I went to see the Sonisphere-festival in Oslo this sunday.
Mastodon fucking kicked my ass!!
The sound was perfect, and they put on a hell of a good show! I overheard a bunch of Metallica-fans after their set, and people was absolutely blown away.
The sad thing was that every warm-up band before Metallica only got to play 30-minutes. Ridicoulus! A band as good and big as Mastodon deserve at least 40 minutes!
Ghost, Gojira and Mastodon got 30 minutes. Slayer got 40 minutes, and Metallica played for 2,5 hours. Bullshit..
However, Mastodons set was short and sweet, and got me wanting much more. Ill defenitely see them in the winter!
Their set was:Black Thounge
Divinations
Crystal Skull
Chimes at Midnight
High Road
Aqua Dementia
They have done a really good job splitting up the vocals. Brann and Troy have taken over some of the more difficult vocal-parts from Brent. Brent sang the more raspy clean stuff, and sounded better than ever. Troy have really stepped up his perfomance! He sang his parts flawlessly. Brann is probably the best singer of them all though. Perfect!
Even Bill have started doing clean backup vocals, and sounded great!
The new stuff are really good live-songs. Lots of headbanging and sing-along going on!
50.000 people, perfect weather, perfect sound, perfect performance!
10/10!