Morning comes. Or perhaps afternoon. The searing New Mexico sun announces that it’s time to drag my ass out of bed/off the couch/up from the bathroom floor, walk/stumble over to my closet/suitcase/laundry pile, and find something to where to class that will in some way distinguish me from all the other bums out on Central Avenue.

If I was lucky enough to fall asleep in my jeans, half the problem is solved outright (yay! denim karmas.) I have a fairly nice collection of t-shirts, most of which are reasonably inoffensive without labeling me as a square; the trick now is to match the size and tightness of the shirt with the jeans in question. Anything with a deodorant stain is tossed back, until time or scrubbing remove the marring whiteness. If I have a particular shirt in mind, such as my favorite Turisas concert tee, I may spare the energy to distinguish it from the aggregate mass of black, inside-out fabric, but my perpetual chillness may preclude such toil. A ponytail, one of four bandannas for a splash of color (or auxiliary blackness, contingently,) and a smile-inducing bout of coffee and Finnish metal where time allows, and I’m off on the commute to UNM.

The caffeine should be hitting by the time I enter class, and I’m starting to groove out on Kant or Heidegger (much more likely the latter – I have little stomach for realist apologetics.) The prof is probably fairly decently dressed, buttons or a collar, nothing too elaborate. Jesse’s looking clean-cut – that bastard always gets the ladies’ attention. The department greets me with a wealth of aesthetics: short hair and earrings, dreads and bandannas, ink and ponytails, nice jeans and a button shirt.

Occasionally, it dawns on me that I should make some effort to be “more professional” – no, that’s not it, there are at least three other dudes in here dressed straight outta hippie quarterly. I’ve shit-canned the wearing of jeans with holes in them in a classroom context; that should help. I guess I find myself coming off as – aggro? Grungy? Neo-cynicist – yes.

I don’t, as a rule, believe in extraneous social controls qua fashion. Still, I’m here on a fucking mission: I’ve got my warhammer, I’m doing my drills, I’m honing my philosophy for battle in the harsh academic jungle. Do I want to be the guy that comes in and whispers “yo dude…embrace the chill,” or do I want to turn some heads and drop some jaws? Is it possible to salvage this aesthetic with a layer of grey/black button shirts? Will the addition of a necklace successfully fool people into thinking I put effort into this ragtag ensemble?

Damn…I usually don’t put this much thought into these things; I’m starting to feel out of character. Image is power, illusion is power; so is centeredness, authenticity. I have come to join the UNM Lobos in prowling the forests of the academe. To run with the wolves – must I dress like a sheep?

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The live performance of a song on Wacken has been uploaded to their youtube account! I haven’t seen this myself, just found it and want to share!

edit: Nappa’s english is cute :p

The four dudes of Thai Rockband Retrospect are breaking down the borders for the first time since their start. They’re on the bill of the next Wacken Open Air in Germany. Nothing special? Well, consider the fact it’s their first trip to the continent, the festival attracts about 70.000 guests and it has been sold out ever since november last year. Are they up for succes? A quick/small recap of their career so far, so even the people who don’t know them can easily get to know them.

Retrospect is a band residing in Bangkok, Thailand. Ever since their start in 2000, the boys – or guys – from Retrospect have been able to astonish people with their own Retrorian style. (Retrorian is also the name of their fanclub and the song Yes Sir! is kind of their fanclub chant :p) Their first EP called For Your Ears Only got released through ScreamLab Records in the summer of 2003. It immediately gave attention to the young band and an English Demo called For Your Ears Anytime was a fact. Not that much later they got signed by Genie Records, a GMM Grammy subsidiary and one of the leading Thai record Labels, and were able to put out their first full-length Unleashed in 2007. Their first DVD: The First Concert, showed the boys in their natural habitat and showed a lot of their talent by letting them do duets and featurings with other Genie stars as Da Endorphine and Tao from Sweet Mullet

More recently, in July 2008, came the follow up to their debut: Rise and in December of the same year they released their second DVD/VCD of the new tour called Rise Now! They easily end up in the Thai charts with their music-videos and singles and often stand out in-between the more Pop-orientated Thai culture. Retrospect took Thailand by storm and will not rest before the rest of the world has heard of them. Like I said before, they’re booked for the giant Rock-festival Wacken Open Air in Germany and so their popularity outside Thailand can only start to increase. (They’re playing on the 31st of July, second day of Wacken between Tristania and Mago de Oz on the Party Stage)

