What an odd but AWESOME line up I thought when this got announced. Thrash, doom and the godfathers of industrial metal all in one mashed up line up, but the more you think about it the more it makes sense. All three bands are generally liked by fans of "real" music of the heavy variety, and it would be nice to see more varied line ups like this happen...
Firstly i have to apologize, i take photos....i don't write.
Unfortunately our reviewer got held up at work and so it's been left to me to cobble a review.
Photos are now up from the Rwake and Dragged Into Sunlight date at London's Camden Underworld, head on over to our facebook page to check them out...
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Afterburner – 3 days had taken it’s toll and so most of the afterburner was spent missing bands, catching up with friends and generally feeling very beat.
I spent most of the sets by Spindrift, Sungrazer and Blood Farmers in a daze half asleep really exhausted from the rest of the festival, and too tired to enjoy it.
Candlemass opened proceedings and owned the stage, walking on to Marche Funebre then straight into Mirror Mirror. They started off with Robert Lowe singing but after around 5 songs he then asked if the audience wanted to see something they’d never seen before. He was going to do a magic trick and said watch me disappear offstage, before leaving and I started to get very excited...
I couldn’t get in for Year of No Light at the Midi Theatre. This was really disappointed after missing them the day before due to clashes. It had been moved forward by 15 minutes from the original schedule and was already rammed when we arrived. Those I spoke to that saw it said it was amazing...
Roadburn 2011 for me opened with Alcest on the live stage and having seen a storming set at London’s Purple Turtle last year I was keen to catch them again. I’ve never experienced sound issues in any of the previous 3 roadburns attended which is really impressive for a festival set up with so many bands but the second guitar was lacking for the first few songs. By the time Percees De Lumiere was played though it seemed to have been sorted and they were nothing short of amazing...