Dragonforce And Disturbed At Mayhem Fest

Taking my 10 year old son along to Mayhem Fest was something that was only planned about a week before going. I had some reservations about taking him along because he can get kind of restless and doesn’t like to be out in the heat very long. I can’t blame him, I don’t like it much either. He was really good though. I told him to stay close and walk fast and he did both. He was a trooper that day and I’m very proud of him. It was his first metal concert and he said he had a great time. Something he can tell his friends about. He wanted to see Dragonforce and I tried my best to get us back over to the main stage in time but with Machine Head playing and Mastodon signing right afterwards, time was tight.

By the time we got back to our seats Dragonforce was on their second to last song and went in to Through The Fire And Flames. I gotta say for the 10 or 15 minutes I got to see them play, it was pretty good. I don’t know if I would have like to see their full 40 minute set though. We tried earlier in the day to get a picture of my son with the band but they didn’t stay at the Roadrunner tent very long before moving on so the picture at the top was the best I could do.

Dragoneforce finished up about 10 minutes early and Disturbed came on about 10 minutes early. They rolled David Draimen out on a hand truck like Hannibal Lechter. Facemask and everything. I thought it was a pretty cheesy start. After all, I was not really looking forward to seeing Disturbed play. I only like a handful of their songs, I don’t own any cd’s and I normally don’t have anything good to say about them.

Disturbed put on an amazing show. They played all the ones I expected to hear, even the Genesis cover. The crowd was in a frenzy, fists and horns pumping, people singing along to every chorus. It was quite a show and I was quite impressed. Does this mean I’m a new fan that’s going to going to run out and buy all their cd’s, find me a big ole pair of those ‘nu-metal pants’ and start kissing their ass and talking about them and posting every bit of news I see on them. No. It was a great show and that’s all there is to it. ON a side note, if you read in the Scrap Metal Report, their bus carrying their crew and some equipment blew a tire and ran down an embankment in South Carolina, sending one crew member to the hospital and shaking up the rest of the crew, but they still got up to VA beach the next day and made sure the band was ready to go.

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