Thailand is multicultural. Pop, Rock and Rap easiy go together and are incorporated in the same song. Retrospect tries grabbing the best things out of every genre and put them together at their live shows. Either classical VieTrio, beatboxing Chin Chinawuth or pop rocking Da Endorphine are easily mixed into Retrospect’s harder music.In their latest DVD they even featured one of their youngest fans: Poom, screaming along with Singer Nap’s screams. That said, Nap’s screams are sure to give everyone goosebumps and the vocal parts are easy to sing along to. Now all we have to do left is study Thai and get to know what they’re actually singing about.

Members:
Chanattha Saisila/Nappa (Vocals)
Nopawach Gajajiva/Bom (Bass)
Tanapol Srikanjana/Not (Guitar)
Suttipan Sangyut/Birth (Drums)

For fans: Underoath, Alesana, blessthefall, Sweet Mullet Recommended: Raeng kub kluen en Pror wa ruk Discography: For Your Ears only (2003) For Your Ears Anytime (2003), Unleashed (2007), Rise (2008)
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Next are some snippets of earlier work, DVD’s and of course the little Retrorian kid. Enjoy and don’t forget to go and watch them if you’re going Wacken this year! (BTW, could it be possible they intended to go to Germany because some German fans showed up on a Thai concert?)

Retrospect has posted another video on their youtube account. For the people who hope to see some footage (Except for like a few seconds in the beginning), I have to disappoint you. It’s just a 7min interview (in thai) about Wacken I suppose. Can anyone translate? :p

It’s been nearly a month since Thai Rockers from Retrospect performed on the big Wacken Festival in Germany, and still we can’t really find any footage of the concert. I’m trying my best to show you things, but they’re not making it easy for me.

The guys of Retrospect, however, are releasing things little by little, and I hope that we won’t have to wait very long anymore before we’re able to seen footage of their European Debut!

A picture of some concert footage I haven’t been able to find

And another one of those Wacken pictures:

Bring Me The Horizon played after Retrospect but it seems like they did meet backstage. Care to go on tour together?

(And can I honestly say that Nappa and Birth are small? Cause I know for a fact that Oli Sykes isn’t tall either. Oh well. Asians.)

2009, and the festival season is drawing to the end. With quite “meh” inducing line ups across the board, Bloodstock Open Air is standing out at the moment as having both an eclectic and strong line-up (Europe-Cradle-Carcass…..wat!?), that should have appealed to metal fans pretty much across the whole board. Maybe some more hardcore type bands wouldn’t have gone amiss, but I guess that would be in opposition to the festivals stance as being a “true” metal festival. Still, there was a huge range of bands here, with plenty going on to ensure that there was never a dull moment. Definitely one of the best line ups this summer.

Bloodstock has continued to grow considerably year upon year, and it’s definitely nothing like the festival it was back in its inception in 2005. However, more people, more size, and bigger bands has bought new trouble and obstacles for the festival. Not only was there an epidemic of theft in the campsites, with many people having reported money being stolen from inside their very tents while they slept, and the possibility of an organized “raid” on the sites by an outside group who were able to scale the security and make it in being raised, but there was also the very concerning event of a band being targeted by some serious projectiles. Bottle throwings are pretty much accepted at festivals now, but this was an everlasting gobstopper, which, despite sounding pretty hilarious as a missile, was actually very heavy, and could have potentially seriously injured someone.

The organizers have their work cut out and some serious security issues to address, before the reputation of the festival takes a serious fall. After all that the festival has gone through, it would be a shame for it to have to suffer this.

Anyway, enough of the gloom, the Headbang team, and many other people we know who were there, had a fantastic time, and so with no further ado, here is the overview of the festival and most importantly, the heavy f***ing metal.

