What band are you gonna see live next?

[Thelemech]

Power Trip? Never heard of them, but I'll make a mental note to catch them then...

They are a young Thrash band with a ton of attitude and a touch of Punk.

[JSTHECONQUEROR]

I am hoping to see Alice In Chains for the 3rd time on 4/20 of this year. Last year I only saw the band Sleep live and coincidentally they released an awesome album on 4/20. I need to make up for lost concerts, usually my goal is 3 or more!

[Jack the Stripper]

Metal Church have finally announced their first ever Australian tour in August and are playing a venue about 10-15 minutes from where I live. Probably the last band to tick off on my live band bucket list. Can't wait!

[Charger]

Oh that's awesome Jack!

I was sooo looking forward to maybe seeing them this year but alas did not happen...no Finnish dates for their very short European festival tour...

[Typhon]

Friend of mine went see KISS on their final tour.  Instead of an opening band, this guy comes out and paints.  Pretty wild! 

[Charger]

Well Tuska Open Air this week!

Friday's bands worth seeing:
Battle Beast
Anneke Van Griesbergen
ANTHRAX

Saturday:
Visions Of Atlantis
SLAYER

Should be fun two days...

[Charger]

Well getting ready to head out to the TUSKA OPEN AIR.

It'll be a record year again this year with 40000 sold tickets.

Naturally Saturday will be the big day with Slayer headlining and it being their last ever show in Finland makes it quite special...But as said I am still more looking forward to seeing Anthrax again.

There aren't a lot of other bands that I'm interested in honestly...

Battle Beast is quite awesome but I'm gonna struggle making it for their show...as my hotel room isn't gonna be ready until 3pm and it's about 1.5 mile walk from the hotel to the festival area...Hopefully I'll get to see atleast a part of their preformance.

Never really been a big Gathering fan or anything but Anneke Van Giersbergen might be interesting to check out...

Saturday is pretty dull with only Visions Of Atlantis being somewhat interesting...It is sad that there aren't more interesting acts this year...But Anthrax and Slayer will make up for that...



Oh shit that was a big picture...

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
Let us know if Anthrax plays the Pro Football song. 

[Charger]

^^^^^^
Let us know if Anthrax plays the Pro Football song. 

They did not actually.

But they did do the Blue Velvet song NOW IT'S DARK which is one my favourites. That was so awesome to hear.

I gotta say I enjoyed all the bands I got to see.

Battle Beast was great although I missed about half of their set.
Anthrax was suberb...best band hands down.

Visions Of Atlantis was a real nice surprise. The duet singing worked very well (although I am not a big fan of the dual singer set up) but Clementine Delauney had such an incredible voice the band would be actually even better with just her fronting it.

Real surprise though was Delain who I had not even heard of much before hand...they delivered a fantastic and energetic set and their singer Charlotte Wessels had one insane set of pipes.

Both of those bands will go on my purchase list for the future. Delain also at the end of their set announced they'll be doing a Finnish tour in April so if I'm not dead by then I most certainly will go see them.

And then ofcourse SLAYER...that was one intense set. Tom only paused the 90 min set twice..once just to say hello and a second time to introduce one of my all time favourites Payback. Other than that it was all music. I am honestly not a huge fan of that style, I prefer the singer to interact with the crowd a lot but I do sort of understand why they chose to do it like this now.
Their pyros were insane...best I've ever seen. Saying they were awesome don't do them justice. Worth seeing just because of that I'd say.
There was not encore break or anything...they just stopped after Angel Of Death and Tom went to the side of the stage and just stood there in silence looking at the crowd soaking the energy in. There were no words needed really. His eyes told the story. I have to say I got bit teary eyed at that point myself. He then moved to the center of the stage did the same and then to the other side...Then he took the mic and said the warmest and most heart felt thank yous and goodbyes I've ever seen anyone do on stage and left.

Fantastic show and a great goodbye. If you haven't seen Slayer on this tour you need to...if you still can.

[Jack the Stripper]

Tom's never been a big interactor with crowds. Slayer's always let the music do the talking, and I kinda prefer it that way tbh. Most interaction between songs is usually rehearsed from bands anyway. They practically say the same type thing at every show.

Glad you finally got to see Slayer and enjoyed it and that you also got Now It's Dark in Anthrax's set. 

[Charger]

Tom's never been a big interactor with crowds. Slayer's always let the music do the talking, and I kinda prefer it that way tbh. Most interaction between songs is usually rehearsed from bands anyway. They practically say the same type thing at every show.

No he hasn't...that's true. But I've always enjoyed his comments though...his soft way of talking has always been in such great contrast with the intensity of the music. I did kind of miss that a little bit.

I think one of the best parts of the show was Hell Awaits which is probably one of Slayer's most "evil" songs and Tom was all smiles through out the song...I found it hilarious really. It just shows how different they are as people from the music that they do. Love that.

[Jack the Stripper]

Off to worship at the Metal Church tonight! 

[Charger]

Off to worship at the Metal Church tonight! 

Oh really? That's bloody awesome! I so wish I could have seen them on this tour...they sound killer!

Let me know what you thought of the show!

[Jack the Stripper]

^Will do Charger. Haven't been this pumped for a gig in awhile.

[Jack the Stripper]

Metal Church was awesome charger.

Was only a tiny(but sold out) venue with a bare bones stage setup(not even a backdrop) but it never really matters when a band played & sounded amazing as they did.

Setlist was short but was all killer covering the first two albums and all the Mike Howe albums. Mike was in fine form too, both with his vocal performance and his stage presence/banter.

Crowd was very appreciative of their performance particularly on the newest songs which was great to see and the band was equally appreciative of that and to have finally made it to Australia which Mike referenced numerous times.

Standout highlights of the show for me was Start The Fire, Beyond The Black, Badlands and "The Black Things" from their latest album. Was hoping for "Ton Of Bricks" and "The Spell Can't be Broken" but was more than stoked with the songs they played.

Another highlight was getting to meet Mike & Kurdt after the show who casually mingled(along with the other members minus Stet Howland) with the 20 or so fans that had hung around after the show for a drink. Both were very cool and super friendly.  Got a separate photo with both of them but unfortunately didn't have anything with me to get signed 

They are playing in Melbourne again tonight which was originally their first show but such was the demand they added another show at the start of the Oz tour....Very tempted to go again.