Concerts - 2007

Some live pics of Dark Tranquillity @ The Hellfest are available on my websites :

http://www.tompix.fr

and

http://www.soilchronicles.com

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I hope you'll like them.

Tom
 
The South will rizzze again, Uall
I'm off to see/hear in a few minutes
the Outlaws
the Marshall Tucker Band
.38 Special
Charlie Daniel's Band
They are playing at a Country Music festival about 15 miles from my place
I've not been to 'Jamboree In the Hills' for several years, last time was to see ZZ Top play there.
The festival goes on for 4 days(this is day two), its one of the largest festivals crowd wise as it averages
125000 drunken rednecks, 'you can't drink all day unless you start in the morning',
I'll fit right in other than I don't drink. I'm only going for todays show,
I like going as I always see ghosts from Christmas past(peeps I haven't seen for years).
I must repeat this the amount of humanity at this festival is unbelievable
It will end early enough that I can stop at the nearest WalMart on the way home, to check out all the Hogwarts waiting for the last Harry Potter book to be released at midnight
Does the fun never end :danceboy:
 
I do have sympathies for train drivers and all, but their strike really shouldnt ruin this year's Wacken for me.. it seriously shouldnt. Though it probably will
 
On a french website selling concerts tickets (www.fnac.com) you can see DT opening for ... Iced Earth

Url : http://www.fnacspectacles.com/reche...f&search=dark+tranquility&searchCategory=show

I am now praying for this to be false, they cannot not headline again, they cannot :( (how will they ever play Dry Run if they have 1h to play only :p)

I am glad it's not on official website yet which give it chances to be a fake like the one we had few years ago about a Helloween + DT tour :p
 
Jumping into this a litttttle late. So far I've seen

Cradle of Filth.. Jan 29th.
Dimmu Borgir.. April 22nd.

That's it! I wanted to go see Lamb of God, with Behemoth but college costs pretty much sucked that dry. :p I also wanted to go see Slayer again.
 
Saw the almighty DT on Friday at Jurassic Rock in Mikkeli. This was a first-time festival so there weren’t too many people to see DT at half seven in the first evening, probably ten or so rows of people watching. Front row and a few beers in my system made sure I was quite ecstatic through-out. I screamed my lungs out along with the songs and had a great time! Got a hug from Mikael and Niklas’ waterbottle (sweating like a pig due to going crazy may result in severe dehydration, I learnt :D ). Too bad they didn’t have those flasks or necklaces for sale but my friend bought the skull hoodie. He also took about hundred pictures of DT and we’ll see if I’ll get to post them later on. :)

Setlist (not 100% accurate, especially about when Final Resistance was played)

Terminus
The Lesser Faith
The Treason Wall
Blind at Heart
Final Resistance
The Wonders at Your Feet
The Endless Feed
Misery’s Crown
Punish My Heaven
Focus Shift
My Negation
The New Build
 
Some incoherent words to this years Brutal Assault (no. 12).

Thursday:
After a day and night of total drunkenness, Thursday morning hurt. First three bands were a no see then. Leng Tche was the first one at 16:30 and it was one of the highlights of the fest, great show, stage presence. Then again some bands passed without my notice (Im sorry Aborted was one of them), and I returned to see the end of Belphegor. Very decent performance I must say, although I dont really like this band that much. Dismember were next, and it was one of the top 3 gigs for me. I dont really know the songs that well, mind you, but the show the band pulled off was immense. This was all feeling and loads of great great death metal. When I saw the guys so happy on stage and getting excellent feedback, I almost cried. Awesome! All That Remains and Root then passed unnoticed, and I returned to see the mighty Suffocation. Again a great show, stage presence, some technical problems, but it was great to see this band live for the first time (like with most of the headliners). Then came what I was hoping will be the top gig for me - DT. Im not really an old DT material freak, but the audience had probably expected something else. I enjoyed the show a lot, the new material sounds excellent, and especially Blind at Heart and Inside the Particle Storm brought shivers. Both Mikaels did what they could to really rock away, but the rest of the band was too static. I dont know, Niklas and Martin seemed not to care much really. Punish My Heaven was superb, and the difference really struck me for the first time - although its not one of my top favourites from DT, it was easily the best song of the gig. Somehow the different songwriting patterns DT is fond of now stood out as mediocre compared to PMH, which was a tornado. The New Build as the closing track was perfect as well, I really needed those blastbeats to feel the energy I hoped to feel throughout the whole gig. After DT came DHG, but after 3 songs I went to sleep.