Kicking off the festival for us, Blitzkrieg are the quintessential dad band. Pretty generic everything really, apart from their front man that is. Unfortunately in this case that’s not a good thing, the singer ruined for me what was a perfectly adequate band musically, with his unusual moshing and frankly disturbing kneeslaps I couldn’t help but feel I was watching the very personification of Peter Kay’s Uncle Knobhead up on stage. I swiftly left and got a beer. (5/10)

I’ve seen Insomnium before, so I’m aware they can definitely do much better than this. Maybe it was the sterile sound and poor levelling, maybe the sound guys hadn’t quite calibrated everything; it was still a pretty sub par performance. The Finns just lacked something. One guitar way louder than the other, vocals too high in the mix, pretty untight performance. Lacklustre. (4/10)

Something you can always rely on to get the party started anywhere, is Municipal Waste. The nu-thrashers kick the afternoon something fierce, with pits, crowd surfing, walls of death and all kinds of fun carnage. Token Municipal Waste fans as always make an appearance with beach inflatables to surf the waves upon waves of humans, adding to the flesh landfill. Highlight of the set was Tony Foresta calling for the crowd to break the world record for crowd surfers in one song, resulting in something that looked like the helms deep scene from Lord Of the Rings, with something like 400 odd crowd surfers in one song. (8/10)

Despite being a self-admitted ‘rock band not metal band’ Alternative Carpark rip up the B.O.A unsigned stage. If you haven’t seen these guys yet…you’re missing out! (8/10)

For a first UK show in 20 years you’d expect Sodom to have longer than 45 minutes…but then again this a UK festival…The band however overlook this small detail and show us what we’ve missed. Considering that a large amount of the audience were either still in nappies or swimming around as little sperm the last time Sodom set foot on UK soil. A common ‘patch favorite’ the band leave us all wanting more and hoping they don’t wait another two decades. Opening with “Napalm in the Morning” to rapturous applause, the band thrashed though what felt like a very well thought out and inclusive set. Even bass failure couldn’t stop them, Tom Angelripper switching mid song at the beginning of the set, to another bass with the same pictured ridiculous wide strap. While Municipal Waste may have had youth and energy, Sodom have experience and wisdom (whatever that means in thrash metal), and frankly better written songs to choose from. Felt special man! (9/10)

The Sophie Lancaster stage played host to the smallest number of acts but also some of the best performances. Young brit metallers Malefice are fully on top of their game, within 30 seconds of opener ‘The Midas Effect’ the tent is already packed to the brim. Roll on October… (8/10)
Arch Enemy surprised me with their performance this year, having seen them play a mediocre set in 2007 I was questioning whether I should bother wasting my carcass energy watching them, I was glad I did though. They put on a belting performance, with frontwoman Angela Gossow holding the audience in the palm of her hand (I heard the fat spotty guy next to me whisper ‘I’d do her’ to his similarly greasy friend-I though ‘you’d probably do Michael Ammott if he was covered in whipped cream tubsy’), but that’s another story. All in all a belting performance, and for me put Carcass into the shade a little.(10/10)

As a long time Carcass fan, they could probably take to the stage and play a set of Proclaimers covers and I’d still give them a 10 and say it’s the best I’ve seen them in the last couple of years. They were definitely as good as all the other shows they played since reforming, albeit with a more gory slideshow this time, which made me giggle with glee. Deformed penises, autopsies, and gore aplenty. Jeff Walker and his token cynicism makes for a brilliant frontman, and seems pretty down to earth for someone who spent the best part of a decade stealing medical references from text books and writing about bodily functions that seem nasty even when you have no idea what the hell they’re describing. All the classics were there, “Rotten to the Gore”, “Corporeal Jigsore Quandary”, “Reek of Putrefaction” et al, and as always, Ken Owen made an appearance to play a drum solo. Its nice to see that the solo gets better each time I see them, showing progress in his recovery from the 1999 brain haemorrhage he suffered. He even played a blast beat, which was probably about on par with the quality of drums on an early Morbid Angel demo. After the set they projected a film of a female body being cut open to classical music. (10/10)

Seeming like a self-admitting Anvil tribute act (they all wore Anvil shirts for one) Wolf are enjoyable but well just enjoyable really. There’s not much more to say. (6/10)

The Haunted were a lovely wake up call on a bright and breezy Saturday afternoon, after a brew and a bacon butty we wandered down to catch a very aggressive set which left all the crowd with their previous nights hangovers forgotten and there forthcoming drunkenness eagerly anticipated. The only downer for me was that some knobhead stood next to me had made it his business to personally inform all 10,000 BOA festival goers that he owned the same guitar head as the two guitarists from the Haunted. It wouldn’t have been so bad were it not that it was HB’s own Eyelicker! (8/10)

