.. was absolutely fantastic, a concert that will go down in the metal history annals as a legendary happening.
Mindgrinder opened the show with their extreme, crushing Zyklon-inspired metal, and Finntroll followed up with an extremely energetic performance. Enslaved was absolutely killer as usual, playing mostly old stuff (Loke, Jotunblod, Slaget I Skogen Bortenfor) as well as Convoys To Nothingness and a cover of Windir's "Dauden".
The main attraction was of course Windir. They put on a flawless, beautiful show, cheering to Valfar and praising him for what he did to the Norwegian extreme metal scene. The show opened quite melancholically, with two men in Windir-shirts coming out with snare drums and playing a march while staring into the ceiling. Then the show exploded in an inferno, with pyro-techniques and lots of smoke. Valfar's brother did the vocal duties on three or four of the songs, and it was rather moving to see him perform. It was very emotionally - you could see that he really missed his brother.
The show reached its climax when the guitarist declared "Windir can no longer exist. Hails to Hvall. Hails to Valfar! Honour Valfar!" Pictures of Valfar were then shown at a huge screen, whilst the Arntor intro played in the background. When the band went onstage to play their encore, "Arntor, Ein Windir", the whole venue (Rockefeller, Oslo) exploded. It is the best concert I've ever been to, and it made me miss Windir and Valfar even more. The setlist included "Svartesmeden Og Lundamyrstrollet", "1184", "Sognariket Sine Krigarar", "Blodssvik", "Fagning", "On The Mountain Of The Goats", and the last Windir track Valfar ever wrote - "Stridsmann".
I also signed the guestbook on behalf of myself, my friends who were there, and everyone at ultimatemetal.com who wanted to be there.
Pictures: http://www.as-i-die.com/heidra/page_01.htm
Mindgrinder opened the show with their extreme, crushing Zyklon-inspired metal, and Finntroll followed up with an extremely energetic performance. Enslaved was absolutely killer as usual, playing mostly old stuff (Loke, Jotunblod, Slaget I Skogen Bortenfor) as well as Convoys To Nothingness and a cover of Windir's "Dauden".
The main attraction was of course Windir. They put on a flawless, beautiful show, cheering to Valfar and praising him for what he did to the Norwegian extreme metal scene. The show opened quite melancholically, with two men in Windir-shirts coming out with snare drums and playing a march while staring into the ceiling. Then the show exploded in an inferno, with pyro-techniques and lots of smoke. Valfar's brother did the vocal duties on three or four of the songs, and it was rather moving to see him perform. It was very emotionally - you could see that he really missed his brother.
The show reached its climax when the guitarist declared "Windir can no longer exist. Hails to Hvall. Hails to Valfar! Honour Valfar!" Pictures of Valfar were then shown at a huge screen, whilst the Arntor intro played in the background. When the band went onstage to play their encore, "Arntor, Ein Windir", the whole venue (Rockefeller, Oslo) exploded. It is the best concert I've ever been to, and it made me miss Windir and Valfar even more. The setlist included "Svartesmeden Og Lundamyrstrollet", "1184", "Sognariket Sine Krigarar", "Blodssvik", "Fagning", "On The Mountain Of The Goats", and the last Windir track Valfar ever wrote - "Stridsmann".
I also signed the guestbook on behalf of myself, my friends who were there, and everyone at ultimatemetal.com who wanted to be there.
Pictures: http://www.as-i-die.com/heidra/page_01.htm
