Not that many people tonight the balcony is closed and so are the aisles on both sides of the pit downstairs.
So there are far less than a 1000 heavy metal "kids" who are more, in fact , in their 40's .
Iced Earth "opened" for this co-headlining show , after just a minute now i remember why i don't listen to Heavy Metal anymore : it is sooo boring and full of clichés.
The look is ridiculous , the attitude is ridiculous , the title songs are ridiculous and so on ...
Completely indigest music and absolutely ridiculous band .
Please give me my shot of Judas Priest !
Then we have SAXON , with Iron Maiden and Def Leppard they are the only survivors of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal ( which started around 1979 ) and the least succesfull. Their glory days are far behind them.
It's hard for old bands to keep up with new bands ; so Saxon , for the last few years , is trying to be more heavy than younger bands and unfortunately it doesn't work at all , they're as boring as those younger bands .
I mean who wants to hear any new songs by Saxon ( valid with Iron Maiden too ) ?
But there's one territory where they can't be beaten up is when they play the Classics and they have lot's of 'em . And i'm 15 again : " Dallas 1 pm " " Princess of the dawn " " Crusader " ...
Too bad they only played for a little more than an hour ( first encore after 45 min !!! ) when we had to endure Bored Earth for almost 90 min.
Great lightshow too
One of the Classics :