07/05/2004
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Ydrogeios
Club,Thessaloniki,Greece February
28 2004 |
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live review by Dimitris "Heartcollector83" Theodoropoulos
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Bands such as Sodom and Entombed no matter how many times they visit
your city for a concert you never get bored of seeing them live. This
time I wasn’t going to miss Sodom again, not this time that they were
filming the show for their upcoming dvd. Unfortunately the local support
band was cancelled once again, a very good band from Thessaloniki called
Koronzon. The reason that Koronzon didn’t play was because Sodom
wanted much time to prepare the place for the filming of their dvd and
they couldn’t give just 30 minutes at least for the guys to present us
songs from their latest very good release.
I was very glad to have the chance to see Entombed for the
third time. Their previous two concerts in Thessaloniki and Athens in
October 2002 were brilliant. With a new bass player (Jorgen Sandstorm
left for personal reasons from the band not long ago) and a new studio
album in their discography, Entombed offered us
dirty death metal filled with rock ‘n’ roll parts for about 50
minutes. We heard songs off their latest release, Inferno, which
were very good live, an album that is a bit underestimated by the fans
of the band. Of course songs such as Chief Rebel Angel, Flexing
Muscle, Eye For An Eye, Hollowman, Revel In Flesh
and Left Hand Path couldn’t be absent from the show. Entombed
rocked the place once again and I really look forward to seeing them
again live soon, these guys are outstanding!
And the time has come for the headliners Sodom from which
everyone has high expectations that night because since they want to
film the show for their dvd they are surely well prepared and with a
decent setlist as well. The guys hit the stage very powerful and the
setlist proved to be very good with only one complaint from my side, the
lack of songs from the band's previous album, Code Red. Early on the
list were the hits Agent Orange and Sodomized causing a
tremendous moshing. They continued with The Saw Is The Law and Blasphemer
and the crowd goes even more wild. A song from their latest album M16, Napalm
In The Morning is next and then the band continues with older tunes
such as Witching Metal and Remember The Fallen which are
among the best moments of the concert. Ausgebombt is surely one
of the best Sodom songs and of course they performed it and as if all
these great songs weren’t enough to get us excited they threw in the
setlist a cover versions of Motörhead’s Ace Of Spades, a
pretty good cover I must admit. Motörhead have surely influenced Sodom
in a huge way. Everything was great but something
just didn’t let me enjoy the gig to the maximum. There were many
cameramen on stage and the band gave the impression that the all
their moves were rehearsed and predefined. I also think that they
could have played more time,three or four more songs wouldn’t be so
hard for them.
To conclude, I think that Entombed
were the ones that impressed me more without saying that Sodom were bad.
On the contrary, Sodom were very good but they could have been better. I
am sure they could. Entombed proved once again what a huge band they
are. Dimitris
Theodoropoulos
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