Yeah, he did. I'll try to do a review, but I'm fucking exhausted (for the rest of you there, I was the one guy there who wasn't like 6 feet tall, and I was wearing a Maiden shirt).
Manntis - Sounded aright, except for the fact that the guitars were literally inaudible. You could not hear them for shit. They lasted about 15 minutes, no banter in between songs, just down to business, which would have been fine except that all I could hear was drums and screaming.
Sworn Enemy - Didn't know the songs from before, which seemed to take away from the experience, but it was good shit anyway. Lead guitarist surprised me by being competent in areas other than playing standard metal riffs like a machine. Good riffs in general, better than standard hardcore fare. More screaming though...I don't like the screaming very much at all come to think of it. This is where the pits got started, and they were pretty good, but pretty thick too. There was this one really drunk guy running around screaming "you guys fucking suck, your mom's pussy's wet"... or maybe that was during Manntis, too tired.
God Forbid - They were a complete surprise. I expected them to be screamo shit. They were very very good. Pits were great, but people were fucking massive! Heh I almost died...lots of crowd surfing, lots of everything really. They have a pretty big fanbase in NY it seems... fucking great all around.
Anthrax - And they were fucking incredible too. Started off with Among the Living, which was amazing. The front was ridiculously packed, there wasn't room to breathe. Had to move to the back, where I found the pit in time for Metal Thrashing Mad, which everyone sang along to (same with Among the Living). Then came Caught in a Mosh, and for me that was the climax. Afterwards was I think A.I.R, fucking excellent, then I think was A Skeleton in the Closet - around here everyone seemed to start tiring out. Then was I think Medusa, which I stayed out of, at that point I was dead, then Indians, which I got back in for. People got back the energy it had seemed they lost after A Skeleton in the Closet for Medusa and Indians - I think that was the song they started a huge circle pit on. Last before the encore was N.F.L. and that (I think) was where Joey introduced it by holding a note for like 20 seconds straight, pretty cool. Then came the encore, with a song I didn't know (probably off PoT or SoE), then I'm the Man, then Aftershock, and lastly I Am the Law - everyone else was going nuts, I was exhausted by the encore. Then Scott said that they're gonna come out with a new album this year, and it was over. All in all, fucking amazing. Best show I've been to.
