We Sold Our Souls to Metal

What a show!  And what a name for one!

My first question is: Was it intentional to have all five bands playing that have names that start with the letter "s?"  I don't know if that helped anyone.  For someone who hadn't heard of any of these bands, except for Scent of Remains, I was confused.  It was a wonder I didn't sound or act like an idiot at this show.

My next question is:  Was it planned for all of these bands to play when they all have one thing in common (other than playing some aspect of metal):  they're all about to release a new CD.

Whether you take those questions as rhetorical or not is yours for the taking. 

Apparently, 6:45, the start time of this show, couldn't come fast enough.  Scent of Remains was the first band up-before that time.  Having gone to shows in which many bands were playing, I'm not sure if I had seen this one.  But what I do know is that I like their music.  This band is worth following and seeing whenever I get the chance.  I did like their heavier version of Ozzy's "No More Tears," and how their last song vibrated and lingered.

The audience didn't really start filing in until Shattered Sun of Corpus Christi, Texas, came up to play.  What I think about the lead singer Marcos Leal:  he's a great metal advisor.  Let's heed to anything he advises us to do.  Reminder:  We sold our souls to metal, didn't we?  Underneath all the lights and standing up on a box, he told us to bang our heads.  Suffice it to say he used enough strong language in saying so.  Though we seemed slow in doing it, we did it. 

It was to prepare us to Soilwork.  Let me be more specific about the theme of the show when this band (and the others to come) played:  Knoxville has sold themselves to Swedish metal.  My "moment" happened during this set.  I believe the title of the song was "Life in the Aftermath."  The vibrations that came from every one of these bands went straight to my chest during this song.

Soulfly could have just led the audience in singing over and over, "WE SOLD OUR SOULS TO METAL."  But that wouldn't do them justice.  I'll just say, as the evening progressed, the more metal it got-and louder.  Soulfly should have the award (from me) for the most audience response.  That's what it's all about.  It's all because Max Cavalera, lead singer, made it happen.  It was around ten at night.  I gotta say, no one was allowed to be drowsy. 

I have been to many shows in which there was more than one encore.  But I don't recall going to one in which there were not one, not two, but three encores.  In one of the encores, Max played his (I think I have the name of this right) didgeridoo, a Brazilian instrument.  That by itself was worth coming out on a Thursday night to see.