mayhem was awesome, left for it at 12pm, got home at 12 at night.
of the bands the only good ones were behemoth, cannibal corpse and of course.. SLAYER!!!!!!!!!
slayer played an hour, the other bands played 45 minutes.
we only got to see 3 of behemoth's songs since we were in line to get Cannibal Corpses autographs at their signing ( i went with benevolent bob, ( RL friend :P) he loves CC)) but we heard them all since they were playing pretty close, it was good. im definately goin to listen to them now. i was impressed.
pretty much cannibal corpse was pretty good and thats saying a lot coming from me, because im sure many of you know that im personally not a fan of corpsegrinders vocals.. altho i have gotten used to them now, i even think they are ok now, but id still love to be able make out at least some of the things he says, but thats hard to do live with most metal bands if you dont already know the songs and lyrics. i really liked their music playing, and they were overall just very good live.
anyways CC had a mosh pit ever 20 square feet, it was insane, someone threw a gallon of milk, opened into the air very high and it came down pouring, i got at least 2 beers spilt on me, people were also throwing the trash cans around, very funny. i saw at least 3 ppl with bloody heads during the concert.
OK.. NOW TIME FOR SLAYERRRRRR!
slayer played, again, for an hour. they played 8, count them 8 good songs, good songs being ****c songs, cuz .. seriously.. post Seasons slayer is an absolute joke that is a mix of groove metal and nu metal. altho psychopathy red is ok, and a little comeback to thrash, its THE SAME RIFF THE ENTIRE SONG and then a little breakdown., altho it was way bttr than god hates us all and the about 5 other new garbage songs they played, the other 4 i didnt even recognise cuz ive only listened to the post seasons albums once.. and once was enough.
the songs they played were - in this order. ( im only mentioning the good ones cuz thats all i remember and want to remember) 1. war ensemble 2. mandatory suicide . 3. chemical warfare 4. dead skin mask 5. hell awaits ( no intro with the join us + WELCOME BACK :( ) 6. angel of death 7. ENCORE - south of heaven - 8. raining blood
about 25 minutes of the hour ( yes i kept track of time) was the bad songs, luckily the bad songs were the beggining, war ensemble was the 2nd song, then after chemical warfare their was another bad song, but dead skin mask was the beginning of the ****cs. until dead skin mask , i and benevolent bob were extremely dissapointed. south of heaven and raining blood were amazing though, and almost all but erased the dissapointment, i was banging my head along for full duration to those 2 end songs nonstop , with the tempo... raining blood nearly wrecked my neck.
i wouldve loved to see any of these songs substituted for the garbage they played , these songs are often played live as well : the antichrist, die by the sword, captor of sin ( how did they not play this? ) , seasons in the abyss, jesus saves, necrophobic, postmortem ( seriously, raining blood always needs postmortem before it ) , agressive perfector.
i came out of the concert(s) very pleased in the end, i got a slayer tour shirt, a mayhem magazine ( with all the bands bio's and stuff ) with the cannibal corpse page signed by every member of the band, and a behemoth posted signed by.. one of the guys.
cross off slayer on my list of bands to see :P
so far ive seen kreator, exodus, metallica, testament, absu, rumplestiltskin grinder, warbringer, iced earth, belphagor, opeth , enslaved, slayer, cannibal corpse, behemoth +other mayhem bands i dont rly care about and santana 2x :P
bands i still gotta see : rush, sodom, destruction, MEGADETH!!!!!!!! ( hopefully latr this year) , black sabbath , heaven and hell ( maybee end of this year, but eww coheed and cambria?) , judas priest ( skipping this years show cuz theyre gonna play british steel in its entirety.. yes.. the first bad album ( minus a few good songs) why couldnt it be stained ****in entirety? )) , iron maiden, celtic frost ( plz get back toghether ) , sepultura ( only if reunited ) and or soulfly / cavalera conspiracy, pink floyd reunited..