I saw this at In flames site. I won't see this show until Wednesday in Arizona.
San Francisco show review (Setlist included)
Here we go...
Dark Tranquillity opened the show. For whatever reason, I can't remember their exact setlist, however, some of the songs they played include:
Monochromatic Stains
Damage Done
The Sun Fired Blanks
Final Resistance
White Noise/Black Silence
Haven
... and a few more.
I think they sounded great, and I think they were happy that so many people were into them, despite it being their first visit here. Mikael definately looked happy to finally being playing here and his voice sounded great live.
Sentenced was up next. Now, I should probably point out that not very many people were into them. I personally love Sentenced and thought they did an awesome job. To me, it looked like Ville was a bit annoyed that there wasn't much crowd participation, but I was doing my best to show that I appreciated every last song they played. They opened with "Cross My Heart and Hope To Die" from their latest release The Cold White Light. The rest of their set included:
Noose
The Suicider
Excuse Me While I Kill Myself
Nepenthe
Everything is Nothing
Warrior of Life
and 1 or 2 other tracks that aren't coming to mind.
Ok, then out comes Killswitch Engage. Holy shit, these guys fucking suck! Every single song sounded the same to me, and you could not pay me to sit through another one of their sets. They looked like a high school band up there and sounded like one also. Never again will I see these morons live.
Now, what everyone is waiting for. In Flames.
I should point out that they all came out clad in white, and Anders has dreadlocks now. I don't know when this happened, but it looks kind of ridiculous on him. A few of them are red, and it just doesn't fit him well.
They sounded great though. Very good performance, and a shitload of crowd participation. They opened with Bullet Ride, as usual, which makes a very kickass opener.
Full Setlist (not in order, because I can't remember the order)
Bullet Ride
System
Embody the Invisible
Episode 666
Gyroscope
Behind Space
Clad in Shadows
Cloud Connected
Trigger
Ordinary Story
Clayman
Pinball Map
Only for the Weak
Drifter
Black & White
Colony
Not one single song from The Jester Race, which kinda pissed me off. Last time, they at least played Artifacts of the Black Rain. I can't understand why they rarely ever play tracks from TJR, considering so many people love that album. Anyway, the new songs sounded great live, especially "Trigger".
All in all, a good show, but seeing as how I was having to push morons away from me who couldn't keep their fucking asses in the pit, I missed a great deal of watching the bands actually perform. Pits usually don't bother me, but tonight, they did. I was there to watch one of my favorite bands perform, not get knocked around by a bunch of jerkoffs who don't give a shit about anything except running around in circles, looking like idiots and not watching the bands. (sorry for the rant)
Basically, it was the same set as last time, with the new songs added in, and I can't say I approve of that. I was hoping for more older shit, but what can I say? I got see In Flames and thats all that counts.
