Dark Tranquillity. They played all of their ballads that sounded the same, then played Punish MY Heaven, then I left because I had to catch the train and didnt want to stay any longer because they were back to playing ballads. Had no bassist either, and all you heard was the keyboards, singer, and a little bit of the drums. was terrible.
Best Show:
Morbid Saint. I saw them on their third show ever since they reformed and they killed it, all the songs were on point, great atmosphere, vicious pit, and they played every song I wanted to hear. Whiplash played after but it didn't matter because Morbid Saint stole the show.
Worst was my high shool's "talent" show. Some wankers tried to play Paranoid. I was asleep for the rest.
Best was Motorhead. Lemmy looked in my direction!
Worst show ever: Even though it makes me sad I think I have to say Megadeth both times I've seen them, but especially Tuska 2012. More than half of their setlist was from Thirteen. The year before their gig with Slayer was not that great either because it was mixed so horribly, but at least the setlist was a bit better. I don't think I would pay for seeing them anymore.
Best show ever: I cannot pick just one, but in no order: The Devil's Blood (not just a show, it really was a true ritual), Repulsion (seen twice, was better at a smaller festival in 2013), Dark Angel (NDF'14, could've cried, that's how awesome it was), Cancer (NDF'14, insane), Toxik in Dynamo.
Worst show: Van Halen. Considering Van Halen was one of the first hard rock/heavy metal bands I ever started listening to when I was 3/4, this was really disappointing especially since Dave was back in the band...yet he ruined the show. Eddie, Alex, and Wolfie were at the top of their games but Dave sounded terrible and yelled the first 25 minutes about the air conditioning on the stage too. This was in front of 25,000 people at the United Center, Chicago's largest arena. It was a good thing my dad scored tickets on stubhub the night before for $29.99 each.
Best show: Rammstein. Where do I begin? The show was simply the most unbelievable thing on the planet. An amazing setlist with even more amazing lights, pyro, and stunts to accompany those songs. Will never forget that show.
The worst: The three fucking times I had to suffer Van Canto, who were always playing between two bands I wanted to see. Bad and not even funny!
The most boring: Amon Amarth two days ago. The show itself was good, but their songs are so awkwardly tiring I nearly fell asleep. In the fourth row, being pushed from all sides... Damn, I was even more bored than during Sabaton!
The best: Riot V, definitely Riot V at this year's Metal Assault. Hell, it was amazing. A perfect setlist, a great band and Todd Michael Hall singing like a god!
Don't really know what the best one was, but Venom is probably a top candidate for that one.
The by all means worst show I ever suffered through was Mayhem at Wacken '11. Hell did that suck...
Best? Iron Maiden. Worst is by far Metallica. They played 20 minutes from where I live & at my favorite hockey arena. I had to go. Godsmack (opener) mopped the floor with 'em. And that's saying A LOT.
I don't count the bands I didn't want to see because they were opening acts.
Worst by far was Marty Friedman, so boring I wanted to sleep, he was high as fuck and was acting like a big fag while playing, the only positive thing of the show was when he played Tornado of souls' solo. Fozzy at alcatraz 2013 was also terrible with Chris Jericho acting like a retarded fag and only playing Green Dayish songs (When I say "fag" I don't mean "homo")
The best shows I've been to : Exodus at Thrashfest 2011 in Paris, the crowd was insane, the boys killed it and Rob Dukes made me sing the last chorus of Metal Command on stage.
Some other fantastic shows : Death angel in 2013 in Paris and at Alcatraz metal fest, Exodus in Colmar in 2013 and Testament at Graspop 2013
Worst: Master,they skipped 8 songs that they had on their setlist becouse apparently the crowd was lame and Paul did not felt like playing in front of lame crowd..
Best:Inquisition and behemoth those 2 shows man such a fucking energy and atmosphere....
Best Show: Iron Maiden/Motorhead/Dio at San Diego Sports Arena in 2003. I was 14 and went by myself cause I didn't know anyone else who liked this kind of music. This is the show that got me 'hooked on metal,and also the first time i saw people wearing denim jackets covered in patches
Worst Show: Snoop Dog at Qualcom Statium Street Scene because I was tripping out from a brain injury and because I missed TOOL, who was playing at the same time on a different stage.
