Sabaton WWT #7 - Zaandam

Maandagavond 27 september arriveerden Jeroen en ik op tijd in Zaandam.
Na een hapje te hebben gegeten waren we klaar voor de World War Tour met Thaurorod, Alestrom en Sabaton.
De Kade is een klein zaaltje waar ca. 700 mensen in kunnen. Na een t-shirt en een sweater van Sabaton gescoord te hebben, konden we naar binnen en kon het feest beginnen…
Thaurorod opende de avond met alle nummers van hun nieuwe album: Upon Haunted Battlefields.
Dit album was de 24ste uitgekomen op het Noise Art Label.
Deze Finse band was enthousiast en speelde alle acht nummers van het album.
De zanger klonk af en toe als Bruce Dickinson en de sound stond als een huis.
Daarna was het de beurt aan onze Scottish Buccaneers uit Tilburg…
Zij openden heel toepasselijk met Heavy Metal Pirats, het eerste nummer wat zij zelf schreven, én zette daarmee direct de toon. Als zij even later hun cover van Wolves Of The Sea speelden, ging iédereen los en was er een grote trekkende, duwende menigte. Het werd ontzettend warm en het zweet sijpelde van onze gezichten. De setlist was leuk verdeeld, vier nummers van hun eerste album Captain’s Morgan Revenge en twee van Black Sails At Midnight, hun tweede album. Met Keelhauled vlogg een ander maal het dak eraf. Tevens speelde zij één nieuw nummer, toepasselijk Rum genoemd. Ook dit nummer was geheel in hun eigen stijl.
Daarna was het beurt aan Sabaton. Wat me bijgebleven is, is het enthousiasme en lol, wat van Joakim’s gezicht afstraalde. Deze Zweedse mannen hadden er zin in en dat straalde ze uit ook.
Het werd nog heter in De Kade…is er geen airco…?
Ze hadden een fantastische setlist, er werden nummers gespeeld van vijf verschillende albums (Metalizer, Coat Of Arms, Art Of War, Attero Dominatus en Primo Victoria).Deze nummers werden ook fantastisch gespeeld en bewezen zij ook een goede podiumband te zijn. Ook zij speelden een nieuw nummer en evenals Alestorm kunnen wij binnenkort ook van Sabaton een nieuw album tegemoet zien.
Joakim bleek deze avond een heuse komediant te zijn en maakte veel grapjes, regelmatig werd er niet gemoshed, maar gelachen.
Ik had dit voor géén goud willen missen, wat een fantastische avond met power, pirate en heavy metal…

Alestorm - Wolves of the Sea - Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the B...

Morgen te zien in 'de Kade' in Zaandam...(óók door mij...;-)

Alestorm - Wolves Of The Sea

With a hi hi ho and a hi hi hey!
We're hoisting the flag to be free
We will steal the show, Jolly Rogers go
We are wolves of the sea

Don't try to run it's all set and done
There's treasure in sight
We are robbing you blind I hope you don't mind
We are taking it all tonight

Just walk away we'll count it all
Pirates will stand and the loser will fall

With a hii hii hoo and a hii hii hey
We're bound to be close to the sea
Our captain will stand on the bridge and sing
Pirates are all we can be

With a hi hi ho and a hi hi hey!
We're hoisting the flag to be free
We will steal the show, Jolly Rogers go
We are wolves of the sea

Down to the core we're coming for more
With a sword close at hand
We are scary and bold chest full of gold
We get sea-legs when sighting land

The hook of our captain is looking at you
There's no Peter Pan so what can you do

With a hi hi hoo and a hi hi hey!
We're hoisting the flag to be free
We will steal the show, Jolly Rogers go
We are wolves of the sea

Seven Ends - Painstream - 24.01.2010, Live At The Rock Temple, Kerkrade/NL

Beschrijving Café 545 is een supergezellig Blues Rock Café dat gevestigd is aan Parkweg 23 te Ede.
25 meter van treinstation Ede-Wageningen met voldoende parkeergelegenheid.

Bij Café 545 wordt er van alles georganiseerd, regelmatig treden er bands op uit binnen- en buitenland, er is een dartvereniging, klaverjaswedstrijden, er staat een poolbiljart en een gewoon biljart.
Vrijdagavond is metalavond en donderdag is één euro avond.
Ook organiseert Café 545 elke zomer een kroegentocht.
Kortom, voor elk wat wils!
Enne...
SEVEND ENDS WILL BE THERE....
TO PLAY THE HOUSE DOWN...

Alice Cooper - Freedom

Hot on the heels of Alice's comeback he again walks a more heavy metal path with 'Raise Your Fist And Yell' but with a great deal more success then seen on 'Constrictor'. While the likes of 'Freedom' and 'Lock Me Up' are pretty unessential, from 'Prince Of Darkness' onwards there is a marked improvement as Alice and Kane Roberts create a musical splatter movie to great effect showcasing just what the combination was capable of at its best. Once you get past the dreadful album cover this is all pretty good stuff, but little could have prepared anyone for what would happen next...

