Priest Feast Sheffield 13/02/09

[Power_Metal_Dom]

It's actually a little sad that I've only ever made 3 of these threads...it's been SO long since my last real gig. Thank the Metal Gods it turned out to be the best gig I have ever been to (besides the one where I met PQ of course).

- Testiccles (Testament) were alright but the sound for the guitars sort of meshed together making only the solos distinguishable and the vocals had too much delay - didn't really make them sound their best. Solid thrash though.

- Megadeth were fantastic and got straight to the point without any Dave Mustaine For President political rants/lectures. Their setlist was filled with consecutive gems. Extremely tight playing, each solo for Hangar 18 was spot on.

- Priest were just unbelievable. Talk about putting on a show and engaging the crowd...wow. I thought they'd literally blow the fucking roof off the venue! The lighting, the atmosphere, Rob's costumes, their very stage presence and performance was award-winning. Phenomenal setlist. It was a Priest fan's version of heaven.

Anyway, I'll shut up now and share some pics with you :

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/domfeargrieve/Priest Feast 09/?start=all

 

[Andiferum]

I cannot fucking WAIT for this on Saturday, cheers for the review Dom!

 

[Alcaline]

My turn in Cardiff tonight.

 

[Andiferum]

London was epic. Seriously epic.

Steve: Did you make it to this one in the end?

 

[Symphony]

Nope....couldn't make it! As it turned out I was on the phone with work for a fair bit of saturday night.

A mate of mine (Ian from the Southampton band The Psychics) went to the London show and he said it was awesome. He;'s been into Priest since the early 80's but said he could have lived without the new material

 

[Andiferum]

It was absolutely sublime mate. I've met Ian before, right? The problem was, one of the 2 new songs they played was Death, which in my opinion is one of the far weaker tracks off Nostradamus (which is an overall great album). But Testament, Deth & Priest were ALL absolutely on fire.