After a couple hours of tail-gating, Riley and I used the pre-order (PIT!) passes I bought earlier in the year to get us in the gates an hour before everyone else. Immediately, I went to the Jaegermeister stage. No one was there yet, so Riley and I parked it right on the barricade. We were ready to go.
The Jaeger Battle of the Bands winner, Adakain, opened up on the stage and kicked ass. I bought their CD and will give you a review later on. Anyway, Adakain owned - simply put.
We stayed put at the Jaeger stage. On the Hot Topic stage "next door," there was Behemoth, Whitechapel, Cannibal Corpse, Job for a Cowboy, and Black Dahlia Murder - all a little too heavy for me. So we stayed at the Jaeger stage and waited for God Forbid.I saw God Forbid back when they went through Lafayette and they rocked back then. Being so close this time around, I had an ever better time. Their setlist included 'War of Attrition' off their new album, Earthsblood; 'The Fallen Hero' off Constitution of Treason and a some even older stuff from Determination.
Following was All That Remains, promoting their latest
album Overcome. They began, though, with 'This Calling' from Fall of Ideals and darted back and forth between their 2006 release and their 2008. Great setlist, by the way, the closer being the popular 'Two Weeks.'
album Overcome. They began, though, with 'This Calling' from Fall of Ideals and darted back and forth between their 2006 release and their 2008. Great setlist, by the way, the closer being the popular 'Two Weeks.'I stepped out and watched Trivium from the back so I could stand in line to get autographs from Killswitch Engage. Mission accomplished, baby.
Bullet for My Valentine opened on the main stage and Riley and I were barely a few yards from the barricade. Their setlist included 'Hand of Blood,' '4 Words To Choke Upon,' 'Waking the Demon,' and a brand new song. When Killswitch played one of their new songs early this year at Music as a Weapon, they released a new album not six months later. It's been over eighteen months since Bullet's Scream Aim Fire released, so maybe we don't have much longer to wait for their next album to hit the shelves. Also, during 'Tears Don't Fall,' I broke my cherry and got in a circle pit. Fucking awesome.
Killswitch Engage rocked just as hard as they did at Music as a Weapon, playing 'End of Heartache,' 'Rose of Sharyn,' 'Fixation on the Darkness' and 'Reckoning,' off their latest album.
I have never listed to Slayer before. I knew they had been around for a while, but I didn't know it was closing in on thirty years! For an hour, the metal act possessed the crowd Riley and I were shit-deep in and we were pummeled. The one song I did recognize they closed with: 'Raining Blood.'
I had never seen Marilyn Manson live before that day. He was waited on hand and foot, tossing microphone stands and beer bottles and spitting the beer out at us with a scowl. Yet there we were, screaming for more. His setlist included 'Rock is Dead,' 'Sweet Dreams,' the new 'Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon' off High End of Low and 'Disposable Teens,' sang in memory of Pantera's Dimebag.
The show was great and I stand by my kick-ass decision to get pit access this year. I only wish I had done so last year. I would have died to have seen Slipknot as close as I did Manson.
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