Stonedevils @ Onoma Tou Rodou
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\r\nIt was a tough day for a live since the train didn’t stop at Kallithea due to construction at the station, so it was a little hard to get to Onoma Tou Rodou. When we got there, we drank a beer at the bar and waited for the first band, Blindfold, which was fashionably late.\r\n
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\r\nThey opened with the widely known Metallica song “Enter Sandman” and continued with 3 of their own songs that belonged to the heavy/thrash metal scene. They also played “Nothing Else Matters” and “Master of Puppets” again from the band Metallica and Megadeth’s “Holy Wars”. Their sound was not bad, but the boys need to work more on their own songs, their performance and the singer’s voice. I am sure they will do much better in the future; after all they were just kids! As soon as they cleared the stage, the really young audience left too (I guess it was a school night!).
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\r\nAfter them, came Hellroad Caravan, a doomed heavy rock band (as they call themselves on their myspace). I personally have seen them perform many times before, but none of those involved their brand new singer, Nick Tragakis.\r\n
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\r\nI can safely say, that he has become one with the band’s spirit and with his moves and stage performance he has earned his place in the band. They opened with “Caravan (To Hell)”, a song written by their guitarist, Alexandros P. (ex Violet Vortex) and they continued with “Boleskine” that tells the tale of Mr Crawley’s little house on the lake... Later came “Doppelganger” – one of their two new songs that I absolutely loved as soon a s I heard them, and then my favorites; “Greenfields”, “Daughters of Mother Earth” and “Son of a Witch”, three songs that take you on a journey back to the 70s and make you trip in their heavy riffs.
\r\nTo sum up, all four band members were incredibly good, giving us a night to remember and filling the atmosphere with the ultimate 70’s doom sounds.
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\r\nLive Report, Translation: Iro Kapeloni
\r\nPictures: Sofia Theodorou
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\r\nAs the last sounds of Hellroad Caravan’s doom metal faded out, Stonedevils came on stage. Their name speaks for itself as we could see from their on stage performance and the guitar models they chose. They belong in the stoner rock scene. Somebody might ask “What exactly is stoner?”, and I would have to answer telling him that this band’s sound follows the Kyuss School of music; a superheavy groovy sound, with devastating drums and bass, fast but also slow songs with more psychedelic moments, and of course their main characteristic; their songs “spread” without… stretching. Their two guitars make their sound slightly different from Kyuss, adding a more aggressive result to it and their sound while dirty, it was rather good and they had no problems in this section.\r\n
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\r\nThe band started their show under a wide round of applause from the small audience that was there that night, true friends to the stoner/doom scene, and they presented to us old but also new material that will appear in their debut album that we will have in our possession – if all goes well – sometime in May or June. Overall, their two greatest skills are that they have a powerful sound, a professional layout and the crowd rose to the occasion, participating lively during their whole show.\r\n
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\r\nThrough the 8 songs that they presented – one of which was “El Rodeo” of Kyuss, their last song for the night – Stonedevils proved with very strong arguments that they will play a role in the rapidly growing stoner/doom scene. So, I wish them success, along with the other two bands that performed that night.
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\r\nLive Report: Lambros “Metalshock” Panetas
\r\nPictures: Sofia Theodorou
\r\nTranslation: Iro Kapeloni\r\n
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