Just got back from KIT 9. We had a real nice trip, for the first time no traffic jams towards and back from Germany. Great sights on the way there; the fall colors of the woods on mountains look awesome.
One of the better overall KITs I saw this time. Only one band was "bad"; Portrait from Sweden, some kind of an attempt of King Diamond vocals and boring music. For the rest all of the bands were good to very good!
Opener was Enforcer, the vocalist had some problems of staying in tune the first songs, but after a while he sounded great. They play the kind of 80's spandex style Euro Metal, with some extra hooks in it to keep it interesting. Steel Assesin and Pagan Altar had some problems with vocals that were mixed too much to the background. Again I got to say; are some sound guys DEAF ???? Is it that hard to turn up a vocal channel a bit so you can actually hear it ??? Hirax also suprised me; I am only a fan of their earlier crossover stuff, but the whole set was very good; damn heavy thrash and that Boney-M vocalist was never better
Pagan Altar also was very good to my suprise. Only the vocalist, who has an interesting voice, was too much on the background. I also had the impression he didn't put any power in his voice, just moaning the lyrics. But a cool gig anyway, great guitar player btw !! Steel Assessin and Sacred Oath brought some great and powerful US-Metal, and Leatherwolf in original line-up (except bass)...AWESOME !!
The atmosphere was superb, only one little incident in the moshing action of Hirax, but vocalist Katon resolved that in a very cool way; he immediatly stopped the music and gave a lesson how Metal fans should behave; "as brothers and not enemies". Katon earned the respect of all Metalheads there, this guy knows what Metal is about !
Well, up to KIT 10 than. And we also already got the line up for KIT 11 (november 2008), man , these guys know how to make interesting bills !!
Flotsam & Jetsam (USA, old school show)
Girlschool (UK)
Tokio Blade (UK)
Artillery (Danmark)
Forte (USA)
Evil(Danmark)
Blaspheme (Fr)
Faith Factor (USA)
Hellhound (Jap)
A friend of me made some great (full concert) video-shots of Leatherwolf, Steel Assessin and Sacred Oath. I'll post here when he puts some parts of those online on Youtube. Camera restrictions at KIT ??? What's a camera
Have a great time with Leatherwolf in the Dynamo Hawk !! I'm gonna pass for that. Gotta work early tomorrow.
Probably going to see the Sacred Oath concert in Belgium again next weekend and also Mario's Metal Mania (with Raven, Ram, Divine Ruins,.....)
