Fri 22 Jun – Graspop Metal Meeting 2007
I heard a lot of stories of this festival how bad the organisation suck.
So time to find it out myself.
The rules I read on the site and how it is organized what stands on the site let me think that this festival suck indeed.
The biggest stupidity is that you can not come a few days earlier but only get there in the first festival day, stupid fuckers.
When we arrived and get our stuff to the entrance you directly see how everything is arranged and that is not good.
You must wait hours before you are at the entrance and nobody knows where you can exchange your ticket to another ticket and than to a festival thing for your arm.
After more than 3 hours waiting and cursing we were finally on the campground.
Day 1:
After putting the tent on we headed to the festival ground cause these stupid assholes of the organisation put a band as Thin Lizzy as second playing band of the day, wtf.
But when we get there I hear that they have cancelled.
When we came 1349 are begon ay too early and stop too early and that was bad cause what I have seen they were great.
So up to VADER where I could get a place in the front.
After seen them 3 times earlier this summer I know what to expect and they did a good job again with songs as Predator, Wings, Shadowfear and This Is The War.
Next up BELPHEGOR whom I seen 2 days ago with Vader.
This is the same setlist and that kicked ass, a great show with their dirty rotten music, I love it.
AMORPHIS and GRAVE DIGGER are playing at the same time and that suck.
First watch 20 minutes of AMORPHIS and that was way too good to leave, what a show, a love the song Alone.
So quick headed to GRAVE DIGGER that did a very good job.
The rock the tentstage and this is perfect music to headbang.
With Heavy Metal Breakdown this show has come to an end.
Watch for 20 minutes WITHIN TEMPTATION but they still suck with their new album.
Dreams back to the good times with Enter and Mother Earth.
So time to get some beers and eat something and than headed to the next band.
And that is CELTIC FROST.
On albums like Emperors Return and Morbid Tales their music is brilliant but live it is not that good as on cd.
It was still a good show what I enjoyed but it can better.
Now it was time to drink some beers with others and walr around the metal market.
Bands as CHRIS CORNEL and JOE SATRIANI I don’t want to see.
I walked to the tent where TYPE O NEGATIVE where going to play but what was this bad.
They fucked up the music and it sounded when I have eaten a lot of garlic and shit the whole place full.
AEROSMITH was a band that if they play where you are you must see.
I recognize a lot of songs and they played very good and I liked the show.
And it was very cool that they played I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing.
I was not pretty drunk so time to lay down somewhere and wait for the next band
After that BLIND GUARDIAN was playing in the tent.
Somehow the music was not coming out good and I went away after 2 songs.
So than watch THERION that play in the other tent.
When I walked in I stayed the whole concert.
The sound was good, the show was very good.
I enjoyed this big time, what a performance, this was the best band of the day.
Day 2:
The day begon with missing a lot of bands like LAUREN HARRIS, LAMG OF GOD, SPIRALARMS and SPOILER NYC but only cause they suck.
The first band I see was SIRENIA, the band that have on every album a new singer but on every album they have a good singer.
The band played pretty good today, the sound could better.
The setlist was good with songs as The Other Side, Meridian and Sister Nightfall? I thought.
Next up STONE SOUR but that is not my kind of music and after 15 minutes I was getting bored.
So up to the tent to watch the next band.
LEGION OF THE DAMNED was up and with their thrash people start getting moving.
At this time I don’t know the second album very well but their first one is great and songs of that gets me moving with my head.
Nice show.
LIFE OF AGONY was up now, the band that is life always boring and so it was today.
On cd it is pretty good but live not that good.
CANNIBAL CORPSE are ready to hammersmash some faces.
With their great death metal and a very good singer with a neck that bounce to all sides you are guarantee for a good show.
And so this was with songs as Make Them Suffer, Fucked With A Knife and Decency Defied.
When I was shitting I hear some thunder followed up with some heavy raining.
HEAVEN & HELL (BLACK SABBATH with DIO) I really wanted to see.
After seen them 2 years ago with Ozzy I can see them now with their other singer.
What a great show this was, really enjoyed this kings.
