Saw Amon Amarth tonight. Ended up getting to the venue late due to work/traffic. Sadly, not late enough since I had to catch the end of the some local bands pathetic set. Basic song went like this:
3 chugs
Breakdown
different breakdown
1 chug
breakdown
Pathetic.
For some odd reason me and a couple friends decided to start singing various blind guardian, manowar, and dream evil songs. No idea why.
Next up was Sonic Syndicate. I don't get them... Whats the point of having guitarists if all you can hear is preprogrammed synth lines/drums/the 2 gay vocalists.
Himsa came on next, with a nice bit of irony... The vocalist was wearing a hoodie that said "Death to false metal". I laughed uncontrollably.
After about a 35 minute wait Amon Amarth blasted out onto the fucking stage and assaulted my ears with one of the finest headlining sets I'd ever seen. Set-list was decent, though, could of done with a few more songs from Once Sent and The Avenger:
1. Valhall Awaits
2. With Oden
3. Death in Fire
4. Versus
5. Asator
6. Eight Hooves
7. Hermod's (I prefer Under The Northern Star, bastards.)
8. Black Birds
9. Fate of Norns
10. Thousand Years
11. Slopes of Death
12. Ancient Gods
13. Runes
-Encore-
14. Victorious March
15. Ancient Sign (Would of much rather had Pagan Blood)
16. Pursuit of Vikings
Victorious March stole the fucking show for me. What an amazing fucking song live.
Got to chat with Johan for just a sec after the set, basically just a "hi, yo, cool set, bout time you headlined in the US" etc.
Anyway, despite the SHIT for openers, still worth the ticket cost.
Their latest album I'm thinking is my favorite besides OK Computer.
