RockHard festival 2006
Posted at 2006-06-06
I spend the Pentecost weekend (ie, friday til monday) at RockHard festival and it was a very nice first festival in this year's season.
I wasn't that impressed by the billing the first time, but it turned out very well :D
Best bands 2006 were probably Legion of the Damned, Bolt Thrower, Edguy.
I only read about how awesome Legion of the Damned are before but didn't know any of their material and was very pleasantly surprised :D I definitely gotta get their album :)
Because Celtic Frost had to cancel their gig, Bolt Thrower played for a longer time than usual, which was absolutely kick ass.
Bolt Thrower set list (unsorted):
- At First Light
- The Killchain
- Those Once Loyal
- Anti Tank (Dead Armour)
- Salvo
- When Cannons Fade
- ... For Victory
- Mercenary
- No Guts No Glory
- War Master
The only song I would have loved to hear live is Tank Mk1, but even without that song they had an absolutely awesome set. They also played an intro that I didn't recognize, and one older song I didn't know either.
Edguy's gig fucking rocked my socks off. Their last two albums aren't that good IMO, but their set list was AMAZING:
- Lavatory Love Machine
- Fucking With Fire
- Fairytale
- Vain Glory Opera
- Out Of Control
- Mandrake
- Sacrifice
- Save Me
- Superheroes
Save Me was very superfluous, but you gotta love the VGO songs they chose. The crowd also went insane, it was just awesome :)
The bad thing about the festival is that you cannot park your car next to the tent, so we had to take all of our stuff for a 20 minute walk from the parking lot to the camp ground :(
All in all, it was a cool first festival this year, and I'm sooo looking forward to Wacken and UFTG \o/