But after 40 minutes or so I was soaking wet, drunk and tired so time to get to somewhere else.
TIAMAT was starting in the tent.
I don’t know them very well, I only have the album Wildhoney.
But this show was very good, they play good and I enjoy it.
After that I don’t want to see KORN so time to drink some beers with others.
Around 10 in the evening DIMMU BORGIR was starting in the tent.
The sound was not that good but I like the show.
Good to hear songs as Kings Of The Carnival Creation, Spellbound and Mourning Palace.
But I was pretty drunk cause by all the booze so I was happy that only 1 band was to go.
IRON MAIDEN headliner of the second day start around 11 in the evening.
The played very well but besides the new songs they play the songs as you already know like Number Of The Beast, Run To The Hills and so on.
Day 3:
The last day has come of this festival.
And the day started DEVILDRIVER.
To my surprise I liked it and they did a good show, some nice mosh and circle pits.
With ELUVEITIE on stage it is crowded cause the exist about 9 man or something.
I don’t know them but they played very well.
They have impress me with their show.
Time for CHIMAIRA that have impress me very much 2 years ago.
To be honest I can’t remember them anymore, probably because the booze.
Cause TURISAS is a band I don’t want to see on festivals I take a look in the other tent where MERCENARY had some line up changes and I don’t know if that’s the reason but today they could not impress me.
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY was the next band that I only know from name but their music is not made for me so quickly get some beers to say sorry to my ears.
MOONSORROW was the next band in the tent.
I can’t remember the gig anymore but if I watch my photo’s I must be somewhere in the front.
But I think it was good cause I can remember that I stayed till the end.
HAMMERFALL I watched from a distance cause I was to drunk to walk to the mainstage so I keep lie down somewhere in the field.
But HAMMERFALL sounded really good.
Next up KORPIKLAANI.
The show was great, I pissed the booze out of my body and I was ready to kick some asses in the moshpit.
After half an hour I already was tired but just keep going, what a great show with songs as Hunting Song, Happy Little Boozer and some other party songs from Voice Of Wilderness.
Next Up CHILDREN OF BODOM.
They did a very good job, some great songs Angels Don’t Kill, Mask Of Sanity and Are You Dead Yet.
Done some headbanging and enjoy the show further lie down somewhere in the field.
Time for FINNTROLL that I should see for the first time with the new singer.
But somehow the show was not good, if it is the new singer or they were not in good shape today I don’t know, maybe another time better.
SLAYER is always cool and so today but I was tired and was sitting down in the beergarden and watch from there the show.
The setlist is very predictable but I don’t care that much with them.
Time for AMON AMARTH, a band I was looking forward too, and I think more people cause it was very crowded.
So I must do it with a place in the back but that doesn’t matter cause I can get there crazy to on songs as Death In Fire, Asator, An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm, Cry Of The Black Birds, Fate Of Norns and Runes To My Memory.
What I great show, one of the better ones this weekend.
OZZY OSBOURNE is headlining the last day.
After I see him with Black Sabbath a couple of years ago now with his solo band.
It’s a crazy man on stage with a lot of I can’t fucking hear you but I don’t care, it’s an American.
You can sing along with songs as Crazy Train, Mr. Crowley, Warpigs, Bark At The Moon, Road To Nowhere., No More Tears and Paranoid.
This was really a cool show.
The last band in the small tent was the coverband STORMRIDER.
I saw them 15 minutes but I was so drunk and tired that I go sleep.
So this was the end of a cool weekend.
But the organisation has a lot of work to do cause they fuck up everything what you could fuck up.
Maybe an idea to look to most of the German festivals.
Amon AmarthSlayer1349TherionVaderCeltic FrostFinntrollBelphegorOzzy OsbourneHeaven & HellBlack SabbathAerosmithBlind GuardianIron MaidenCannibal CorpseDimmu BorgirMoonsorrowKorpiklaaniEluveitieGrave DiggerAmorphisType O NegativeWithin TemptationStone SourLife of AgonyTiamatSireniaLegion of the DamnedDevilDriverChimairaBlack Label SocietyHammerFallChildren of BodomMercenaryStormrider
I heard a lot of stories of this festival how bad the organisation suck.