Mayhem - Deathcrush

When it comes to the definitive history of black metal, only one name has survived all the sensationalism. Through the church burnings, murder, imprisonments and myopic teenage nationalism, only MAYHEM has been able to channel the circus like atmosphere, which surrounded a core of fanatical bands, into a sustained musical career, in the studio and more importantly, on stage.
In '84 in the cold darkness of sunless winters, MAYHEM was born! The unholy trinity of Euronymous (guitar/vox), Manheim (drums) and Necrobutcher (bass/vox) perfected their black art away from prying eyes of metal scrutiny. In '86, after a single demo, the modestly entitled "Pure Fucking Armageddon", the band enlisted Maniac as a full time vocalist. His debut was a re-working of the demo material, christened "Deathcrush".
What should have been a triumphant time, directly after that first recording as a quartet, turned into a dark chapter, not only for the band, but for the burgeoning underground scene as well. A series of events from which many have never completely recovered. Following the release, Manheim and Maniac left the band, to be replaced by Dead on vocals and the band's current drum deity, Hellhammer. While that line-up could only muster a pair of studio compilations, Dead does appear on "Live in Leipzig", regarded by many as the first live black metal recording ever. It heralded something of a new era, as many of the fledging Norwegian artists disdained live performances, let alone an actual tour outside the homeland. After the tour Dead commits suicide.
As a twosome, Euronymous and Hellhammer recruited the infamous Count Grishnackh (Burzum) to play bass and Atilla to handle the tortured vocals on the debut, "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas", which was unleashed on an unsuspecting world in 1993.
After the murder of Euronymous and the subsequent arrest of Count Grishnackh, the details of which remain sketchy to this day, Hellhammer decided to continue MAYHEM. Both Necrobutcher and Maniac rejoin the band, and Blasphemer was chosen as the new guitarist. After several years of silence, a follow-up studio album was finally recorded. In 1997 the five tracks "Wolf Lair Abyss" hits the market. The MCD was the answer to "Deathcrush", Raw, Brutal and Evil. In 1999, "Mediolanum Capta Est", the second live CD, albeit the first with the new and current line-up, was released.
While "De Mysteriis Dom Santhanas" is seen as an album that set new standards in the world of metal, unlike many contemporaries, MAYHEM weren't content to rest on their laurels. The band sought to usher in the new millennium with a bold step, "Grand Declaration of War". The album picks up where "Wolf's Lair Abyss" left off, hence it starts with the paradoxically entitled, "Part II." The destruction continues through the fifth track. Thereafter, the recreation of MAYHEM, if not the entire black metal genre, takes off, devoid of instruments, like the emptiness of a battlefield without warriors.
2001 sees the release of the third live platter entitled "Legions". ("European Legions" in Europe and "U.S. Legions" in the States) The two CDs feature slightly different track listings and both feature raw studio tracks and outtakes from the GDOW sessions. These records and a subsequent DVD (recorded in SOM's homeland of Marseille, France) is a whirlwind of psychotic energy and punishing rhythms, MAYHEM live is a special sight and the DVD bears witness to that.
2004’s Chimera was a more conventional affair, although it still incorporates progressive elements on tracks like “Slaughter of Dreams.” It was embraced by many of the fans who denounced Grand Declaration of War. After Chimera was released, Maniac was fired from the band. His replacement was Attila Csihar.
The band completed work on Ordo ad Chao, its fourth album, in early 2007. Ordo ad Chao featured a much rawer and more traditional black metal sound than the rest of the band’s releases. Nonetheless, it continued the band’s exploration of more progressive songwriting, with “Illuminate Eliminate” being the band’s second longest track ever at 9’40”. Ordo ad Chao was exceptionally well-received both commercially and critically, and was the band’s first album to reach the charts (in Norway and elsewhere).
Blasphemer left the group I 2008, to focus on his other project, Ava Inferi, which led to the recruitment of guitarists Morfeus and Silmaeth as live musicians.
Mayhem will continue to evolve as a 5 piece band for the foreseeing future.

Dimmu Borgir - The Sacrilegious Scorn

Have I not
Been too long in your shadows of invention and creation?
As I rightfully behold the flesh
Fear of the conscious mind will have you facing away

My word and world holds ground and is real
Your world is like floods of poisoned water
A language spoken with spit from different tongues

It all seems like an eternity
This battle between us two
"Good and evil"
Me and you

Time has come to step up
And take back what you took from me

My word and world holds ground and is real
Your world is like floods of poisoned water
A language spoken with spit from different tongues
You can never corrupt me again

Your world is like floods of poisoned water
A language spoken with spit from different tongues
You can never corrupt me again

I protect every man guilty of sin
The ultimate sin being me
The vapor from the plague
That infested my mind, body and soul
Obscured my view from wisdom
The mist that had me wonder

KAMELOT - March Of Mephisto

Shagrath (Dimmu Borgir) :
Aspirat primo Fortuna labori
Me duce tutus eris
Vox populi vox Dei
Ad majorem Dei gloriam...
Ad infinitum

(Translation:
Fortune Smiles Upon Your Effort.
Under my leadership you will be safe.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
For the greater glory of God.
For Infinity.)

Kahn:
You know just who I am
Don't be so distant
'cause When you're lost
I am solely there to share your grief

Khan:
Wailing your sorrow
is only my way to comfort you

Shagrath:
Reminders of innocent youth

Khan:
Waiting for morrow you're lonely
I name your solitude

Khan and Shagrath:
I speaketh the truth

Khan:
Now tell me all about your pain
Down to the detail
Don't say it's love
Your fragile heart feeds my contempt

Khan:
Wailing your sorrow
is only my way to comfort you

Shagrath:
Reminders of innocent youth

Khan:
Waiting for morrow you're lonely
I name your solitude

Khan and Shagrath:
I speaketh the truth


Khan:
Chase the heathen call
We belong...you and I
Unison in all you deny

Khan:
Wailing your sorrow
is only my way to comfort you

Shagrath:
Reminders of innocent youth

Khan:
Waiting for morrow you're lonely
I name your solitude

Khan and Shagrath:
I speaketh the truth


Khan:
I am the thorn in your side
That seeks accomplishment

Shagrath:
Reminding the mortal of death

Khan:
I am the spore of your pride
An angel heavensent

Khan and Shagrath:
The master of all
I am the urge of the flesh

Shagrath:
Reminding the mortal of death


Death!