02.02.2005
VIII METAL FORCES
TANKARD -
JESUS CHRYSLER SUPERSKUNK - TREMORS - DAVIDIAN -
DAWN OF DISEASE
at SAK Wasserwerk - Tumringerstr. 271 - LÖRRACH - Germany
22 January 2005 -
review by dalia di giacomo and Boris Witta____
- all photos © by Stefan W. Vogelaar
The public use of these photos is strictly prohibited without written permission
 " |
| Metal Forces VII |
| Metal Forces VI |
| Metal Forces V |
Boris : - Finally, it’s again time for the Metal Forces Festival in Lörrach. The VIII part of the cult-event takes us to a new place, no more to the Burghof, but to the Wasserwerk, a location, which is a bit bigger than the Burghof and there is also kind of a balcony from which you have a very good view to the stage, and many people choose this possibility.
dalia : - yes Boris! indeed! Bright new venue which guests tonight one of its first metal concerts ever. It's a good thing that this new location offers more space and in general more volume with his high walls. There is the balcony, the hall and a space for meeting and merchandise where tonight it's also possible to get tattoos and piercings, thanks to the Modification stand. From the balcony-crossing, through a comfortable staircase , people can gather in a quite comfortably large pit in front of the stage, a stage which is wide enough. But i get a kind of nostalgia for the good old Burghof, somehow i miss that homely place. Lots of memories! But the SAK Wasserwerk is the future!
Boris : - Always great on the Metal Forces is the good atmosphere, there are lots of friends and cool people who just have a good time together and celebrate a Metal-party.
dalia : - True true, this is the soul of the Metal Forces and will remain the same!
Boris : -Also some “VIPs” are here, for example Schmier and Mike from Destruction, but later more from that…
DAWN
OF DISEASE
dawn
of disease
Boris
: - The
Metal Forces Festival VIII starts with a little tradition, like on the
MFF VII, the first band has to start with a delay. But the audience
takes it easy and makes noise and atmosphere from the first second on.
Dawn Of Disease from Osnabrück surely had the longest trip to Lörrach,
but on stage, there’s no tiredness or anything else, the whole band
starts very motivated, although the sound is not very good, the guitars
are just very much too low. And after the first two songs, the light is
finally spotting only to the stage and the room-light is off… Beside
of that, it’s great to listen and bang to Dawn of Disease, they have a
very special rhythm in their songs which appears very often, their Death
Metal with influences from the USA is not too simple, but also not
totally technical. Great, deep riffs, a roaring bass and aggressive
vocals are the trademarks of Dawn Of Disease. Vocalist Thomas growls
deep and his way of headbanging reminds to George “Corpsegrinder”
Fisher from Cannibal Corpse. Most of the songs on the setilst are taken
from the first EP “Through Bloodstained Eyes”, from which all songs
are played, only “Fried Genitals” is a new killer. The audience seems
to be very content with the band’s performance, there is lot of
headbanging and very loud cheering after each song, although the sound
doesn’t really gets better. But if you keep the fact in mind, that
Dawn Of Disease didn’t have any soundcheck, the sound isn’t too bad
at all. The gig passes fast, and I think the band appreciated to be part
of the MFF VIII, and also the audience is content. Please soon again,
but then with better sound (not the fault of the band, I know).
Let’s
now pass to Dalia…
Setlist Dawn Of Disease
Through
Bloodstained Eyes
Cut
Per Cut
Sadistic
Ejaculation
Rape
The Unborn
Lust
Auf Morden
Realies
(Realize The Lies)
Fried Genitals
Reincarnation
| " |
| Abuse of Power |
dalia
: -
Roger! thanks.
It's me again from the balcony. All in all i
appreciated too the show given by Dawn of Disease, a very good way
to open this edition. Davidian
now! First time i see them live. Davidian is a German band whose image
and fan-platform is growing enormously and not by chance. They have
participated to shows and festival of first quality and are included in
the German cult compilation The Reaper comes (IV volume) published form
Heavy Record Horses. I'm gladly to say that their show , this evening,
not only confirms all those positive impressions i got reviewing
their album ....but it is even able to reinforce them. It remains
that their influences from Metallica are very evident, but thanks all
saints it is really influence only, especially noticeable in the way of
singing; they remind me so much of the old Metallica era. This is a
compliment! As Lamb of God have totally reinvented and recycled
Pantera for example, they could really re-invent Metallica. That
discrepancy i found between texts and music, seems totally cancelled in
the live show. Their vigorous, intensive and tight Thrash can shine.