So time to find it out myself.
The rules I read on the site and how it is organized what stands on the site let me think that this festival suck indeed.
The biggest stupidity is that you can not come a few days earlier but only get there in the first festival day, stupid fuckers.
When we arrived and get our stuff to the entrance you directly see how everything is arranged and that is not good.
You must wait hours before you are at the entrance and nobody knows where you can exchange your ticket to another ticket and than to a festival thing for your arm.
After more than 3 hours waiting and cursing we were finally on the campground.
Day 1:
After putting the tent on we headed to the festival ground cause these stupid assholes of the organisation put a band as Thin Lizzy as second playing band of the day, wtf.
But when we get there I hear that they have cancelled.
When we came 1349 are begon ay too early and stop too early and that was bad cause what I have seen they were great.
So up to VADER where I could get a place in the front.
After seen them 3 times earlier this summer I know what to expect and they did a good job again with songs as Predator, Wings, Shadowfear and This Is The War.
Next up BELPHEGOR whom I seen 2 days ago with Vader.
This is the same setlist and that kicked ass, a great show with their dirty rotten music, I love it.
AMORPHIS and GRAVE DIGGER are playing at the same time and that suck.
First watch 20 minutes of AMORPHIS and that was way too good to leave, what a show, a love the song Alone.
So quick headed to GRAVE DIGGER that did a very good job.
The rock the tentstage and this is perfect music to headbang.
With Heavy Metal Breakdown this show has come to an end.
Watch for 20 minutes WITHIN TEMPTATION but they still suck with their new album.
Dreams back to the good times with Enter and Mother Earth.
So time to get some beers and eat something and than headed to the next band.
And that is CELTIC FROST.
On albums like Emperors Return and Morbid Tales their music is brilliant but live it is not that good as on cd.
It was still a good show what I enjoyed but it can better.
Now it was time to drink some beers with others and walr around the metal market.
Bands as CHRIS CORNEL and JOE SATRIANI I don’t want to see.
I walked to the tent where TYPE O NEGATIVE where going to play but what was this bad.
They fucked up the music and it sounded when I have eaten a lot of garlic and shit the whole place full.
AEROSMITH was a band that if they play where you are you must see.
I recognize a lot of songs and they played very good and I liked the show.
And it was very cool that they played I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing.
I was not pretty drunk so time to lay down somewhere and wait for the next band
After that BLIND GUARDIAN was playing in the tent.
Somehow the music was not coming out good and I went away after 2 songs.
So than watch THERION that play in the other tent.
When I walked in I stayed the whole concert.
The sound was good, the show was very good.
I enjoyed this big time, what a performance, this was the best band of the day.
Day 2:
The day begon with missing a lot of bands like LAUREN HARRIS, LAMG OF GOD, SPIRALARMS and SPOILER NYC but only cause they suck.
The first band I see was SIRENIA, the band that have on every album a new singer but on every album they have a good singer.
The band played pretty good today, the sound could better.
The setlist was good with songs as The Other Side, Meridian and Sister Nightfall? I thought.
Next up STONE SOUR but that is not my kind of music and after 15 minutes I was getting bored.
So up to the tent to watch the next band.
LEGION OF THE DAMNED was up and with their thrash people start getting moving.
At this time I don’t know the second album very well but their first one is great and songs of that gets me moving with my head.
Nice show.
LIFE OF AGONY was up now, the band that is life always boring and so it was today.
On cd it is pretty good but live not that good.
CANNIBAL CORPSE are ready to hammersmash some faces.
With their great death metal and a very good singer with a neck that bounce to all sides you are guarantee for a good show.
And so this was with songs as Make Them Suffer, Fucked With A Knife and Decency Defied.
When I was shitting I hear some thunder followed up with some heavy raining.
HEAVEN & HELL (BLACK SABBATH with DIO) I really wanted to see.
After seen them 2 years ago with Ozzy I can see them now with their other singer.
What a great show this was, really enjoyed this kings.
