I have just returned from Paganfest in Frankfurt Batschkapp. Wow, what a great event. Okay, I am a bit early home again, but beeing there since 5 pm and banging and moshing the whole time can be really exhausting.
The first band was Swashbuckle, they dress like pirates and play death-metal. I liked his fluffy toy parrot on the shoulder of the lead singer. The next band was Ex Deo. It was the first time I've listened to their music. They are playing great death-metal. They take the inspiration for their lyrics from the old rome.
But one absolute party overkill act has been Alestorm. They play absolute f*cking genius pirate-metal1). Just everyone was banging and singing to their songs! Absolutly a must-have in every metal collection.2) The fourth band was Unleashed, but I took a little timeout, so I haven't seen the whole act. They were okay. Not really one of my favorites, but quite okay.
The next ultimate act on this evening was Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, I've never saw them live before, despite the fact that they are one of my favorite bands. It was fantastic. There was a wall-of-death, I almost lost my shoe during that. Alestorm tried to make a wall-of-death, too, but I think there where to many little kids, which cannot count to three and wait for the “Go!”. So their wall-of-death perished within a simple “Pogo-session”. Back to the Reiter. It was just brilliant, how the lead singer transfered his energy and enthusiasm to the masses at the moshpit. Brilliant!
The last one this evening were Korpiklaani, which is also nice music to party. The first thing which attracts attention is the bottle of Vodka he trinks during the gig.
Okay, I call it for the day. I am tired. Good bye!