Okay heres my review of slayer and slipknot, at the hammersmith appolo, saturday.
The night began in high spirits, the que outside large and full of anticipation. Until about 6:45 when the doors ahd been open 45 minutes and still only about a third of the fans were in. I in fact missed Mastodon all together. However i soon forgot about this, getting right into the first act, a super heavy set of around five of hatebreeds own songs and one song from each of the main acts work. The whole crowd was standing, screaming themselves hoarse before slayer even played a single track.
Unlike the dwindling talents of metallica, Slayer have only grown in ability, they were hard, fast, fucking heavy-thrash-satanic-black fucking METALLLLL! The whole crowd a mass of thrashing skulls, it was claer who most had come to see.
When slipknot turn rolled along it was like being offered a pizza after having a massice curry, normally i would have been like, yeah thanks i'd love a pizza, but now i wasnt in the mood. That was until duality rolled along, and the mediocre element of slipknot was replaced but fcuking rock. A kid in front of me had been moshing his brains out and i was at first jealous of how much he could enjoy slipknot after slayer had been on, but i soon came into my own and went megha skitzo. after getting the whole crowd to jump slipknot left, but for an encour played wiat and bleed and i went fucking nuts, slamming my face onto the fucking floor with avengeance.
The night totally fucking belonged to slayer but my god slipknot were good, Fucking awesome concert, i cant move my neck, the unholy alliance tour FUCKING 10 OUT OF TEN FCUKING ROCK!