Nightwish Show
I drove down to San Antonio to catch Nightwish last night. The venue was a pizza place with an annex dedicated to shows. In an unusual twist, I was able to park for free. The English doom metal band Paradise Lost opened. I wasn't really expecting doom metal, but they were actually pretty good. They score a 7/10 where 10 is Opeth, so that's high praise. At one point their vocalist asked the crowd how many people actually knew who they were. Maybe 1/4 of the crowd went WOO and threw their hands in the air. His response was "That's pretty good!". I guess they are used to being pretty much unknown in the States (I know I had never heard of them before).
Nightwish was basically awesome. They mainly kept to newer stuff, playing most of Dark Passion Play and Once, with only three older songs. I'll not add to the Annette versus Tarja flame-war. As a whole, the band seemed to have an amazing positive vibe. More than other bands I've seen, they seemed to be kind of sad to end their set. In fact, they were like "Sorry we have to end the show!" and then played for about another half hour, even bringing out their Indian dude (that I had know idea was actually in the band) for the spoken word and flute portions of "Creek Mary's Blood".
Special bonus: no fat guys rubbing against me this time!
Nightwish was basically awesome. They mainly kept to newer stuff, playing most of Dark Passion Play and Once, with only three older songs. I'll not add to the Annette versus Tarja flame-war. As a whole, the band seemed to have an amazing positive vibe. More than other bands I've seen, they seemed to be kind of sad to end their set. In fact, they were like "Sorry we have to end the show!" and then played for about another half hour, even bringing out their Indian dude (that I had know idea was actually in the band) for the spoken word and flute portions of "Creek Mary's Blood".
Special bonus: no fat guys rubbing against me this time!