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Finntroll, Metsatöll, Blackguard - Denver, USA - 30 Nov 2013
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Blodsvept North America 2013, and Finntroll sure knows how to pick their support bands for this epic tour. Well, they didn't pick, but rather their booker, but nevertheless, the package worked on so many levels, with Metsatöll and Blackguard in tow.
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USA, Portland, OR - Behemoth + Watain: The Decibel Magazine Tour 2012
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Just a quick preface note here: If you can get to any of the shows left on this tour, go. Call in sick to your job, cut class, tell your kids to go fuck themselves, whatever. Just get to it. It was far and away the most varied and entertaining show I've been to in a while.
Stoneburner
Kicking things off was a local stoner metal group that's pretty fucking good. Or so I was told, missed their entire set.
In Solitude
The second band up, In Solitude, plays traditional-sounding heavy metal. And they shredded shit up. Having checked out their latest studio effort, it seems safe enough to say that this is a band that's meant to be seen live. Lots of energy, lots of passion, even if their tunes are a bit on the iffy side.
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Battlecross, Diamond Plate - Summit Music Hall, Denver, USA - 7 NOV 2013
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Death Angel just finished their headlining tour across North America and while I do like them a lot I have seen them tons of times over the years and therefor will concentrate on reviewing the "underdogs" of the tour package.
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Damnation Festival 2013 - Leeds, England, 2nd November 2013
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As the days get shorter and the air gets colder, this can only mean Damnation Festival is approaching once more. This year saw the ninth edition of the festival, and the biggest to date with Carcass leading the typically diverse line-up. Damnation Festival weekend is marked in everyone's calendar because of its tradition of bringing together the most eclectic collection of extreme bands and creating some great memories. As November rolls over again, it was time for people from across the country to make the journey to Leeds once more.
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Hypocrisy - Tapper, Tallinn, Estonia, 15.09.2013
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So what do some people do on rainy autumn Sunday evening? Read a book? Watch some television? Play the latest Grand Theft Auto on their favourite console? On one such Sunday evening in September quite a number of metalheads gathered in Tallinn to listen to some death metal. To quote Mr Tägtgren from that evening - "It's Sunday but who gives a f**k!" Wise words indeed, unless you fast forward 10 hours and a few beers too many later and find yourself not in the best of shapes for heading to work. But that's a whole other story, back to that Sunday evening.
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The Wrong Side Of Heaven Tour - Colorado Springs, USA - 27 Oct 2013
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The Wrong Side Of Heaven, Five Finger Death Punch's headlining tour with support from Miss May I and Gemini Syndrome, just ended and it was nice to see the final date being in Colorado since vocalist Ivan always makes those shows more of a "hometown gig" than anything else.
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Watain, In Solitude, Tribulation - Rickshaw Theater, Vancouver, BC - 22 Oct 2013
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It started in Denver, led me to Seattle before crossing the (überstupid) border into Canada and ended, back on US soil, in Portland, Oregon. "The Wild Hunt" is done; great success, tons of fun, lots of memories and luckily I didn't catch the "Uppsala Flu" like some of my travel companions. Watain, In Solitude AND Tribulation on one bill? Holy (or unholy?) crap, now this sure was a line-up to my liking.
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Deicide, Broken Hope - Gothic Theatre, Colorado, USA - 13 Oct 2013
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Sunday night in Colorado, and instead of watching pro football I made my way up to Denver (well the suburb Englewood) for some easy listening music. Yap, Deicide was in town. Since the last time they were in Denver, their gig was actually really good (you can read about it here) I figured: what the hell, why not.
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Serj Tankian - Saku Arena, Tallinn, Estonia, 16.10.2013
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Everybody knows Serj. Everybody loves Serj. Now with orchestra!
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Helloween - Gothic Theatre, Colorado, USA - 2 Oct 2013
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Helloween came to the Centennial State aka Colorado! The last time on tour in North America … "tour" being a 10 day plus/minus stint, they made it as close as New Mexico and a lot of Colorado fans just didn't have the time or means to get down there. So, "Are You Metal", Colorado? Apparently not as metal as I thought - the Gothic Theatre in Englewood was not sold out, not even close to be honest. Shame on you! But for those of us who did make it out that night, we had an awesome time.
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