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Prog metal mosh pit9/17/2023 ![]() Overall, their presentation on the Festival Rock al Parque was decent, but it lacked on more attractiveness of their stage performance.Īngelus Apatrida, a band from Spain, came to this edition of the Festival Rock al Parque already with the experience of playing for the Colombian audiences. ![]() Unfortunately for this band, it would have been better not to play that song. To that challenge, The Brainwash Machine did their best to give a solid show, and some of the people in the audience reacted accordingly, but, since the stage is so far away from the audience, connection between band and spectators can be fragile.Ī downside of playing in a festival an trying to connect with an audience that does not know the work the bands have done is that some bands think it is proper to approach them by playing a cover song, which can be turned into a double edge knife in the case of The Brainwash Machine, playing a cover of ‘Holy Wars’ is even more tricky, due to the distinctive pitch Dave Mustaine possesses, so either go big or go home. There is a level of challenge to play at this stage because is so massive it takes a considerable amount of people to look relatively full.įor opening bands, the challenge is even more significant since immensity of the place is hard to fill, and the audience there most get compensated with a dominant performance that makes them interact with the band regardless the scarcity. Showing their progressive rock influences and accommodating them to a more massive sound, played at Escenario Plaza. The third band I checked was The Brainwash Machine. The natives of Pupiales, Nariño, brought the energy expected from a melodic black metal band and the few people present at their show were in sync with their music nonetheless, passers-by did not connect with the band long enough to stay and check a song or two. However, it was able to bring some spectators to Escenario Eco. This band is not that well known in Bogotá as they come from the Northern part of the Colombian Andes. The second band of the starters that I could check was Vobiscum Lucipher. Songs like ‘Inconformity Manifesto’ brought the audience to madness, creating solid mosh pits along the way. After all, this was not the first time Tears of Misery played in the Festival Rock al Parque, but there was a considerable improvement from their participation in 2015. A death metal band through and through, the quartet displayed a solid show in the first three songs, because I arrived from the rear part of the audience, it was a pleasant surprise to see how the audience grew almost instantly from the first riff. It is one of those bands that I have followed in the metal circuit for about ten years, and I have seen the progress the band has made. Tears of Misery was the first band I checked. Either way, commitment to see every band of the day was made and the challenge was accepted. The day began with the typical pilgrimage to Parque Metropolitano Simón Bolivar, this time at a later hour than usual, slowly but steadily, people started to arrive at the different stages to see the performance of the three opening bands of the entire festival: The Brainwash Machine at Escenario Plaza, Tears of Misery at Escenario Lago, and Vobiscum Lucipher at Escenario Eco.įor those of you yet not familiar with Festival Rock al Parque, the event takes place in three different stages being Escenario Plaza the biggest and Escenario Eco the smaller and this year all stages opened at the very same time, so in order to catch up with every band the audience must move quickly from one to the other and sometimes it was not possible to witness the entire set of one band without skipping the others. Even though this year the metal day was reduced to merely six hours - in previous years it was an almost twelve hours event - however, the quality of the bands has not decayed. This year the representation was particularly extreme, being death metal the most represented subgenre. For those of you that are not familiar with Festival Rock al Parque, Saturday is always the day for the most extreme branch of rock’s subgenres, Metal.
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