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Well,
well, Freiburg is a small, but beautiful city, and the people are
always friendly. Okay, let’s say most of the time. Once,
we have to ask for the way and so we’re shouting “Hello,
hello?!” out of the car to a woman . But as answer, she cries
“Nothing hello!!! Go away!!!” in such an aggressive voice that
we’re all really perplexed.
But
after a while, we finally find the KTS, the centre of the
autonomous in Freiburg. It’s small, there is place for let’s
say 250 persons, and the whole building spreads a very punky
charme. Unfortunately,
it will be the last event in the KTS, because it will be closed
soon because of the noise. Sad but true.
On the flyer is written that the concert starts at 9 o’clock,
but it’s already passed 10 o’clock when Shardless
finally enter the stage. There aren’t too
much people or better, the KTS is very empty, but Shardless give
100% from the first second on. Altought they don’t really fit to
the rest of the billing, they get warm applause for their original
Gothic Rock. Vocalist Corinna looks good and has a great voice,
never too sweet, always forceful and variable. The one guitarist
is banging all the time, the second called Dominik Voigt sings
every song along and has some very cool special effects on his
6-string, once he plays the keyboard-parts on it. The sound is
good and Shardless seem to be motivated, and the first people
begin to dance in front of the stage, but there isn’t any
headbanging. Sometimes Shardless are very hard, then with more
pop-appeal, and then again pure Metal, and they remind me to such
bands as Nightwish (without keyboard) or Lacuna Coil. Their goal
are of course the melodies which are often really great, and the
band appears also very sympathetic. After half an hour, Shardless
finish their gig with the ballad “Jewel”, where only
Corinna, Dominik and the drummer are left on stage. Not a perfect
and, a crusher would have been better, but it doesn’t matter and
Shardless get once more warm applause and cheering before they
leave.
Setlist
Shardless
Intro
Once More... Again
Farewell
Here Comes A New Day
Wind Turns Back
In June
Today
Friday Lover
Eleanor
Jewel
Then it’s time for Assorted Nails,
a band from Freiburg, and so it’s logical that there are a lot
more people in front of the stage than before, and there are some
really crazy guys, with posters on which things like “Grunz!”
are written. Assorted Nails play a kind of
Death Metal, most of the time very fast, a bit in the US
Death Metal-style and with a lot of obscure dark humour. Shouter
Bob is a great entertainer, he “thanks” the city Freiburg for
closing the KTS, he’s banging a lot, but the best thing is a
"morning star" made of plastic. First Bob
himself swings it, then he gives it to the people in the first row
and we have a lot of fun. Once, a string from one guitarist
breaks, and during the reparation break, the rest of the band
plays a very cool version of “Angel Of Death” from
Slayer. Now, there’s a lot of action in the audience, and one of
the highlights of Assorted Nails’ set is the song with the funny
title “Fleisch Winter”, a Death Metal-hymn par
excellence, with fast riffs, a groovy bass and lots of double
basses. There’s a lot of cheering,
shouting and applause from the audience, and so it’s clear that
Assorted Nails have to play an extra-song. Now the
atmosphere is very good, and Assorted Nails leave the stage with
loud and enthusiastic applause. Great gig, guys!
Setlist
Assorted Nails
Intro
Hallo!
The Media
Cancer Warfare
Near-Death Experience
Black Journey
Dying Slowly
1939
Sick
InsAne
False Gods
Get Assorted!
Fleisch Winter
Morpheus
War
And finally it’s
time for the Black Metal-band from Basel, for
Atritas.
I can’t remember that I was once so tensed of a gig. And now it
begins: First
a dark, majestic intro, and then hell is opened! A high scream,
cold riffing guitars, mystic keyboards and a destroying double
bass. Hell, this is great!
The
whole band except for keyboarder Hysteria is in full corpsepaint,
chains and cartridge belts, and it doesn’t matter if you know
all the guys, it looks very impressive and evil.
Gier makes the most action on stage, he screams inhuman, bangs,
motivates the people to make some noise and he just appears true
and honest. This
is melodic Black Metal they way it should be played, and it’s
definitely the best Black Metal-gig I ever was on. The
atmosphere is pure evil, dark and aggressive, and in the first
row, the people are banging all the time. The first two songs are
new ones, and I can say that they will be highlights on the
upcoming album. The guitarist-duo Baal and Swart plays tight, but
at the beginning, the sound on stage is not optimal and Swart can
just hear himself, but during the gig, it gets better and better.
The sound is good, you can hear every freezing, cold and kind of
hateful-beautiful guitar-melody, and like on CD, also live the key
fits perfect and is never too loud. Highlight of the set are “Vanitas
Atra” and “Das Tier” from “In Regressu
Diaboli”, “Luzifers Blutpfad” and of course all
the new songs, which fit perfect to the old Atritas-material.
 Also
here breaks a guitar-string, in this case from Swart, and because
there’s a break for some minutes, it’s time for a cigarette on
stage. Also some words to drummer Ork: His blastbeats are just
impressing, and he doesn’t make any fault in playing his parts.
As great as the concert is, as hot are the temperatures in the KTS:
insane. But hey, this is a Black Metal-gig, so let’s continue
banging! Then, much too early, the last song “Primat Des
Geistes” is finished, and a fantastic concert comes to its
end. That was indeed a special event, my compliments to Atritas! Thanks
Satan that soon, there are more live-dates…
Boris
Witta
Setlist
Atritas
Devil's
Throat
Where Witches Burnt
Metal
Vanitas Atra
Mongrel Monument
Thou Shalt...
Das Tier
Key Kurz (kein offizieller Titel!!)
Drums Of Doom
B.C.
Nosferatu In Monde Mortente
Luzifers Blutpfad
Primat des Geistes
www.atritas.ch
www.assortednails.de
www.shardless.com
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