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| This is my first article
for Mighty Warrior. I hope this will be only the beginning of a long term relation. Thanks
for reading and for letting me express my opinion. |
WACKEN OPEN AIR 2002
The W.O.A. isn't a regular festival, it is –like many
people call it- THE FESTIVAL. This was my first visit to Wacken and certainly it is the
greatest thing ever. Before talking about the bands and the concerts, wich I supose is the
most important thing, I'd like to mention the excellent organization, security, higyne,
atmosphere... to be such a big festival with so many attendants (german, spanish,
french, japanese, finish, argentinian, mexican, ...) I expected something different
–maybe something worse- but everything was perfect, no fights, no bad attitudes,
nothing bad at all. Like I said, it was perfect. About the concerts there were the great
,the good and the bad ones, and there were so many I couldn't see them all, I mean it's
impossible. But well here's my review. We arrived on Wednesday morning and after camping
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over the festival zone we went to the first shows wich were:
-KOTIPELTO: He fast fine, remembering his songs with Stratovarius. He singed songs from his solo album and some of his
original band. This last ones were the most cheered by the little crowd that listened to
his performance
-BLAZE: The ex-Iron Maiden
offered a pretty poor show with just a small audience.I left before he ended, to prepare
myself for the upcoming concert. The best was yet to come
-DORO: If somebody surprised me during this Festival, it was
Doro Pesch – The Metal Queen -. It seems impossible to someone of her age to sing so
powerful and with such strenght. It was one of the best live shows of this Wacken without
spectacular fireworks or a complicated stage production, just energy and complete
dedication, lots of it . They played such great |
Blaze |
songs like "Burn it up" or the highly expected "All we
are".
-ROSE TATOO: Sincerely I couldn't see them, but what I heard
was really good. This australians must have played a great show because the people
commented it till the next day.
Friday was the day my landmates Avalanch were going to
play so I had to wake up early. To be the only spanish metal band in Wacken 2002 and the
debut of their new singer Ramon Lage, were more than great reasons to see them.
-AVALANCH: I arrived a bit late because of all the people
waiting to get in the festival. I could only see the last four songs and it was enough to
realize that this wasn't the proper singer for Avalanch. And the sound wasn't good at all.
I could also see the shows of Domine –whose singer Moby
toured some years ago with Labirynth when I saw them-, Rebellion and some others to enter the Metal Market
–the heavy metal paradise-. I came back to see Iron Savoir.
-IRON SAVIOR: Piet Sielck's band still plays with three
guitars. With a tight show and playing lots of songs without stoping in order to show all
of their material in just 40 minutes. I liked them a lot, but I miss the presence of
Kai Hansen.
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Angra
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-ANGRA: One of the bands I wanted to see the
most. Their singer –Edu Falaschi- sounds fantastic in studio, but he's even better
live. Maybe my favourite singer of all the festival –after Doro, of course-. They
didn't played any songs from "Fireworks" and just perform their biggest hits
from their best albums –"Holy Land", "Angels Cry" &
"Rebirth"-. ReallyImpressive to see everyone singing along to "Carry
On". A really good show, flawless performance.
-NOCTURNAL RITES: This is a band wich studio albums I love,
even more with their new singer since "Afterlife". But live they weren't that
good, I guess I expected too much. But anyway the show was quite good, lots of strength,
but not much melody.
-PRETTY MAIDS: I just had the chance to hear the last songs
of this great Hard Rock band. But at least I could hear their legendary "Future
World" & "Back to Back" –yes, the one Hammerfall
cover in "Legacy of Kings"-. They played really good, and I was really satisfied
to see one of the greatest bands ever.
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Destruction |
-SAVATAGE: This one was the band I was expecting for. I
couldn't see them in their last spanish tour with Judas Priest,
and so I was really anxious to see them live, to see the "great" Jon Oliva
–"great" in every sense- Over a pedestal with his keyboards beside him, Jon
delighted us with his improved voice. But the main attraction, wasn't Jon Oliva's
performance. It was Jeff Waters (Annihilator guitar player)
playing the Savatage tunes wich he learned in less than a month and of course the new
singer –I'm sorry but I can't remember his name very well: Jinhiya or something like
that-. Both of them kicked ass, the same way as Cris Caffery. They were one of the most
important shows of the festival and their crowd went nuts. I felt the goosebumps
when 30 or 40 thousand people singed "Believe".
-DESTRUCTION: Althought I'm not a big fan of the band, they
really played awesome! Althought they had some technical problems they fixed those as the
show went by. The crowd enjoyed a lot!
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-BRUCE DICKINSON: The great Iron Maiden singer isn't the
one he used to be, at least that's what he showed in his performance. A rythmles show and
really boring. Not even his constant runs across the stage or his uplifting words to the
crowd get to cheer the audience.The only thing we could save were the Maiden songs. Very
sad for one of the biggest singers in heavy metal history.
-CHILDREN OF BODOM: A band I missed in their tour with Primal Fear because of my friend's car. I was very excited to see
them live, and they didn't dissapointed me at all. There was a large quantityof fans
–who weren't tired after the Dickinson show-. Great show, Alexi Laiho showed what he
is capable of.
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Bruce Dickinson
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After all this I left to the tent completly
tired. I'm sorry not to be able to see In Extremo or Warlord –with Joacim Cans as their frontman-, but I was really
weary. Nevertheless from my sleeping bag, I had the chance to hear the entire JBO show. This germans must be a real thing here, cause I see them
in the cover of the german magazine Hammer. Their show was based on playing most of their
songs and some cover versions of "Carry On" from Manowar
or "Ace of Spades" from Motorhead.
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Black Metal Stage & True Metal Stage
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