if anyone is going tomorrow and is interested, i live like an 8 minute walk from the Palladium, i'll be hanging around getting drunk before the show, so if you'd like to join, and don't want to pay to park, you are free to stop by. send me a PM or something.

this should be an excellent show.

who else is playing?

himsa and sonic syndicate? Obviously no more Decapitated....shitty.

on the Palladium website it only has Sonic Syndicate and Thy Will Be Done listed. Himsa. blech.

I'll be going, I hear Amon Amarth are playing a longer set on this tour which just plain rules.

they're playing for 90 minutes.

Intro
Valhall Awaits Me
With Oden On Our Side
Death in Fire
Versus the World
Asator
The Sound of Eight Hooves
Hermod's Ride To Hel

(New intro with crow sounds)
Cry Of The Black Birds
The Fate of Norns
Thousand Years of Oppression
Down the Slopes of Death
Bleed for Ancient Gods
Runes To My Memory

Victorious March
The Last With Pagan Blood
The Pursuit of Vikings

they've played under the northern star instead of hermod's ride to hell at a few shows. of all the new songs, i wish they would play prediction of warfare. so epic.

Asator is going to crush us all. damn, i was really hoping for Gods of War Arise. i can't wait to have Viking death smashed into my face.

god damn it. they are going to lpay victorious march??

I just came at that set list

i'll be there with a few folks

I will be missing this and hating every second of it.

goddammit, I wish more people were coming with me but hey, ya know....what with the leprosy and all......

*shrugs*

does anyone know what time Amon Amarth goes on? i really don't want to sit through one second of the garbage before them.

Yeti said:

same here

I figure if it starts at 8 I'll show up around 930, to be safe. I don't wanna miss ANY of this fucking band.

i'll be missing out cuz i'm poor this week, but i'll be getting drunk before and after 8 minutes away from the palladium! AMON AMARTH PARTAY!

weird, himsa's site doesn't say they are playing.
their new CD is really really good.

thy will be done: 8-8:30
sonic syndicate: 8:45-9:15
amon amarth: 9:45-11:15

thy will be done: some set from the last time I saw them. I guess that's what happens when you open in a similar situation. The singer lays himself out prostrate on the ground in front of the drums. Anyone know why? They got the crowd going a little and they sent a song out to decapitation.

sonic syndicate: all those people in the crowd were saying boooo-urns. a no-name band and not really strong enough to support AA. If himsa was after them, im sure that people would have been more kind, but since they were just sort of sitting through this band as their only obstacle before odin rides again through the shores of worcester. The band definitely realized that the audience wasn't into it early in the set. They quickly began filling any quiet space with any english they knew. Mostly about amon amarth coming up. This worked for the first 5 songs until the crowd realized they had fingers. Most importantly the middle one and promptly told this band they thought that they were #1. After that, everyone sat down on the floor in the pit. This lasted for a 3rd of a song until some young go-getters decided this would be the perfect time to get up front against the barricade. No one wants to loose their hard won and hard fought spot so they all jumped back up and started to dance like spice girls. it was a painful train wreck from the crowd, but the band didn't let it get to them what troopers. I think they didn't leave the stage a song early.

damn i knew there was something better to do than nothing tonight.

xanonymousx said:

yeppers! you could have been slipped a mickey

hahahah stupid sonic syndicate, I felt more respect than most and remained standing.

this show was awesome...although I managed to lose both my phone (black nokia, @AT&T) and my keychain (leather, metal skull, honda clicker+key) so my car is still parked in downtown worcester...assuming they haven't towed it yet

oh, also ripped one of my favorite pairs of jeans straight from cock to ass. yeah, not my night. If any of the people who went to this and post here saw any sign of my stuff, let me know...supposedly one of the security guards found a phone fitting the description of mine, and somebody else claimed it. Awesome :p

Amon Amarth is epic, but those neo-nazi fucks in the pit almost ruined it for me. Doing the Hitler Salute to Amon Amarth is just a shame, and then doing it towards the bouncer on the barricade who clearly wasn't white was a shame too. Theres no room for that shit in viking metal. Someone should hang them like was done to the missionaries in Sweden so long ago.

why are hardcore bands opening up for AA.

Dar said:

that sucks Dar, nice to see you back though!

last night was a money vortex, yeah. That formerly free garage behind the DCU center is charging $20 flat now and when driving back home I got a GANGBUSTERS of a speeding ticket. Booooooo.

Amon Amarth SLAUGHTERED.

My ride flaked out last minute....i nearly cried.

i had a great time at this show but Sonic Syndicate did not fit on that bill at all. And why do they need two singers when they both sound the same? Amon Amarth KILLED. They had a great set-list as well. I was hoping for Gods of War Arise but I was all set once they played Death in Fire and Asator.

