Times Square is world famous for its towering billboards, Naked Cowboy and camera-toting, souvenir-hungry visitor hordes. But on Thursday, March 7th, the Midtown tourist Mecca played host to an altogether different sort of company: the Decibel Magazine Tour 2019 boasting the tasty extreme-metal lineup of Blood Incantation, Necrot, Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel. Hate Eternal's Erik Rutan played with Corpse, taking up lead guitar duties in the place of embattled shredder Pat O'Brien, while frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fischer worked out his already inhuman-sized neck with a regimen of windmill headbanging. As for co-headliners Morbid Angel, they appeared helmed by vocalist-bassist Steve Tucker, who rained brutality through a set that spanned from classic cuts like "Abominations" to uncompromising recent singles such as "Piles of Little Arms." Photographer Nathaniel Shannon was there in the pit to capture all the sweaty action — see an array of his gnarly and epic pics below.
Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse: See Epic Photos of Death-Metal Titans in NYC
Necrot and Blood Incantation joined the fun at Time Square's PlayStation Theater
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Killswitch Engage: Inside Jesse Leach's Return, Making of 'Disarm the Descent'
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Demon Hunter's Ryan Clark: 5 Great Non-Metal Albums for Metalheads
From the inspiration for his vibrato to one of his favorite dance records
Ghostemane: Genre-Smashing Artist on Vision and Inspiration Behind 'N/O/I/S/E'
Read Eric Ghoste's hard-hitting first-person manifesto
From Warzones to Mosh Pits: The Evolution of Jinjer's Tatiana Shmailyuk
How growing up poor in post-USSR Ukraine shaped one of metal's most powerful rising voices
Killswitch Engage: Inside Jesse Leach's Return, Making of 'Disarm the Descent'
Leach: "Being in Killswitch today is worlds apart from what it was 10 years ago"
Demon Hunter's Ryan Clark: 5 Great Non-Metal Albums for Metalheads
From the inspiration for his vibrato to one of his favorite dance records