The Best and Worst Opening Bands You've Seen

[hefdaddy42]

Best: Alice In Chains, opening for Van Halen.
Worst: Lenny Kravitz, opening for The Cult

[sirbradford117]

Best:
The Pretenders opening for the Rolling Stones
Coheed opening for Heaven and Hell (although I didn't go to see the headliners...)

Worst:
Echoes of Eternity opening for Symphony X
High on Fire opening for Opeth

[DarkEternalNight]

Worst:
-Whoever the hell were supporting AC/DC in Wembley Stadium in 2009

Was it The Answer? Some band from Ireland? I thought they rocked.

I hated The Answer so they are my choice for worst. Shooter Jennings was bad when I saw him with Alice in Chains but I blame the sound....and his voice.

[Portrucci]

Best: Baroness, opening for Isis   (and Baroness were even better than Isis, but I will stop talking before Sigz gets angry)

Best: Pain of Salvation, opening for Dream Theater (I'm not a huge fan of PoS but they did put on a damn good show with lots of energy)

Worst: Contrive opening for Opeth (Err, this 3 man band sucks balls. Generic heavy/prog rock. No thanks

Worst: Contrive opening for Devin Townsend (WTF this band AGAIN? how many dicks did they suck to open for these two bands? AGAIN they were shit this time as well)

Contrive not Converge fuck  I wish it was Converge 

[skydivingninja]

Best: Alice In Chains, opening for Van Halen.

That sounds like an unusual combination.

[Scard]

Best-DT FOR IRON MAIDEN

Worst-BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE FOR IRON MAIDEN

[zxlkho]

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

Umm... Bullet isn't THAT bad. I'm sure you've seen way worse..

[In The Wake Of Poseidon]

Converge opening for Mastodon and Dethklok - October 2009

God dammit lat.

All the vocalist did was grunt "UGHUGH". They were terrible.

YeAh MeTaL sUx  ^_^

HaNa MonTaNa forever =D

[robwebster]

Converge opening for Mastodon and Dethklok - October 2009

God dammit lat.

All the vocalist did was grunt "UGHUGH". They were terrible.

YeAh MeTaL sUx  ^_^

HaNa MonTaNa forever =D

That's definitely the entire musical spectrum, right there. Gruff metal and Hannah Montana.

[lateralus88]

Converge opening for Mastodon and Dethklok - October 2009

God dammit lat.

All the vocalist did was grunt "UGHUGH". They were terrible.

YeAh MeTaL sUx  ^_^

HaNa MonTaNa forever =D

I know you're obviously kidding, but how the fuck does this even make sense?

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Worst: Down opening for Metallica. Anselmo is a terrible singer.

Anselmo is amazing. 

[Scard]

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

Umm... Bullet isn't THAT bad. I'm sure you've seen way worse..

Oh I've seen worse...but for Maiden, that was a brutal 45 minutes...

[In The Name Of Rudess]

Best -Opeth for Dream Theater

Worst - Engel for Dimmu Borgir and The Ocean for Opeth

[Adami]

I can't think of the best, Into Eternity was quite great though.

As far as worst, that obviously goes to one of the many local acts that some national acts get to open for them. They can be HORRIBLE. I have no idea who they were though.

[Sigz]

I actually enjoy Into Eternity normally, but Stu was not having a really, really bad day when I saw them. Really none of the guys were doing that well.

[AcidLameLTE]

Best - Opeth for Dream Theater
         The Human Abstract for Protest the Hero

Worst - The Chariot for Protest the Hero

[bodiesinflight]

Worst:
-Funeral For A Friend for Maiden in 2003 (they went down badly in their home town, go figure)

Bands supporting Maiden who aren't metal are never going to go down well with the majority tbh. FFAF rule all the same.

Oceansize and Opeth would be the best I've seen.
Frost* are the worst I can remember.

[sneakyblueberry]

Worst:
-Funeral For A Friend for Maiden in 2003 (they went down badly in their home town, go figure)

Bands supporting Maiden who aren't metal are never going to go down well with the majority tbh. FFAF rule all the same.

Oceansize and Opeth would be the best I've seen.
Frost* are the worst I can remember.

My brother saw The Murderdolls open for Maiden in France.  Talk about a bad reception.  Sometimes the opening bands are hated just because they suck balls

[bodiesinflight]

Worst:
-Funeral For A Friend for Maiden in 2003 (they went down badly in their home town, go figure)

Bands supporting Maiden who aren't metal are never going to go down well with the majority tbh. FFAF rule all the same.

Oceansize and Opeth would be the best I've seen.
Frost* are the worst I can remember.

My brother saw The Murderdolls open for Maiden in France.  Talk about a bad reception.  Sometimes the opening bands are hated just because they suck balls

Yeah but FFAF aren't one of them cause they're great 

[sneakyblueberry]

I will use the google to dig deeper into this band.

[RobD]

Worst:
-Funeral For A Friend for Maiden in 2003 (they went down badly in their home town, go figure)

Bands supporting Maiden who aren't metal are never going to go down well with the majority tbh. FFAF rule all the same.

It's not that the crowd didn't like them, although that didn't help their effort. They were really sloppy and uninteresting too.

[bodiesinflight]

Worst:
-Funeral For A Friend for Maiden in 2003 (they went down badly in their home town, go figure)

Bands supporting Maiden who aren't metal are never going to go down well with the majority tbh. FFAF rule all the same.

It's not that the crowd didn't like them, although that didn't help their effort. They were really sloppy and uninteresting too.

They were like the best post-hardcore band around in 2003! Although if they were sloppy live in those days that's a different matter. They've been pretty tight whenever I've seen them.

[Progmetty]

Best: Exodus for Megadeth on the RIP tour
Worst: That Gotika band or whatever it's name was that opened for Metallica on the U.S leg of the World Magnetic tour.

[bodiesinflight]

Worst: That Gotika band or whatever it's name was that opened for Metallica on the U.S leg of the World Magnetic tour.

You better not mean Gojira

[73109]

I want to see this unfold

[Zook]

I hope he means Gojira.

[hefdaddy42]

Best: Alice In Chains, opening for Van Halen.

That sounds like an unusual combination.

It was an awesome combination.

[King Postwhore]

Best: Alice In Chains, opening for Van Halen.

That sounds like an unusual combination.

It was an awesome combination.

Wasn't that F.U.C K. tour?  I saw that too.

[glaurung]

Worst: That Gotika band or whatever it's name was that opened for Metallica on the U.S leg of the World Magnetic tour.

You better not mean Gojira

If you did mean Gojira I may just have to destroy you.

[hefdaddy42]

Best: Alice In Chains, opening for Van Halen.

That sounds like an unusual combination.

It was an awesome combination.

Wasn't that F.U.C K. tour?  I saw that too.

Yep.

[Gorille85]

Worst: That Gotika band or whatever it's name was that opened for Metallica on the U.S leg of the World Magnetic tour.

You better not mean Gojira

[PlaysLikeMyung]

Worst:

Any of the 3 opening bands for Symphony X in 2008
Into Eternity for DT
Mutiny Within for Sonata Arctica


Best:

Zappa Plays Zappa/Bigelf/Scale the Summit for DT
DT for Iron Maiden

[Zydar]

Worst: Unexpect for DT (PN09)

[Progmetty]

Worst: That Gotika band or whatever it's name was that opened for Metallica on the U.S leg of the World Magnetic tour.

You better not mean Gojira

Yep, them.
But let's all be friends 

[zxlkho]

Fail of the year, anyone?