THE HAUNTED @ Fuzz Club

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\r\nTHE HAUNTED - LIVE IN GREECE \r\n

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29 of March and everybody in Athens knew that today is the day of The Haunted!! People started to show up outside Fuzz Club around 19.30 and Vouliagmenis Avenue started to gather people from the scene of Metal , mostly fans of Thrash and Hard-Core , since the sound of The Haunted is between these two scenes. \r\n

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\r\nThe time was 20.30 when the greek support band - Descenting - appeared on the stage , ready to start the show. With the first sound many more entered Fuzz Club and seconds later - Descenting - started their setlist , that included tracks from their debute album.The vocals , raging and heavy , with the singer giving his best and trying as a frontman with all his powers.The guitars , with many ideas in riffs and melodies , had the first role together with the furious drumming.Finally , the bass played loud , following the others and filling the sound. \r\n

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\r\n- Descenting - seemed very excited by the size of the audience , that slowly were getting bigger ,but also by the fact that they were opening - The Haunted - and i can understand them.They tried to give their best and besides some sound problems and some(4) drumming accidents ,with the drummer losing the drumsticks, they managed to show their teeth and their plans for the future.They are very young , they seem to have the appetite and that they take serious of what they do.The audience cheered them but it wasnt so warm as about the mosh pit , as the most of the people in the front were fans of -The Haunted - and they were waiting their favorite band to play.-Descenting- finished their show so the swedish prog Thrashers can carry on. \r\n

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\r\nTime was running and Fuzz Club was getting full by many types of music fans. Metalheads,Thrashers,Deathsters, Hardcore-Punks of every sex but i also noticed an auntie wearing a two piece suit and a grandpa with a Slayer t-shirt!!! After 20 minutes passed, with more people entering the club, - The Haunted - decided to show up.The lights were off , and the fanatic ones started to run so they can reach the front.Without intros,the band one by one run up on stage and the show was about to begin! \r\n

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\r\nThe first notes of - Little Cage - made the fans cheer and the band started to play. For some reason the sound was very bad and the volume was too low .The guitar player was winking to turn up the volumes.In spite of the sound problems,- The Haunted -started to play and slowly they accomplished to warm the audience.The sound was getting better and after the first songs they succeded to turn the place down!! People started mosh pits and crowdsurfing over heads and as the time was passing even more heads started headbanging with the rythm.With Peter Dolving tearing his throat appart with his screams and other brutal voices , headbanging like crazy and talking to the fans, Jensen was shooting riffs and melodies with his ESP Camo guitar , together with Anders and his Caparison guitar.Jonas was playing amazing bass and the drummer was shredding in fast Thrash rythms and punishing his TAMA set without mercy.They kept playing and satisfying their fans by playing old and new stuff.Songs like: The drowning , Trespass, The Flood , The Medication, Moronic Colossus , D.O.A. , All Against me and the very known track - 99 - were in their setlist.Peter Dolving gave his best and left the impressions of a very skilled frontman ,talking to fans , urging people to dance(as he said) and explaining how their band was made. - The Haunted - finished their show with the -Hatesong- with the audience going crazy and cheering them while the singer was dragged by the fans and forced to stagedive in the heads of his most hardcore fans. \r\n

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You could say that it was a really good show , despite the fact that the bands had to deal with major sound problems. The specific place , although has been upgraded and has modern equipment for sound and lights, always has problems with Heavy Metal bands. Like in the past ,when i saw Soulfly in the same club and they also dealed with problems with a lot of noise in their sound, now the first band had the same noise problems and the headliners had low volume problems. The mystery is that the club offers good quality in the sound in Electronic Music and even Psychedelic Rock bands , like Ozric Tentacles, managed to play with good sound in there , when it comes to more heavy bands things are getting worse.Its seems like the many Disco-Balls hanging from above are ruining the Metal atmosphere.But the truth is , that both bands , and especially - The Haunted - managed to make people happy and have a great Sunday night. They have , for sure , the recipe of a tight band , that year by year are succesing in getting more and more fans to their gigs.By showing their professionalism , they fixed their sound gradually and satisfied for one more time the greek audience.At the end of the show they talked and took pictures with the fans and that shows that they are still 100% authentic,anti-star artists and big music fans. Because we must not forget that music is a magic key that unites the people!! \r\n

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\r\nSetList \r\n

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\r\n1. Little Cage \r\n

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\r\n2. The Drowning \r\n

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\r\n3. Trespass \r\n

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\r\n4. The Flood \r\n

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\r\n5. The Medication \r\n

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\r\n6. Moronic Colossus \r\n

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\r\n7. D.O.A. \r\n

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\r\n8. All Against All \r\n

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\r\n9. In Vein \r\n

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\r\n10. Trenches \r\n

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\r\n11. Dark Intentions \r\n

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\r\n12. Bury Your Dead \r\n

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\r\n13. Fault Line \r\n

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\r\n14. 99 \r\n

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\r\n15. No Compromise \r\n

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\r\n16. Rivers Run \r\n

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\r\n17. Hate Song \r\n

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\r\nReport:Efkarpos
\r\nPhotos: Jim Hatzimoisis \r\n

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