Sucks you missed most of Spiritbox, I looked up the sets earlier and saw they only get 25 minutes so not surprising as an opener, but kind of sucks too.
I'll get to Aerosmith later.... I still want to review the concert I saw before... Rammstein from last Wednesday!
They played at Metlife Stadium on a rainy night. There was no opener and they went on just after 8pm (and their entire show ended a little before 10:30). Here's a picture shortly before the show started:
As you can see, it's probably the least black shirted metal show I've ever been to thanks to all the ponchos, but you can also see, it's not a huge turn out for a stadium gig. I'm sure the rain played a role, but other than the floor being sold out, the seats above the 100s were mostly unsold. It definitely filled in more after I took that pic, but not too much more. Unless you were in the center of the pits, the show felt pretty empty. Which honestly, was fine with me. I bought a ticket at the box office before going in which saved me $40 in fees and although I was in the first row of the section which was full, I went back to the back rows of the section that were completely empty to watch in more comfort.
I'm not the biggest Rammstein fan so I didn't know most of the songs going in, but it didn't really matter. I thought the set was pretty well crafted. Lots of heavy rockers, but a techno remix thrown in and a couple softer moments to change pace. But I think it's pretty clear it's not just simply about the music, but about their stage show. I mean, just look at that stage! The amount of pyro used for one set has got to be a record for a show I've attended. The flames weren't just coming from the stage, but also from the lighting towers in the pit, so even in my seat in the 200s, I could feel that heat coming from the closest tower. It really was quite a spectacle to watch, specifically during Sonne where it was mostly non stop flames around the stadium. But they had plenty of other cool pyrics and fireworks, such as the firework that went across the stadium to the same towers. The highlight for me was easily the song Mein Teil where the singer basically cooked the keyboardist in a big pot. First with a normal sized flame thrower, then with a large flame thrower, and finally with a huge cannon gun that shot at the pot. It was just all sorts of an epic performance.
A lot of that stuff I talked about I had seen on my tiktok and twitter feed before the show, but what I didn't know would happen and something I thought was so cool to see was how they started their first encore. There was a side stage in the back of the crowd (basically next to the light tower on the far side of me) that they did a soft piano song to start the encore. I believe the entire band besides the singer was on the side stage. To make their way back to the main stage, three inflatable rafters popped up and the band got on and crowd surfed to the main stage where the singer grabbed them and took them onto the main stage. What an incredible amount of trust. One band member was signing things as they were moving, another was giving high fives, another just was standing trying to surf it. Just fucking awesome. I've had their music stuck in my head since then, so much so my gf asked me to stop singing in German while we were still in Boston
Rammstein LIVE @ Metlife Stadium New Jersey September 6th 2022
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