) of Death to All’s Symbolic Healing Tour 2025, with support from Gorguts and Phobophilic, and he gave us the following report, along with his own great photos of the event.)
Sometimes, a mixed lineup is good and needed. I’d say more often than not, I enjoy seeing a three- or four-band lineup so that I don’t know what to expect at the beginning of each set. This past Saturday was not a night without surprises, per se, but there was a definite focus. The focus this Saturday in Santa Ana was Death Metal, and Death to All’s now-finished Symbolic Healing Tour had arrived to provide a few hours of deadly music to a variety of ages in the crowd.
I think I saw one person arrive with around three or four of his kids for the show, and you could tell he was a diehard fan of the genre. It is fun to see a night that used to be an escape when I was a kid become a family night out for some, and I would have never guessed it would be possible. Continue reading »
