Awesome to see these guys again! Even tho they weren´t fronted by J. Niemi anymore. The last rite of the Archmandal tour (w. Mr Peter Hayden), great performance and time for some beers in the nicest company. Tampere rules!
V. AJOMO – Photo: Soile Siirtola, extremmetal.se
Edit 2014-06-16: Added a live clip from Püssy a Go Go.
The awesome Japanese band at last in our basement!!:D A nice bunch of people and the gig was really REALLY good!! Not a dull moment there:)Tatsu Mikami – bass Junji Narita – drums Hideki Fukasawa – vocals & synthesizers Ikuma Kawabe – guitar
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Goatess rehearsals April 2014.
The last one before they left for Roadburn. The whole set + a couple of new songs!!
A couple of awesome Black/Death guys from Switzerland. I´m going to see them at least a couple of times more this summer:))
TMA: The band themselves describes the meaning as “a powerful force or blow or strike that has no regard for the consequences or the repercussions. And in that sense it’s not directed either, it’s just a chaotic strike of energy…. a force of chaos, and a force of life and death and anything.”
BÖLZER: KzR – X String Flay, Heresy / HzR – Skin Decimation
BÖLZER @ Püssy A go Go!
Some of the heaviest guys you will ever see on a stage! Pure awesomeness with Jörgen, Lord K and Tobben. Guests: Tobbe Sillman (GENERAL SURGERY) guitar on “Eld och plågor” and also Sonny (Close-Up Magazine) guest vocals on “Håll käften”.
Only GEHENNAH on the bill. No support bands. Except our friend Totte who played some Dissection tunes for us on the old organ before the doors opened.
The organ got recently to the basement, also some “new” sofas and chairs. Really nice:)) My first gig for this year and it was totally all that. I was really happy to meet friends and all the other good ones again. And to be back “home”. Great GEHENNAH show!! Don´t know how many “last” songs they played. Obviously the crowd didn´t let them go off the stage:) It was a mayhem in the front line from the start so I only stayed there for awhile before I gave up my spot to the crowd going crazy:) So not that many live pics. Christopher C´s vid below!
It´s been almost a year since the last time I saw the legendary HELL. This time they only got some 30 minutes on stage but they made the most of it as expected. A short but awesome show!! They also got some time to hang out with me:) The new album is KILLER and on the top of my Best of 2013 list! Can´t wait to see them on a headline tour!! Or at some cool festivals next summer
Btw…about a million pics from the Derby show last winter is coming up shortly!! Haven´t published any of them yet.
Get the CD/DVD! Many of my photos in the DVD booklet;))Line up: David Bower – Vocals / Kev Bower – Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals / Andy Sneap – Guitar / Tony Speakman – Bass / Tim Bowler – Drums
Two extraordinary nights at Püssy A Go Go. Douglas P. live was a great experience. I never knew that much about him or Death In June, but did my homework when I heard he was stopping at the club the last days on tour.
Lots of controversy. And lots of recordings:) Brilliant stuff! Kinda hooked now. In Solitude guys were DJ´ing.
»…and some random snapshots
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Before and after
I had two bands of interest at this years Loud Park festival and the first and main one, KING DIAMOND (also the reason I was about to visit the festival this year), got cancelled:/ We were supposed to hang out a few days before Loud Park and I was already in Tokyo when I got the message from Livia. All the KD stage gear being on a boat which got stuck in some Chinese harbour due to terrible weather, and couldn´t make it in time for the festival. So the KD show got cancelled in last minute when they were supposed to leave for the airport. A couple of guys from the band/crew already left so they at least got to have some days in Tokyo.
The second band of interest, ENFORCER, were great, tho!!! Awesome performance infront of a huge cheering crowd. They also got great reviews and response after the gig. Really happy for them! Well deserved!:))
Thanks to Akira (Spiritual Beast) who again took care of my passes!
The Loud Park festival is the biggest metal happening in Japan with mostly bands which are frequenting our part of the world. I did see SLAYER and ROB ZOMBIE there a couple of years earlier, tho, but mostly it has been fun just to hang around and see how tings are done at a huge Japanese indoor festival. Extremely organized:)))
Besides the gig, there were also a nice LP afterparty at From Dusk Till Dawn bar in Kabukicho,Shinjuku. Conviniently very close to where I was staying, but it was still a bit of a struggle to find the way late at night, not totally sober:)) So many small alleys in the neighborhood.The day before we had a day out with BEHEMOTH (Nergal, Orion, Michael from Season of Mist & some of the crew. Pumpkin & Bunny ftw!!) with shopping, dinner and some beers & shots at the Train Bar in Roppongi. One of the days I also went to Yokohama to see Ryo´s (COFFINS) doom band GUEVNNA and met up with all the COFFINS guys at Tama Center in Tokyo where they played an afternoon outdoor gig. Good times:))
So quite a lot of metal stuff anyways on this trip. And I do love Japan & Tokyo, so time there is never wasted![Edit 2024: Should and will at some point make new edits of the small and shitty pictures:) Just need to take the time and find the originals]
SNAPSHOTS FROM THE VENUE, THE HOTEL AND THE LP AFTERPARTY IN SHINJUKU
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Ryo (COFFINS. Very soon to be ex-COFFINS;() with his band GUEVNNA played at a small club in Yokohama and we (me and Ester S.) went there to check things out. GUEVNNA has recorded a split with the French band AGUIRRE and hopefully we´ll see both bands somewhere in Europe during 2014. Hope somebody books them to Stockholm. They´re really good! Like Roadburn-good:))
