Unholy Alliance Tour 2006 review

[Epic Reine 0]

Just got back from the Unholy Alliance Tour show in Jersey. Here's the rundown:

 

Band 1: Thine Eyes Bleed

 

Totally sucked. Crowd was completley dead and the stadium wasn't even half filled yet. Oh well, they tried.

 

Band 2: Children Of Bodom

 

Good set. I felt it was a little short though. The keyboardist got a huge pop for some reason when he was soundchecking. Alexi really needs to learn how to speak english too.

 

Set list:

 

Silent Night, Bodom Night (opened)

Needled 24/7

Liivng Dead Beat

Angels Don't Kill

In Your Face

Hate Me

Downfall (closed)

 

I was pissed that they didn't play Bodom After Midnight.

 

Band 3: Mastodon

 

Not a big Mastodon fan but they put on a pretty good show. The guitarist with the short hair is a crazy guy and I like how the two guitarists and the bassist share the vocals between them.

 

Band 4: Lamb Of God

 

Never listened to LOG before the show but after their set I really want to. Absolutley crazy live. Crowd was way into in the singer had lots of great energy and his voice rocked. I'm definatley gonna check them out.

 

I don't have a complete set list but the songs they announced were: 11th Hour, Ashes In The Wake, Black Label, NowYou Have Something To Die For, and Redneck which is a song from the new album.

 

Band 5: SLAYER

 

OH MY GOD. FUCKING. INCREDIBLE.

 

After 23 years, Slayer still has it. Kerry and jeff are still crazy on guitar and Dave really wails on those drums. Tom humored us with some jokes about organized religion between songs, really cool guy.

 

Set list:

 

South Of Heaven (opened)

Silent Scream

Seasons In The Abyss

Mandatory Suicide (Which is dedicated to the troops in Iraq accroding ot Tom)

Antichrist

Cult

War Ensamble (Which is one of my favorite songs by them but was interrupted midway through it because a fight broke out in the row in front of me. Some dude came up to a guy sitting in front of me and just punched him out. His friend tried to defend him and they went brawling all the way to the rows below. Still got to enjoy the song though, thank god)

Hell Awaits

Dead Skin Mask

Raining Blood

Disciple

Blood Red

Chemical Warfare

Angel Of Death (closed)

 

Great show in the end. Definatley check it out if you're a metal fan.

[skullman80 0]

I would go to that show just to see Mastadon.

[Sideburnious 0]

I thought In Flames were playing that. Or ist that only the Europe stretch of the tour?

[BigPoppaKev 0]

Just went to the Lowell,MA show last night. Mastodon played before Children of Bodom and we didn't catch Mastodon. Saw about half of Children of Bodom's set. I have seen them before and it was about the same as it had been the 1st time.

 

Lamb of God was fuckin insane, 3rd time I have seen these guys and they never cease to amaze me.

 

FUCKING SLAYER. Thats all I have to say. This was the 1st time I have ever seen Slayer and it was the pinnacle of my metal life. It was fucking insane with the pit erupting into the whole floor of the show for the 2nd half of their set. Absoutely phenomenol.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Well, Kev, you and I were at the same show.

 

Pretty damn solid show. Not the best show I've been to this year (that would be Bodom/Chimaira at Lupo's in March, IIRC), but a good show nonetheless.

 

Thine Eyes Bleed

I thought they showed some minor promise at first...then I heard the "chugga-chugga" bullshit. Okay, people, get the fuck away from that, it's annoying. Listen to some Acid Bath: they're breakdowns are HEAVY and they don't fall back on chugga-chugga. It's slowed down, as in a BREAK DOWN in the speed, and builds up. Singer had a decent amount of energy, but...meh. Forgettable band altogether.

 

Mastodon

You know...pretty boring live. I love 'em, but...they're pretty fucking boring live. Opened with "Iron Tusk" and then went right into "March of the Fire Ants," and closed with "Blood And Thunder." Played "Aqua Dementia" and I believe a song off their new album, but a pretty short set.

 

Children of Bodom

I'm pretty sure that the Lowell setlist was the same as the one you saw in Jersey, CB. I know they ended with "Downfall," the second song was "Needled 24/7," and there was no "Bodom After Midnight" or even "Warheart" to be heard. That sucks, since "Bodom After Midnight" is my favorite song by them. Alexi seemed really, REALLY fucking off tonight, and the opening melody to "Needled" was off by a second or two. That doesn't sound too bad, until you realize that one second RUINS A SONG. Worst time I've seen Bodom, and also my third. Not a big Bodom fan anyway, but they've done better the other two times I've seen them. A LOT better.

 

Lamb of God

Sucked. Went with my girlfriend and our friends Petone and Caitlin up to see Steph's friend Bobby at the food shack thingy near Section B, and hung out their for 3/4 of their set. Made fun of them by growling "waaah, my daddy hates me because I'm a faggot" a few times, and then went down to the floor so we could rush towards the front for Slayer. Had to sit through too many fucking Lamb of Ghey songs then (including "Redneck," which sucks like all of their tunes, and some song that Randy said is for all of the old-school metalheads...which I found hilarious since all of the old-school metalheads there were pissed that LoG was on the same bill as Slayer), and I'm so happy they're not on Sounds of the Underground this year.

 

Slayer

Worst time I've seen Slayer. Fifth time I've seen them. Again, everybody was pretty off tonight. Only on a couple of songs, but Tom didn't sing a whole lot. Setlist was similar to the Jersey show, just in a different order. It was (IIRC):

South of Heaven

Silent Scream

War Ensemble

Blood Red

Cult

Dead Skin Mask

Disciple

Seasons in the Abyss

Raining Blood

Hell Awaits

Antichrist

Angel of Death

 

I'm not sure if they came out for an encore, but I don't think they did because we left during the start of "Angel of Death" to avoid traffic fucking us in the ass TOO bad, and the parking lot was flooded a minute or so after we got out there.

 

There was some fucking 6'6" douchebag who looked like a huge junkie that was all "FUCK YOU, PUSSIES" because people on the side of the pit (which for Slayer turned into an "L" for some reason) weren't moshing, so he kept running into people. He'd shove people down while just walking by him, and this one kid who couldn't have been taller than 5'6" shoved back, so a small fight broke out...and the smaller kid pretty much had the bigger douchebag on the fucking ropes, so-to-speak. So the big guy just laughed, shook his hand, and the motherfucking UNDERTAKER* was there and just laughed. Big douchebag didn't try any shit when he was around him, haha.

 

*The Undertaker is a staple of Massachusetts metal shows. He's a pretty tall guy, about as tall as the big douchebag if not an inch or two taller, with long hair that's pulled back into a braided ponytail and fangs. He wears a collared shirt with the sleeves tattered but not FULLY torn off, and is, in general, just a bad motherfucker in the pit. He's not like FSU where they'll just beatdown anybody they see fit, he just walks in the pit and shoves people around and helps a lot of people up.

 

Overall, good show. Seeing The Misfits (well...Jerry, Robo, and Dez) this Friday in Somerville, so I have a feeling that's going to top last night.

 

Sounds of the Underground with Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Gwar in July, and then Strhess Tour with Shadows Fall, Suffocation, and Darkest Hour in August. Would've been going to Stuck Mojo tomorrow night in Maine, but my co-worker Mark took Tuesday off (which was my plan) so I can't make it.