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2009-05-09
DE – Essen - Turock |
| Yes, yes, yeeeeeeeesssss! Finally! Finally I got the chance to see my favorite Death Metal extremists of DISBELIEF playing live again. Besides of some festival appearances, the last headlining show I attended was really ages ago. Much better, DISBELIEF tour in support of their brand new record Protected Hell, an awesome masterpiece, one of their best albums ever (did they ever unleash only an average one? NO!!!). Anyway, 10 points! Album of the month on Nocturnal Hall! Of course! Everything could have happened… No holding back. Luckily the world did not go down, hehe. It was a must-to-be-there show for sure and I just had to walk around the corner. More or less. Ya know, my second home called Turock *laughs* :: pics :: Sharing stage
was Munich-based up-and-coming band GRANTIG, Bavarian cats
playing Thrash Metal with German lyrics. They raised some good
reputation with their debut on NH. However, there was also a third
“support-act” announced, but who it was... was kept
secretly. Till the end. Because the band did not appear. They
preferred to have a barbecue instead. On short notice. WTF???
Barbecue? To comment with the Turock boss’ words: “very
professional” Um… yes.
Kicking off
half past 8 :: GRANTIG
:: had the pleasure to get welcomed by an own fan-base.
Around 20 kids stormed in front of the stage celebrating the band
and partying hard. Surprise, surprise. Nothing I really expected
to experience. More than a year after the band’s debut So
muss es sein, GRANTIG just released their sophomore
entitled Medizin, now to be presented to the audience.
Music is for sure much powerful and driving, displaying some great
guitar work (both axe-men outfitted with Dimebag-Signatures),
but singing and the German lyrics is something you need to get
used to. It’s not my cup of tea anyway. I also think the
cats could have been more active on stage. Other ones liked it
a lot, seeing the kids almost freakin’ out. And, at the
end, GRANTIG even could play an encore ;)
The Turock
was still clearly arranged, I’d guess 100 peeps around.
Of course a shame for :: DISBELIEF
:: a band that deserves much more. Much more fans attending
their shows, much more attention in the biz, ya know. They took
it easy, time for me to gulp the one or the other beer. Nah, not
THAT many *lol* You know, I don’t get drunk anymore ;) When
lights got switched out fans started to scream welcoming the band
with open hearts. Kicking off with the intro and first track from
Protected Hell things got going. Quickly this special
kind of atmosphere was built up, having a lot of dynamic interactions
between the crowd and the band, heating up both sides. Sound was
quite… well; it was thwarting the band’s energy and
power. And there was way too much smoke on stage, seeing the guys
always completely disappearing. As for me as a photographer…
a tragedy ;) Much more since DISBELIEF also presented its
new guitar player: Alejandro Varela, playing in the foggiest corner.
But he though attracted attention ;) Anyway, seems this Spanish
guy perfectly suits the band, personally as well as musically.
And with some better sound you even could have heard that. Ok, the interview took place any time after midnight. And as usual on a Saturday night, a metal disco followed the show. With good music in my ears and having a lot of fun there I decided that it is nonsense to go home now. So I had even more fun, till almost 4pm, went home and directly strolled towards my morning shift. Tight… timewise, but I was not too late…hehe. I just needed a lot of matches to hold my eyelids open. Maybe I should have tried superglue…? *yawns*
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