ok i'm still recovering from Eindhoven Metal Meeting last sat. :zombie: 12 hours worth of black metal + getting home the next day was a real adventure!! the weather (-8 deg.C on sat., a bit warmer yesterday and heavy heavy snowfall) made the dutch railway almost nonfunctional! I feel like i got cold, i hope it's not swine flu...
lineup:
Satyricon, Nile, Entombed, Thyrfing, Equilibrium, Shining, Krisiun, Impaled Nazarene, Legion of the Damned, Deströyer 666, Hollenthon, Grave, Skyforger, Merauder, Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, Elite, The Devil's Blood, Ulcerate, Hackneyed, Serpentcult, Devious, Posthum and Genetic Wisdom.
Of these i saw:
Satyricon, Nile (2-3 tracks), Thyrfing, Equilibrium, Shining, Legion of the Damned (1 track), Grave (1 track), Skyforger, Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, Hackneyed (1 track), Serpentcult (1 track). I must say that i'm not really a fan of any of these bands. But i wanted to see those huge names live i haven't seen before...
We didn't want to stand close when Kvarforth would start cutting himself during Shining but it wasn't that bad at all. I was told later that he was stricktly forbidden to do that, so he did a one quick cut anyway across his body and covered it with his shirt before you even could see any blood. Instead, he went kissing with his bassist at which point people threw beer and cups at them
some were really pissed, i thought it was funny
The music was nice, i knew i would like them, but their attention seeking behaviour is the reason i've never listened to them...
Didn't like Equilibrium that much, i thought they were pretty boring.
Skyforger have disappointed by the absence of any folk instruments
the guy that usually plays flutes, whistles and bagpipes wasn't there at all! stripped of the folk BM was still good though, but not the same ...
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult is something what my bf insisted on seeing, i never heard of them before. Ohmy, what a performance!
The blond girl with hair nearly sweeping the floor, with full corpse paint drinking blood and spitting it onto the audience, shrieking like a harpy - the sight in itself was worth it!
the sound was totally crap, guitars turned into a wall of noise.
The big hall was totally packed for Nile. As none of us was really a fan, we just watched them play 2-3 tracks and left. I wasn't impressed, well maybe only by the audience (at the back) of 40-something shorthaired men singing along all the lyrics and headbanging
Then there was Satyricon. The absolute highlight of the day! The sound was incredibly good, the band was totally energetic, the crowd was going mad!!
I hardly heard a song of theirs before, but i was really impressed by their live performance! They rocked!!
i think i'll even become a fan maybe
Right after Satyricon, almost everybody left to see Deströyer 666 playing at the smaller stage, or to catch the last train. It was pure shame to see something like 1/3 of the crowd for Thyrfing!!
man i feel sorry for the band, they were great!! they even took a female vocalist with them and had to play for half empty hall!
I've seen them live earlier this year, and they were as good again, probably even better because of the girl!
Here're a few pictures i took during the day.
