Forum.RttP{June 28 2003 - Inflames, Soilwork, Chimaira, Unearth }

I'm not sure who to thank as I got a ticket from amy (so thank you), but someone gave me a photo pass. who ever that was, thank you too

unearth: they we reselling copies of strings of cons. in the back. I guess it's not out of print. I got to watch one of the guitarists barely missing soilwork's keyboards over and over with his guitar. I heard one of the members was leaving *rumor* as they are on tour right now so that would be hard. It's great to see the mass band that most NE bands was to be and funny watching their choreographed moves that they do when they are playing. guitar up (one two) guitar down (three four) repeat and jump!

soilwork: played mostly old songs. it was really cool, even though they had a short set (10 songs). Of course most people probably waited more from chainheart machine, but NBC is a great CD and really good to sing along to. The acustic of their set was horrible, the vocals were all echoy and the guitars (especially on natural born chaos) were almost indistinguishable even though that's the best part of that song.

some cheeseball dance music came on and the audience chanted "what the fuck" over and over. wicked gay. I think they also chanted some other things, but I wasn't paying attention as most of them were drunk with "slipknot" shirts on. (thumbs down)

chimaira: the sound for them was pretty good except for the keys, I couldn't really hear them. They played 3 tracks of the last CD (pass out of existence), but it was weird that they played them all in a row. They could have probably hit shuffle on that one. They also played 5 tracks of the new cd (the impossibility of reason). From down below it was hard to see, but the keyboard player does double time and sings. That'll keep people from saying that keyboardists just hit a button.

the sound guy should get a metal. they played sigur ros in between chimaira and in flames.

inflames: they played a huge, long set (19 songs) which spanned their entire career, Unfortunately the security told us that one of the guitar players was epileptic so we couldn't use flashes. I guess their tour manager told them that (it's odd cause all the lights going off on stage almost gave me a seizure). In flames basically had the same lighting set up as they had during slayer last august. I guess while I was talking to someone, the show stopped and Andres tried to get succubus to jump down into the crowd and come up on stage. I seem to always miss every time someone hits on her. When they played pinball map, you could barely hear the key hits.