Wow.
It's been quite a while since I posted anything or even logged in on here.
Life has been pretty insane the last month or so with work, moving house, football and most recently Soundwave. The latter being mostly what prompted me to log in and write this, I mostly just wanted to gush about fucking amazing it is.
So many amazing moments and sets over the day, and even the night before when I went to see Bullet For My Valentine's headline sideshow supported by Cancer Bats. At a <1000 capacity venue. Seeing a band like Bullet in that intimate venue is indescribable. Just amazing. They also had Chris Jericho come on stage to do the vocals for Dead To The World off their new album. I'm not a wrestling fan and have never really listened to his band but his stage presence while he was there was brilliant.
Cancer Bats seemed to have the lousy end of the sound set with the vocals distorting pretty badly but still absolutely destroyed it. Their cover of Sabotage and Hail Destroyer were fucking incredible.
Then yesterday, Saturday, was the big day. Soundwave. We kicked off the day starting with Dragonforce before seeing Anthrax, Tomahawk, Gallows, Billy Talent, Sum 41, Cypress Hill, Slayer, A Perfect Circle, Sick Of It All and fucking Metallica.
The whole day was absolutely mindblowing. I've been going to Soundwave for 4 or 5 years and never seen anything like yesterday. All the stages absolutely rammed, 40,000+ people, by early afternoon.
My own personal highlights from yesterday:
Dragonforce bringing back the keytar
Anthrax fucking ROCKING their cover of TNT by ACDC
Mike Patton's voice
Me apparently making it onto the big screen during Bullet (yeah that's a bit narcissistic that one)
Sick Of It All wall of death. Hands down the most brutal wall of death I've ever been a part of.
Every single fucking second of Metallica.
Now I just need to try and recover in time to do it all again next weekend in Adelaide, and catch all the bands I wanted to but didn't get to see yesterday.
It's been quite a while since I posted anything or even logged in on here.
Life has been pretty insane the last month or so with work, moving house, football and most recently Soundwave. The latter being mostly what prompted me to log in and write this, I mostly just wanted to gush about fucking amazing it is.
So many amazing moments and sets over the day, and even the night before when I went to see Bullet For My Valentine's headline sideshow supported by Cancer Bats. At a <1000 capacity venue. Seeing a band like Bullet in that intimate venue is indescribable. Just amazing. They also had Chris Jericho come on stage to do the vocals for Dead To The World off their new album. I'm not a wrestling fan and have never really listened to his band but his stage presence while he was there was brilliant.
Cancer Bats seemed to have the lousy end of the sound set with the vocals distorting pretty badly but still absolutely destroyed it. Their cover of Sabotage and Hail Destroyer were fucking incredible.
Then yesterday, Saturday, was the big day. Soundwave. We kicked off the day starting with Dragonforce before seeing Anthrax, Tomahawk, Gallows, Billy Talent, Sum 41, Cypress Hill, Slayer, A Perfect Circle, Sick Of It All and fucking Metallica.
The whole day was absolutely mindblowing. I've been going to Soundwave for 4 or 5 years and never seen anything like yesterday. All the stages absolutely rammed, 40,000+ people, by early afternoon.
My own personal highlights from yesterday:
Dragonforce bringing back the keytar
Anthrax fucking ROCKING their cover of TNT by ACDC
Mike Patton's voice
Me apparently making it onto the big screen during Bullet (yeah that's a bit narcissistic that one)
Sick Of It All wall of death. Hands down the most brutal wall of death I've ever been a part of.
Every single fucking second of Metallica.
Now I just need to try and recover in time to do it all again next weekend in Adelaide, and catch all the bands I wanted to but didn't get to see yesterday.