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Well anyoen? That tour came through town last Friday. I ended up having band practice prior to the gig, so I arrived as Napalm Death was taking the stage. I spoke with a couple of friends and they said the touring opening bands were abysmal. Napalm Death didn't seem to get a good mix, it just seemed very, very muddy there and the bass was complete and total overkill. Guitarist was using a 3 Channel Rectifier of some sort with an Ibanez Flying V (or some sort of copy of a Gibson flying V), and I couldn't spot any bass gear from where I was standing.
Kreator played next and according to my friends that stayed up in the bar it was bass overkill for them as well (though I was right up front and the mix honestly sounded great). Mille's vocals were nice and loud and their guitar tones were absolutely crushing. Ventor was sweating bullets behind the kit as usual. They cut out Riot Of Violence, which is one of my favorite tracks to see them play live. Here's what I remember that they played...
Intro
Enemy Of God
Impossible Brutality
Extreme Aggression
People of the Lie
Voices of the Dead
The Patriarch
Violent Revolution
Suicide Terrorist
Awakening of the Gods
Coma of Souls
Pleasure to Kill (ironically enough, a bit of a fight started up behind me during this song)
Phobia (I really wish they'd dump this from the setlist)
Terrible Certainty
Betrayer
---Rock Star Encore---
Flag of Hate
Tormentor
Mille was, as always, asking for circle pits for the fast songs. Hey, they want to see a real circle pit, they need to play Ripping Corpse, I know if they played that people would start killing each other.
As far as guitars go... Mille was playing, as usual, his KV with the chrome OFR and EMG81, and his RR with the black hardware and black binding and EMG81. Sami, wasn't armed with his natural DK this time, he was using a Schecter guitar with a floyd rose (I want to say that it was a Diamond Series, but I can't find any info on it). Both of them were using full stacks of 5150's with the matching Peavey Cabs. Sami had a GMajor hooked up to his 5150, with wah and another pedal on the floor, as well as his midi controller. Mille didn't have a floorboard in front of him, and his tone was the same all night, but I would wager he was running a noise gate of some sort in the loop as both of their 5150's were dead silent between songs. Christian was using his usual Rhoads bass, but this time he was running a PODXT Live (not sure if it was a bass PODXT either). He had 3 patches set up, one normal clean sound, one slightly distorted bass sound, and one heavily distorted bass sound. The clean sound was used for Voices Of The Dead, and he was using his distorted one for the rest of the performance.
Kreator played next and according to my friends that stayed up in the bar it was bass overkill for them as well (though I was right up front and the mix honestly sounded great). Mille's vocals were nice and loud and their guitar tones were absolutely crushing. Ventor was sweating bullets behind the kit as usual. They cut out Riot Of Violence, which is one of my favorite tracks to see them play live. Here's what I remember that they played...
Intro
Enemy Of God
Impossible Brutality
Extreme Aggression
People of the Lie
Voices of the Dead
The Patriarch
Violent Revolution
Suicide Terrorist
Awakening of the Gods
Coma of Souls
Pleasure to Kill (ironically enough, a bit of a fight started up behind me during this song)
Phobia (I really wish they'd dump this from the setlist)
Terrible Certainty
Betrayer
---Rock Star Encore---
Flag of Hate
Tormentor
Mille was, as always, asking for circle pits for the fast songs. Hey, they want to see a real circle pit, they need to play Ripping Corpse, I know if they played that people would start killing each other.
As far as guitars go... Mille was playing, as usual, his KV with the chrome OFR and EMG81, and his RR with the black hardware and black binding and EMG81. Sami, wasn't armed with his natural DK this time, he was using a Schecter guitar with a floyd rose (I want to say that it was a Diamond Series, but I can't find any info on it). Both of them were using full stacks of 5150's with the matching Peavey Cabs. Sami had a GMajor hooked up to his 5150, with wah and another pedal on the floor, as well as his midi controller. Mille didn't have a floorboard in front of him, and his tone was the same all night, but I would wager he was running a noise gate of some sort in the loop as both of their 5150's were dead silent between songs. Christian was using his usual Rhoads bass, but this time he was running a PODXT Live (not sure if it was a bass PODXT either). He had 3 patches set up, one normal clean sound, one slightly distorted bass sound, and one heavily distorted bass sound. The clean sound was used for Voices Of The Dead, and he was using his distorted one for the rest of the performance.
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