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Pictures by Remon
-My Lost Mind -De Duisternis -Evil Silence -The Beautiful Darkness -Visions Of Fire -de Klauwaards
-And Thus it Burns -From behind the trees -The Dragon's Children -Besieged -War of the Ancients -A Call in the Night -Burying the Dead -Cries of the Haunted -Black Raven Dead -Storms Extra: -Besieged
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The night begun with the Symphonic Black metal band Natan,
Belgium. I saw them the last time 2 years ago at Fear
Dark Metal Meeting 2002, so I was really looking
forward to seeing this band again. They have had some line-up
changes and some new songs. They made a few mistakes here
and there, but somehow the mistakes didn't manage to
blow the concert. Maybe because I was thinking the whole time
how great it was to see them again, so maybe I was somewhat
biased, who knows? It was a great concert anyway, always
good to hear potential Black metal bands in concert.
After Serenade of Darkness it was time for the headact,
Slechtvalk. They had a line-up change: Shamgar
playing guitars and doing the background vocals and
Ohtar on lead vocals. To me this was a positive line-up change
for the concert. While Shamgar just does his job,
playing guitars and singing, Ohtar really puts up a
great show. No offense to Shamgar, I understand you
need to concentrate if you scream and play guitar at the same
time, but as Ohtar had his hands free he could do whatever he
wanted: Put his fist in the air and headbang and such, that
just gives energy to the crowd. At some moment some guy
jumped on the stage and attacked Ohtar, but within
20 seconds he had to run because the Slechtvalk
fans started attacking him. So within 30 seconds it was all
over, but it did have its effect to the atmosphere. People
were somewhat nervous. But I do think the band handled
the situation in the good way. The other bandmembers just
kept playing, while Ohtar was trying to get the guy
off the stage. As soon as he succeeded in that also
he continued the song they were playing. And within 5 minutes
I felt completely comfortable again.