Damn Warrel sounds great in this clip

[bibz]

Weird G, they played two shows in syd and the one I went to was pretty well stocked. It was also awesome to see how much of a guitar hero loomis is nowdays. Every solo had a heap of people pointing mobiles and cameras at it
He played it up for them too! God status.

[toejam]

I saw them on the DHIADW tour back in 2000. It was a Thursday night, Opeth went on before them (I wasn't into Opeth at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to them), as well as Angel Dust and a few little local bands. Mostly everybody left after Opeth, so I got up to the stage and stood in front of Jeff the whole time!
They opened with Narcosynthesis, and Jeff's guitar rig cut out right before the solo... his rig was covered by a tarp and you couldn't see what he was playing through. After he and a roadie tinkered with it for a little bit, all was fine. Curran Murphy was the other guitar player on that tour, and he was pretty kick-ass, too!

[horns666]

Yeah Joe, Curran Murphy does kick ass..I didn't get a chance to see him live. That train didn't pass thru here. I would have liked to seen Angel Dust too. I've seen Opeth a couple times...the first time I saw them was fuggin' awesome..the last time I seen them was soooo boring. Mike Ackerfeldt just kept whispering silly shit..he wouldn't shut up..I think he was high!

I know..I do that when I'm high.

[VitaminG]

Weird G, they played two shows in syd and the one I went to was pretty well stocked. It was also awesome to see how much of a guitar hero loomis is nowdays. Every solo had a heap of people pointing mobiles and cameras at it
He played it up for them too! God status.

don't get me wrong, the pit was still pretty crazy. But I believe the venue holds a couple thousand, and there must've been about 300 people there. The band tore it up nonetheless.

Comparatively, Lamb Of God absolutely packed the same venue, upstairs & down. It was 6 deep to get to the bar for a drink and the temp got up around 50 degrees, apparently. The Arena was raining sweat by the end of the night.

I saw a conversation at the Oz Metal forums where someone bemoaned bands like Evergrey not coming to Brissie, and it's apparently because it's not known as a Power Metal town. There's not a lot of PM in the local scene, but the Death Metal scene is very strong. I know Jeff hates that Nevermore is thought of as a Power Metal band, but with all the technical guitar and Warrel's clean vox, they seemed to be categorised as such, which is why they got PM support bands (Black Majesty, Transcending Mortality) for the oz tour.

fyi, here's Rave's review of the Brissie show. Top show, not great turnout.

http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/1763/82/

[RacerX]

BillZ name-dropping in a Nevermore thread? Stop the presses!

[Inearthed]

Hit or miss with Warrel. On the Heart Collector clip you can hear a couple of somewhat rough parts. Last couple of times I've seen them I wasn't impressed with his vocal work then you'll go on YouTube and see some videos posted of the day before or the day after and he sounds awesome. They're playing on August so I'll drop in my two cents post show.

BillZ name-dropping in a Nevermore thread? Stop the presses!

:ROTF:

[Endrik]

don't get me wrong, the pit was still pretty crazy. But I believe the venue holds a couple thousand, and there must've been about 300 people there. The band tore it up nonetheless.

jeez... those guys must really love what they are doing.... I'd fucking quit.... 300 people

[VitaminG]

it may have been more like 5-600 by the time Nevermore took the stage, but in that venue, it didn't feel like many. But as bibz said, they played 2 shows in Sydney and drew a good crowd.

I discussed the poor turnout with Van later that night and he didn't seem too concerned. He was digging that the people at the show were so totally into it. So it was a small but very enthusiastic gig.

so if you looked out before the show and saw 300 in the venue, you wouldn't go on?

[Endrik]

dude, I think they are a pretty established name among metal fans... but just a couple of hundred people showing up is lame IMO... it's like playing to no one when the club is half empty.... and like Bill said it was even worse durning the mid 90's... like 50 people or something... maybe they don't care about it too much.... I personally would... IMO less than 2000 people just fucking blows a big one... it's probably better to do those open air tours with other bands... like the tour with Megadeth and some other bands.

[Baum83]

Get a grip. "Just a couple hundred people" is a pretty good turnout if you ask me. It's the amount of people they draw, plain and simple. These guys are definitely one of the best metal bands around, but they're not fucking Slayer, and probably never will be.

[Endrik]

you don't tell me to get a grip!!! that amount of people is fucking bad for an artists... they can't even earn money for their guitar strings like that... fuck my second gig in my life was in front of 6000 and I'm NOBODY

jeez... what the fuck are their record label doing? it's their job to promote the band and organize the best gigs as possible... these days record labels get most of the money from the album sales and the band earns from the concerts and merchandise... I bet these guys have worked fucking hard to do what ever they are doing... but they can't even fucking feed their family if that shit continues.

[bibz]

When Pantera toured here in '96 for some reason they did the Sydney show at the Syndey Entertainment Centre on a friday night. Alot of that beer throwing stuff from 3 was done there! My sis and her friend went to both it, and the show up here in Newcastle the next night. Saturday night. Saturday night gig at Newcastle Entertainment Centre. Prolly 300 hundred people at the most! Phil was endrik'n how he was gonna forget it and was hatin the poor turnout, was also high as shit, but both the supporting biohazard and the rest of the band was rockin' up a storm. Noone had more fun then Dime. And I got to get mega close to the stage! (14 at the time).

Small turnouts or massive turnouts, you gotta put on a show. Bris numbers surprise me a little (although it is a more death metal city, my preference also ) but your still getting paid, free holiday, all that jazz. Fuck, I'd rock the balls off of corporate gigs and party shows, with fuck all crowd!

For more comparison the last time nevermore came out here (99 maybe?) they were playing a pub here in newcastle. My mate wanted to go but had his last high school exam the next day! I wasn't old enough to pub it up at the time either so was out of the equasion. And that venue is small enough that a single underaged kid would be noticed

[Endrik]

I would never be like Phil.... I can act like a professional... I'll always do my best even if I don't like it

[toejam]

Yeah Joe, Curran Murphy does kick ass..I didn't get a chance to see him live. That train didn't pass thru here. I would have liked to seen Angel Dust too. I've seen Opeth a couple times...the first time I saw them was fuggin' awesome..the last time I seen them was soooo boring. Mike Ackerfeldt just kept whispering silly shit..he wouldn't shut up..I think he was high!

I know..I do that when I'm high.

LOL I think the singer from Angel Dust was high or really drunk. He was walking around after their set, he started talking to my female cousin who's 10 years younger than me, he was saying something about party or whatever, in a thick German accent, but we had no clue what he was babbling about! :ROTF:
Then I go to the bathroom and come back and my cousin's gone... some kids from the local bands that went on invited her outside by Nevermore's tour bus, so I go out there, but then they say we can't go in because the band doesn't want anyone else there. Would have been cool, but oh well.