It may sound conceited to say that Entombed are unappreciated..but its true. Literally hundreds of band’s owe their existence to the likes of these guys and the music they created in the latter end of the 80’s. (8/10)

Candlemass even if they are ‘slow dad metal’ are superb. Seamlessly mixing old with new the doom metal veterans make even a beautiful day sound gloomy and melancholic. (8/10)

On the way back to the tent, I was walking past the unsigned stage and heard some sick drumming. Being one to always try new things, I popped in to witness Sanctorum. They play a kind of extreme thrash metal, with wicked technicality. Every member of the band held his own incredibly well, most notably the bassist with his 7 string behemoth of an instrument. A thoroughly enjoyable set, check them out! (7/10)

With a reputation for hit and miss live performances its difficult to know what to expect from German thrash overlords Kreator however we must have caught Mike and co on a good day. Tearing through ‘Hordes Of Chaos’, ‘Pleasure To Kill’ and ‘Flag Of Hate’ its thrash metal heaven. (9/10)

I’d been waiting to see Apocalyptica for a long time. Having fully got over the ‘novelty act’ these Finnish cellists put a performance that makes you think they’re headlining. Mixing covers (‘Refuse/ Resist’, ‘Whever I May Roam’ the list goes on) with some stunning original material it’s a honour to watch. Set highlights? The ‘One’ solo played note for note on cello and the band’s own adaption of ‘Hall Of The Mountain King’. (10/10)

I’ve played with Severed Heaven before, so had to check them out. Glad to see that the girls can still kick it with their brand of gothic death metal, full of subtle melodies and harmonies. I think there may have even been a couple of sly breakdowns in there too. Last band of the day on the stage, and they played like they were headlining! (8/10)

The Rotted’s position as a favored “cult” band, in the English extreme metal scene seems to be proven by the huge crowd that packs into the humble Sophie Lancaster stage. From the beginning they slay the place with insanely fast blastbeats and Ben McCrow’s harsh, almost punk like vocals. The band are as animated as the crowd, and doesn’t let anyone rest for a second. Beginning with “Nothin’ but a Nosebleed”, possibly the best song ever for smashing into a crowd, and throwing in a Gorerotted classic “Only Tools and Corpses”, everyone leaves having had several shades of shit beat out of them, and with huge smiles. (10/10)

The apprehension for Cradle Of Filth was…tense…to say the least. Largely shunned by the wider “scene”, as being too mainstream/not Kvlt enough or whatever myriad of reasons they have, I was hoping that the set would play out without incidence. Unfortunately, this was not so, as you’ve probably heard by now, some knobead took out one of their guitarists with an everlasting gobstopper, another victory for metalhead bigotry and puritania. In the 40 or so minutes before this cutting their set short however, they put on a surprisingly solid set. I’ve heard that they are terrible live, so found what I did see quite a pleasant surprise. Alright levelling, Dani’s vocals sounded pretty good, and some tight drumming. Just a big shame about the crowd of knobeads! Even before the gobstopper there were plenty of bottles, but the band played on and didn’t seem rankled in the slightest. “If you’re going to throw bottles, at least make sure they’re full” Could have been a really good set. (5/10)

After a surprisingly good nights sleep in the back of my van I was up eagerly anticipating seeing Sabaton for the first time since Wacken 08, ( a performance incidentally, of which I remember very little), despite the one guy who was severely packed into his Sabaton ‘costume’ I still enjoyed being in the crowd for a band that is one of the few power metal bands I enjoy. And boy did they put on a great show, for me half hour was a disgrace and the fact that their signing session went on for well over 45 minutes after it was scheduled to stop galvanises my view. They played all the classics and some of their best off the brilliant ‘Art of War’ and whilst I loved the show it was soured a bit when I found out that they were to be touring the UK beneath Dragonforce later in the year, aside from that shutout they were brilliant. (10/10)

Equilibrium received a very warm welcome for their first ever UK show, with plenty of fans turning out to show the Germans some love. This isn’t a massive surprise, considering the Bloodstock demograph’s love of folk metal, but they milked it well to play an awesome show. (8/10)

