Eighty Stillborn Dreams
Element Eighty and Stillborn Nursery – Dreamworld Music Complex 6-21-02 by Lasrie

I have seen both of these bands numerous times and they never fail to deliver. First off is Stillborn Nursery. This band plays better in bigger venues. I saw them once before at Jucy Lucy’s and it was a good performance but it lacked something. I mean, Stillborn has 7 members and they need room for the madness they create. Well, Dreamworld is the perfect place for them with its enormous stage. They went through their brutal set with ease for a crowd which was much smaller than the last time I saw them. The seven piece had the theatrics that most Dallas bands stray from, with its sampler named Wrath in his cage and the band itself wearing Slipknot style uniforms that have the seven deadly sins written on them. Overall good performance, a band I feel many should check out.

On to Element Eighty, who played their set with thier trademark style that never fails to get the crowd going. From the first notes of Rubbertooth, to the madness of Dummy Block and of course the radio favorite Echo Song, which got the band its start. The new material is much more aggressive than E-80's debut album, Mercuric. Besides the new songs on their demo, they played a new song called Good-Bye, which just shows the band is getting much better with experience. They ended the night with the anthem Bloodshot, which sent the crowd into a frenzy. As I said earlier, the crowd was unusually small for Dreamworld, but that did not effect E-80s performance. Good things are in the future for this band, their live shows are proof.