Best: iron Maiden and/or dimmu borgir, lamb of god was nice too. Another band i really enjoyed life is amenra. But personally it's a tie between my first maidrn and first dimmu.
Worst: deafhaven, mastodon sucked too. Miss may I was pretty horrible too. Oh and I really hated seein Delain
Haha, I feel with you with Delain. A friend of mine wanted to see them at the Out&Loud festival. Since my day was pretty much over after Blues Pills were through, I thought "fuck it, can't be that bad". I simply hate this awful kind of singing....
Worst would have to be Def lepard '10, vocals were so shitty, ruined the show for me.
Best: SOLSTICE, just saw them a couple weeks ago in Tampa, they were amazing, really tight didnt miss a note, SO HEAVY, and the setlist was perfect as well
Worst show - I was invited to a Dark Lotus concert once (if you don't know they're one of those horrid "juggalo" groups), don't ask me why I agreed to go, I guess it was just something to do. Awful, awful show but goddamn if being surrounded by these scumbag, white trash juggalo fuckers wearing clown makeup didn't make me feel a lot better about myself!
Best show - I can't pick a best show; I've seen a lot of good bands....I wish I could say Iron Maiden a couple years ago but I'd never really been to a big big concert like that; I didn't know beers were $10 a cup and didn't know it was okay to have a little tailgate party and pregame in the parking lot so I sat through a 2 hour Maiden set totally sober watching from nosebleed seats haha, still glad I went though!
Worst show: There have been many. The worst I can think of is probably having to sit through a bunch of shitty nu metal bands to see Ozzy in Ozzfest back in 01. It was like being locked inside of a Hot Topic for hours....
Best show: It's gotta be a tie between seeing Motorhead, Dio, and Iron Maiden in 03 or seeing Dissection in 05. Both were extremely influential to my life as far as music is concerned. I will never forget those shows.
Now that i actually have had my fun at hills of rock im gonna say this
Machine Head despite being old were extremely energetic from the same show as well just different day The Smashing Pumpkins were a complete snooze fest i literally fell asleep for the rest of the set only waking up for a few more songs
Worst: Bad Brains 1995 Spokane played three songs and then quit playing and walked off the stage.
Best: Slayer 1988 at Hollywood Palladium. Warlock in San Diego 1988. Black Sabbath 2013 and 2016 Washington state. Vader in 2007 New Orleans. Death Angel in Seattle 2023. Dio 1984 in Spokane. ELO 2024 farewell tour in Seattle. Vastum in Seattle 2025.
Worst (just including bands I actually like here): Nirvana, Birmingham Hummingbird 1991. Pains me to say it as I loved them - still do - but they were sloppy and disengaged and the crowd were super annoying too.
Best: It changes from day-to-day and some memories are a tad hazy but for nostalgic reasons Metallica MOP tour Birmingham Odeon 1986 and Slayer RIB tour at the same venue in 1987 both stand out. Did my first stage dive at the latter of those two!
Best show was probably Iron Maiden at the Battle of San Bernardino in 2013. I've never seen a concert before or after that went so off the chain as that one. Too many good memories of starting trash fires, the girls, meeting some TSS friends and generally going ape shit.
Worst show that stands out was seeing the corny rapper Shwayze. It was so bad it was hilarious. He was so toasted that putting on a good performance was out of the question; best memory was a girl coming on stage trying to get him to sign an empty bottle of Absolut vodka or something... he stonedly scribbled on it and then winged the bottle into the crowd. It caught some girl in the forehead and she just dropped like sack of potatos. Me and my friends all turned to each other like "Bro did you see that" hahaha. Boringest metal show I've seen was Opeth in 2012, played a bunch of new shit that no one cared about. The crowd was all there for Ghost and Mastodon. Plenty of other stinkers and no-name bands I've suffered through, but I was expecting a lot more from that group, based on their reputation.