It’s true that Turisas can certainly work a crowd like putty but with what seems like a self-inflicted ‘encore’ you’re left with a sour taste that the band have gotten too big for their (fur skin) boots. (7/10)

With a somewhat flat sound and a slightly apathetic audience Anterior struggle, fantastic on record, their eclectic mix of influences doesn’t quite cut it with the B.O.A crowd. (6/10)

The last band I gave a balls about was Amon Amarth who put on a typically solid tight performance which had the whole crowd bouncing, to be frank I’ve seen these lads more times than I’ve changed my socks, (at the last count it was five) and they do seem to improve with every wash, as it were. Very enjoyable and well received and singer Johan Hegg somehow manages to look quite hard considering he is a fat bloke in a tight black tanktop. (9/10)

It was a shame that there was practically no one in the Sophie Lancaster stage to witness Darkness Dynamite, a practically unknown over here French band who play a kind of rocky deathcore, that refuses to be pigeonholed. The band however didn’t seem to really care about the lack of people though, and played a great energetic set, for the few who were there to lap up as their own little secret. Detuned, tight and heavy, this band deserves to be bigger than this, French metal is grossly under represented! (9/10)

Quite why black metal legends Satyricon are playing now isn’t clear, but that doesn’t matter, what does matter is that Saytr and Frost are back with a new band, a new(ish) album, and a crowd who’ve certainly missed them. A mere hour set doesn’t do them justice. (9/10)

Many eyebrows were raised (and have remained so) at the billing of Europe as festival headliners. Nevertheless the band use their 90 minutes well and by the time it gets round to playing that song (yes you know the one I mean) the crowd go wild. As a LED lightboard declares that its ‘About f**king time!’ we retire to our tents with the sound of classic rock still ringing in our ears. (8/10)

As well as the music, there were plenty of other great things on display. Comedians, a set by the infamous “fuel girls”, who we last saw breathing fire at Motorhead’s Wacken set, a motorbike being driven round the inside of a metal ball courtesy of monster energy drinks, as well as a pleasant enough chippie, a shisha café, and everyone’s favorite brew stop, Mr Tea.

Despite being ‘bigger than ever’ this year Bloodstock is still relatively small for the band’s it attracts and it never ceases to amaze that you can turn up and buy tickets on the door…still its everyone who didn’t go’s loss! Throughout the weekend band’s declared B.O.A to be a ‘true f**king metal festival, non of that fashion bulls**t’ *cough*Download*cough*. the metal faithful remain true. So thanks it is to the press guys, the crew, the bands and course…the one and only…hero of the weekend…MR TEA!

James Hodgeson, Eyelicker and Mr Bogle

Thanks also to John Wilson and Alicia Rovira-Parker

Special thanks as well to Adam Sagir of the Noise Cartel, for hitting us up with the press passes, and the opportunities to hang out with members of The Rotted, Municipal Waste and The Haunted, as well as the interview with Equilibrium!

It’s only a big picture though, but it is something!

And This was their setlist!

01.แค่นิยาย/Tales
02.ความฝันของเรา/Kwam fun kong rao
03.ขอ/Kor
04.เปลือก/Pluek
05.ลุกขึ้นสู้/Look kuen soo
06.Yes Sir! (Wacken Version)
07.คนบนฟ้า/Khon bon fah
08.พรุ่งนี้ไม่สำคัญ/Tomorrow isn’t important
09.เพราะว่ารัก/Pror wa ruk
10.ไม่มีเธอ/Mai mee ter
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ENCORE
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total : 55 minutes

What could the wacken version possibly be? I hope that they played the Run in their Encore. At least those lucky bastards at Wacken got Pror Wa Ruk, Yes Sir! and Mai Mee Ter. I’m filled with envy.

After these whole two weeks of searching the net, finding absolutely no footage of their Wacken performance, I came across some comments and noticed the band has made quite some impact.

People calling Retrospect their highlight – knowing there were over 200 bands on the festival site – and saying they have to come to England – or any other place in the world – and tour. As well as comments on Last.fm Stating they should tour the world together with label-mates Sweet Mullet. Now all we are wondering about is: why won’t they?

I also couldn’t keep myself from posting this thingy. It looked like they had some fun, will it mean they’ll do anything to return?

