It hadn’t taken long for mosh pits to open up and start bouncing to the likes of Pelvis On Fire and the country inspired Sad Man’s Tongue. Michael Poulsen (vocals) stood behind his microphone stand with guitar in hand and led the rabble into The Devil’s Bleeding Crown. VOLBEAT (8) strode on to the stage with a commanding presence. With AC/DC’s Highway To Hell and Motorhead’s Born To Raise Hell blasting through the PA system, the party was well and truly started. The joy of a pre-show playlist is that the audience can have their excitement fuelled during the period where there is no action on the stage. In doing that however, this seemed like an odd decision considering who was headlining. The death metal legends were being exposed to an ever-expanding new audience.
Ultimately, being put on the same bill as Volbeat was a double-edged sword for BENEDICTION. Even with jokes about songs sounding a bit like a car crash. However, once interest had faded it was hard to regain it. Scriptures from their recently released album of the same name managed to draw some back into the fold. With songs which began to start similar to each other, the crowd’s interest had begun to wane. Though a surprise for some of the crowd, there was a healthy dose of headbanging and cheering.īreezing through material from across their three-decade discography, Benediction had to maintain the audience’s attention. What the crowd were met with was a wall of vicious growls and in-your-face-riffs. “We’re about to ruin the evening” came the gruff voice of vocalist Dave Ingram. Though Benediction have been an active unit since 1989, there were many faces in the crowd who weren’t knowing what to expect. The packed-out Academy gave Birmingham’s BENEDICTION (6) a warm welcome nonetheless, ready for some good ol’ fashioned carnage.
It may have seemed odd to put a death metal band on the same bill as Volbeat.
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With a Sunday slot on the main stage of Download awaiting them, VOLBEAT made a stop at Islington’s o2 Academy on their Servant Of The Road tour. Across the board, we’ve seen more bands wanting to play warmup shows before hitting those bigger stages.
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In 2014 he joined the TeamRock online team as Archive Editor, uploading stories from all of our print titles and helping lay the foundation for what became Louder.ĭome was the author of many books on a host of bands from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin and Metallica, some of which he co-wrote with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing.Festival season is almost upon us. He was actively involved in Total Rock Radio (opens in new tab), which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and was a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009. In the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988. Dome is also credited with inventing the term "thrash metal" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984.
Malcolm Dome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981. His first book, Encyclopedia Metallica (opens in new tab), published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year.