Decapitated and Lamb of God 5/29/2013 The Grove of Anaheim

Voog interview above!

I was lucky enough to interview guitarist Voog early that day and he was a very nice relaxed guy so I was very interested to see how he would be able to transform into a death metal guitarist. It was a great surprised because when they came out onto stage, they came out with everything. It was nice to see how much energy the band was putting out right away. When they started to play Pest, the crowd was ready for it. To be quite honest this was probably one of the few times I had seen the Grove so full for an opening band and it was for a good reason. Rafał Piotrowski on vocals was amazing and to be honest I had no idea how he didn’t give himself a black eye while swinging his long dreads around. Nothing compared to watching how Voog played his cords on each song and for I believe it was Homo Sum, he had brought out a Fender for that song which is a much different sound then what he was using. A Fender is very much a rock n roll kind of sound and having talked to him early, I had found out that he listened to different kinds of music and one can hear all of that fused in if they listen closely enough. It was a great way to start off the shows and I was definably bummed that they only played 6 songs.

Let’s be honest every single person in the audience was happy to see Randy Bylthe on stage. It has been a long year for him and many fans and to see him on stage was something that will not be forgotten. In fact he seemed like he was happy to be doing what he loves doing. Everyone single person on stage had put there all into this show and the happiness the excluded from them was so apparent but their stage performance. Some of the images that were on stage on the two screens that were set up were interesting. I’m not sure if it was for shock value or only to go with the lyrics of the song. Personally after seeing Primus in 3D I thought that to have both of the screens on stage along with a hyper active band was a little distracting. If it had been one big screen it would have been easier to see what the band was doing and to see what was going on.

It was nice to see how they had a song that was dedicated to the men and women of our country serving. During Now You’ve Got Something to Die for they had pictures of fans that were serving or who had died and even the lights that were out onto the crowd were the yellow of support. I enjoyed this because sometimes I do not feel that people support our troops enough and since they are very much an American band, they had something that most people do not, a section of appreciation.

Over all it was a good show from both of these bands. It is defiantly something that will be talked about for years to come from fans.