Few online comments:

heu guys from the uk, bristol
i really love your music and all my friends do tooo
we really want you to tour the UK
I think the excitmentg of dir en grey touring with kerrang your get the same or even more respect will be amazing to seee you guys
cheeers
john xxxxx

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Greetings from Berlin
Silke

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Best gig I..ve seen on W:O:A ! Respect, Retrospect harhar!
Best Regards, Mark and Hatedotcom

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W:O:A was great!
Jan

Thai Rockband Retrospect’s trip to Wacken is over and I’m here to tell you something.

Bummer. As far as I’m concerned the guys of Retrospect did great on this year’s Wacken festival. Though I have to admit I wasn’t even there, I haven’t found any clips on the internet and I’m just biased. For now I’ve only seemed to be able to find a little note. It’s just them talking in some not-understandable Thai and I believe greeting and thanking the European audience.

You can expect more when I find it as I’m willing to spread some Retrospect-love!

#13 Turisas – The Varangian Way

Hailing from Hämeenlinna Finland come the vicious battle metallers Turisas.  If you don’t know about these guys then you should find out ASAP.  There’s nothing better to bang your head to, or pump your fist to than Turisas’ 2007 release The Varangian Way.   

Right from the beginning “To Holmgard and Beyond” tells you that this album will be filled with battle horns and triumphant melodies.  Mathias “Warlord” Nygård is fantastic on vocals using both his beautiful classic clean singing and piercing screams and growls.  After giving this album regular listens I realized that behind the face paint and elaborate costumes is a band capable of making amazing music that utilizes modern metal and Finnish folk melodies.  The diversity of instruments is another strong point for Turisas.  They use violin and accordion perfectly, avoiding a gimmicky sound.  The orchestral programming is also amazing adding an unrelenting epic feeling to this album.  This also helps support a full sound for the band as they only have one guitarist.

 The Varangian Way gave me chills on more than one occasion and was a definite inspiration before many hockey games.  This is one of the best folk metal albums I’ve ever heard, and that’s saying a lot.

UPDATE! YES SIR! LIVE AT WACKEN (Click it)

Whole Retrospect section moved to new post!

Chulainn is a one-man project from France, creating the type of music you would hear as a soundtrack or score to an epic film. The music is very impressive considering it is all done in a home studio! There does not seem to be much information on him but it is evident he is heavily influenced by symphonic metal (particularly Nightwish & Epica), folk metal (particularly Turisas & Eluveitie) & also Hans Zimmer. I highly recommend taking the time to listen to what he has up on MySpace if you’re a fan of any of these genres or film scores in general!

MySpace

And I should warn you, I enjoy metal entirely unironically.

Lordi won Eurovision 2006 with this:

I love the wings/hat combo.  But really, I prefer the official music video, and not just because of the extremely pretty girl.  Deadite cheerleaders are just indisputably cool.

Also cool and Finnish is Nightwish, symphonic metal formerly fronted by the classically trained opera soprano vocals of Tarja Turunen:

and currently adequately fronted by Anette Olzon:

Alestorm may have invented the subgenre of pirate metal.

But for Viking metal, the go-to guys are Turisas from, you guessed it, Finland, the most metal country on Earth.

Since we’ve got the first two thirds of a nautical trifecta going on here, this looks like a good place to insert Mastodon, who made a thoroughly badass album based on Moby Dick.  “THIS IVORY LEG IS WHAT PROPELS ME!  HARPOONS THRUST IN THE SKY!”

The Sword are local boys, though they’re off touring at present.

And being the enormous Bob Howard fan that I am, you know I’m gonna dig a song called “How Heavy This Axe.”

Also local are the Lions, who I saw live once in an epically crappy little dive in Denton, where they totally kicked ass in front of a tiny audience.

And while we’re at it, here’s the forefathers.

I’m pretty sure Prof. T. would not have been a fan of Zeppelin’s music (or Jimmy Page’s fascination with magic in general and Aleister Crowley in particular) but they were sure big fans of his, as evidenced by the fact that the went ahead and recorded a song about the Battle of the Pellenor Fields (and another one called “Misty Mountain Hop,” and another one where they talk about Gollum stealing their girl…).

