Hedguy & Ammerfall!

Posted by Skrud at Friday, August 12th 2005 at 12:52am

I understand why francophones tend to ignore H’s at the start of words, but why do they add an H in front of words where there is none? It boggles the mind.

Anyway, I just got home from the Edguy and Hammerfall concert. I showed up late and missed the opening band (Into Eternity) thanks to Paul and Behrouz who convinced me to join them for a couple of beers and burgers at McLean’s. :)

Edguy completely stole the show. Their performance was mindblowingly awesome. They played a great set that included awesome songs… like Babylon. I love that song. Babylon kicks ass. Tobias also changed up the ending a bit. Instead of saying “Babylon” he said “Montreal” (I bet they do that everywhere). And then “is much”. And then “louder than”. And then “Toronto”. (I bet they don’t do that everywhere). The crowd at the Medley was totally into the Edguy performance. Those guys h ave amazing stage presence and really know how to perform to a large group. The energy emanating from the stage was enough to knock even the lamest of fans to their feet. There were huge amounts of rocking out, and more rocking out. It was everything that I love about heavy metal. Edguy are fucking amazing live.

There was an Edguy drum solo. It was the Imperial March. Yes, the Imperial March. With much fancier drumming. The highlight of the evening, actually. It was one totally rockening drum solo. I’d see them again anytime. The only thing lacking from Edguy’s set was The Headless Game or Walk On Fighting. I would’ve settled for either, but they played neither. This worked to Hammerfall’s detriment since during their whole set I couldn’t help but long for Edguy. I wanted more. Edguy was just too damn good.

Then Hammerfall took the stage. They had an OK set list… and by that I mean there wasn’t enough older stuff. I’m not really familiar with Hammerfall’s most recent efforts so I didn’t really get into it all that much. It seems the rest of the crowd was also less enthusiastic about Hammerfall than Edguy. Now don’t get me wrong, they played some awesome tunes and they played them damned well: Let The Hammer Fall, Hammerfall, Glory To The Brave, Heeding The Call…. It’s just that played a lot of newer stuff that I just didn’t recognize or care for. What I did like however, was when they stopped in the middle of Glory To The Brave due to technical difficulties, they just broke into an impromptu cover of Enter Sandman – where the whole audience sang along. :D

Overall, Hammerfall was great – Edguy was better.

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