Davidian presents also a decent (this is to say adequate)
mobility, while the moments of synchronic headbanging are spectacular
enough considering that these long haired guys absolutely have the
famous "physique du rôle" . Moreover they are energetic,
precise, elastic and look professional. Already very trained. Like i
presumed from the CD "Abuse of Power", i can only gladly see that i was right: they
are actually ready for any touring, first of all cause they are
a band that shows no effort. A band that doesn't get tired. They proceed
heavy and lively like the firebox of a steam locomotive pumping fuel in
the crowd. pumping up that vitality and strength typical of the
Metal Forces. Heads are banging, applauses and good vibes are raising
high. The only flaw comes again from sound, the drumming jumps out
sporadically too much in foreground while
the guitars at times are melted too much, but , on the whole, this
is a
very good performance under every point of view. I like to underline
Davidian's words in memory of "Dimebag" Darrell. Dimebag , rest in peace!
Setlist Davidian
Religious
Exploitation
Revenge
Be Mine
Entertainment
Let
Us Rise
Davidian
Massacre
Feelings
Of Anger
Davidian
(Machine Head-Cover)
| " |
| The Reapers comes III |
dalia : - Oh yes Tremors. I like somehow their logo, a kind of winged Chtulu or what? Whatever, i like it, but apart from that, i'm very curious about the music of this German group. Do you remember the words i used in order to describe their song " Killing Aggression" in the review of the third volume of The Reaper comes compilation? Here they are: i told "Change of style, and we are back to my beloved groovy mood! Potent, a bit Doom, a lot energetic, they mix Death with Dark melodies." These words couldn't describe better today too the change of atmosphere in this moment (from Davidian's high energetic Thrash to Tremors' darker tunes) and the validity of their music. For me personally, Tremors are the real revelation of the evening. Their melodic Death metal, combined with Black and just a touch of Goth, becomes captivating . Slowly but unstoppable Tremors get the attention of the crowd and paint the Metal Forces with a very obscure, sinister though enjoyable colour. Their "gothic" bassist, who looks so suitable for a New Wave/ Electro/Goth band, is a living contrast when compared with the other members, nonetheless, also optically, the bands offers a sum up of their musical direction which is fortunately much more homogeneous and melt together than their look and their image. The vocals are quite abyssal, the songs are often cadenced, their drumming is vigorous but not invasive providing powerful moments of double bass drums and cymbals. Incisive, sharp moments of short vampyric keys are not missed, while agreeable and not predictable loops are balanced by bursts of enormous energy. The sound is satisfactory, the impact is great and impressive. The encore unavoidable. Tremors have done a great show delivering with self-possession and presence of force and mind their music so rich in hammering force, strong Black push and atmospheric darkness.
Setlist Tremors
Intro
Slow Down
Outburn
Killing
Aggression
From
Below
Mental
Massacre
Hypocrites
Down
In The Grave
Eternal
Question
Suicide
Fire Of Awakening
JESUS
CHRYSLER SUPERSKUNK jesus
chrysler superskunk
Boris
: -
After
the strong gig of Tremors, I asked myself whether Jesus Chrysler Superskunk
could hold the niveau and the mood of the audience. Well, they did it,
but it was a hard work, and at the end, there weren’t too many people
left in the room. But let’s start from the beginning: The band starts
with pyros and an enormous sound intensity, a lot louder than the three
bands before. On the drums, Sven Vormann, former member of Destruction,
is sitting, and he is the pusher of the band, and he has indeed a great
drive. Singer Thomas could be known from the special band
Ephemera’s Party, who also played at the last Metal Dayz in Pratteln
in 2003. Bassman Erna uses 6 strings, and this causes a real hard,
brutal drowning, and because of this and the fact, that the band
concentrates mostly on their thrashy way, there is a huge, very
aggressive moshpit in front of the stage right after Jesus Chrysler
Superskunk started playing. The longer the gig is, the more people
become victims of the hard moshpit, but those who stay spend a lot of
applause, also the singer and the drummer from the well-known band
Umount and also Mike from Destruction, who visits the moshpit for a
short time. I would call the music of Jesus Chrysler Superskunk a rocky,
stony way of Thrash Metal, not my favourite style, but a cool thing.
Again, there are some pyros in one song, and after the normal set, Sven
comes to the edge of the stage and asks friendly, whether Jesus Chrysler
Superskunk may play one more song. Of course they may, and now, there are
some cool fires on the left and right side of the stage, before a cool
gig of a special, extraordinary band ends.