And finally, because I skipped Robert E. Howard Monday, and because I’m also a big Lovecraft fan, we’ll close with Bal-Sagoth:

1. As Torches Rise (Live at Ruisrock 2008) 5:24
2. To Holmgard and Beyond (Live at Nummirock 2008) 5:26
3. A Portage to the Unknown (Live at Ilosaarir. 2008) 5:37
4. The Messenger (Live at Wanaja Festival 2008) 4:42
5. One More (Live at Nummirock 2008) 7:10
6. In the Court of Jarisleif (Live at Ruisrock 2008) 6:23
7. Fields of Gold (Live at Ilosaarirock 2008) 4:47
8. The Dnieper Rapids (Live at Nummirock 2008) 5:22
9. The Land of Hope and Glory
(Live at Voimasointu Festival 2008) 6:26
10. Miklagard Overture (Live at Nummirock 2008) 11:12
11. Sahti-Waari (Live at Ilosaarirock 2008) 3:33
12. Rasputin (Live at Ruisrock 2008) 7:34
13. Battle Metal (Live at Nummirock 2008) 6:56

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1. Rasputin (Boney M cover) 03:56
2. Battle Metal 04:23

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1. The Heart of Turisas 04:35
2. Till the Last Man Falls 05:26
3. Those Were the Days 04:04

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1- To Holmgard And Beyond
2- A Portage To The Unknown
3- Cursed Be Iron
4- Fields Of Gold
5- In The Court Of Jarisleif
6- Five Hundred And One
7- The Dnieper Rapids
8- Miklagard Overture

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1. Victoriae & Triumphi Dominus 01:27
2. As Torches Rise 04:51
3. Battle Metal 04:23
4. The Land Of Hope And Glory 06:22
5. The Messenger 04:42
6. One More 06:50
7. Midnight Sunrise 08:15
8. Among Ancestors 05:16
9. Sahti-Waari 02:28
10. Prologue Of R R R 03:09
11. Rexi Regi Rebellis 07:10
12. Katuman Kaiku 02:22

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“Metal musi być troche wieśniacki” – powiedział kiedyś klasyk gatunku, czyli Tytus z Acid Drinkers. W niedzielę, 19 kwietnia wieśniackości, czy w ogóle obciachu przybyli do Stodoły mieli pod dostatkiem. Tego dnia w klubie pojawiło się The Darkest Tour, czyli zestaw 4 metalowych formacji, co ciekawe każda w sumie z nieco innej bajki.

Odpuściłem pierwszy band, czyli thrashowy Dead Shape Figure. Do Stodoły dotarłem w trakcie występu formacji Turisas. Zaskoczenie było mocne, bowiem ujrzałem hordy blackmetalowców wesoło hasające do folk – metalowych piosenek fińskiej kapeli. Ech, wesoło było, a miało być mrocznie. Hmm… A ludzie się świetnie bawili, chyba najlepiej w wszystkich formacji.

Turisas w Stodole.

Zaraz po wesołkach z Turisas na scenie zainstalowali się mroczni Portugalczycy z Moonspell. Ciekawe, ze kraj taki słoneczny, a oni tacy smutni, nie? Choć gitarzysta się trochę momentami zapominał .

Moonspell w Stodole/kliknij na zdjęcie, aby zobaczyć całą galerię.

Wuchta wiary była na Moonspelu, ale potem spora część wyszła, co mogło nieco zaskoczyć, bo przecież na scenie zainstalowali się gwiazdorzy z Cradle Of Filth i zaczął się pseudohorrorowy show.

Moonspell w Stodole.

Najzabawniejszy moment koncertu Kredek? Chyba ten, gdy zza kotary wyszedł osobnik, ubrany jak kobieta – kot (ale może to był Batman, albo jego mroczny pomocnik?) i zaczął krzesać iskry w kierunku Danny’ego. Kurde, nie dałem rady powstrzymać parsknięcia śmiechem…

Cradle Of Filth w Stodole/kliknij na zdjęcie, aby zobaczyć całą galerię.

No cóż, miało być groźnie, a było żenująco. Scenografia, jak na mój gust, mocno niesmaczna.  Muzycznie średniawka. Cały szoł raczej w stylu zabawy dla gimnazjalistów, niż sensownego koncertu.

Dobra, jeszcze jedno zdjęcie małego Daniego, który chyba chce być następcą małego Ronniego…

Cradle Of Filth w Stodole.

Spragnionych większej ilości “groźnych” fot kieruję do galerii.