{"id":100,"date":"2013-06-29T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmachine.nl\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2013-06-29T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T20:46:28","slug":"power-of-metal-20-march-2011-013-tilburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmachine.nl\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Power of metal, 20 march 2011 @ 013, Tilburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five bands toured through Europe under the moniker Power of Metal &#8211; all more or less power metal, hence the name. I&#8217;m normally not much interested in power metal, oh some early Helloween would be fine. But other than that, no thanx. But this toured featured no less than the recently re-united Psychotic Waltz. A progressive metal band from California who I had missed when they were active mostly in the nineties. So it was time to catch up and drive to Tilburg on this sunny Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The opening band was already playing for a while when I came in. This was the Finnish band <b>Thaurorod<\/b> and pretty much straight-up power metal. They were okay but not really my interested.<\/p>\n<p>After a short time to change the stage around, the Danish lads from <b>Mercenary<\/b> came on stage. I had seen them before so I know more or less what to expect. But they had a couple line-up changes. This was more thrashy or death metalish power metal with some grunts and some clean vocals. I didn&#8217;t like them before and I still don&#8217;t like them.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was time for <b>Psychotic Waltz<\/b> in their original line-up. This includes of course Brian McAlpin who is stuck to a wheelchair. It looks a bit strange on stage but nevertheless it never hurt his playing or so it seems. They opened with the amazing intro of their second album &#8220;Into the Everflow&#8221; called &#8220;Ashes&#8221;. Soundwise it was pretty much okay, a bit bass-heavy. Their complex, technical music was executed splendidly. They treated us with a 45 minute set covering all four albums. They included &#8220;Into the Everflow&#8221; which is one of my all time favourite songs and a whole deal of songs from their debut album. Buddy (now called Devon) missed a few notes here and there, I guess the long tour had taken some effect on his vocals, but nothing too bad. They promised us a new album and a return to the stage, hopefully as a headlining club tour that time so they can play longer. But this was already quite excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Set list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashes<\/li>\n<li>Spiral Tower<\/li>\n<li>Haze One<\/li>\n<li>Into the Everflow<\/li>\n<li>Morbid<\/li>\n<li>Halo of Thorns<\/li>\n<li>Nothing<\/li>\n<li>I of the Storm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then we got the US band <b>Nevermore<\/b>. A bit of a so-so band who I had seen more than 10 years ago. They didn&#8217;t impress me much then, as I can barely remember anything from that gig, except the drummer ruined a couple of drumsticks during the set and went to take a piss half way through one song. He didn&#8217;t do that this time. I didn&#8217;t care for their thrashy \/ groovy power metal which sounded quite flat and dull. Neither do I understand why people seem so impressed by the vocalist as he is quite generic.<\/p>\n<p>Last band was <b>Symphony X<\/b> probably the most true power metal band on the tour, and they co-headlined. I had never heard them before &#8211; live or on album &#8211; so I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect. It turned out to include lots of cheesy sounding synths, wanky guitar leads, another not very impressive singer and otherwise rather boring as a whole. 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I&#8217;m normally not much interested in power metal, oh some early Helloween would be fine. But other than that, no thanx. But this toured featured no less than the recently re-united Psychotic Waltz. 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