Thousands of bedrock and metal admirers swarmed Champions Park on Saturday (Sept. 30) for the aboriginal day of this year’s Louder Than Life Anniversary in Louisville, Kentucky.
The New Jersey boys of Palisades and California bedrock bandage New Years Day kicked off the day on the Loudmouth Date at a little accomplished noon. Cinematic bedrock act Starset took admirers on an intergalactic acquaintance with their set as they donned spacesuits in the hot anniversary sun.
The affection afflicted back Eagles of Death Metal hit the date for a funk-tastic time. Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds served as a appropriate bedfellow as he played the aboriginal song of the set with the band. A Rob Zombie shirt with red suspenders never fabricated added faculty than on frontman Jesse Hughes. Whether it’s his mic casting skills, all-a-quiver legged moves onstage or that soup strainer of a mustache, Hughes is absorbing and activated onstage.
French metal bandage Gojira took the date afterwards for easily bottomward the heaviest set of the weekend. Singer Joe Duplantier told the army that is ability be the aboriginal time the bandage has anytime played Kentucky, admirers replied with a actual balmy welcome…and lots of crowdsurfing. Five Feel Death Punch bassist Chris Kael was ancillary date watching the bandage and arena air drums. Anyone who has to booty the date afterwards Gojira bigger accomplish abiding they put on their best and heaviest performance.
Mastodon, acclamation from Atlanta, Georgia, were up abutting and seemed appropriate at home arena for the Southern crowd. The band’s bouncing guitar riffs and abrasive vocals were a absolute bout for the appropriately called Loudmouth Stage.
The Loudmouth date was accent by Five Feel Death Punch, as frontman Ivan Moody and aggregation delivered a baking set. You absolutely don’t accept the ability of Five Feel Death Punch until you see them live. A woman in a wheelchair aloft her fists while singing “Lift Me Up,” two earlier guys with beers in their easily sang “Never Enough” at the top of their lungs, and bags sang added notable anthems like “Bad Company” and “Burn MF.” The Kentucky admirers showed up in abounding force as anybody belted out “The Bleeding.”
And that was aloof one stage. The anniversary area were abounding with adorable grub, bourbon, bbq, burgers, a array of mac and cheese, alike gelato -- this was not the accustomed anniversary food. If you managed to airing canyon all of it, there was the Zorn Stage. North Carolina bedrock bandage He Is Legend and buzzworthy acts Ded and Through Fire additionally performed. Fire From the Gods delivered and acute set while Steel Panther, who accent the stage, kept things abundant added blithe and afield carnal.
The Monster Date began with For We Are Many and Sleeping With Sirens. Abutting up were Of Mice & Men, whose achievement was air-conditioned alike beneath the hot Kentucky sun, as their acuteness acquired goosebumps to anyone who paid absorption to their passion. With Austin Carlile's avenue from the band, bassist Aaron Pauley has stepped up as frontman and is accomplishing a arch job befitting Of Mice & Men's bequest going.
The South got a little aftertaste of West Coast bluster as Hollywood Undead took the stage, and they were accessible to party. One of the best genitalia of the day was the Undead aggregation agreeable 10-year-old Dylan to the stage. He wore a tie-dyed Ozzy Osbourne bodice and Hollywood Undead bandana, and had his average feel in the air during of “Comin’ in Hot.” Not everyone can be as air-conditioned as Dylan at 10 years old.
There’s no bigger way to acquaintance a dusk than with Halestorm. Whether it’s with connected locks or the abbreviate brownie crew that she’s agitation now, Lzzy Hale will consistently alluvium apocalyptic bad-assery. There’s no comparing her to anyone abroad macho or female, as she continues to “gently violate” our minds with her abandoned lyrics, annihilating screams, and soulful melodies, which anyone can apprehend alveolate through Champions Park.
The affair connected with Rob Zombie complete with his cowboy hat and shiny, brownish flared pants. At 52-years-old, he aerial jumped, aerial kicked and accepted to be added active than performers bisected his age. He committed his song “Living Dead Girl” to all of the admirable Kentucky ladies and cranked out “More Human Than Human” and “Thunder Kiss ‘65” from his White Zombie days. What’s a affair after a awning of “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones and Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.”
As night fell, Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness himself, graced the Monster Date and he capital anybody to “Bark at the Moon.” He again visited an old acquaintance “Mr. Crowley” with his barbate associate Zakk Wylde, whom Ozzy reunited with this summer.
Wylde unleashed boundless guitar riffs to Black Sabbath tunes “Fairies Wear Boots,” “War Pigs” and “Iron Man.” Kentucky fans, abnormally beer-filled at this point in the night, hopped on lath the “Crazy Train.” The dust-filled night concluded with an acclamation of “Mama, I’m Coming Home” and Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.”
All of this was alone the aboriginal day of Louder than Life, break acquainted for our advantage of Day 2!
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