(Or Unholy Alliance Chapter II, but I’ve used that title already.)

It’s the morning, or should I say afternoon, after the night before, and I’m not feeling too healthy (I’m so not used to headbanging anymore, or standing for 6 hours straight come to that), but it was so worth it.

Slayer really are gods, I will never forget that performance. They opened with the legendary South of Heaven, which immediately had hundreds of heads swaying in unison. And they played Dead Skin Mask! I know, how could they not, but still, I was fearful that they wouldn’t with them having a new album to promote (which is good, but I wanted to hear the classics). They did play a few from the new album (Eyes of the Insane amongst them I’m glad to say), but it was good to hear the old stuff (they did an excellent performance of War Ensemble and Angel of Death too).

The other acts were great too, with the possible exception of Thine Eyes Bleed. I wasn’t too impressed by them. Children of Bodom were great but it was too short a set (I’d have preferred them to have the longer set in place of In Flames). Though In Flames did surprise me, I really enjoyed their performance. Not that I don’t like them, but generally I prefer CoB.

The biggest (pleasant) surprise of the night was Lamb of God. Damn can they give a great live performance, they were excellent. I think it’s safe to say I will be listening to a lot more of them.

And now I’m going to go and dose myself up with paracetamol and hibernate for the rest of the day, in an attempt to nurse myself back to normality. Or at least my version of normality. :)