well that concert kicked some serious ass.
i feel for you JZAA missing this one. It was the best concert i have ever been to and that is a massive call from me becuz i have seen Metallica live.
One night i wont forget for a long time thats for sure.
ill give u a little low down.
Got their around 5 30 went to a pub for some drinks, than we drank for a good hour becuz we werent interested in the first band I Killed the Prom queen who played from 6-6:30. Walking towards the arena we saw the lead singer from Lamb Of God getting coffee at a cafe so we went in and said welcome to aus and shook his hand, he was a LEGEND!! Than Unearth took the stage, this one i played spectator from the 2nd floor balcony. These guys were preety fukin good. They really worked the death pit hard and was just pure aggresion and thrash at its hardest. The lead guitarist did something i have never seen and that was literally walk ontop of a crowd. he ran in from the stage which was near level with the pit and was playing his gutait standing upright walking over people he was wearing a phat upside down visor too and that same guy on four occasions got given a beer chugging tube and threw it down drank it and spat it out like triple H. Good but the best was yet to come.
I then made my way to the mosh pit at the set change to watch lamb of god who were fuking unreal. Randy Bythe was mad and it was an insane and long set that saw some insane moshing and constant chanting of all the lyrics. Laid to Rest, Now you got something to Die for, Black Label, 11th Hour and The Faded Line went off. It was bloody amazing. I was 2nd row in the mosh for all the Lamb of God set and it wasnt and easy task making my way to the front.
Than Killswitch came on and holy shit were they good. Opening with A Bid farewell and seeing the guys was amazing. Howard Jones wearing a casual black shirt and jeans, Adam D wearing a tennis like outfit with a red masadoon t shirt and whit sweat and headband and Joel wearing the same Skid Row singlet he wore in their kickass dvd in worchester, Mass.
For the last 3/4 of the gig i was in the front row and i was literally a metre or less away from Howard, Mike D, Adam D and Joel. They were wailing solos in my face and the pinch harmonics. Mike D did his trademark salute to me with the horns and I was screaming the lryics to Sernade with Adam D it was the coolest moment ever. He is the funniest dude and most entertaining guy in music lol, doing pushups on stage and running around and all the jokes he was saying.
Than after the gig i was wating for a bus and bamm, first thing i see going up the valley unearth walking down we said hey and shit and than i see lamb of god going to the ATM and in perhaps the worst moment ever i was left kicking myself. Me and my mate got on either side of Bythe and had the horns up while this dude was taking a pic from my mates camera and the lens shut off, the battery died cause he was recording alot of the concert. And finally we saw Killswitch go off in their little bus and ran to the middle of the road and wgave them the horns and they waved back.
great night and an unreal experience.
i will try recall the setlist as best as i remember for JZA
A Bid Farewell
Breath life
Fixation on the Darkness
Daylight Dies (new song)
Numbered Days
This Fire Burns
When Darkness Fall
Rose of Sharyn
Holy Diver
Life to Lifeless
My Last Serenade
The End of Heartache
--encore
Take this Oath
best songs live:
Fiaxtion, Rose of Sharyn, Holy Diver, Serenade, life to lifeless, HEARTACHE and Take this Oath..
