Live Report | Sabaton + R.U.S.T, Limassol-Cyprus, 28 August 2010
When I arrived a bit late at Tepee, I found it almost
full and R.U.S.T. were already onstage delivering pure heavy metal as
they know best. The temperature was hell-hot! Being in Cyprus in
August, in a place with more than 500 people makes mercury rising!
R.U.S.T
were chosen by the organizers because of their ability to warm up the
crowd. But R.U.S.T did better... They FRIED the crowd! Forged in the
Fire of Metal! With the temperature climbing over 40°Celsium they
played some of their stuff along with some covers like Omen’s Don’t
Fear the Night having a blasting performance as always. They only had
some issues with the sound due to technical problems but that didn’t
kept them back from kicking asses! 
After
the appearance of R.U.S.T. it was the time for the headliners of the
night. It was Sabaton who took over the stage. It took them about half
an our to get set and solve some sound issues, and THE BATTLE BEGUN!
These Swedish Power-metallers took us onboard with them, on their time
machine and gave us a trip back in time! With an imaginary Springfield
riffle in our hands they placed us among the soldiers of the World War
II.
They started the show with the song
“Ghost Division” from their Art Of War album. That’s where the crowd
begun having destructive attitude! Then followed two songs from their
new album, “Uprising” and “Screaming Eagles”, and the destructive
attitude was rising just to be peaked on the forth song, the “Panzer
Battalion”. You wouldn't like to be in the 
crowd
during this song and after. Like vicious dogs unleashed they were
following the lyrics moshing like maniacs. Tons of energy was released
with “Cliffs of Gallipoli” and “Saboteurs” along with “Rise of Evil”
and “Aces in Exile”. “Attero Dominatus” was the thin line between fire
and explosion. After that the heat was increased tremendous and hellish
atmosphere was created.
crowd
during this song and after. Like vicious dogs unleashed they were
following the lyrics moshing like maniacs. Tons of energy was released
with “Cliffs of Gallipoli” and “Saboteurs” along with “Rise of Evil”
and “Aces in Exile”. “Attero Dominatus” was the thin line between fire
and explosion. After that the heat was increased tremendous and hellish
atmosphere was created.
“Hellrider” and
“Panzerkampf” was the Nuclear elements and “COAT OF ARMS” was the spark
for the nuclear blast! Needless to say what happened during the “Coat
of Arms” song. Hailing the Greek spirit in Cyprus with facts from
history in combination with Power Metal is a receipt to create an
emotional nuclear bomb. Now imagine that bomb exploding and you have an
image of what happened there! “The price of a mile” was in the line
just to be followed up with the all time classic “Primo Victoria”. The
show ended with a combination of Metal Crue and Metal Machine.
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The
band themselves repeated constantly that they were really amazed from
the crowd performance and this has to be provided outside the island.
Bands worldwide need to know that in this little island there’s a heavy
metal revolution and more metal events have to take place yearly!
Congrats
to Marios “Il Diavolo” and Stella and Andreas from Tepee for bringing
Sabaton to the island and keeping the metal flame burning!
Stay tuned more to come…
It’s close to midnight and it’s barking at he wolves…
It’s close to midnight and it’s barking at he wolves…
Michalis “Starchild” Benakis
*Images taken from the official Tepee Facebook site