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"Just" 400-500 people were neither
scared off by the resigning of Benedictions Dave Ingram nor by the
bad "Death" messages from the Dynamo Open Air, and knew what they
came for tonight: "Death Metal"!!
Crack Up opened
for just a half filled hall. The guys have toured their asses off
this summer and gained, right here in Hamburg, a lot of fans who
were here today to party. This time the band played as if they had
been drugged with Valium, only the old hit "Blood On The Floor"
had some spirit. The inspiration only came when guest guitarist
Florian from Dew Scented stepped in and took care of some firework.
The new
Dave (Hunt/SL) on the microphone with Benediction
hardly knew any lyrics by heart (the cheat sheet did wonders) but
had an agressive way of performing. That's how the songchoice appeared:
"Subconscious Terror" from the eighties was digged up again, also
the songs from the "The Dreams You Dread" album. From the recent
work the "Britt-deathers" played "Deadfall" en "Agonised". The four
oldies served the songs very heavy and let their new man free, but
the Benediction fire, that makes them who they are, just wasn't
there.
In
the meantime the entire Hammerfall crew was amongst the audience,
taking a break from a Hamburg studio, waiting to see their to-be-tourmates
of the States: Death who were even honoured before
the show started. The yelling for an encore was shouted before they
even played the first song(!) and Chuck "mother fucking genius"
Schuldiner took it all with a grin and posted himself with his guitar
in the spotlights. The audience went crazy with "The Philosopher",
got in a "break-extasy", got completely insane, needed every space
they had, increasing with every song that was played. Announcements
still aren't the masters speciality, but the crowd, without hesitations,
took over his task spontaeniously with a little "what's the next
song"-game, From "Leprosy" (which wasn't played) to "Symbolic" from
all different corners of the hall songs were being shouted. Chuck
grinned again and in a little "best-of-part" only stuff from "Spiritual
Healing" and the title track of "Leprosy" were left out. Within
two hours the Markthalle turned into a sauna and Chuck was dripping
as if he was standing under a shower. Scott Clendenin and Shannon
Hamm didn't have to be ashamed of themselves for anyone about their
playing skills, and took over the contact with the audience more
and more. Unbelievable but the gig improved with every unbelievable
minute of the two unbelievable hours up 'till the encore and released
the audience with an absolute curiosity: "Zombie Ritual" from 1985
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Sonja
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