
We arrived at Rolling Stone around 21:30, coming for the
second consecutive night after the Cy-Metal party the previous night, this time
though with Manos ‘Sakrificer’ being sober and Benakis ‘Starchild’ at the back
seat mumbling on and on about everything irrelevant. So you can imagine, it was
a long and tiring trip…

Procreation was the first band to perform and they got up on
the stage around 22:30. They played for nearly half an hour, 6 songs, 2 of
which were covers by Pestilence-Chronic Infection and Death-Zombie Ritual. I
was eagerly waiting to see their show as I had never seen them before and I’d
heard many positive comments for the band, but to be honest I was quite
disappointed with their performance. Miscommunication, poor sound and nearly no
movement on stage. As we were told later however, two members of the band were
absent from the event so this quite explained these problems. I am sure they
can definitely get over this live and move on to better ones.


Frozen Winds were up next and this was their first live
performance after nearly 18 months. They played 4 of their existing songs from
their demo and EP and 3 new ones (one does not appear on the setlist, it was
played as an encore) from their following album which is being recorded and
will be released soon. They played well and the new songs sounded very
promising, conveying a very dark and demonic atmosphere. The crowd was very
enthusiastic especially during the last song ‘King Belial’ asking for encore at
the end. They were unfortunate however as the sound was not on their side and
they had to stop their show for Adonis to change his guitar as a string broke.
This was their first gig with new keyboardist Goiko Maric who recently joined
the band. Compared to their last year's performance, one would say their full
potentials were not reached. Nevertheless it was still a professional show as
Frozen Winds have traditionally shown. Hopefully we won’t have to wait another
18 months for their next live!
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