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Mastodon - Hunter
A month from today Mastodon is poised to take over the world with The Hunter. Crack the Skye cracked the top 10 on the charts only in Norway, but I think The Hunter will make it into the top 10 everywhere.
Ghost at Getaway Rock Festival
Did you know that Ghost will be touring the US and Canada beginning next month? It’s true. Perhaps you can see them in person. The best part is that you won’t just get Ghost’s short set (they only have one CD). They are opening for my current favorite band, Enslaved. The two bands couldn’t be much more different so it will be interesting to see what people coming for Enslaved think of Ghost and what those coming for Ghost think of Enslaved.
Ghost
I would love to see Ghost and Enslaved again, but considering I’ve seen them both twice now, and they aren’t playing anywhere near my location, I will not be making the road trip for these two bands this time around.
Here is a video I took of Ghost covering The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun”. Sorry for the poor audio on the bass. I was using auto sensitivity on my camera‘s audio, and I later learned that low sensitivity, instead of auto, works much better for loud concerts.
Amorphis at Getaway Rock Festival 2011
I was curious to see Amorphis at GRF. I had heard a few songs of theirs that sounded pretty good.
Amorphis came on right after a downpour that soaked most of the crowd. I lucked out in that I was eating some Thai food in one of only a few places that provided shelter during the deluge. The rain stopped after just a few minutes, and I headed over to the Bandit Rock Stage.
Amorphis from Finland
Amorphis reminded me, a bit, of Nightwish–OK to listen to on occasion but ultimately a bit boring. I have nothing against metal bands going melodic and/or progressive, but they should vary things more often, with at least some faster riffs, to keep it interesting.
Dream Theater is another band that comes to mind. There are only a couple of DT songs, after their first CD, that I can stand to listen to at this point. I’m hoping that Opeth isn’t going this same route. I’m worried that their new CD, Heritage, will not have enough heavy elements and be too mellow to keep me awake (or wanting to listen to it often).
I’m certainly not knocking all bands that evolve into something more progressive and melodic than their early days. Bands that have successfully mellowed over time, IMO, include: Enslaved, Katatonia, Anathema, Mastodon, Dark Tranquility, and Amon Amarth.
Grutle Kjellson and Arve Isdal of Enslaved
Another photo today of Enslaved…
If all goes well, I’ll be leaving Norway soon, and I will have a fresh, new band from the Getaway Rock Festival for you tomorrow once I’m reunited with my computer in Copenhagen. Who would you like to see next? Alice Cooper? Kreator? Accept? Danzig? Opeth? F.K.Ü.? Ghost? I have more bands as well, almost too many to contemplate processing. I still haven’t looked at most of the photos I took in Sweden.
This will wrap up the Ghost at Roskilde series. Tomorrow I will have some photos from Sweden for you.
BTW, all the Ghost photos in this entry were taken with a Nikon D7000 using a Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D AF Lens.
For more recent photos of the band Ghost (now called Ghost B.C.) click here.
I still haven’t had time to process many images from the Amon Amarth show, but here are a couple more and a couple more videos too. I hope to have a large set of photos and videos from the Wonder Ballroom concert posted later today.
Johan Hegg is the vocalist in the top photo. And here he is applauding the crowd at the end of the evening…
The next video is “With Oden On Our Side” from the 2006 CD of the same name. The last time I saw Amon Amarth was when they were touring for that CD.
A new song, “A Beast Am I” off of “Surtur Rising,” is next. If you have a large screen you can view these in HD at 720p or 1080p. I took the photos and video with my TZ10 (ZS7). Now that the show is over I wish I had used my new Nikon, but that wouldn’t have been fun to have had around my neck all evening.