My thoughts after seing 3 dates of this tour
The support bands:
Divine Empire as they were saying to the crowd: We are from Florida and we play death metal. That is all I want to say about this band. Not bad for DM but nothng I would care for longer than 15-20 minutes
Demolition very decent melodic thrash, Ive listened to a couple of songs each day.
Susperia. I was waiting for their performance since I like them very much and think their record Unlimited was (together with Tempo) best LP of the 2004!
They played 8 songs set each day and did not dissapoint me. They have great drummer that keeps everything together, stage animal bassist Memnock, good guitar players Elvorn and Cyrus, and a vocalist Athera with great potential. Enjoyed their shows a lot! Plus talked to them during those days very cool guys!
Now what is the most important Testament and their music
Every night they hit the stage it was obvious it is gonna be sth special they were soooo relaxed, so energetic on stage, and you could see they are having soooo much fun playing together in this line-up.
Chuck talked a lot to the audience each day, tried to make Greg do the same in German but it wasnt easy.
His singing was as amazing as usually but what he was doing on Raging Waters was just beyond me he was simply slaying the audience with some specially added growl parts that were so powerful I thought the venues would not stand that. Also The Legacy and his vocal interpretations of it that differed a bit from LPs version I simply listened to them with my mouth wiiiiiiide open.
Johnny was destroying the drum kit everyday, I will not forget his feet work on Electric Crown and a sound check in Dieburg easily.
L.C was drumming like mad everynight and for someone who hasnt played for years and practiced for two weeks only he did very well.
Greg seemed to play as if he never left the band fitted perfectly!!!!
Eric kept the things together with his powerful rhytms playing, I was wondering if he would play any solos, but apart from this short one in Sins he didnt - leaving everything to Alex. I thought it would be cool to see him doing at least the one in The Haunting that he was doing on the last tour but no, that didnt happen.
Now Alex.
I could just say I havent seen live better lead player in any metal&rock band (only that guy from Asia Ruthie Govan was on the similar level) but that wouldnt be enough. He said once that in the early days he was doing his solos very concentrated, working hard on every note he wanted to play, but now - he said he doesnt have to music just speaks through him and he puts no effort to it. You dont believe? you should see.
Played all the solos adding a thing here and there in a way that would make other player break their fingers, leaving us speechless every night. And in Dieburg where there was no photopit we were standing there with Polish Legions flag in the first row and he was coming up to us with EVERY solo bending down, kneeling on some, so we had him like 30-60 cm from our faces. INCREDIBLE!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Now about the atmospohere on this trip - I would like to thank every Testament band&crew member for being so cool to us for those 3 days, showing us respect for the amount of dedication we have for their music and the amount of kilometres we had to do in order to make this trip.
HAIL TESTAMENT!
The support bands:
Divine Empire as they were saying to the crowd: We are from Florida and we play death metal. That is all I want to say about this band. Not bad for DM but nothng I would care for longer than 15-20 minutes
Demolition very decent melodic thrash, Ive listened to a couple of songs each day.
Susperia. I was waiting for their performance since I like them very much and think their record Unlimited was (together with Tempo) best LP of the 2004!
They played 8 songs set each day and did not dissapoint me. They have great drummer that keeps everything together, stage animal bassist Memnock, good guitar players Elvorn and Cyrus, and a vocalist Athera with great potential. Enjoyed their shows a lot! Plus talked to them during those days very cool guys!
Now what is the most important Testament and their music
Every night they hit the stage it was obvious it is gonna be sth special they were soooo relaxed, so energetic on stage, and you could see they are having soooo much fun playing together in this line-up.
Chuck talked a lot to the audience each day, tried to make Greg do the same in German but it wasnt easy.
His singing was as amazing as usually but what he was doing on Raging Waters was just beyond me he was simply slaying the audience with some specially added growl parts that were so powerful I thought the venues would not stand that. Also The Legacy and his vocal interpretations of it that differed a bit from LPs version I simply listened to them with my mouth wiiiiiiide open. Johnny was destroying the drum kit everyday, I will not forget his feet work on Electric Crown and a sound check in Dieburg easily.
L.C was drumming like mad everynight and for someone who hasnt played for years and practiced for two weeks only he did very well.
Greg seemed to play as if he never left the band fitted perfectly!!!!
Eric kept the things together with his powerful rhytms playing, I was wondering if he would play any solos, but apart from this short one in Sins he didnt - leaving everything to Alex. I thought it would be cool to see him doing at least the one in The Haunting that he was doing on the last tour but no, that didnt happen.
Now Alex.
I could just say I havent seen live better lead player in any metal&rock band (only that guy from Asia Ruthie Govan was on the similar level) but that wouldnt be enough. He said once that in the early days he was doing his solos very concentrated, working hard on every note he wanted to play, but now - he said he doesnt have to music just speaks through him and he puts no effort to it. You dont believe? you should see.
Played all the solos adding a thing here and there in a way that would make other player break their fingers, leaving us speechless every night. And in Dieburg where there was no photopit we were standing there with Polish Legions flag in the first row and he was coming up to us with EVERY solo bending down, kneeling on some, so we had him like 30-60 cm from our faces. INCREDIBLE!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Now about the atmospohere on this trip - I would like to thank every Testament band&crew member for being so cool to us for those 3 days, showing us respect for the amount of dedication we have for their music and the amount of kilometres we had to do in order to make this trip.
HAIL TESTAMENT!
