Ok here is a recap for tonights show Mesa AZ at UB's May 12th
I got there at about 1ish-Hybirdwar soon after. We were told we got to sit and watch Hypocrisy do their soundcheck since we didnt get to meet them last night in Tucson. However, we waited.....and waited....and waited for them to get all the technical difficulties out of the way. Once they did, the band ripped into Fractured Millenium sounding perfect. Also played the first half of Valley. So, we knew the place even though a dump would have good sound.
A recap of the show:
first band-local opening band very retro thrash sounding
Swashbuckle-wow, are you kidding me? I mean yes, these guys are fairly talented, but cant be taken very serious. They dress like Pirates and sing songs with the titles such as "Were bringing scurvy back" and "X marks the Twat" LMAO!!!!!!!! amusing to say the least.
Blackguard-I must say, im kind of impressed-alot of energy even though it sounds a bit too "nintendo metal" for me. Has elements that remind me of Kalmah at times.
Hate-their first show of the tour and they were very good. Remind me of Behemoth (but these guys go way back before Behemoth). I guess they have a new album out or coming out soon. Sounds promising.
Scar Symmetry-Man, i used to really give a shit about this band, but now i dont. Loosing Christian was the last straw for them. They also dont sound to tight live compared to cd. I actually went out to the car and took a nap during their set lol (they were really bad in Tucson)!!!
least but not last.....
Hypocrisy-ok i know alot of you are disatisfied that this is basically the same set as the euro tour, but trust me, its still very good. Peter sounded amazing tonight compared to the tucson show. Sound is good (their sound engineer named Vicki is very good) and the lights show is pretty awesome as well. Only place where things started to sound "weak" was during Weed out the Weak. Some of the vocals got a bit thin during the more screamish parts. I was kind of suprised. However, the low growls for the more brutal stuff were on par with Destroys Wacken (in fact at times i thought to myself that these vocals are as good as Wacken) didnt hurt that the sound was great too.
So finally, Hybridwar and I got to do the "meet and greet" that all of you are wondering. Well, it was much better organized this time around. They ended up doing it after the show, but it worked out perfect even though it was at about 1AM. I had a big stack of shit to sign and they band gladly signed all of it. Mikael and Peter rememebered me from the 2005 tour, when i gave the whole band a case of Alien Amber ale from a brewery in New Mexico (my avatar pic shows me and peter holding the bottles).
So, all together, im much happier with todays performance and outcomes. I feel better than satisified.
So, if any of you are going to tomorrows show in Hollywood, you will probably run into my ex girlfriend there. Its strange-she never was into metal and after i dumped her, she gets all into it now-WTF?
Oh, one more thing, you guys have to check out the shit that hybridwar had signed-its pretty bad ass! we will post pics of our stuff.
Jadedbluesummers-where were you? Did you cookout? i didnt see you with a grill outside or anything. I even went up to a few women that looked like you and asked them if they were you-i felt like a total tool!
(it was quite logical to assume so)
