08/06/2004
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SOULFLY ANNULATION + P.M.T.
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Volkshaus Zürich 01st
June 2004 |
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live review by Boris "Azrael" Witta
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INTRO Well,
everybody is lucky sometimes. Now, there’s my turn. I won tickets for
the Soulfly-Gig in Zürich.
P.M.T. I
never heard a word of P.M.T. from Lausanne, and it also doesn’t sound
really Metal. Then I remark that there is a construction for a DJ on the
stage, please, no Nu Metal… What
comes is the worst band I have ever seen live. 08/15-Nu
“Metal”, with wanna-be evil-posing, deep guitars, scratches (how can
somebody destroy vinyl?!) and a singer, - once he sings in a
megaphone - who has a sinewy, squeaking voice, and the sound on the stage is also not very good. After two and a
half song, I leave the hall, something I never did before, but M.T.P.
show me in every detail of their music why I hate Nu “Metal” that
much. “ça va, Zürich?” Not at all. Brrrrr, is this bad… Fortunately,
M.T.P. leave the stage after half an hour. Puuh, who’s coming now?
ANNULATION Annulation.
They
are better than M.T.P. A lot better. Yeah, that’s Metal. 4/5 of
the band has long hair, and their sound is absolutely that what I need
now: Old school Thrash/ Death Metal, very bangy and catchy. There are
also some modern influences, but most if the time, Annulation riff
straight forward. Singer Domi changes his voices between shouting and
high screaming, the sound is fat and there’s also a moshpit in front
of the stage. Great, that makes fun! The people
enjoy the gig and Annulation (I think they are from Zürich) get very
warm applause and a lot of cheering. All musicians act very
professional, always moving and banging, motivating the crowd, who
supports the band with “Hey! Hey! Hey!”-shouts. I can’t
tell you a lot more, because after the disaster with the first band,
I’m now banging almost all the time – like a lot other people too.
But I remind some songs of Annulation: One is called “Fuck All”
(yeah!!), another “Burning
Time” and I think they
also played “No Masterhood”, but I’m not sure. Anyway, it
was a very good gig and I think Annulation got some new fans this
evening.
SOULFLY And
then, after a break of about twenty minutes, Soulfy
enter the stage with the Intro of “The Prophecy”. I’m sure
I’m not the only one who gets a goose-skin when mister Max Cavalera
himself enters the stage. This guy has an unbelievable charisma.
And then the song starts. Frome one second to another, the whole
Volkshaus is jumping and moshing. I was standing in about the 5th
row, but suddenly, I’m at the mixing console. Max doesn’t make any
announces, Soulfly pas straight to the next song, “Seek’n’Strike”.
Yeah, sing along, baby! The new guitarist wears a rucksack, which looks
a bit stupid, but this doesn’t matter at all, the whole band (most of
all the drummer) play tight like nothing, and of course Max is very
pleased of the jumping, excited crowd. He changes his shirt about five
times this evening, first a Brazilian one, then a Hellhammer-shirt (I
scream “Hellhammer!!” and some people look at me, like I would be
mad…), once a blue one and then one in the camouflage-style. Soulfy
have an insane, a fantastic lightshow, every songs is perfectly
underlined, the fans are banging and shouting without an end. Then, the
magic moment: “Roots, bloody roots”. That’s why I came this
evening. In this moment, I forgot about the stupid first support-act, I
just enjoy Soulfly, or better Sepultura. It looks funny when Max bangs
his head with his matted dreadlocks. He smiles, looks at the fans, and
the show goes on. Another highlight is the song
called “Mars”, with an acoustic part and Spanish sounding
Flamenco-guitars, played on a guitar with two necks. Fantastic. Also
great are “Born Again, Anarchist”, “Jumpdafuckup”
(everyone joined the call!) and also “I Believe”,
where Max raises his hand to the crowd. This is Tribal Thrash Metal par
excellence! Then Max, the bassman, the guitar player and I think it was
the drummer of Annulation, all take kind of a drum and together with the
drummer they perform a percussion-song, not too long, but very
impressive. In general, Soulfly have lots of oriental elements in their
sound. Once, there’s a guest-shouter on stage, but I don’t know him
and I also don’t understand the name, but a friend told me that he
sung the part of Fred Durst (Soulfly made a Duet with him, no idea
why…). In contrary to the last tour, Soulfly play quite ling, and of
course, after the last song "Primitive" (Killer!!) they
come back for an extra song: “Eye for an eye for an eye
foe an eye”! Once again banging, screaming, celebrating, Max says
“Thank you”, leaves the stage and the other musicians finish the
song instrumentally. Great! A band, which is not
really conform, but in their way, they’re perfect. Thank you
for this, Soulfly!
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