I got to see Slayer & co. in Prague last night. About 10 000 people there. I was surprised, I`d expected less, good to see there`s still so many metalheads! The opening band were Czech guys called Malignant Tumor. They started very early, thus I missed their set. Nevermind, my band`s gonna play with them the next Saturday so I`ll check them out then. Good for them to be that lucky to open for Slayer. I know they are kinda Motörhead sounding band. Then Amon Amarth - guess they`re from Sweden? They have this Viking image, singing about gods of thunder and stuff. The singer looked like a character from this old arcade game Golden Axe. It was good, but nothing to write home about really. The crowd seemed to be very into them though, I guess they are popular in here. Mastodon - didn`t like them at all. I don`t know why, my friends all dug it. I thought they sucked, but don`t really ask me why. Then, Trivium - I wasn`t really looking forward to them but I have to say that they can put up a good show. Both shredders are awesome. And then, finally, Slayer - opening with Flesh Storm, then straight into War Ensemble. They played about twenty songs, but NO ENCORE and, which, pissed me off, NO DEAD SKIN MASK!!!! Too bad, the crowd was chanting this song title and I was really looking forward to hearing it. They played DittoHead, Live Undead, South Of Heaven, Seasons In The Abyss, Raining Blood, of course Angel Of Death, you know, all the classic, and the brand new song called Psychopathy Red, which is very classic and old school Slayer. They were thrashing real hard - even though Tom seemed to be forgetting his lyrics now and then. And it was quite weird with the encore - lights went down, audience was screaming for five minutes and then...nothing. Satan knows why.
But my friend did get some angry looks and probably disgusted comments. I did not understand. (And he did throw up on the stoop.)