Off the cuff, best could be Brutal Sphincter in Hüttikon 2023 where I broke my hand in the pit (fucking bastard pushed me brom behind).
Worst at first thought probably Vomit Forth in Zurich 2024...came late, but they folded after total about 20mins, with ten more to play. extremely disappointing.
My worst show was probably Yngwie Malmsteen the crowd was pretty lame.My best show was Slayer,Overkill and Motorhead 88. Second would be Danzig, White Zombie and Kyuss 91,92..
Worst would be the 2nd day of the Throne Fest 2024, apart from Dodheimsgard and Enslaved, almost all bands sounded the same.
Best ones would be Rammstein and Oomph! in Paris for nostalgia. You really had to be there for Persefone at the Black Lab and Moonlight Sorcery for their 1st international show at the Fortress Fest this year
I'm isolating KISS because of the DRASTIC collapse of giving a SHIT about their Own Quality. Not because they're My Tops.
BEST - 2nd to last tour by KISS, The most EXPLOSIVE & METAL show of KISS's existence, W0W!
WORST - The last KISS tour before the Vegas residency & End of the road tour.
GAUDY
SLOW
LAME
FAKE
SLEEPY
PLASTIC
Perfect for a Gay residency in Vegas.
Besides for wasting a lot of time between songs,
Paul sounded like My Grandmother.
More than Paul always does.
Fake Ace - THAYER didn't even try to play Real Aces songs right once,
Or play a real solo, THAYER played a fake game of pop the balloons in the air with His guitar.
I really was going to walk out of a show I paid good money for, Even though it was LAWN!
Gene was Gene & Did Gene as good as always, Yet as I previously noted THAYER refused to play ACEs music even close to last year.
So the music to COLD GIN, CALLING DR. LOVE, WAR MACHINE, TWO TIMER, LOVE FOR SALE was totally FUCKED UP!
Motörhead. I hung out after the gig and got to meet Lemmy, Phil, and Mikky. They were just as cool as I had hoped for and the gig was a religious experience for me.
Worst was probably Primus. They didn't really play any of the classics and acted like they didn't want to be there. I found myself waiting for it to be over after awhile. Nothing memorable.
Catching Manowar playing a secret show in a tiny parlor in Zwickau Germany. Small stage just an arm length away from front row. Living room atmosphere, casual. Setlist full of classics for less than 100 people who squeezed in. Vibe was so real. And it was so fucking HUMAN, all of it. Will not elaborate further and will never forget this.
Iron Maiden "Somewhere in Time" tour. My first Iron Maiden live experience. The most hardworking band on the planet, putting every effort in every detail of this one show among a hundred other shows on this same tour. They don't have to, but they did. Holy fuck the energy.
At the Gates "Suicidal Final Tour" when they played Slaughter of the Soul in its entirety. Getting to hear this personally meaningful album live, after they split up and then reunited - absolute catharsis.
Origin at Bottom Lounge, Chicago 2004. Tiny dive bar, Sunday night, very few people showed up. Hung out with the band after the show (Origin was the opener, we all ditched the headliner) by their family-sized travel van, drank their beer, talked about conspiracy theories, had the kind of good time that was still possible to have in that old analog world before smartphones and digital apps fried people's brains.
Worst:
Surprisingly -- Amon Amarth on their "With Oden On Our Side" tour. I enjoy this band and this album a lot. They were the headliner. But their stage presence was underwhelming and FLACCID. Zero vibe. Just "mailing it in" and going through the motions like day time workers performing paid obligations. Lazy. Standing in same spots and casually windmilling. Showing off their BEER in their DRINKING HORNS between the songs while taunting underage audience members as if it's EDGY, to mask their total lack of personality. Everything they "played" sounded dead and flat as their stale beer.
Turns out -- pretending to be vikings while sporting obese stomachs and man-tits is an embarrassing exposure of low-testosterone and a guaranteed way to lose fans. Lost me there, haven't seen them live since.
I still enjoy their old albums including that one. But fuck off with that limp-dick stage persona.
I'm not surprised they became a total joke and imploded when their drummer quit.
