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I often have to wonder,
about the generell interest at Hardrock- and Heavy Metal concerts. Some
of these artists torture themselves through many dates, with only about
50 guests, while other's just lift up their hands to show the usual metal
finger sign, and the Headbanging avarage consumer runs amok with all his
or her
enthusiasm. And if this last mentioned case happens and same
night, Motörhead are playing just 5 air miles aways, then it definately
means something. To get it straight: while all these good old Power
Metal Bands rather crawl on a hard road in our country here, the
Thrashmetal liga celebrates, what we call a third spring time. Holy shit,
I don't promise too much to you my friends of the sophisticated noise
level loveable thrashmetal philosophy. -
So let Motörhead get boiled in Lemmy's left shoe, but we do celebrate
another big bang in a miniformat at the much more intimate Backstage
Werk. But all this with a heavyness that even Osmium melts like
candlewachs underneath the christmas tree. Here we got four softi... eh
sorry, hard boiled eggs, who have gathered for this concert trip to
present us more than 20 shows here in Europe providing a melodic
flowerbunch of sweet metal music.... yeah well - sort of :-)))
Same time we've got a generation clash here. While headliner Kreator,
Exodus and Death Angel are alltogether lively and very fit relicts from
the Eighties, and who currently earn such a great fan respond here in
Europe, as they used to get back then, - Suicidal Angels are a rather
young act on the thunderstorm front.
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Yes well, if you can describe 9 years on the run as rather new....
But
while the rest of the bands (most of them) have crossed the magic fourty
already, - Odysseus, Achillen and Hermes belong to the young generation.
Well, real name of the Frontbird is Nick Melissourgos, the six string is handled by Panos
Spanos and the four strings by Angel Kritsotakis. And then there is
drummer Orpheas Tzortzobpoulos. Eieiei - greek language, difficult
language. But don't worry, these Athen's boys have chosen the
international communication, which is of course english. And that one
again certainly belongs to the generell education nowadays as well as a
driving licence does. Anyway, Greek's Thrash export can show off 3 demos, 2 EPs
and 3 studioalbums. And their name is not that unknown anymore.
Maybe
that's why the respond of the youthful audiance is a very good one at
this early hour. I for my part can't find anything really extraordinary,
but the Vibe is okay and has lid up the sold out place (1.200 fans). And
that's the most important thing, isn't it?.
http://www.suicidalangels.com/
Death Angel
start off, where Suicidal Angels had finished, but with even more engine.
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And the
steamboat is speeding with about 150 knots around the Backstage Werk -
Cape Hoorn, lead by Captain Hook a.k.a. Mark Osegueda, who could easily
participate at the next light athletics worldchampionship and catch a
medal there...
This american party combo with philippin roots has not much changed
visually since the Eighties - well done - and our Captain reflects a hell
of a lot good mood in each way like an exploding bonfire.
Everything could be so nice, if the average living room lights would be
feed with a bit more energy. But unfortunately it's not. And while there
are dozens of flashlights in the first fan rows used by fans and their
mini cams, we photographers are not allowed to use any flash unless you don't wear an AAA pass round
your neck :-)) But that's life, and there is no time to complain about
it.
Death Angel put their focus on their latest release 'Relentless
Retribution'. But they do also perform tracks as 'Voracious Souls' or 'Evil
Priest' from the 1987 debut record 'the Ultra Violence'. So you can say,
this is a loose retrospective of the band's back cataloge, as far as the
short showtime does allow this.
Thrashmetal
whatsoever, but Mr.Osequeda himself is already a guarantee bonus for
much fun on stage and also off stage.
Hey Mark: Parlez vous francais? Yeah well, I think, that's one thing, we
still got learn first....:-)
http://deathangel.us/
And here we are - the uncrowned sheiks of Exodus, who almost seem a
little static on the dinner plate - after the Happy Go Lucky -number of
Death Angel. But that's only for some first minutes.
And those grumpy looking faces of our Oldies hold up the average image care.
Exspecially frontbird Rob Dukes provides the bad boy image best
including his "skinny shape" and his up to date hair creation like Kojak meety
Yul Brunner - yeah well almost. But thowing this dark glimpse onto the
audiance could make some Jack the Ripper jealous. And his battering
tenor gets all plastic beer beakers burst into pieces.
Okay, okay, let's get serious again. Exodus do own something, what we
call a legend status in some ways, although they have gonne as
well through
the past and still going on economy crisis as many others. The good thing about them is,
that they don't take a rest, but still work their butts off to hold on
tight onto their believe and reputation.
These
guys go for a best off.... program. And they only do 3 tracks from the
new CD 'the Human Condition' . Therefore we get smashed the classic
tunes 'A Lesson In Violence' or 'Strike Of The Beast' around our ears.
Drummer
Tom Hunting is responsible for the engine, while Lee Altus and Gary Holt
put the oil into the flame, which again - including Rob Dukes pushing up
the fans, developing a true moshpit in this place. Somehow Exodus seem to
stand above everything -untouchable and holy - (for the fans) That's why
I'm somehow surprised, that this band hasn't reached a status like
Slayer yet or other's of that kind. Hey, maybe this is because of some
things beyond controll, who knows.... or just unlucky coincidences.
In my opinion, these guys should be at least one cathegory higher as
they are situated right now.
But
well, Exodus are winners in here and right now anway. And I presume the next
round of their continuing battle in the system will happen in a not too
far away future.
Let's put it that way: bless Europe....
http://exodusattack.com/
The last in line is Kreator, your favorite band from Essen,
as Mille announces withing the set.
But
first of all... it's Johnny Cash, having the first word with his
undestroyable 'The Man Comes Around', which is accompanied by a neat
little film, showing some backstage activities. Yep, it goes well down.
And as we know, different things are usually drawn to each other...
What
follows then is a typical Kreator show with the same chlichee
anouncements inbetween, as Exodus used to provide.But the big difference
is, that Mille does 'em in german, and so they get much more noticed...
And if you think a headliner has the most light on stage, then you're
terribly wrong in our case here. I've rather got the feeling, the later
the evening, the lower the lights. So ready to go for a happy swearing
orgy of mine and some other photographers about the
circumstances.
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