The support act for Rammstein was formed this time by the Swedish industrial and gothic metaller of Deathstars. They fit way better to Rammstein from my point of view than Combichrist did on the last tour. I did not know the band beforehand and so the first thought running through my head after they started was: 69 Eyes on industrial. This thought was mainly influenced by singer Andreas Bergh whose voice is quite similar to the one of the 69 Eyes front men. A nice sonorously clear voice.
The Guano Apes are back on tour. As you can see on my event list my very first concert was one of Guano Apes. To that time at the Ebertbad at Oberhausen in front of 150 they introduced their new CD "Walking On A Thin Line" and were on the climax of their carreer. Shortly afterwards the end was there and each of them tried to westle through with more or less success. 2009 the four from Göttingen reunited and the result, their current album "Bel Air" was forming the basis of this evening.
You had to wait for a long time in frostiness in front of the venue until you finally could enter to defreeze. The Stahlwerk was already quite well filled when the guys of the band Alpha Academy from Göttingen entered the stage at 20:00 to fire us up.
Towards 22:00 it finally was the time and the guys of Amorphis entered the stage. The Hyde-Park was meanwhile quite well filled, the visitors really in a good mood so everything was prepared for a great concert.
The guys of Leprous brought as second band of the evening some harder sounds onto the stage. With their progressive metal they hasted very energetic across the unfortunately quite dark stage. They played except "Dare You" only songs of their latest longplayer "Bilateral".
The evening was opened by the Finnish band The Man-Eating Tree. Founded three years ago by the former Sentenced drummer Vesa Ranta. That was unfortunately not with them on this tour as he was waiting for his addition to his family at home. As replacement they could get hold of Aksu Hanttu who did a perfect job.
At 22:30 it was the time that Saxon entered the stage. The old hands of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal had their new album "Call To Arms" with them of which they played a lot this evening. But the audience really flew into a rage at old classics like "Wheels Of Steel", "Denim & Leather" or "Princess Of The Night".
The atmosphere was already quite well heated up by the opener Crimes Of Passion and started boiling when Anvil after a phenomenal short break for changing the stage setting entered the stage. First busy with the sound check it quite fast got down to the nitty-gritty by "March Of The Crabs".
The evening was opened by the men of Crimes Of Passion. They brought pieces of their two albums "Crimes Of Passion" and the this years released "To Die For" with them. Although it was not yet extremely filled at the Metropool their singer really knew how to push up the audience. With their classical heavy metal quite fast the first rows were made to start with their evening neck gym.
Originally this concert was planned for end of March but as Within Temptation front women Sharon den Adel got pregnant for the third time the whole tour had to be delayed without hesitation. Meanwhile a lot had happened: New drummer in the band with Mike Coolen, Sharon and Roberts third child was born and due to that Robert had decided to the beginning of the tour to retreat from the active tour business to be able to spend more time looking after his kids.