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2005-11-21
DE – Osnabrueck - N8 |
Every
metalhead outgrown of its children’s shoe should have seen
Germans thrash veterans DESTRUCTION at least
five time playing live. Of course, Schmier, Mike and Mark are
still worthy a crushing and entertaining show, but highlight of
this tour is without a doubt CANDLEMASS. After
their reunion, great festival appearances, an outstanding new
(and self-titled) album and two DVD releases, fans mouths were
watering. Finally (after several attempts) the Swedes managed
to catch a support slot and are now hunting across Europe. Added
by Belgian power/thrash metallers AFTER ALL and
Finnish death/thrashers DEATHCHAIN attendees
got a varied package for an entertaining evening… :: pictures :: :. DEATHCHAIN ~ already convinced the magazine’s crew with their sophomore Deaththrash Assault (8.5 out of 10 points) and kicked of their set on time. Dunno for what reason, but the guy behind the light-knobs let the Finns act in darkness. And I thought we were outgrown such stupid behavior (support band = bad sound and bad light show)… Anyway, DEATHCHAIN didn’t care and kicked some asses with their own heavy death/thrash style, letting the first couple of long-haired heads rotate. Songs spanned both albums, the debut Deadmeat Disciples and the current one. Great start. I liked the guys. Way to go! \m/
:. AFTER ALL ~ received rave reviews for their album Mercury Rising (2002) and mostly felt out of favor with the follow-up The Vermin Breed (2005). So I was quite curious how they would turn out live since they are now much thrashier. The Belgian gents began a cheerful entrance introduction as they presented themselves with self confidence and seemed very agile. Especially singer Piet Focroul had an overwhelming urge to jump, move and climb (on the box tower), pulling many faces. After 30 minutes playing time AFTER ALL said good-bye with a fresh version of Slayers Reign In Blood.
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DESTRUCTION
~ entered the stage totally pissed off. Especially
Schmier found fault with everything, no matter if it was the monitor
sound, the mite one had to pay at the door (he said at every other
venue one had to pay 5€ less) or the sparse audience, he
blamed the organizers for bad promotion. But he got calmed down
when realizing the fans overwhelmingly paying homage to him, never
getting tired to thank the fans for such amazing support and good
mood. Highlights of the show were some really ancient classics
such as Mad Butcher und Total Desaster (from
84’s Sentence Of Death) and Unconscious
Ruins (Release From Agony, ’88),
Life Without Sense and Curse The Gods (Eternal
Devestation, ’86); the talks between Schmier
and the crowd (almost cult!) and unbelievably 3 encores. With
the very last songs Candlemass’ Messiah Marcolin joined
DESTRUCTION on stage, driving the audience mad…
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CANDLEMASS
~ surprisingly appeared as a four-piece-entity.
As to learn later axeman Mats Björkman had to go back home
for family reasons. Four-stringer Leif Edling commented on this
situation: „Playing as a quartet is not fun at all but
what can you do? You just strap on, distort the bass as fuck,
and smile. The show must go on...” Well, his smile
I’d describe more as some nice grimaces. Though, he seemed
to have lotsa fun… ;)
Upshot: despite of a small attendance, crowd has been in best mood, almost wild. Where DESTRUCTION appeared a little pathetic, CANDLEMASS made it up talking about lotsa funny topics. While the Swedes and Finns were slumming, the other both bands disappeared without a trace… too bad. However, it was a great entertaining evening and I’m not getting tired of seeing CANDLEMASS performing live. I’m just wondering if Schmier was right and the tickets were 5€ cheaper everywhere else. If so, we should kick some organizers asses here in Osnabrueck for this rip-off… |
| story & pics © Dajana |
