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2007-01-13
DE – Georgsmarienhütte - Eventcenter B51 |
| Moonspell - Primordial - Endstille - Communic - Moonsorrow - A Life Divided - Sudden Death - Path Of Golconda Year
by year German Burning Stage team calls for the first festival
event in the freshly started new year: the WINTERNOISE
FESTIVAL! Ok, what winter? Well, the word “winter”
seems to be unbefitting this time… ;) At + 8°C and under
a dark, cloudy and rainy sky I again hit the road towards Georgsmarienhuette,
near Osnabrueck for the very last party taking place at B51. Something
that could have been perfectly called a demolition party…
;) :: pics :: Arriving at B51 on time I saw the doors still closed. No sight defect, attendant crowd had the same view ;) We should look on these closed doors for a while. The hall was used the evening before and was left as a pigsty, the PA just arrived and the fans were awaiting a long haul… With a delay of around one hour the gates got finally unlocked to welcome the soaked crowd with many merchandise stands and even the food stand inside. Great! Ok, one minute left to say hello to friends and the festival got kicked off… :.
PATH
OF GOLCONDA ~ first entered the stage and
could open in front of an already large crowd. A plus for the
delay ;) The sound was poor, singing too low but who the fuck
cares? These gents did not and thrashed on with full throttle.
They probably had a much better monitor sound. PATH OF
GOLCONDA got into with songs from the new full-length
The Threshold Diaries, followed by
two smash hits from the debut Destination: Downfall.
The feedback was inexpertly great and even prodded the band to
give their best. Succeed! This was a fucking great and energetic
opening show!
:.
SUDDEN
DEATH ~ was coming next. They were brought
forward, because they had to play another gig this evening and
time was passing by quickly. And yes, the guys from Osnabrueck
are also back on stage! In support of their freshly pressed and
unleashed album Rethroned they started
with it: intro and Until Hell Froze – shit, does
it not suit exquisitely? *lol* While the infantry was treated
with earthy death metal/grindcore, fronter and bass player (2x
Markus) were acting downright unleashed and ran riot. Latter one
was not to hold on stage and rather tortured his strings among
the crowd, but always looking after his little boy – a tiny
tot of approx. 5 years, sitting at the stage’s edge and
skeptically watching what his dad was doing there. But daddy was
proud as fuck ;) How cute is that? However, the local matadors
had to struggle thru the crowd that was almost scared and buckling
backwards but the rest did partying a lot and enjoyed the gig.
And, considering the fact, that the B51 will be torn down, SUDDEN
DEATH appealed for active participation (ok, figuratively)
underlaid by Terror and left scorched earth musically ;) I absolutely
loved this show! And I want more!
:.
A LIFE
DIVIDED ~ was supposed to be the actual opener
this evening and kicked of with Isolation from their
current and self-released album Far.
First tones of singer JP went down quite off-key, even pointing
out the extremes between them and other bands. Munich-based outfit
offered soft Gothic/Electro, musically speaking sophisticated
but the music was somehow lacking of power. Everything was just
dabbling along. The band itself of course realized this, tried
their best but failed to get the audience going. Only the girls
followed their call to shake their legs. That A LIFE DIVIDED
are able to rock out, they proved with their last song No
World Order from the debut album Virtualized.
Suddenly the guys kicked asses ;) Why they didn’t start
this way right from the beginning? They can make it… ;)
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MOONSORROW
~ just turned the tables afterwards. During the
backline-change the crowd was pressing toward the stage and the
WINTERNOISE FESTIVAL experienced its first highlight
with the intro to Kivenkantaja. Axe-man Mitja was so
full of energy, hardly to tame, and was everything rocking down
to earth in his part of the stage. Of course not without evil
posing ;) The rest of the band was nothing short of him. Only
Ville seemed to be a little more restrained, since he also had
to sing. But for that he was grinning like a Cheshire cat, lively
talking to the audience. Anyway, grandiose vibes there, jumping
over in a twinkling of an eye. I was just wondering who started
first… Fantastic show! I actually didn’t expect anything
else. As at the other recent shows Henri Sorvali got replaced
by Janne (did I see a show without him?). Those who expected to
get one of the both songs of the brand new album V:
Hävitetty were left disappointed. I guess we
will never get them during a normal show. But, no problem at all!