Sonic Syndicate was simply the best this evening even if they didn´t fit on the bill at all. I read a statement that both Himsa and Sonic Syndicate are handpicked by Amon Amarth for this tour to bring diversity on the bill, to fucking bad the fans of Amon Amarth are to dumb to understand that concept and rather would have the same band play the same set over and over. I really pitty the rednecks in Worcester who lost there mothers early enough so they didn´t have anyone to teach em manners. The crowd yesterday was a real embarrassment to the whole metal community and I feel sorry for Amon Amarth for having such ignorant and clueless fans. Respect to Sonic Syndicate for not showing one single emotion during the whole set and just pulled of a great show. It just made one thing clear; who the REAL emos actually are, that would be you Worcester kids! You guys sickenss me and I regrett I ever came from the city. Regards /Adam

Adam said:


Its just my opinion. I was there to hear some viking and death metal not whatever Sonic Syndicate classifies themselves as.(I thought it was a screamo/metalcore style) Plus their sound was extremly bad. The feedback on the lead singer's mics was awful and I could barely understand what they were saying. (not becuase of their Swedish accents but because of the crappy audio) I do agree that the whole sitting down thing was very disrespectful and that the Worcestor crowd should have thought before they acted. But then again thats why I live in Rhode Island.

nnh said:

when I was walking around after the show seeing if I could find my stuff, I heard that large, racially undefined bouncer walk up to another bouncer and be like "yo guy, want to have some fun tonight? we got one of those white power shitheads, we're going to beat the shit out of him"

Adam said:

They probably picked them so they could rape and pillage the bassist every night. That bitch was FINEEEEE

this would of been so much more fun if i didn't lose my obituary beanie within 10 minutes into Amon Amarth. Some drunk 40 year old faggot pushed me and it fell off so i pushed him back he threw a punch at me that felt like a poke. Fucking hate that guy.

AA was killer though, haha i saw the neo-nazi guys before shit even got started, one of the guys had an ayran brotherhood symbol tattooed on his arm that i noticed right when walking down to the floor. Fucking my national geographic nerdiness finally come into use.

archaeon said:


hell yeah she was.

we did think before we acted. we thought... "we've had quite enough of this, let's see if we can put an end to it." and then we sat. disrespectful? absolutely, but since when are metal shows etiquette classes? they simply did not belong on the bill whatsoever. i appreciate musical diversity and actually thought they were pretty cohesive but you wouldn't expect limp bizkit to play a show with cher.

you guys obviously weren't close to the stage. I will say that this is the first time that my pictures of a female look better than the person did in real life. I looked down at my camera and though "damn, how did I do that."

is that odin I see on his side?

wow she looks so good in some pictures and disgusting in others

Peculiar phenomena, Rev. Perhaps we could arrange for you to photograph Masuimi Max's bare breasts. That broad is SO HOT... til her top comes off. Seriously the September 11th of tit-jobs.

yeah ...what are you guys talking about, that bassist was fucking fugly!

y_ddraig_goch said:

Hey- From where I was standing, to the left of the wall, she was pretty damn hot. And she looks decent in the pics.

Adam said:

Hand-picked by Amon Amarth? Sorry, that's just not true--I was talking to them afterwards, and I asked Ted about:
1. What he thought of them
2. Why they were opening for AA

For #1, he said they were "a little too emo" for him. I don't think he'd pick anything he wasn't too fond of.
For #2, the response I got was basically: "our manager picks them for us... we have a say, but not very much of one".
Amon Amarth do not hand-pick the bands that open for them; it's their manager.

Chris formerly of Undying Breed (NH) is playing w/ Thy Will Be Done, no shit. Good for him.

hahahaha

awesome.
Did Alexi Laiho go to Schrang or Brassard?

the tats weren't the ONLY thing removed!

haha!

Adam said:

Haha... I bet that shit happens in every city. Have a fun tour being the boredom before the fun, guys!

yeah well I missed the sitting ovation but I'm just glad Amon Amarth finally headline an American tour

mcmahon nli said:

Chris formerly of Undying Breed locked me out of a hotel room back in April.
Thus making all of you guys freak out when I wasn't there in the AM.
You guys thought I was dead.

Adam said:

I'm sure the record label forced 'em on or something, or maybe paid 'em extra. You can bring diversity to tours without adding shitty bands.

Oh, okay, the managers. Same thing. I'm sure cash or pressure or both was involved.

On another note I think Amon Amarth is a total snoozefest live, but that's just me. Songs all blur together ridiculously.

This show was fun but still a disapointment for me. No songs off "Sorrow Through The Nine Worlds" or "Once Sent From The Golden Hall"?! Lame! I hate how they ignore their best material.

Beorht-Dana said:

they played victorious march

I stand corrected. But still, ONLY ONE? Still lame.

killer show. i was hammered when i got there, i got in like 5 minutes before they went on. i'm so glad i didn't have to witness the gayness before them. the sound was awesome, you could hear everything really well. the disappointing thing was that the people who were there to witness Vikings pound death metal into their faces were outnumbered like 60 to 1 by gay brootal scum. "dude its so brootal but so melodic, they are so sick". and what the fuck happened to Worcester pits?? oh, thats right, the place was infested with brootal scum.

nnh said:

What do you think those White-power douchbags would think if they knew that a Spanish guy played drums on the first Amon Amarth album?