Live Report

Imperial Triumphant were in Gdansk for the second time in just a few months.

And that didn’t bother anybody as the club was full again. But what do you expect when the band is playing such an avant-garde kind of Metal?

Schizma is from Bydgoszcz, a city rather well known for its beautiful post modern style opera house – I’m sarcastic here, and I may even make myself some ennemies.

She really has a talent for writing entertaining pop song, with still a lot of rock in it. I’m not a big fan, neither a huge connoisseur of her discography, but I presume she sang her best hits during the concert: and as she seems very happy to be here, the fans answered back with huge claps and screams.

I really appreciate them, the sadness in their music, the depressive lyrics – sometimes, – and even if I’m an happy person now, we can’t close our eyes on the whole actual situation. Pandemics, wars, global warming, the rise of extremism and religious bigotry in some countries… There is really no hope in sight.

The show started with a big bang, we have been warned. This is going to be different than any other metal concert. It’s going to be provocative, very loud, and with lots of fire and explosion.

I’ve been following open’er concerts since more or less 6 years so as a local I started my festival adventure pretty late.

I got hooked on it right away so after 3 years of covid pause I was pretty excited about going to this year’s edition.

So Fląder 2022 finished yesterday. Compared to an exceptional millésime last year, this year had been a little less impressive. It still is a very good festival, and the weather was spot-on. Obviously, the concert of the festival was Illusion, the place was completely invaded […]

Third & last day of the festival. All good things have an end… Pictures are piling up on my hard drive, my body start te be very tired, my legs are very heavy, it’s cold, but a big thanks to all the bands and the […]

Let’s keep going with the second day of Mystic Festival. The day of Judas Priest! A band that was created 3 years before my birth, in 1969! That was really the gig of the day, just looking at the numbers of fans wearing Judas Priest‘s […]

After a warming up day on Wednesday, Thursday was the real first day of the festival.

With so many bands, on so many different stages, we had to make a plan. Of course the biggest bands were on the main stage, but it would have been a mistake to not walk around the other ones.

After few years waiting for it, it finally happened, and what a better location for a Metal festival than Gdansk Stocznia?

It may be a bit cliché, but hell yeah, punk is not dead! Both bands this evening proved it.