There could possibly be no other thing more apt on a cold Halloween evening than to see Slayer headline another Unholy Alliance festival. After winning a competition hosted by Metal Hammer magazine, local lads Ted Maul get their chance to share the stage with one of Metal’s iconic acts and to cram in as much techno-cidal brutality as in-humanly possible and judging by the evening’s reactions, they had succeeded in doing so. Viking metal’s shining horn, Amon Amarth perform a robust and stern set with swashbuckling rhythms and an overall sense of purposeful warmongering that promptly answers the question as to why a band that indulge in Viking fanaticism should be on everyone’s lips at the moment. It’s always a pleasure to witness the progressive flurries and aural mental-isms that Mastodon provide so readily, with such a down to earth stage presence with no false pretence and solid structured tracks like “Iron Tusk” and “March Of The Fire Ants”, this band almost border on exemplary when trying to think “what isn’t generic these days?”, a Melvin’s cover finishes off their set and leaves a packed Apollo in awe.

Off the back of the ever controversial and dividing opinions that latest album ‘Shogun’ has received by press and the metal community alike, it’s always an awkward moment witnessing Trivium’s set filled with pseudo-rockstar charisma and their clearly evident  technical prowess. On one hand you have a band, filling their boots with enough revamped Metallica riffs you now know where all the ones that should’ve been on St.Anger went and on the other these little whippersnappers look good doing it.

C’mon it’s Slayer for fuck sake! They came, they played, decimated, we smiled, we headbanged and got a little bored waiting for ‘Angel Of Death’. Just the usual annual event

Reviewed by Lee MacBride
Photography by Daniel Gray

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