 BLOOD OF CHRIST (C) 2018 All rights reserved by www.metalmasterkingdom.com Photo credit: Rob Botten PANZERFAUST (C) 2018 All rights reserved by www.metalmasterkingdom.com Photo credit: Rob Botten GOATWHORE (C) 2018 All rights reserved by www.metalmasterkingdom.com Photo credit: Rob Botten SATYRICON (C) 2018 All rights reserved by www.metalmasterkingdom.com Photo credit: Rob Botten | Written and photographed by Rob Botten (C) 2018 All rights reserved by www.metalmasterkingdom.com SATYRICON w/ GOATWHORE PANZERFAUST & BLOOD OF CHRIST @ Opera House Toronto, ON, Canada May 23, 2018 Presented by Inertia Entertainment It was a warm spring evening on Wednesday May 23, when four bands took to the stage at the Opera House in Toronto for a night of dark and heavy death and black metal. Satyricon headlined the show, a band I have been itching to see live since I first started listening to them over twelve years ago when teenage me was first discovering black metal. The night was enough to satisfy any metal fan with three awesome supporting sets from special guests Blood Of Christ, Panzerfaust, and Goatwhore, accompanied by Satyricon’s long and powerful performance. As the night drew on, the energy seemed to continuously build as fans rocked and moshed harder and harder with each song that played. It would turn out to be a night to remember with each band playing as well as the other. Arriving at the Opera House less than fifteen minutes before the first set, I was surprised to see how empty the venue was right before the show was about the start, an unusual sight in comparison to the majority of shows I’ve attended over the last year. The venue did however continuously fill up as the night went on. For those that did arrive to the concert hall for the first set were treated to an energetic, powerful and heavy performance from London Ontario’s own Blood Of Christ. This four piece band played brutally hard and fast from start to finish with vocalist Chris Gooding showing off his vocal skills while moving all around the stage and punching the air. With the venue really starting to fill up now, concert-goers were all excited and cheering for the second set to start. Local heavyweights Panzerfaust took to the stage with an eruption of cheers from the crowd. This is the second time I have had the privilege of seeing these guys live, and I have to say their set was once again beyond awesome. Their set had tall iron candle stands that were burning three candles each and at the Panzerfaust podium was vocalist Goliath in his grim-reaper/undertaker costume with a noose around his neck that was hanging from the rafters. Bassist Morbid and guitarist Kaizer were in mud covered black metal concert attire with drummer Lord Baphomet dead center of the stage. Their dark brutal sound in combination with their set up is enough to make any fan of black metal have hairs stand on end from excitement. At the end of the set, Goliath then “hung” himself from the noose as Kaizer and Morbid knelt down with their instruments on their shoulders. I am very excited to see where their musical journey will take them in the coming years and I hope that one day, they will be the headliners of many shows to come. Goatwhore were up on stage for the third set with the concert hall now nearly at capacity and many excited fans ready to see this group live. Their set was played hard and fast going from song to song, with only little pauses for a few words here and there between songs. Larger than life vocalist Louis Benjamin Falgoust II owned the stage with his deep and powerful vocals while he moved all over the stage space, rocking out with his air guitar moves. One of my favourite parts of seeing Goatwhore live is watching their bassist Robert Coleman destroy each song and note with his uniquely awesome stage moves. Coleman could almost be a definition of brutal guitar stance. If this band can’t get you pumped up live, I honestly don’t know what will. Satyricon entered the stage fast and without a big grandiose intro, with Satyr yelling “COME ON!” as they jumped right into the first song "Midnight Serpent" from the latest album Deep Calleth Upon Deep. This group of black metal veterans put on a long and awesomely brutal set consisting of seventeen songs, with highlights such as “Mother North" from Dark Medieval Times, “Fuel For Hatred” from Valcano, "Black Crow On A Tombstone" from Age Of Nero, along with favourites from Nemisis Divina and Volcano. Keeping things simple, their set did not have a fancy light show or stage props aside from Satyr’s “Satyricon” devil horn mic stand. This set was purely about the music and was executed perfectly. Satyr used his mic stand to help rock out to some songs and he jumped into playing his guitar for a number of their more classic songs as well. Keeping things simple sometimes works for the better and for Satyricon’s it did just that. Their long set went by very quickly and I honestly do not think the mosh ever really stopped aside from breaks between songs. To end the night, the last song played was all time fan favourite “K.I.N.G.” with the biggest and most brutal mosh pit of the night, and likely that I have seen in a long time. Two words an only describe this concert; absolutely awesome. All bands played each song all out in typically brutal dark/death/black metal fashion. I have to give a huge shout out to Noel Peters from Inertia Entertainment for consistently putting on killer concert after killer concert. There isn’t a show he puts on where fans don’t get their money’s worth and this show was no exception.
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| GOATWHORE Louis Ben Falgoust II – Vocals Sammy Duet – Guitars & vocals Robert “TA” Coleman – Bass Zack Simmons - Guitars Label: Metal Blade Records Website: www.goatwhore.net www.facebook.com/thegoat666 | SATYRICON Satyr – Vocals/Guitar Frost – Drums Steinar "Azarak" Gundersen - Guitars Attila Voros - Guitars Anders "Neddo" Odden - Bass Anders Hunstad - Keyboards Label: Napalm Records Website: www.satyricon.no www.facebook.com/SatyriconOfficial |
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