Springtime Fest. - 09/05/2004

Sesto S. Giovanni (Milano), Indian's Saloon

con Node † Klimt 1918 † Edenshade † Gory Blister † Lifend

(by Stefano)


The show begins with Lifend, who softly arrive on stage taking their instruments and without any introduction start with their set. What saying: the audience isn't so much yet but seems to like their proposal, characterized by technical problems of sound which unfortunately will penalize even other bands during the rest of the night - problems that however will vanish with the beginning of the performance of Klimt 1918.

Then follow Gory Blister, a band that I don't know but that has amused me a lot, thanks to the scenical presence of the hectic vocalist. Worth mentioning the moment in which a second singer, introduced as the previous one of the act, reached the stage starting a duet based on jumps, growls, screams and shooting sights. Pure fun.

Even Edenshade is another band I discover tonight and that touched me quite a lot on the raw: excellent proposal (very personal opinion: if Dream Theatre had been European, grown up listening to the melodic Scandinavian scene of some years ago in their room, they would've probably played like this), unfortunately penalized by some technical troubles; to give you an idea, I will have moved about ten from one side to another of the club: from one side you could only hear keyboards, bass and clean vox and from the other, just the guitar and the screaming vox.

It's turn of Klimt 1918. ::: Marco :::I want to talk about the sensations they made feel, guess to a good part of the audience. Their melodies have warmed the crowd's hearts, maybe even those of the tougher ones since, turning myself back, the more the intensity grew song after song, ::: Davide :::the more people got close to the stage, were involved by the performance of the band and, nice thing, had printed upon the face a quiet smile. To describe how much I was emotionally involved, at a certain point I had to give the camera to Cinzia, since I wasn't able to hand it for taking some valid shot, because of the emotion.

To conclude the night, tired and hot (the temperature inside the club can be hardly sustained by now), we attend the show of Node, who hit us with their wall of sound and brilliantly close the festival. Songs follow one another, sprinkled by funny entr'actes between the frontman vocalist/guitarist and the other guitarist, this last one especially noteworthy, because of the outstanding performance, nevertheless for for having  involved the almost exhausted crowd throughout their set.

In the end, I think that in spite of some technical problems, it's been a very good event, that made us excited, have fun, hearing some excellent and well executed music from Italy.

Other pictures by Stefano & Cinzia here 
My live report about 'Springtime Fest.' here
Live report taken from Metal Inside.it
and the one from Metalitalia