Slayer and Anthrax in Moscow.
It was a really great gig! 17 years have passed since their first visit to Moscow. And now i put on a time-honoured “Diabolus in musica” Slayer’s hoodie, combat boots, proper cuffs and chains which had been purchased that very 1998 year. I met my friends Tima, Serega, Valia and Nastia. At first we decided to break into the Stadium Live wildly to hear the gig from the very beginning, including supporting act of The Thrashred band, but then changed our mind. We’ve bought some booze and munchies just to be on high as in “Repentless” video with Kerry King pouring a shot of whisky. It was rather cold outside, but we stood in a street enclosure right opposite to Stadium Live club. There was a good "queue view" from the place, that united people of different ages in Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus, Darkthrone, Morbid Angel and other bands’ clothes. Many people drank beer and also throng of metalheads passed by us.
We discussed our job, vacation, the New Year celebration plans, different music genres and bands as well, tossed off several shots and felt much warmer!:-) The first bottle of “Jameson” whisky has been taken over by the second one. And later we decided to go closer to the entrance of Stadium live. There was a great feeling of foretaste!;-) An opportunity to unloose inner demons!>:-E
One guy and gave us with Serega a bottle of some homebrew spirit. Two others noticed my “Diabolus in musica” hoodie and one of them thrust his finger at my chest and uncovered the same one under his leather jacket. “That’s 1998 year!” - i said and we offered guys to take our booze, but they rejected. It was cool anyway. There was a dark feeling of unity.
People stood near the entrance and drank alkie. Big bearded males in Slayer’s T-shits of Tom Araya’s age and looking alike, mature females in black, young crowd and girls in leather clothes. One of such hot bearded sketches in Slayer’s merch has driven his blacked-out Dodge with 62 region number plate and Slayer’s logo on a back down to a cooler place, away from crazy crowd near the entrance.
There were also Porsche Cayenne, Audi A8, Mercedes ML and other respectable cars parked near the club. It looked like old and tough fans of Slayer had both feet on the floor. Let alone all that loud psychopathic screams “SLA-A-A-AYE-E-E-E-E-ER!!!!!!!!” out of driven by cars’ open windows, huh!!!:-D That’s a cool madness!
We successfully got rid of all our bottles, passed walk-through metal detectors and nobody paid any attention to my big chain. That was good! We came in when Anthrax performed. I recognized Scott Ian at once. We took some beer and occupied some table near “Love Food” sign-board. Anthrax played “Madhouse” and other old stuff. There were a lot of their fans around! Meanwhile, the bar ran out of beer and sentenced us to drink shity whisky.
But then Slayer band got on stage. I forgot about all whisky in the whole world!;-) Oh, man! The sound was great!!! There is an opinion about Slayer’s fans as drunk pushy assholes and scums, crying “SLA-A-A-AYE-E-E-E-E-ER!!!!!!!!” and slamming towards the stage. So yup, yes we are!:-)
All of us tried to get closer to the stage! Crazy crowd in circle pit even drop me and some others on floor once, but i succeed to get up fast. “War Ensemble”, “Raining Blood” and “Angel Of Death” were crazy energetic! There’s nothing like it!
We discussed the performance with guys around. A guy wearing Anthrax’s T-shirt was stood near our table and looked cheered up.
BTW, the Orthodox volunteers and ISIL terrorists didn’t fuck up the gig!
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P.S. I've finally bought a disk with a new album and Slayer’s T-shirt of 2015 world tour. It was last gig of the tour. And it was great.
Thank you Tom, Kerry, Gary and Paul!:-) We had a great time!;-) 10x also for evbd who loves such kind of music.