Best:
*Slayer- at Ozzfest in San Bernardino. We moshed around a bonfire of trash and a burning vendor cart. Dudes were lighting their shirts on fire and swinging them around. 😂
*Body Count- The pit was absolute insanity. The chick that I went with broke her fucking leg in that pit 😬
*Acid Bath- just last year. Felt like a surreal religious experience finally seeing them. They sounded literally perfect 👌
*GWAR- every show.
Worst:
"Breaking Benjamin- I thought they were fine until I saw them. Holy fuck that was a boring show. I've never seen an arena become so empty over the course of a set.
*City Morgue- (not metal, I know) it wasn't their fault, but their DJ/ Audio situation was cursed. The audio kept cutting out constantly and backing tracks would unexpectedly stop which led to them awkwardly stopping to argue with the DJ multiple times.
Those trash fires at Glen Helen Pavillion are legendary hahahah. Been through that for Maiden 2013 and then Knotfest 2014 + 2015. One year me and my ex ripped a plastic trash barrel out of the ground and tossed it on the flames, right as Korn was coming on. You could see Jonathan Davis looking our way on the monitors as this 7 foot blaze of burning plastic erupted in the middle of the lawn hahahah. Probably took a few years off my lifespan.
My god yeah the toxic fumes I've breathed in at the few shows I've seen there over the years has probably given me cancer. Last show I went to there (Slipknot I think?) the venue staff must have caught on because they had teams with fire extinguishers putting out any fires we started 🙄
Lol my BF told me the same thing when he worked the Breaking Benjamin show and he was kinda a fan of the music. Like not his fav but not the worst thing. Pur show was packed though.
Best destruction in the 80s first us tour , a little late for them for me but they played tons of shit off their first 3 albums , it was mayhem , I was diving 20 feet off the p a system . Place was packed.
Honorable mention slayer in the 80s 3x . Its slayer in the 80s , berserk every time .
Also winter in 1990 , one of my favorite bands ever and an enlightened experience.
Also carcass in 90 my favorite band in their prime when they ruled the underground on the symphonies tour .
Repulsion reunion in 2006 and I met them after . Fucking insanity , just wish Dave grave and Aaron were there.
Worst lollapalooza in 96 Metallica , theyfucking sucked and were bitching every other song , on a side note the ramones played and were fucking great , sound garden too yep I love grunge but am primarily a death grind and black metal freak .
GG allin , great energy disgusting fucking show , I don’t like naked dudes throwing shit at people sorry
Some of the best performances came from the NWN/Hospital Fest in Osaka, Japan in 2024! Genocide Organ blew me away not expecting what they would play, since it was seven years into not playing live shows. Then Dominick from Prurient and David Padbury from The Grey Wolves did guest collabs. I was in industrial heaven. Expect an announcement in April with Osaka Fest II. And of course Insect Warfare's last show at Maryland Deathfest 2017. It felt like an 80's-early 90's show that you see online. The craziness was over the top, stage dives weren't just on stage either haha. You owe us next year, Insect Warfare 2027, but I can dream
Evoken at the Maryland Deathfest 2018, just because I'm not into most doom (including funeral doom) And I was expecting some collabs like it was posted a year beforehand, but Beherit's ambient/drone set at NWN/Hospital Fest was a disappointment
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DeathRipper on
Worst was my high shool's "talent" show. Some wankers tried to play Paranoid. I was asleep for the rest.
Best was Motorhead. Lemmy looked in my direction!
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Worst show ever: Even though it makes me sad I think I have to say Megadeth both times I've seen them, but especially Tuska 2012. More than half of their setlist was from Thirteen. The year before their gig with Slayer was not that great either because it was mixed so horribly, but at least the setlist was a bit better. I don't think I would pay for seeing them anymore.
