I posted this in the SYL forum, too, but i know there are people that post here that go to the Palladium.
oh my fucking god is all I can say. Devin and Gene tore that place up! I was at the very front, second "row" of people in front of dev, and when they blasted into Velvet Kevorkian for the encore, i just lost my shit, and i think everyone else did, too. pure craziness and dev worship, I think the crowd energy level during "all hail the new flesh" set a record, at least for me. I was all grins after that, he'd played one of my favorite metal songs and we all sang it right back at him!
Dark Tranquility were really great, too; they seemed to really feed off the excitement that was still in the air from SYL, and had a lot of fun playing for us. good vibes all around there, and a good setlist with some older songs and several new ones from 'damage done'. Their guitars went out of tune a bit about halfway through, but they still get an A from me.
Later, during Napalm Death's never-ending set, I was up by the bar and who fucking walks up? The man himself, Gene Hoglan; got myself an autograph and a handshake. fuckin' a. I've been listening to him since the Dark Angel days in every band he's been in. definitely all grins now..
as for Nile... i was beat from driving 4.5 hours (snowstorm) to get there and going nuts for 4 hours already at the show; Nile came out and opened with 'transforming into a snake' (i think). three words:
TOO FUCKING LOUD
I dig nile as a band and waited through ND's very long set to hear them, but they were so loud i think i was feeling wind from the sound all the way back at the bar. i'm no pussy with volume, but as deaf as i already was from the first four bands, i can't believe how deafening they were at that point. i had to leave after a few songs; just couldn't believe the PA would even go that loud. if anyone else was there, what do you think? it was even very loud all the way outside by my car.. (maybe i'm getting old) it was almost 1am and i had a long drive home anyways..
cheers all, i'm going to crash for about 12 hours now..
-iz
oh my fucking god is all I can say. Devin and Gene tore that place up! I was at the very front, second "row" of people in front of dev, and when they blasted into Velvet Kevorkian for the encore, i just lost my shit, and i think everyone else did, too. pure craziness and dev worship, I think the crowd energy level during "all hail the new flesh" set a record, at least for me. I was all grins after that, he'd played one of my favorite metal songs and we all sang it right back at him!
Dark Tranquility were really great, too; they seemed to really feed off the excitement that was still in the air from SYL, and had a lot of fun playing for us. good vibes all around there, and a good setlist with some older songs and several new ones from 'damage done'. Their guitars went out of tune a bit about halfway through, but they still get an A from me.
Later, during Napalm Death's never-ending set, I was up by the bar and who fucking walks up? The man himself, Gene Hoglan; got myself an autograph and a handshake. fuckin' a. I've been listening to him since the Dark Angel days in every band he's been in. definitely all grins now..
as for Nile... i was beat from driving 4.5 hours (snowstorm) to get there and going nuts for 4 hours already at the show; Nile came out and opened with 'transforming into a snake' (i think). three words:
TOO FUCKING LOUD
I dig nile as a band and waited through ND's very long set to hear them, but they were so loud i think i was feeling wind from the sound all the way back at the bar. i'm no pussy with volume, but as deaf as i already was from the first four bands, i can't believe how deafening they were at that point. i had to leave after a few songs; just couldn't believe the PA would even go that loud. if anyone else was there, what do you think? it was even very loud all the way outside by my car.. (maybe i'm getting old) it was almost 1am and i had a long drive home anyways..
cheers all, i'm going to crash for about 12 hours now..
-iz
