While many students came to Friday’s concert at the RAC to see Dashboard Confessional, the band that opened for them, Moonhammer, put on a great show.

Photo courtesy of Moonhammer's MySpace

The group is an Indie rock band from Austin, Texas that has strong classic rock and southern rock influences.

Frontman Willie Edwards started the band's show by playing two acoustic pieces about zombies; the first was titled “Zombie Mother.”

After playing the two acoustic songs, the rest of the band came on stage and started rocking with more songs about zombies and aliens.

Edwards told the audience that he had not seen any zombies in Georgia yet, and then went on to play a song about a zombie invasion of Antarctica.

The band had a lot of energy, the lead guitar player Dan MacCready was not afraid to shred some solos, which Edwards responded to by dancing and jumping around the stage, and drummer Eric Hueber beat the skins while wearing a wrestling mask.

Edwards, often filled the space between songs with banter about zombies or aliens, and though some of his rants were strange, it definitely added an interesting and entertaining aspect to the bands performance.

The band’s rock music was enjoyable, surprisingly catchy, and definitely a worth checking out.

For a band, who seems to have a love affair with the undead and the extraterrestrial, that I and many GSU students had not heard of before their performance at the RAC, Moonhammer exceeded my expectations.

Mark Beavers