Upon A Burning Body

The kind of intensity that is conveyed by Upon a Burning Body’s name is exactly the kind of intensity that is presented in their live performances. The Texas based band draws some influence from southern rock, but they mainly present their material with a full fledged metal mentality. As soon as Upon a Burning Body steps onto the stage a blast of loud music penetrates the airwaves and doesn’t cease until they leave the stage. Their guitars are tuned down to low pitches and cranked up to the loudest volumes. Most of their songs sound like the guitarists tune their guitars down a whole step and then drop their lowest E string to a C tuning allowing for them to play the guitar more openly, which gives their sound a more forceful delivery. The guitars, drums, and bass often play in a unified rhythm giving a layered, and more powerful sound to their performance. Their guitarists will often break off from their style of heavy rhythmic playing and will transition into face melting solos that are performed at lighting fast speeds. The band’s vocalist, Danny Leal, presents his vocals with the strongest endurance by consistently bellowing his lyrics with the deepest growl imaginable. His lyrics better convey the band’s Texas outlaw image and also reference the band’s Latino heritage.
The band’s stage image also heavily defines their southern roots. They have large longhorn cattle skulls displayed in the background and layers of red lights often wash over the stage, which gives the impression that the band is playing in a red western desert. The band members all give every bit of energy they have into the performance. They are fiercely head banging to the music and the vocalist is jumping onto amps while screaming his lyrics into the audience. The vocalist also is inciting the audience to start up mosh pits, crowd surf up to the stage, and sing out the choruses to all of the songs, and the audience happily complies to all of his wishes.
Upon a Burning Body may dress like gentlemen by sporting fashionable suits on stage, but their music and live performances convey their unruly side that makes for one exciting show.

From their very name you can probably guess that Upon A Burning Body take no prisoners: this band is not for the faint hearted. They are death, hard core metal rockers to their very core. Metal heads only: proceed. Any others, turn back. Upon A Burning Body’s live performances re every bit as frightening, energetic, powerful and crazy as their songs. From the moment the band step on to stage, the airwaves blast death core metal. As the band start to play the instrumentals prove to be every bit as forceful as the tracks they accompany. Guitarists Ruben Alvarez and Sal Dominquez are crazy on their instruments, bashing out heavy guitar riffs and exploding deep melodies. Lead singer Danny Leal has a voice so low and heavy that dogs bark when he sings. His voice knows no limits and as he belts out the lyrics, the crowd start head bashing in unison, as if joined together by an invisible metal head force. The band open with their biggest hit, ‘Turn Down For What’, which they collaborated with equally angry artist Ice Cube on, to the crowd’s wild applause.

These guys were the last show of the night. They were really who I came to see. They weren't the headliner but you could tell everyone in there was there to see them vs everyone else. Everyone knew every lyric. Great energy. Nice guys. Managed to catch Danny for a photo after the show and the stage crew got me an autograph. Definitely one of the best shows of my life. 10/10 GO SEE THEM!

Really great concert last night. The pits where wild and at one point the Deposition had everyone fight over a Popeyes chicken sandwich it got destroyed. And of course we ended the night with Texas blood money couldn’t have been better

They are so freaking awesome. Can't wait to see them when they come back to California. Chain Reaction was a legit venue, definitely wouldn't mind going there again. Intimate setting, just enough room for a nice pit!

Crazy Show .. No one else gets the audience to push their limits as far as they do
Definetly not gonna miss these guys if they decide to haunt vienna again!
Amazing shit ..