Setlist Jesus Chrysler Superskunk
Mountain
King (Intro)
Loudest
No
MT
Head
Dschihad
No
One Knows My Name
Endtime
Music
Spit
A Prayer
Fighting
Day
I&I
United
Revolution
Fear
Freedom
| " |
| Beast of Bourbon |
| Interview with Gerre |
| Tankard live in Luzern 2002 |
| It gets more and more bizarre, don’t you think? |
Boris
: - And
then, finally, it’s time for the ultimate Party-band, the alcoholic
Thrashers Tankard, who start playing at about 01.00 o’clock. After a
short intro, guitarist Andy Gutjahr and bassist Frank Thorwarth enter
the stage, drummer Olaf was already sitting behind his kit. The crowd
goes wild, moshpit from the first second on, and then he comes: Gerre
himself, with his enormous belly, he runs on stage, begins immediately
to bang and to play air guitar. “Need Money For Beer”, the motto of
the evenig, is the opener and the beginning of a great Metal-party.
Gerre is just a damn cool and funny entertainer, he dances around on
stage, runs from one side of the stage to the other, sends kiss-hands to
the audience, drinks uncountable bottles of beer and is always in
contact with the fans. Example? Here we go: Once, a totally drunken fan
lays stoned on the stage, and Gerre asks him, what he has to say. “Blamrgwrblltgbffs!”
or something like that is the answer, Gerre smiles and says: “Well,
one should say our audience isn’t intellectual”. Or a drunken young
lady stands on stage. “And who are you?”, Gerre asks, but the girl
only laughs histerically. “It gets more and more bizarre, don’t you
think?” Absolutely. The set contains every classic, every party-hymn
of the Frankfurter band, for example Thrashers like “The Morning
After”, “Zombie Attack”, “Space Beer” or also newer songs like
“Slipping From Reality” or “Rectifier” (Gerre: “Remember the
“B-Day”-album? One song is great, the others are bullshit!”), tons
of great riffs, where you just have to bang and celebrate, tons of
groove and a lot of very good, very funny mood. The atmosphere is just
great, although some people leave, because it’s already very late.
Once, a female fan always looks on Gerre’s foot. “Do you want to
have my shoes? I have to say that I am also a foot-fetishist, so we
could exchange E-mail-addresses and send us some pictures of feet!”.
Sensational. Tankard are always very ironic, always full of motivation
and tight as fuck. “The next song is the only song of us which
hasn’t anything to do with drinking beer. It’s a very serious one.
“New fucking Liver Please”!”. The audience goes wild, the whole
band walks a lot on stage, Gerre puts the micro into his short trousers
and pounds it on his body, and suddenly, Lord Boron from the Metal
Maniacs Markgräflerland enters the stage and shows his also very big
belly with a very drunken-proud smile. Well, you can only lose against
Gerre’s belly… More people leave, but the atmosphere is still very
good, also because of the hymn “Freibier” with its great shout-along
chorus, or the funny “Don’t Panic”. “Look at our guitarist, he
stands on the wall and is ashamed. Did you piss in your trousers? Well,
that also happens to me from time to time, but nothing more from
this…”. Gerre live. Tankard motivate the people to give everything,
and after more than an hour, the band leaves the stage, but of course
they come back with the two ultimate killers “Alien” and “(Empty)
Tankard”. An infernal great concert, one of the most funny gigs I ever
attended, only sad that the concert started this late, so that many
people had to leave before the end. But nevertheless, this was a
glorious end of a great festival. I think everyone who was there will
confirm this. Metal-party as Metal-party can. Great!! And soon, there
will be the 9th part of the Metal Forces Festival…
Setlist Tankard
Need
Money For Beer
The
Morning After
Zombie
Attack
Slipping
From Reality
Queen
Of Hearts
Space
Beer
New
Liver Please
Maniac
Forces
Die
With A Beer In Your Hand
Nation
Over Nation
Dancing
On Our Grave
Alcohol
Don’t
Panic
Rectifier
Beyond
The Pubyard
Freibier
Chemical
Invasion
Poison
Alien
(Empty)
Tankard
dalia : - Very likely in the fall! the IX edition should take place this next autumn! We look forward to it and in the meanwhile we thank Daniele, Svea, Garfield and all the Metal Forces friends for this eighth great edition. Let's celebrate with... endless pleasure!
dalia di giacomo - Boris Witta
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