Covolts were not the best band of the night for me due to their bad stage manner and begging for people to buy their ep's but i'm always critical at the start of gigs. This all washed away with a band I never listened to before which was The defiled, their heavy tones and crunchy riff's along with the singing won me over and now I listen to them on a daily basis.
Alestorm was the real winner for me as I had seen dragonforce once before and so mainly came along for my favourite pirate metal band and they did not disappoint and in fact going into a mosh pit with a great pirate song felt like something out of a nautical fantasy .
Dragonforce were late on as usual which I reckon was just for suspense or whatever but I was looking forward to the new singer playing old albums and even though Alestorm were my favourite the new singer did not disappoint and actually favoured him more then the old one and so dragonforce still destroyed with a fantastic setlist of old songs and new with fields of despair and cry thunder causing such strong moshing emotion between us all.
Didn't manage to see any of the bands for pictures after show accept for the case of Christopher Bowe from Alestorm who is a stand-up guy.
Thanks for reading and this is of course just my opinion.
Rock City @
- Nottingham @
- Wed 3 Oct 2012 @
Favourite moment: Alestorm with shipwrecked and pirate song (voice gave way singing those bad boys) and dragonforce for a great setlist. @
Opening act(s): Covorts, The Defiled, Alestorm and Dragoforce. @