Chicago Metal Shows of the Past: M.O.D. at The Buzzbomb Cafe, Bedford Park, IL

Another weird sort of show. The venue was supposed to be this huge deal....everyone was talking about the new all-ages venue in town. I remember the buzz first started when it was announced that Oxblood was playing there. At the time the venue was completely unknown and everyone was speculating what this new buzzbomb place was all about. All bets were on the fact that the show was going to be a bloodbath no matter where it was held. Too many different factions of Chicago skins showing up meant that something was bound to kick off. So when the show happened and a 15 person brawl broke out, nobody was really surprised. I saw a guy get knocked senseless with a barstool to the head about 3 feet away from me. I don't even know what it was over, pretty sure someone bumped into someone else in the pit the wrong way and things escalated from there. The testosterone level in that room was already off the charts.

So after the Oxblood show, the venue was quiet for awhile. I can't remember for sure whether this MOD show was before or after the Oxblood show, I want to say after. Anyways, it was a weird kind of show. Underage thrashers Diamond Plate put on a solid set as they usually do. These kids are like 15 years old and already play guitar better than you ever will. The audience was mostly mexican metalheads, nazis, and other assorted scumbags (including myself). Vicious Attack, my friend John's band played a decent set. Nothing remarkable, but for sure one of the better bands that played that night.....along with Infinite Missiles, another band that plays straight up party thrash that sounds pretty good. There were also a couple shitty random metal bands that played, which were so bad that I won't even talk about them anymore in this review. MOD played all thier more well known songs, and the song "bubble butt" literally about 30 times. The highlight of the show was when Billy Milano singled out this well known fat retarded looking nazi and called up on stage and proceeded to tell the audience that he was a dead ringer for Sloth from the Goonies. The look on nazi fatfuck's face was priceless. Overall MOD was mildly entertaining, I'm glad I saw em once, but after that it's not really worth shelling out money to see the modern day version of their band play unremarkable versions of SOD and MOD classics.