The first band playing tonight was (I guess) a local band playing thrash (I’m pretty sure I heard a few Slayer riffs here and then) and they were pretty good at it.
Second band was a swedish one, that would have been good if they would put as much in their music as they do in their hairdo and clothing. The mix was bad, the synth didn’t fit and one of the two guitars players not only sounded a bit off but his singing hurt too (well, when he wasn’t doing grunt style stuff). I’m afraid to say that even though I tried hard, I didn’t like it that much and that I cringed a few times during the set.
Murderdolls played before Guns n’ Roses a few months ago and maybe they took some lessons in being late from them because they didn’t show up before 22:45, but maybe there was another reason soon to be discovered. In fact, after playing a few songs, we could see the singer and guitar player talk to the drummer. And later, he disappeared for a short time, but only to disappear for a longer time. It turned out that this poor guy was sick and throwing up all night (way to party!). Luckily the band has a guitar player who was also playing a bit drums on his time off (that’s irony for you), so they were able to switch drummers for a few songs to let the real one recover a bit. Although they lost a bit of texture by only having a guitar player, they weren’t really losing anything drumwise (and I feel sorry for dissing this way the sick one).
Anyway, this was a fun concert, with a lot of young people in the crowd, moshing around, it sounded good, they played a lot of good hard rock stuff, and even Joey Jordisson (who is the part-time-drummer guitar player) had a hard time not cracking up a smile. And this distribution of picks at the end of the concert? Not thrown at large, given by hand in the pit. Wow.
Murderdolls is joining this little club o’ mine of bands that I have seen more than once in concert (and that includes Nine Inch Nails, Guns n’ Roses, Tool and Napalm Death) and that I would gladly see again on stage.