Friday:
Opitz at 10 am, and the name of the band fitted (opica (read opitza) means hangover in Slovak). Excellent grind project of Puty (ex-Contrastic, Uprise). Outburst were sort of funny, a nice mixture of power metal and gothenburgh death. I didnt see Pigsty. Ador Dorath is probably the best Czech atmo black band, and they proved it on stage. Superb! Le Scrawl came next - if you dont know the band, its a mixture of grind core and jazz, funky and whatever other style you can think of. Extremely funny and cool at first, but then you recognized the pattern, and it got a bit boring. Uprise were fucking great. Czech grind is the best in the world. From the bands I saw on Friday Ill mention Depresy from my home town - the new stuff sounded excellent, but they got only lousy 25 minutes, too bad. Black Dahlia Murder surprised me in a good way, didnt expect such a wonderful mess. Cynic - now this was supposed to be so cool, but it wasnt. Masvidal seems to have undergone some serious trauma, because those sampled esoteric preachings in between the songs were too much. The gig lacked balls, it was way too robotic for my taste (or spacy?). Katatonia was great, unfortunately I caught only a few songs. Pain was worse than a dogs puke. Soulfly ditto. So the best was saved for last. Two totally different bands, two perfect shows. Heamorrhage and Enslaved. We came dressed as doctors to H, and it was real fun in the mosh pit. Enslaved kicked off with Path to Vanir, then Fusion of Sense and Earth - awesome sound, great performance. Among others they played Ruun, Isa, Return to Yggdrasill, Jotunblod and Slaget I Skoden Bortenfor. As you can imagine, the last one was a total massacre.

Saturday:
The first band worth mentioning is Excrementory Grindfuckers. Hell of a laugh, great grind core. The Final Grinddown was a side-splitter. The other worth the while was Gadget. Guys are already our friends, their grind is excellent. If you loved Nasum, youll love Gadget. Misanthrope were cool as always, even played some stuff from 1666 and Visionnaire, really enjoyed them. Zyklon was fucking boring, the worst surprise for me at this fest. Keep of Kalessin were quite the opposite. Excellent performance, Armada was the core of the setlist. If these guys learn that the bass drums are ok, but shouldnt really drown the rest of the band and club you to death, their shows will be a real treat. And then came the real stars of the festival. First one was Immolation. When I listen to this band on CD, I cant listen to the whole album at once, its so fucking complicated and weird. Ive never seen them live, so I wondered what the hell they were going to do. Well, they kicked us all to a small pile of goo. Perfection! And the really best was yet to come next. Madder Mortem. Ive waited for so long to see them live! When entering the stage during My Name is Silence (intro was Cold Stone) Agnete tripped and almost fell. I thought "Yeah, with my luck now shell break her leg and goodbye", but thank goodness nothing happened. Breaker of Worlds, Rust Cleansing, Changeling, M for Malice, Necropol Lit etc., I was in heaven! Vader were next, and I dont have to tell you that crazy Polish fans (who formed the majority at this fest) went completely nuts. Vader pulled off a fantastic concert, the new drummer Darray is a crazy motherfucker. Again I was surprised how good the new material sounds live. I guess thats what gigs are for, eh? I saw Satyricon in Prague last year, and it was a blast. This time they started their gig and the only thing we heard was the noise from their monitors. The band rocked away and the audience was just staring and grinning. Then it all got well, and from the 3rd song the sound was excellent. Satyricon are fantastic live, they played Now, Diabolical; Pentagram Burns, K.I.N.G., Nemesis Divina, Mother North, Fuel for Hatred etc. The only thing I missed was Supersonic Journey. The remaining bands were Dying Fetus, Onslaught and Red Harvest. And Dying Fetus simply destroyed everything. The new band basically, because the only founding member is John Gallagher, is fantastic. The drummer was a inhuman machine, as the rest of the band. I was prepared for technical brutality, but didnt expect technical excellence and perfection with unstoppable brutal force. The moments where both guitarists and the bass player played arpeggios were priceless. The best band of Brutal Assault 2007. Onslaught were a joke, and Red Harvest couldnt keep me awake enough to watch the whole gig.

I think this festival will become one of the largest festivals in Europe, because it already is one of the best. The new area was great (an old fort from C19). The system of two stages next to each other, where one plays and the other has a sound check, proved best. Sometimes it was hard to walk fast to the other gig, but there were no backlags as with previous years.
 
24th of August - Illnath.
25th of August - Wizards Of Doom.

1st of September - Dark Tranquillity - Compos Mentis as support.
10th of September Candlemass - Saturnus as Support.

1st of October - Paradise Lost - Support.
20th of october - Manticora.
26th of October - Dimmu Borgir - Amon Amarth.

9th / 10th Of November - Progpower Scandinavia.

10th of December - Arch Enemy - Dragon Force
15th of December - Illdisposed.

Whatever else gets booked :loco:
 
Highlight of this year for shows, has to be Emperor in NYC. Amazing.

Last show I saw was Behemoth, and next up is Ozzyfest and then hopefully Incantation.

Next year, however, Wacken '08! Yes!
 
Most recent concert was Heaven and Hell with Down supporting - both bands were absolutely amazing, and completely blew me away. Best concert of this year, without a doubt.

Best since DT were here last!