I’ve just finished another run at Muskelrock. Now I just need a five day nap to de-troglodyze myself.
I started off in Copenhagen with War Cloud, who were unknown to me, and I wasn’t too concerned by the stuff of theirs I heard on Spotify. It turns out that was all down to the production, because on stage those dudes are fucking savage, blood-drinking heathens who will tear your head off.
It was a tiny stage, and there were maybe 20 people there, but they completely destroyed us. There’s no video online that really does them justice, so this’ll have to do. They go A LOT harder live. DO NOT MISS IF ABLE.
It’s always great to spend a night drinking whisky and destroying yourself before a big festival, so with my traumatic brain injury refreshed, it was time to head to Muskelrock.
It was a good time! Everyone was really happy to be back in the field. None of us were there for the scenery, we all came for revenge!
Mirror from Cyprus were fricken killer. So, many, great, songs. Goddamn!
Bullet are like the bands they imitate. They never fail, and they bring a lot of pyros!
I’ve seen Ambush a million times over the last decade, and in the beginning they were like a standard club band riffing on Iron Maiden, but at this point they’re actually starting to look like them a little bit. It’s crazy what an unsafe amount of touring can do!
I got to sing along to my favourite Acid songs with Kate De Lombaert, which sort of made it okay that she was the only original member on stage. Max Overload, you guys!
My second favourite band of the festival was Heavy Sentence from the UK. They’re exactly my type of thing, extremely filthy sound, raspy Motörhead vocals, hammy lyrics.
They were playing on a tiny stage, inside a cage, in a circus tent with metalheads trying to tear it all down, and that’s about as good as a metal show gets. I’ll go see those guys again - anytime, anywheres!
My favourite band was Tyranex, led ruthlessly by the deceptively waifish barbarian Linnea Landstedt, who I first noticed when she was playing with Ice Age a few years back.
The show started with a mock decapitation by the goofballs who introduce the bands at the festival, and that was actually pretty descriptive of what the band had in store for us. I still have no idea where my head went!
