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Obituary - Frozen Alive DVD By Peter Atkinson, Contributor Wednesday, February 28, 2007 @ 6:58 PM
The Frozen Alive DVD essentially serves as a culmination to the reunion, and provides a fitting souvenir for the effort. Recorded in Poland at the tail end of the Frozen In Time touring cycle, Alive finds Obituary every bit the well-oiled death metal machine they were back in the day — and not one that needs to rely on cheap theatrics or show-boating to get the job done.
Indeed, despite ample the opportunities presented by higher-profile festival appearances, Alive was filmed at a relatively low-key club show in Warsaw — there’s no pyro, special effects or overwrought lighting set-ups. It’s just the band and about a thousand Poles getting their brains beat in.
The 23-track set captured here provides a nice mix of material, going all the way back to the old Xecutioner nugget “Find The Arise” to a half-dozen tracks from Frozen In Time, and features the deft ebb and flow from the up-tempo likes of “Back to One” to the creepy-crawly “Dying” of a veteran band at the top of their game.
The DVD’s special features are kind of a mixed bag, with a smattering of largely sedate backstage footage, a couple bonus videos (“Insane” and “On The Floor”), a tedious drum solo — is there any other kind? — from Donald Tardy and two somewhat repetitive interview segments conducted by a thickly accented Polish journalist. But the concert footage is top-notch and enormously satisfying — and, better yet, the sound is concussively clear. And that’s what really counts.
*** ½
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