Sunday, 01 July 2012 16:53
Triggered Area: Bengaluru
Time: 5th Feb, 2012
Detonation: It was that time of the year when all rednecks and headbangers scream their guts out in a rampage..Summerstorm!! Just to keep your heads from loitering about, Summerstorm Festival is a music festival which takes place every year in Bangalore, India at the Palace Grounds. The inaugural edition of the Festival was held on 15th May, 2010. Some of the muzzles responsible for the damage were:
• Lamb Of God(American)
• Bhoomi(Indian)
• Scribe(Indian)
• Boomarang(Indian)
• Extinct Reflections(Indian)
Now listen!!
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon when I woke up from yesterday, with a very bad hangover!! It was though I had a bullet cracked by brain open and my mind was trying to gather the pieces on its own! But out of all bricks, came the clock! It was time! Grabbing attires that I could, I made my way to the car..cold water down my throat, I drove. Black t-shirts scattered in the city, the eyes resisting the Sunlight. It seemed long but i got there somehow.. gates opened..it was 4pm.
Theorized came on stage, new songs crashing through the crowd, frontman Madhav tackling us! The band had become mature but I was expecting them to put up "Blackout" on their head nod supper! Eccentric Pendulum came in next, threw "Sepia Drown" on us..we went nuts! But I notice one soldier( guitarist) missing! Empty spaces on the riffs!! I wanted more.. Maldivian metal band, Nothnegal stepped in, Suidakra lead the crowd to dance with their folk influenced Bagpier touch ( I was surprised of this happening in a metal gig XD)
Friends saluting a horns up, I eagerly waited for the gem of the evening. 8pm, Opeth took over the crowd, everyone sloshed to "The Devil's Orchard"..it was the explosion! "I feel the dark" did not pause us but let Palace Grounds tremor! Mikael started talking..introduced the next track as one from the 'Still life' album, the first record to feature bassist Martin Mendez, "Face of Melinda", the crowd stood still, dazed at satanic Akerfeldt's vocal.
Then Mikael spoke of Mendez being "too chicken-shit to have only a moustache" referring to the cool Indian moustaches and how he has a beard to cover his double chin!! He introduced the next song as being a tribute to Ronnie James Dio, and that led into “Slither”- a track that he said was very typically influenced by hard rock and heavy metal. We headbanged our way into the madness of Opeth music with “Credence” from ‘My Arms, Your Hearse’, followed by “To rid the disease” from ‘Damnation’. All through the show, Mikael was getting the crowd to “Fuck you Mikael”, and he finally gave us a little reason to actually do so- He messed up the order of the songs! After saying how contrary to what people think, they still love death metal, and partly ruining the suspense about them playing some of the heavier stuff, he revealed that he had mixed things up a bit. So it was back to ‘Heritage’ with “Folklore”. But after that, they progressed into the heavier side of the set with “Heir Apparent”. Next, it was time for some ‘Ghost Reveries’ with “The baying of the hounds”.
Then Akerfeldt spoke of ‘Blackwater Park’ and introduced the song that was coming up as a hit single of sorts from the same record. They started off “The Drapery Falls” which had the audience in frenzy. Ten minutes later, they said their ‘Thank you’s’ and went off-stage, only to come back for the final track, the encore. Have you been to their gig at IIT Madras?The started the same way, with the strumming that eventually led into “Deliverance”. Midway through this, they lost their timing a little bit, but jumped back on track and made it a mind-blowing end to a fantastic show.
Overall, I’d say that Summer Storm 2012 was very well organized, and it was nice to see how everything was on time and running smoothly. The only minor detail that had been missed out on was trash cans, the lack of which resulted in the venue becoming quite filthy by the end of the day, Yuck!!
Triggered Area: Bengaluru
Time: 5th Feb, 2012
Detonation: It was that time of the year when all rednecks and headbangers scream their guts out in a rampage..Summerstorm!! Just to keep your heads from loitering about, Summerstorm Festival is a music festival which takes place every year in Bangalore, India at the Palace Grounds. The inaugural edition of the Festival was held on 15th May, 2010. Some of the muzzles responsible for the damage were:
• Lamb Of God(American)
• Bhoomi(Indian)
• Scribe(Indian)
• Boomarang(Indian)
• Extinct Reflections(Indian)
Now listen!!
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon when I woke up from yesterday, with a very bad hangover!! It was though I had a bullet cracked by brain open and my mind was trying to gather the pieces on its own! But out of all bricks, came the clock! It was time! Grabbing attires that I could, I made my way to the car..cold water down my throat, I drove. Black t-shirts scattered in the city, the eyes resisting the Sunlight. It seemed long but i got there somehow.. gates opened..it was 4pm.
Theorized came on stage, new songs crashing through the crowd, frontman Madhav tackling us! The band had become mature but I was expecting them to put up "Blackout" on their head nod supper! Eccentric Pendulum came in next, threw "Sepia Drown" on us..we went nuts! But I notice one soldier( guitarist) missing! Empty spaces on the riffs!! I wanted more.. Maldivian metal band, Nothnegal stepped in, Suidakra lead the crowd to dance with their folk influenced Bagpier touch ( I was surprised of this happening in a metal gig XD)
Friends saluting a horns up, I eagerly waited for the gem of the evening. 8pm, Opeth took over the crowd, everyone sloshed to "The Devil's Orchard"..it was the explosion! "I feel the dark" did not pause us but let Palace Grounds tremor! Mikael started talking..introduced the next track as one from the 'Still life' album, the first record to feature bassist Martin Mendez, "Face of Melinda", the crowd stood still, dazed at satanic Akerfeldt's vocal.
Then Mikael spoke of Mendez being "too chicken-shit to have only a moustache" referring to the cool Indian moustaches and how he has a beard to cover his double chin!! He introduced the next song as being a tribute to Ronnie James Dio, and that led into “Slither”- a track that he said was very typically influenced by hard rock and heavy metal. We headbanged our way into the madness of Opeth music with “Credence” from ‘My Arms, Your Hearse’, followed by “To rid the disease” from ‘Damnation’. All through the show, Mikael was getting the crowd to “Fuck you Mikael”, and he finally gave us a little reason to actually do so- He messed up the order of the songs! After saying how contrary to what people think, they still love death metal, and partly ruining the suspense about them playing some of the heavier stuff, he revealed that he had mixed things up a bit. So it was back to ‘Heritage’ with “Folklore”. But after that, they progressed into the heavier side of the set with “Heir Apparent”. Next, it was time for some ‘Ghost Reveries’ with “The baying of the hounds”.
Then Akerfeldt spoke of ‘Blackwater Park’ and introduced the song that was coming up as a hit single of sorts from the same record. They started off “The Drapery Falls” which had the audience in frenzy. Ten minutes later, they said their ‘Thank you’s’ and went off-stage, only to come back for the final track, the encore. Have you been to their gig at IIT Madras?The started the same way, with the strumming that eventually led into “Deliverance”. Midway through this, they lost their timing a little bit, but jumped back on track and made it a mind-blowing end to a fantastic show.
Overall, I’d say that Summer Storm 2012 was very well organized, and it was nice to see how everything was on time and running smoothly. The only minor detail that had been missed out on was trash cans, the lack of which resulted in the venue becoming quite filthy by the end of the day, Yuck!!
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