Headbanger's Ball tour w/Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Shadow's Fall and God Forbid
First up was
God Forbid playing to a nearly full house, which is
pretty odd for a show opener, unless you're Slayer.
But they ripped it up, trying to get the dead crowd
into it, an actual pit finally breaks out towards the
end of the set when Bryon reminds the crowd that this
is still the underground and people need to start
acting like it. Also just a personal note to the
people at Roadrunner, please send God Forbid some
money so they can stop roadieing for themselves. I
mean throw these guys a bone, they worked their asses
off. Also, hello Century Media, a lil help too maybe.
Next up was Shadows Fall with no real time inbetween,
which was nice and gave them a little longer set.
This was prime time Shadows Fall, they ripped through
their set playing old songs and songs off of "The Art
Of Balance" cd which was when they got alil help from
Randy, running out onto the stage to scream along
with Brian on the chorus of "Destroyer of Senses".
The rest of their set was filled with the still
somewhat dead crowd headbanging, which of course
you'd find on this tour, and a huge assed circle pit,
the only one of the night.
And then the night got a little weird as I'm not sure
if Monty Python came out to do Killswitch Engage's
set or they have been taken over by Spinal Tap. But
either way the music is as tight as you can get.
Followed by what was, and is now in my mind the Adam
D show. Just him running around on stage, doing dances,
screaming at the crowd, getting the rest of the band
involved in making asses out of themselves. The best
prank was right after Randy again came out, this time
to do tumbles across the stage, Adam D was dying and
having to be brought to life and all this going on
while they continued to do the set. Not bad, not bad at all.
And now for the headliner of the night, home town boys
Lamb Of God. Heavy, Heavy, heavy, and oh yea fucking
heavy. Randy and the rest of the guys came out
drinking and Randy came out swinging, being so drunk
he continued to punch at the air and fall down
several times, good for him. But the music was the
heaviest thing of the night, bringing back classics
from their days as Burn the Priest, to the newer
material off of "As The Palace Burns". Ahh must be
nice to get paid to be that wasted.
Reviewed by: Godawfulcommiepigfvckingbastard