So, I got back from Bloodstock yesterday. And it was a great festival I thought.
Enjoyed all of it. Though, I missed Týr by about half an hour :(. Bit of a disappointment. But thats what you get for going down the day the music starts. And I've heard they're crap live anyhow. Some fellows were doing corpse paint for £1.50 and I wan'id it but I couldn't find them again :(. That would've made me happy seeing as Demon Burger were on that night :(.
Might as well give a little review of the bands I saw :).
Destruction
Thought these were alright. Not fond of Thrash as you may know, but I enjoyed them live. Wouldn't listen to them though.
Helloween
Sound was poor for these. Far too quiet and I didn't enjoy the show as much as I'd have liked to because of that. They were also insanely gay on stage. I've never seen such a camp band, but it was all good :). But on reflection I like it more than I did at the time. It's revitalised by interest in them :).
Opeth
Obviously I'm going to bum these and it was good. Better than at Defenders of the Faith. The set list could of been better though.
I had a brilliant position too :).
Eluveitie
I did like these. Never heard them before but it was decent in that Folk way.
The violinist was darn sexy too. They get points for sexy violinists :)... I should state it was a girl :P.
Moonsorrow
Liked :). Wasn't as epic as the albums but there is only so much you can do with one keyboard.
Wasn't disappointed though as I feared I might be :).
Soilwork
Was very bored during their set.
Iced Earth
Never liked this band at all. But their set definately converted me. I thought they were brilliant. One of the highlights of the weekend. And the riff to The Coming Curse is one of the best I've heard in ages.
Dimmu Borgir
Again, bored. I could of dereived some pleasure from the show if I had some corpse paint on. But I didn't. And even if I did it'd still have been Dimmu Borgir and thus they would have still been crap.
Alestorm
Liked their show. Was pretty amusing and the music is catchy. Another of my favourites :).
Mob Rules
Crap name for a Power Metal band and they were listenable, but nothing interesting or new. Uninspired and generic. Was mainly waiting for my friend to rejoin me so we could go into the crowd and see...
Kataklysm
Another highlight :). Had nice hopes after some of the comments someone in here left last week about their live show. So I was looking forward to it. And their set consisted mainly of the songs I knew. Which is always handy :). Was a cool crowd for them as well. Lots of space to headbang :D.
Overkill
The bands I was interested in had all been and gone so I wasn't arsed at this point. And I dislike Thrash so I wasn't arsed in this band especially. Though to throw a more optimistic spin on things I did enjoy the riff during one song where the lyrics are 'We don't care what you say, fuck you!'. Yeah...
Nightwish
I spent about 95% of their show with my eyeline at the new singers crotch. Not sure why, but thats where I was ;). It was enjoyable in the cheesey Nightwish way and Wishmaster has funny alternative lyrics :). But at the end of the day, it's still Nightwish.
DAT BE MY REVIEW!
Did you all miss me? :)
At 8/14/08 06:34 AM, Goatchrist wrote:
Don't cry ;) just listen to the following bands - I'm pretty sure you will like some of this because it's not your typical BM:
I've noted them down and shall listened when I've got me some high speed internetz :).
At 8/14/08 07:34 AM, Goatchrist wrote:
I just gave him a basic overview. The next wave of bands will come after he's addicted to the sound :P
It's lovely that you have faith in me ;).
Now make me a Horseman =P.
At 8/17/08 07:43 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:
while i understand where you guys are coming from, saying that people who play GH should play a real guitar is like telling people who play call of duty to go join the army and actually fight.
Not really.
I imagine the experience of killing people and being shot at is a bit different to playing Call of Duty.
But Guitar Hero is pretty much exactly the same as playing real guitar, minus the advance technique stuff.
And after watching people play GH at Bloodstock I think it seems harder than actually learning guitar.
Some of the stuff looked really, really hard to do.
At 8/18/08 05:06 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote:
Acceleration - Age Of Silence
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphony
I never really looked into avant-garde before, never knew what i was missing out on :/
Acceleration is brilliant :D.
Get The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus :).
At 8/18/08 07:52 AM, Magisterial wrote:
After listening to a bit of Arcturus, I found it a bit jarring and not really melodic, out there, and artistic I guess, but not very appealing.
I found The Sham Mirrors to be incredibly melodic.
One of the catchiest albums I've ever heard.
At 8/18/08 09:46 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:
I'd recommend Solefald, Fleurety, Virus, and Ved Buens Ende, just to name a few.
I'd add Kayo Dot and Fantomas to that list :).