Best show ever: I cannot pick just one, but in no order: The Devil's Blood (not just a show, it really was a true ritual), Repulsion (seen twice, was better at a smaller festival in 2013), Dark Angel (NDF'14, could've cried, that's how awesome it was), Cancer (NDF'14, insane), Toxik in Dynamo.
joecubbie
Worst show: Van Halen. Considering Van Halen was one of the first hard rock/heavy metal bands I ever started listening to when I was 3/4, this was really disappointing especially since Dave was back in the band...yet he ruined the show. Eddie, Alex, and Wolfie were at the top of their games but Dave sounded terrible and yelled the first 25 minutes about the air conditioning on the stage too. This was in front of 25,000 people at the United Center, Chicago's largest arena. It was a good thing my dad scored tickets on stubhub the night before for $29.99 each.
Best show: Rammstein. Where do I begin? The show was simply the most unbelievable thing on the planet. An amazing setlist with even more amazing lights, pyro, and stunts to accompany those songs. Will never forget that show.
satanachist on
worst Pestilence (this year, almost all new stuff, boring as fuck),
best Xentrix (2013, original line up, and perfect setlist)
powermetaller on
The worst: The three fucking times I had to suffer Van Canto, who were always playing between two bands I wanted to see. Bad and not even funny!
The most boring: Amon Amarth two days ago. The show itself was good, but their songs are so awkwardly tiring I nearly fell asleep. In the fourth row, being pushed from all sides... Damn, I was even more bored than during Sabaton!
The best: Riot V, definitely Riot V at this year's Metal Assault. Hell, it was amazing. A perfect setlist, a great band and Todd Michael Hall singing like a god!
Phallucifer on
Don't really know what the best one was, but Venom is probably a top candidate for that one.
The by all means worst show I ever suffered through was Mayhem at Wacken '11. Hell did that suck...
GregadetH on
Best? Iron Maiden. Worst is by far Metallica. They played 20 minutes from where I live & at my favorite hockey arena. I had to go. Godsmack (opener) mopped the floor with 'em. And that's saying A LOT.
EvilPriest on
I don't count the bands I didn't want to see because they were opening acts.
Worst by far was Marty Friedman, so boring I wanted to sleep, he was high as fuck and was acting like a big fag while playing, the only positive thing of the show was when he played Tornado of souls' solo. Fozzy at alcatraz 2013 was also terrible with Chris Jericho acting like a retarded fag and only playing Green Dayish songs (When I say "fag" I don't mean "homo")
The best shows I've been to : Exodus at Thrashfest 2011 in Paris, the crowd was insane, the boys killed it and Rob Dukes made me sing the last chorus of Metal Command on stage.
Some other fantastic shows : Death angel in 2013 in Paris and at Alcatraz metal fest, Exodus in Colmar in 2013 and Testament at Graspop 2013
nightslasher26 on
Worst: Master,they skipped 8 songs that they had on their setlist becouse apparently the crowd was lame and Paul did not felt like playing in front of lame crowd..
Best:Inquisition and behemoth those 2 shows man such a fucking energy and atmosphere....
torventor on
I saw Suicidals support Alice in Chains in 93. Suicidals were one of the best gigs I have been too, AIC the worst.
Jevi on
Best:Accept with Udo on vocals
Worst: Bon Jovi, Helloween and Pagan altar
Theantarex on
Best: Wintersun, first time in latinamerica the band just kick ass
Worst: Butcherbabies, they really suck
SpecializedinTerror on
Mastodon was boring live. They all stood like robots and had no interaction with the audience. Gojira opened and mopped the floor with them.
Amon Amarth was the best. They sounded amazing and were joking around with the audience. Easily the best I've been to.
PaganWalter on
Best Show: Iron Maiden/Motorhead/Dio at San Diego Sports Arena in 2003. I was 14 and went by myself cause I didn't know anyone else who liked this kind of music. This is the show that got me 'hooked on metal,and also the first time i saw people wearing denim jackets covered in patches
Worst Show: Snoop Dog at Qualcom Statium Street Scene because I was tripping out from a brain injury and because I missed TOOL, who was playing at the same time on a different stage.
LifeOfDeath on
I think my favourite show ever was The Devil's Blood in Jalometalli 2012. Damn it was great!
the beast on
best and most memorable gig: Led Zeppelin, London 10th Dec. 2007 :)
Lloyd H on
Wow and FUCKING WOW! How did you get tickets?
