December Flower wrote:
Got home from The Unholy Alliance two hours ago - GREAT fucking show! Mastodon were nothing spectacular (They didn't even play "Blood and Thunder", I thought that was their most popular song

), but Amon Amarth and Slayer completely obliterated everything, and Trivium were quite good too! The moshpit during "Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr" took up like 1/3 of the entire crowd!
Btw, 2-3 songs into Slayer's set, Tom Araya wanted to say something, but the crowd just wouldn't keep quiet. After a minute or so, someone in the crowd screamed "Shut up and fucking thrash!" and then they went into "Chemical Warfare"

I was also at the Unholy Alliance gig, the Oslo gig that is, not the swedish one
Anyway, we had one extra band play in Oslo and that was Purified In Blood which was ok, nothing amazing though. Next up was Amon Amarth which had kind of fuzzy and unclear sound the first 2 song but the sound got better after that.
Next up was Mastadon which had good sound throughout their whole set, however i'm not really a fan of them, but they did play Blood & Thunder which is one the few Mastodon songs i like, overall a little boring setlist but the performance itself was ok.
I am not a fan of Trivium either, but holy hell did they kick ass live, they played a few songs of each album. A highly entertaining show from these guys, i would deffo see them again.
Then, the main event...SLAYER!
What can i say, they fucking annihilated. They played Chemical Warfare, South Of Heaven, Disciple, Dittohead, God Send Death, and a few other songs, before they kicked into Angel of Death and they played the entire Reign In Blood album, wow what a incredible experience. Glad i used earplugs because those screaming solos can be a bit annoying at times, fuck they played LOUD!!
So the Unholy Alliance gig now stands as one of the best gigs i have seen, and if the tour is visiting your hometown, i highly recommend you go see it, you'll have a blast!
