Oh man what a show. My neck aches so badly. What was with that Mnemic band? The guitarist on the right was scaring me, he was twitching his face back and forth, and dancing, and playing simple power chord riffs. Very sad. I feel sorry for them because they have a wigger as a singer...oh well. Hypocrisy was great as always, my third time seeing them. I'm so happy they played Pleasure Of Molestation, Adjusting The Sun, and God Is A Lie. Made my night already. But Horgh ignored me, I yelled his name like 20 times. Then the mighty Dark Tranquillity came. Why the hell weren't they the headliners?!?!?! Surely someone noticed DT started around 1989 and Soilwork 1996? But anyways, DT was a great live band, sounded just like the records and they had so much energy onstage. Mikael was all over the place, interracting with the crowd and and the band had great musicianship. Martin Henriksson, well I think he was sick of my friends and I. I got 3 autos from the guy, and we bothered him during Soilwork too, I bet he was a little irritated, but when do you get the oppurtunity to meet one of your idols?(but yeah, thanks for signing my Gallery, Character booklets and my ticket stub, my friends and I really appreciated it) Exactly. But yeah, the Character and Damage Done songs were played so flawlessly live. But Punish My Heaven was the best absolutely. Haha, I know Mikael was mad when he was doing his speech before Punish... I screamed it out, and I think I ruined the moment. But my friends and I screamed our asses off during that song. Thats where my vocals went out during the "...choice between heaven and hellllllll!" part. But it was damn worth it. Goddamn DT ruled. Soilwork was the last band up, lots of tension building up and lights in the face. But they played very well. They weren't as active on stage as DT, but they played their hearts out no doubt. Speed finally got rid of that silly mohawk which is good to see
But they were great, singing along to them is the best part, even though the formula for all their songs is the same "verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus..." It was still fun. I went into the pit for most of Rejection Role and Blind Eye Halo. And yeah, it sucked. Either people were tired or just decided to be pansies. The real bummer was the lack of DT and Hypocrisy merch (thanks stupid california for buying all of it) Let's hope for a Headlining DT show next time. Thanks for the awesome show guys! Horns up!!
