This weekend´s surprise: Once in awhile I found a new band to love!!! Just like that! The non-thrashband Karpis played before Talion and were really really good!! Love the stuff!! According to their bio, they play progressive-doom-hardcore….and some cowboy rock. Good enough for me;)) Check them out will you!!
And the weekend continues….
Went to see a couple of old friends at Bar 122. A long long time ago I saw Martin Missy & Talion thrashing live, so it was really fun to be there. Met some other cool people, too. And one REAL idiot;) The idiot (with entourage) luckily disappeared right after Talion started their set…he couldn´t stand the music, I think:D Small stage, but it worked…with my own contribution to the lights.
A good evening all together…nice to see Facebreaker-Roberth in Scar Symmetry. He and Lars (the other new vocalist) did great together. Arsis were much better I expected. Only heard a couple of MP3:s while waiting, so I didn´t really know anything about them. Good show! DevilDriver had lots of fans in the audience…who only came for them and left when they were done. Still, there were lots of crowd left for Behemoth….Devildriver also got the best lights for the evening.
While at it I thought the lights were ok (quite dark but manageable…) but still the pics weren´t as good I thought at first. Some ok and some…, as usual;)GALLERIES:» ARSIS » SCAR SYMMETRY» DEVILDRIVER
I still think that Thelema 6 and Zos Kia Cultus are the best Behemoth albums but they are always extremely impressive live. Pretty nice new t-shirts they got, too. Didn´t buy any…still quite happy with the one I bought the last time.
I went to Klubben only to see Marionette, but once there, I also checked out the next two bands. After Shadows Fall, I went home so I missed the last one. Anyway…here´s some pics.
And now to something totally different….
My friend Alexi (Pivotal Management) from Chicago asked me for awhile ago and if I could go and take some pics on the Marionette gig. He always ask me and I´m very glad he does:) Ever since I saw the band for the first time, I´ve loved them! Marionette is a GREAT liveband and I love the two albums they´ve made.
So if you are in to brutal, beautiful music with some good speed and brilliant melodies check them out!! This time they got only about 20-25 minutes on the stage and as the first band out, there were not so many people yet. Unfair, I think. The lights were a struggle as usual but with some help from Tintin, I could get some ok pics. And some….not so ok. But get to see all kinds as usual;))
The last band at RIFS was Bombs of Hades (love the name. So cool!!:) from Västerås. Didn´t do my homework, so many of the bands playing this weekend, were bands I didn´t know so much about so I thought it could be quite exciting. And it turned out to be better I ever imagined. The whole idea having this festival was based on the release of a (limited) compilation vinyl called Resurrected In Festering Slime. Most of the bands on the compilation also played on this festival. BIG thanks to Andrés (Darkcreed), Sophie and Peter who made this great event happen!! Andrés also jumped in for one song with Bombs of Hades (Jaws of Satan) I had a great time and I do hope this wasn´t the last time I saw these great bands. And I sure hope I get the chance to see those two bands I missed…Feral and Morbus Chron….someday soon!!!
My good, and most respected, friend Erik Tormentor has been rehearsing with this band Crucifyre for awhile, but I never heard one track and I don´t think they´ve ever played live before (correct?). I really didn´t know what to expect, but I really enjoyed the stuff very much. Pondus & stjärnglans!!
Fuck you! Hail Satan! (send up that track on MySpace, will you??!!;)).
Stench includes a couple of guys from the amazing Tribulation (who made one of the BEST albums 2009 – The Horror and got the same maniac blonde on guitar). Really good death metal all the way!! The downside was that I didn´t get one good pic on the drummer. Sorry ´bout that. I´ll do better next time.
»MORE PICS FROM RIFS (Resurrected In Festering Slime) Fest HERE
Of course I arrived late and missed the first band:( But either way, I did see/hear some extremely good stuff!! First out was Tormented from the same parts of the country than the great Facebreaker. Too bad Roberth (Tormented, Facebreaker, Scar Symmetry) was on tour somewhere in Europe with Scar Symmetry and couldn´t show up. I was a bit sad for awhile, then I heard that one of Sthlms finest, Tobbe Sillman, would be filling in with the bass. That Sillman boy is really everyplace these days??;) I´m not complaining…he´s great whatever instrument he´s demolishing at the time.
