{"id":365,"date":"2014-07-04T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmachine.nl\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-07-04T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:50:12","slug":"slayer-013-tilburg-3-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmachine.nl\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Slayer @ 013 Tilburg, 3 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the different reasons I had never seen Slayer live. Last time I wanted to check them out, in 2010, they cancelled last minute (literally). Never mind. So I drove over to Tilburg on a bright and sunny Thursday, to get stuck in a traffic jam for at least half an hour after some shitty people crashed. So when I arrived a bit late at the venue, parking space was getting scarce. And the first band was already playing when I finally was inside.<\/p>\n<p>That band was the French <strong>Gojira<\/strong> who get quite some praise for their technical death metal. It is not that they play badly &#8211; they don&#8217;t, but some how, they never managed to grab my interest. Not an album, now I know not in a live setting either. Nevertheless they got nearly an hour playing time, which is quite a lot for a support slot. Then they finally left the stage.<\/p>\n<p>After the change-over, the lights went out, the stage filled with smoke and the ominous intro from Hell Awaits sounded over the PA. Then the guitars and drums kicked in. Slayer went for a mostly classics set; note that most of these songs were written by the late Jeff Hanneman. The songs followed in quick succession; Tom spoke only a few times in between songs. I never realised though that War Ensemble was such a popular song, as that was _the_ moment the audience went crazy. Most of the set seemed to go on automatic pilot, with Gary being the most present on stage. Besides Tom missing a few lines from Die By The Sword, they played quite tight. Paul&#8217;s drumming was steady as a rock, they guitar and bass were just fine with Kerry throwing his plectrums in the audience once or twice per song. Lucky me found one too (crap quality btw, I don&#8217;t see how he actually wants to play with them, no wonder he keeps throwing them away).  They pulled off a new song as well &#8211; Implode &#8211; which didn&#8217;t sound bad at all &#8211; actually quite aggressive. So maybe the forthcoming album is actually interesting &#8211; who knows. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/slayer\/2014\/poppodium-013-tilburg-netherlands-7bc186e8.html\" title=\"Slayer Setlist\">Setlist<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Slayer%20%40%20013%20Tilburg%2C%203%20July%202014\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the different reasons I had never seen Slayer live. 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