But after 40 minutes or so I was soaking wet, drunk and tired so time to get to somewhere else.
TIAMAT was starting in the tent.
I don’t know them very well, I only have the album Wildhoney.
But this show was very good, they play good and I enjoy it.
After that I don’t want to see KORN so time to drink some beers with others.
Around 10 in the evening DIMMU BORGIR was starting in the tent.
The sound was not that good but I like the show.
Good to hear songs as Kings Of The Carnival Creation, Spellbound and Mourning Palace.
But I was pretty drunk cause by all the booze so I was happy that only 1 band was to go.
IRON MAIDEN headliner of the second day start around 11 in the evening.
The played very well but besides the new songs they play the songs as you already know like Number Of The Beast, Run To The Hills and so on.
Day 3:
The last day has come of this festival.
And the day started DEVILDRIVER.
To my surprise I liked it and they did a good show, some nice mosh and circle pits.
With ELUVEITIE on stage it is crowded cause the exist about 9 man or something.
I don’t know them but they played very well.
They have impress me with their show.
Time for CHIMAIRA that have impress me very much 2 years ago.
To be honest I can’t remember them anymore, probably because the booze.
Cause TURISAS is a band I don’t want to see on festivals I take a look in the other tent where MERCENARY had some line up changes and I don’t know if that’s the reason but today they could not impress me.
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY was the next band that I only know from name but their music is not made for me so quickly get some beers to say sorry to my ears.
MOONSORROW was the next band in the tent.
I can’t remember the gig anymore but if I watch my photo’s I must be somewhere in the front.
But I think it was good cause I can remember that I stayed till the end.
HAMMERFALL I watched from a distance cause I was to drunk to walk to the mainstage so I keep lie down somewhere in the field.
But HAMMERFALL sounded really good.
Next up KORPIKLAANI.
The show was great, I pissed the booze out of my body and I was ready to kick some asses in the moshpit.
After half an hour I already was tired but just keep going, what a great show with songs as Hunting Song, Happy Little Boozer and some other party songs from Voice Of Wilderness.
Next Up CHILDREN OF BODOM.
They did a very good job, some great songs Angels Don’t Kill, Mask Of Sanity and Are You Dead Yet.
Done some headbanging and enjoy the show further lie down somewhere in the field.
Time for FINNTROLL that I should see for the first time with the new singer.
But somehow the show was not good, if it is the new singer or they were not in good shape today I don’t know, maybe another time better.
SLAYER is always cool and so today but I was tired and was sitting down in the beergarden and watch from there the show.
The setlist is very predictable but I don’t care that much with them.
Time for AMON AMARTH, a band I was looking forward too, and I think more people cause it was very crowded.
So I must do it with a place in the back but that doesn’t matter cause I can get there crazy to on songs as Death In Fire, Asator, An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm, Cry Of The Black Birds, Fate Of Norns and Runes To My Memory.
What I great show, one of the better ones this weekend.
OZZY OSBOURNE is headlining the last day.
After I see him with Black Sabbath a couple of years ago now with his solo band.
It’s a crazy man on stage with a lot of I can’t fucking hear you but I don’t care, it’s an American.
You can sing along with songs as Crazy Train, Mr. Crowley, Warpigs, Bark At The Moon, Road To Nowhere., No More Tears and Paranoid.
This was really a cool show.
The last band in the small tent was the coverband STORMRIDER.
I saw them 15 minutes but I was so drunk and tired that I go sleep.
So this was the end of a cool weekend.
But the organisation has a lot of work to do cause they fuck up everything what you could fuck up.
Maybe an idea to look to most of the German festivals.
Amon AmarthSlayer1349TherionVaderCeltic FrostFinntrollBelphegorOzzy OsbourneHeaven & HellBlack SabbathAerosmithBlind GuardianIron MaidenCannibal CorpseDimmu BorgirMoonsorrowKorpiklaaniEluveitieGrave DiggerAmorphisType O NegativeWithin TemptationStone SourLife of AgonyTiamatSireniaLegion of the DamnedDevilDriverChimairaBlack Label SocietyHammerFallChildren of BodomMercenaryStormrider
