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.
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Dillinger Escape Plan: The Story Behind the Band's Iconic Flag Logo
How a skateboard and Black Flag helped shape one of heavy music's most recognizable emblems
Pantera Look Back on 'Reinventing the Steel,' Breakup and Beyond
Phil, Rex and Vinnie shared stories from Texas firebrands' final years in classic interview
YOB's Aaron Rieseberg: 6 Albums That Made Me
From Sepultura to Neurosis, doom bassist tells stories behind records that changed his life
Chelsea Wolfe on New Acoustic Album, "Embracing the Feminine and Masculine"
Singer-songwriter also talks "history of women," archaic language, tours with Ministry and A Perfect Circle