VoodooChild
Best: iron Maiden and/or dimmu borgir, lamb of god was nice too. Another band i really enjoyed life is amenra. But personally it's a tie between my first maidrn and first dimmu.
Worst: deafhaven, mastodon sucked too. Miss may I was pretty horrible too. Oh and I really hated seein Delain
powermetaller on
Haha, I feel with you with Delain. A friend of mine wanted to see them at the Out&Loud festival. Since my day was pretty much over after Blues Pills were through, I thought "fuck it, can't be that bad". I simply hate this awful kind of singing....
Morbid Symmetry on
Worst would have to be Def lepard '10, vocals were so shitty, ruined the show for me.
Best: SOLSTICE, just saw them a couple weeks ago in Tampa, they were amazing, really tight didnt miss a note, SO HEAVY, and the setlist was perfect as well
judascrust on
Worst show - I was invited to a Dark Lotus concert once (if you don't know they're one of those horrid "juggalo" groups), don't ask me why I agreed to go, I guess it was just something to do. Awful, awful show but goddamn if being surrounded by these scumbag, white trash juggalo fuckers wearing clown makeup didn't make me feel a lot better about myself!
Best show - I can't pick a best show; I've seen a lot of good bands....I wish I could say Iron Maiden a couple years ago but I'd never really been to a big big concert like that; I didn't know beers were $10 a cup and didn't know it was okay to have a little tailgate party and pregame in the parking lot so I sat through a 2 hour Maiden set totally sober watching from nosebleed seats haha, still glad I went though!
InfernalDetriment on
Worst show: There have been many. The worst I can think of is probably having to sit through a bunch of shitty nu metal bands to see Ozzy in Ozzfest back in 01. It was like being locked inside of a Hot Topic for hours....
Best show: It's gotta be a tie between seeing Motorhead, Dio, and Iron Maiden in 03 or seeing Dissection in 05. Both were extremely influential to my life as far as music is concerned. I will never forget those shows.
Agrunge hippie ... on
Now that i actually have had my fun at hills of rock im gonna say this
Machine Head despite being old were extremely energetic from the same show as well just different day The Smashing Pumpkins were a complete snooze fest i literally fell asleep for the rest of the set only waking up for a few more songs
MetalNDN on
Worst: Bad Brains 1995 Spokane played three songs and then quit playing and walked off the stage.
Best: Slayer 1988 at Hollywood Palladium. Warlock in San Diego 1988. Black Sabbath 2013 and 2016 Washington state. Vader in 2007 New Orleans. Death Angel in Seattle 2023. Dio 1984 in Spokane. ELO 2024 farewell tour in Seattle. Vastum in Seattle 2025.
Lloyd H on
Worst (just including bands I actually like here): Nirvana, Birmingham Hummingbird 1991. Pains me to say it as I loved them - still do - but they were sloppy and disengaged and the crowd were super annoying too.
Best: It changes from day-to-day and some memories are a tad hazy but for nostalgic reasons Metallica MOP tour Birmingham Odeon 1986 and Slayer RIB tour at the same venue in 1987 both stand out. Did my first stage dive at the latter of those two!
bad_american1992 on
Best show was probably Iron Maiden at the Battle of San Bernardino in 2013. I've never seen a concert before or after that went so off the chain as that one. Too many good memories of starting trash fires, the girls, meeting some TSS friends and generally going ape shit.
Worst show that stands out was seeing the corny rapper Shwayze. It was so bad it was hilarious. He was so toasted that putting on a good performance was out of the question; best memory was a girl coming on stage trying to get him to sign an empty bottle of Absolut vodka or something... he stonedly scribbled on it and then winged the bottle into the crowd. It caught some girl in the forehead and she just dropped like sack of potatos. Me and my friends all turned to each other like "Bro did you see that" hahaha. Boringest metal show I've seen was Opeth in 2012, played a bunch of new shit that no one cared about. The crowd was all there for Ghost and Mastodon. Plenty of other stinkers and no-name bands I've suffered through, but I was expecting a lot more from that group, based on their reputation.
andermatten on
Off the cuff, best could be Brutal Sphincter in Hüttikon 2023 where I broke my hand in the pit (fucking bastard pushed me brom behind).
