Live reports
\r\nIt was shortly after 18.30 when the doors opened and people started to flood GAGARIN205. Soon I met with Metalzone.gr’s photographer Jim Hatzimoisis and we got inside. Nearly 300 to 400 people were already in the venue and so the atmosphere was quite refreshing. At about 19.00 DAYLIGHT MISERY hit the stage. \r\n
\r\nTime was about 20.00 when people started to gather outside Sin City club.Tonight it is a Metalcore night and people from all around Greece were traveling to Athens for this event. By 21.00 o clock everyone was there.People , most of them youngsters , wearing Metalcore T-shirts , drinking beers,smoking and talking.After a big delay (1hour) ,the gates were open and everybody got inside.\r\n
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In a (sadly) non-crowded setting, commenced the dark Norse march on the Gagarin stage.
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\r\nWhat can you say about Wacken Open Air? It’s the world’s biggest Metal festival, with the best organization and attracting over 75.000 metalheads yearly. So, like the good metal maniac that I am, I decided to go to the 20th anniversary of the biggest Metal celebration.\r\n
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\r\nDay 1 – 30/7\r\n
\r\nIt was 9 am when I got off the Attica train station and gone rushing to 205 number of Liosion avenue in order to report for Over The Rainbow’s concert in Athens. At first, without wearing my glasses, I didn’t see the hundreds of people who were waiting patiently outside the venue in order to enter a concert that two hours later would be characterised as "an unforgettable experience" by many of the people who attended the concert at Monday night. But what was the surprise to all of these facts?\r\n
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\r\nAs soon as I got to Sin City in the center of Athens to watch Evergrey I heard the news, Greek support band’s appearances had been cancelled. I heard no official explanation for that but judging by the backline I saw on stage for Evergrey’s show I am pretty sure it had to do with that. You see the stage is small and the backline of the Swedes massive! At least for a stage this small.\r\n
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Fan-filmed video footage of Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA performing the ’80s classic "Troops Of Doom" on July 18, 2009 at the Devilstone Open Air festival in Anyksciai, Lithuania can be viewed below (courtesy of "ddagame").
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I am on the train heading to Larissa, for Evergrey’s concert. After Heraklion (Rotting Christ) and Xanthi (Scorpions), this is the third time that I will attend a rock/metal live to a regional city of a world class band.
Summer is the appropriate time for trips here and there inside and outside of Greece. Especially if you combine these small trips with music. I can’t think of anything better than a trip to Crete and Chania in specific to watch Chania Rock Festival, which was excellent this year in every way.
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\r\nIt’s evening and I am inside Harley Bar, which is full of friends and\r\nacquaintances while some\r\nof them came laterwere slower. All three bands played both their songs\r\nand some covers. The sound was good and the youngsters did their best\r\non stage to make the audience have a nice time, however they didn’t\r\nparticipate that much. Some of them moved their heads back and forth,\r\nbut most\r\nof them didn’t leave their positions, so the space in front of the\r\nstage remained empty.