karohemd | Infest band reviews with photos

Destroid
Another brainchild of the ever present (at least at this festival, you couldn't go anywhere without bumping into him and he was on stage during three different sets) Daniel Myer. He was joined on stage by Steve of O.V.N.I. and Clint of Cut.Rate.Box who took care of the knob twiddling/synths.
The music was angry and hard EBM, so not really something that's interesting to watch but Myer's stage presence really saved the performance and made it interesting. Unlike Reaper the next day, the music was varied enough to remain interesting over those 45 minutes. There were changes of pace and structure, different melodies and styles so a nice and rounded set. Good stuff, will have to pick up the album at one point.

Steve of O.V.N.I. twiddling a knob

I only had my compact with me so most of the photos I took over the weekend came out too blurred to look at or over/underexposed beyond saving. Then again, I was there to enjoy the music and not to take photos so all was good.

Lab4
Were, quite frankly, shit. Watching two knob twiddlers bouncing on stage is boring enough but watching two blokes who were pretending to twiddle knobs and push buttons was just impossible. It didn't help that the sound cut out twice (although that wasn't their problem, some cable had been damaged and took out the whole board) but it just showed that they were pretending because when it came back up again, the music just continued where it had left off...
Most of the people I talked to had a similar opinion but the "Cyberdog Dandies" (as