Worst at first thought probably Vomit Forth in Zurich 2024...came late, but they folded after total about 20mins, with ten more to play. extremely disappointing.
sfusyron
My worst show was probably Yngwie Malmsteen the crowd was pretty lame.My best show was Slayer,Overkill and Motorhead 88. Second would be Danzig, White Zombie and Kyuss 91,92..
andermatten on
kyuss are pretty excellent on cd & vinyl, haven't yet heard them live
CptKarlaj on
Worst would be the 2nd day of the Throne Fest 2024, apart from Dodheimsgard and Enslaved, almost all bands sounded the same.
Best ones would be Rammstein and Oomph! in Paris for nostalgia. You really had to be there for Persefone at the Black Lab and Moonlight Sorcery for their 1st international show at the Fortress Fest this year
oldmate
Best: Wednesday, 16 June 2010 - First ever big 4 how in Poland !!!
Worst: Thursday, 6 September 2007 - Napalm Death (GBR) - it was just a shitty show. no energy and sounded like shit
BLACKY on
I'm isolating KISS because of the DRASTIC collapse of giving a SHIT about their Own Quality. Not because they're My Tops.
BEST - 2nd to last tour by KISS, The most EXPLOSIVE & METAL show of KISS's existence, W0W!
WORST - The last KISS tour before the Vegas residency & End of the road tour.
GAUDY
SLOW
LAME
FAKE
SLEEPY
PLASTIC
Perfect for a Gay residency in Vegas.
Besides for wasting a lot of time between songs,
Paul sounded like My Grandmother.
More than Paul always does.
Fake Ace - THAYER didn't even try to play Real Aces songs right once,
Or play a real solo, THAYER played a fake game of pop the balloons in the air with His guitar.
I really was going to walk out of a show I paid good money for, Even though it was LAWN!
Gene was Gene & Did Gene as good as always, Yet as I previously noted THAYER refused to play ACEs music even close to last year.
So the music to COLD GIN, CALLING DR. LOVE, WAR MACHINE, TWO TIMER, LOVE FOR SALE was totally FUCKED UP!
BLACKY on
P.S, - Aerosmith was exactly the same story as KISS! 2nd tour to last was a PHENOMINAL all deep cuts show!
After opener DRAW THE LINE, Tyler said that everyone He met in Chicago before the show wanted an all DEEP CUTS show, YEAH!
SouthernHermit on
Motörhead. I hung out after the gig and got to meet Lemmy, Phil, and Mikky. They were just as cool as I had hoped for and the gig was a religious experience for me.
Worst was probably Primus. They didn't really play any of the classics and acted like they didn't want to be there. I found myself waiting for it to be over after awhile. Nothing memorable.
FarFarNorth on
Best:
Catching Manowar playing a secret show in a tiny parlor in Zwickau Germany. Small stage just an arm length away from front row. Living room atmosphere, casual. Setlist full of classics for less than 100 people who squeezed in. Vibe was so real. And it was so fucking HUMAN, all of it. Will not elaborate further and will never forget this.
Iron Maiden "Somewhere in Time" tour. My first Iron Maiden live experience. The most hardworking band on the planet, putting every effort in every detail of this one show among a hundred other shows on this same tour. They don't have to, but they did. Holy fuck the energy.
At the Gates "Suicidal Final Tour" when they played Slaughter of the Soul in its entirety. Getting to hear this personally meaningful album live, after they split up and then reunited - absolute catharsis.
Origin at Bottom Lounge, Chicago 2004. Tiny dive bar, Sunday night, very few people showed up. Hung out with the band after the show (Origin was the opener, we all ditched the headliner) by their family-sized travel van, drank their beer, talked about conspiracy theories, had the kind of good time that was still possible to have in that old analog world before smartphones and digital apps fried people's brains.
