Metal Reviews

Dudes, it was awesome! Gallhammer were so very good, I enjoyed them approximately 10x more than I do on record. They really played up the doomy and crusty side of their music, and were staggering around in their corpse paint in such a way as to generate an authentically morbid feel.

Moderately enjoyable support bands too. There was this teenage (or looked teenaged to me but I think some were early twenties) all-girl band called Severed Heaven (http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=115706) who were kind of good in parts and lame in others, but sounded like they would improve a great deal with experience. Their metal-archives page makes them look kinda lame, especially when it describes them as "death/black", when they were blatantly nothing of the sort (more like doomdeath with some core-influenced vokillz), and their official site links to all their individual myspaces

They were a Leeds band and as such the singer kept bellowing at everyone in a Northern accent to "make more noise you fucking miserable Yorkshire gits", which was really tempting fate and drawing a few boos from the Burzum shirt-clad My Dying Bride lookalikes behind me.

Then there was this fucking wacky noise band that had a Patton-aping vocalist and sounded a bit like somewhere between Merzbow, Adult Themes for Voice and Whitehead but with some chugging doom bits thrown in. Can't even remember their name.....

EDIT: That's it, The Sontaran Experiment. Named after an episode of Doctor Who, no less.

myspace is dooom

I got their latest, Cauldron, at the show, its awesome.

Death metal drums + a mix of black metal riffs (pretty sad sounding ones too) and some of those weird ved buens ende sounding chords and riffs.

I would have to say they are the best Australian black metal band i've heard.

But but you are forgetting Striborg

Oh yes of course How could i forget Striborg.................

Dangit, my buddy also said they were great.

Oh well, Des McLean's comedy stylings were pretty good too.

Keep of Kalessin 22. March

Immolation
Melechesh
Goatwhore
Sickening Horror

.:crast:.

Keep of Kalessin yesterday... They were incredibly stable, and their drummer is fucking awesome. They played some new stuff from their upcoming album and I am looking forward to it!

You lucky bastard, i gotta see them live soon. So the new material sounded good huh, would you say that they have progressed their sound or does it sound like Armada? Not that it would bother me if it sounded like something off Armada, cuz that's their best cd.

No not really, Obsidian threw in a solo or two which sounded really great. Tracklist:

Intro
Crown of the kings
Winged Watcher
Many are we
Come damnation
mark of power
anger
wealthy
ascendant
against the gods

Vital Remains, Monstrosity, Forever in Terror, Strong Intention, Dagon, Knowlyfe

Two other bands were present, but I left before they got on stage.

VT with Benton?

Nope, it was somebody else.

What a copout.

When I saw Keep of Kalessin I enjoyed them, but I thought they sounded pretty flat, and really in need of a second guitarist.

Of coure that may just be because the crowd (they were supporting Satyricon) gave them absolutely nothing. Little cunts.

Nightwish: TWO songs from the first FOUR albums. Everything else was from the last two. Jesus. They were pretty good, but Anette was unsuitable for some of the older material as you'd think. It also reiterated that I'm really not keen on a lot of stuff from the new album. Whoever Brings the Night is ick.

Down: Good show indeed. I stood at the back to avoid the "MOSHIN FOR DIME LOL" crowd but still enjoyed it a lot. No support band, just a bif screen showing 70s rock videos. Scorpions - Sails of Charon!

Sonata Arctica - 5 new songs boring, the rest of the set fantastic.

Blitzkrieg - fucking brilliant! They played songs from I presume every album, and they were all superb.

Behemoth, Dimmu and Keep of Kalessin. Keep was really damn good much better than their studio work. Behemoth was fucking amazing like usual. Dimmu playing after Behemoth leaves you let down. Behemoth has just so much more energy and Dimmu was just so uninspiring and basically boring.

Just came back from Nightwish show, which had Iced Earth opening for them.
All I have to say is Matt Barlow was awesome adn I mean really really awesome. As for Annette Olzon, She was good on the material from the last two albums but she totally massacred wishmaster.....why oh why did I have to here that !?