MOONSORROW have enough great material to please
the fans for hours ;) By the way… what about the track Likkonen?
:.
ENDSTILLE
~ caused some confusion. According to the running
order Communic should have entered the stage. But, what was going
as planned tonight? ;) Ok, then first the Black Metal attack!
With Dominanz fronter Iblis started with spitting blood
over the first rows, making them looking like Gwar victims. I
just hope it was artificial blood… Of course, Iblis and
Cruor were corpse painted and dressed in everything the chain,
sting and rivet market may offer, while Wachtenfels and drummer
Mayhemic Destructor went around as “normal” dudes.
Sentiments seemed to be distributed the same way. Guitarist and
drummer had some technical problems, were pissed and fighting
with the stage techs. That did not derogate the show and ENDSTILLE
got once more enthusiastically celebrated. Just at the end of
the show ecstasy slowed down and catcalls came from the last rows.
What made me smiling now and then was the North Sea idiom when
Iblis started to talk with the crowd but looking evil as any possible.
How cute was that? *lol*
:. COMMUNIC ~ afterwards committed something like a break in style, visually as well as musically. But that’s exactly the great thing with “multi-culti” festivals ;) These Norwegian lumps of sweetness kicked off their set unbelievably energetic, played as tight as fuck and created such powerful sound that I was like… WOW! Wtf… are they doing there? I expected sort of a weak sound. No way!!! Instead COMMUNIC delivered a firework of progressive Power Metal. Holy shit! The gents played four songs from the highly acclaimed Waves Of Visual Decay and two from the predecessor. Just cute these guys. Really!
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PRIMORDIAL
~ had to be the second highlight on this evening.
Honestly… I never have seen mastermind Alan that emotional.
And I have already seen many PRIMORDIAL shows.
His facial expression was… just extreme, distorted, very
close to burst out in tears, soulful. I only saw once a slight
smile flickering over his face. In between he aggressively tramped
over the stage, even killed his microstand, fell on his knees
or sank into contemplative self-reflection. With his tattered
outfit he then looked so vulnerable, making the crowd crying.
What a roller coaster of feelings and emotions! Except for the
four-stringer the rest of the band acted reserved and created
an antipole. That of course amplified and centered Alans performance,
made it even more intensive. Ciarán again couldn’t
make it and got once more replaced by Gary. Musically PRIMORDIAL
offered the proved mixture of old and new songs but this time
they did not start with The Golden Spiral, but with
To Enter Pagan. Despite of many calls there was no encore
given, what was really bad :(
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MOONSPELL
~ actually added the cherry on the cake! I have
not seen them performing live for a very long time. Other ones
reports were mostly ambivalent so that I did not expect that much.
Stage scenery was promising a lot… and took much time to
be built up. Getting aware of the setlist it gave me creeps. The
shortly before and speculative compiled best-of setlist seemed
to be come true. Besides four songs from the current masterpiece
Memorial the Gothic rockers went back
deeply into the past and ecstasies the audience with classics
such as Opium, Wolfshade, Vampiria,
Alma Mater and the MOONSPELL song of
all times: Full Moon Madness! How fucking great is that???
The band was in high spirits, rocked their souls out of the bodies
and flirted with the fans. Singer Fernando Ribeiro pulled –
with a voice in top form – all the stops, took off his clothes
step by step and made the girls going mad ;) What a great an awesome
show I tell ya! Of course MOONSPELL could not
leave the stage without encores. And we got two! At the end MOONSPELL
were exhausted but gushingly took a bow and released the tired
crow into the pitch black night…
Summary:
Again the WINTERNOISE FESTIVAL turned out be
a fantastic event. The bit of chaos was ok, I guess, it doesn’t
work without any ;) I wish the organizers had published a running
order (despite the changes) as they did the years before as well.
Not everybody wants to see every band… |
| story & pics © Dajana |