Worst:
Surprisingly -- Amon Amarth on their "With Oden On Our Side" tour. I enjoy this band and this album a lot. They were the headliner. But their stage presence was underwhelming and FLACCID. Zero vibe. Just "mailing it in" and going through the motions like day time workers performing paid obligations. Lazy. Standing in same spots and casually windmilling. Showing off their BEER in their DRINKING HORNS between the songs while taunting underage audience members as if it's EDGY, to mask their total lack of personality. Everything they "played" sounded dead and flat as their stale beer.
Turns out -- pretending to be vikings while sporting obese stomachs and man-tits is an embarrassing exposure of low-testosterone and a guaranteed way to lose fans. Lost me there, haven't seen them live since.
I still enjoy their old albums including that one. But fuck off with that limp-dick stage persona.
I'm not surprised they became a total joke and imploded when their drummer quit.
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Best:
*Slayer- at Ozzfest in San Bernardino. We moshed around a bonfire of trash and a burning vendor cart. Dudes were lighting their shirts on fire and swinging them around. 😂
*Body Count- The pit was absolute insanity. The chick that I went with broke her fucking leg in that pit 😬
*Acid Bath- just last year. Felt like a surreal religious experience finally seeing them. They sounded literally perfect 👌
*GWAR- every show.
Worst:
"Breaking Benjamin- I thought they were fine until I saw them. Holy fuck that was a boring show. I've never seen an arena become so empty over the course of a set.
*City Morgue- (not metal, I know) it wasn't their fault, but their DJ/ Audio situation was cursed. The audio kept cutting out constantly and backing tracks would unexpectedly stop which led to them awkwardly stopping to argue with the DJ multiple times.
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Those trash fires at Glen Helen Pavillion are legendary hahahah. Been through that for Maiden 2013 and then Knotfest 2014 + 2015. One year me and my ex ripped a plastic trash barrel out of the ground and tossed it on the flames, right as Korn was coming on. You could see Jonathan Davis looking our way on the monitors as this 7 foot blaze of burning plastic erupted in the middle of the lawn hahahah. Probably took a few years off my lifespan.
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My god yeah the toxic fumes I've breathed in at the few shows I've seen there over the years has probably given me cancer. Last show I went to there (Slipknot I think?) the venue staff must have caught on because they had teams with fire extinguishers putting out any fires we started 🙄
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Lol my BF told me the same thing when he worked the Breaking Benjamin show and he was kinda a fan of the music. Like not his fav but not the worst thing. Pur show was packed though.
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Best destruction in the 80s first us tour , a little late for them for me but they played tons of shit off their first 3 albums , it was mayhem , I was diving 20 feet off the p a system . Place was packed.
Honorable mention slayer in the 80s 3x . Its slayer in the 80s , berserk every time .
Also winter in 1990 , one of my favorite bands ever and an enlightened experience.
Also carcass in 90 my favorite band in their prime when they ruled the underground on the symphonies tour .
Repulsion reunion in 2006 and I met them after . Fucking insanity , just wish Dave grave and Aaron were there.
Worst lollapalooza in 96 Metallica , theyfucking sucked and were bitching every other song , on a side note the ramones played and were fucking great , sound garden too yep I love grunge but am primarily a death grind and black metal freak .
GG allin , great energy disgusting fucking show , I don’t like naked dudes throwing shit at people sorry
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Some of the best performances came from the NWN/Hospital Fest in Osaka, Japan in 2024! Genocide Organ blew me away not expecting what they would play, since it was seven years into not playing live shows. Then Dominick from Prurient and David Padbury from The Grey Wolves did guest collabs. I was in industrial heaven. Expect an announcement in April with Osaka Fest II. And of course Insect Warfare's last show at Maryland Deathfest 2017. It felt like an 80's-early 90's show that you see online. The craziness was over the top, stage dives weren't just on stage either haha. You owe us next year, Insect Warfare 2027, but I can dream
Evoken at the Maryland Deathfest 2018, just because I'm not into most doom (including funeral doom) And I was expecting some collabs like it was posted a year beforehand, but Beherit's ambient/drone set at NWN/Hospital Fest was a disappointment