Last Saturday I went to the bar to have a drink with a friend from São Paulo who was in Rio for the famous Rock In Rio festival, particularly the heavy metal night, as he's a huge fan of that style. The lineup contained bands like Sepultura, Motorhead, Coheed and Cambria, Slipknot and Metallica.
I have never been much of a heavy metal fan but always loved Metallica - they were one of the reasons why I started to listen to rock, so there was also a nostalgic feeling about it.
At some point, I mentioned my love for Metallica and Motorhead and said I wished I could see them, but tickets were sold out too fast. Thanks to a lucky coincidence, a friend of my friend had a spare ticket and was looking to sell for less than she paid for it.
So, after so many wasted opportunities in the past, I finally saw Metallica live. And they were f***in awesome.
Motorhead were also amazing.
How do you call, in English, the punk 'pogo'? I mean, the circles in rock concerts where people push each other and stuff like that?
I've got some marks on my body that tells how insane Ace of Spades was. There was such a giant circle during that song, I ran right into the middle of it, someone punched me on my chest, I could hardly breathe, haha, but kept jumping till the end. My favorite Motorhead song, I went nuts. It's such an idiotic thing to do, I know, but I love it.
My right leg also hurts immensely... during Enter Sandman, someone kicked me, I hardly felt anything then, but now I do.
Who cares. It was brilliant.
As for the other bands, my impressions were...
Slipknot: f***in annoying. Everybody loved their concert, and I'll have to admit they are great on the stage, great energy, but I really dislike their songs.
Coheed and Cambria were awful, didn't know them before last night but they had everything I hate in heavy metal.
It makes me laugh that someone might actually like Angra, they're so pathetic.
Sepultura were okay, when they played their classic songs they were brilliant, but it was actually a joint concert with some French percussion band, and their setlist had mostly new songs or even covers. But it was worth for Roots Bloody Roots alone.