Destroyer 666, Embrional, Ragehammer Zabrze, Wiatrak Club 17.09.2016

Yup, I really looked forward to that gig, as I hadn’t seen them live the last time they were here in Poland. And you know, the supporting bands looked very good and very promising too. AndThe Abyss Festival crew did their best organizning everything and stuff. So, when we got to the venue (Wiatrak) there were already a rather huge bunch of maniacs bumming around before the gig actually started. They came from all over Poland, even from such a distant place as Szczecin, too. The venue has a designated smoking area so we, the old-school team, were more than happy to hang around some time there before the gig started, take a "gulp of fresh air" and talk with our friends.

 


Two female bartenders were slick, so we didn’t have wait long for our beers. The first band to play that night was RAGEHAMMER, them boys brought forth so intensive speed/thrash/black metal of theirs that I almost forgot they have some slower tracks as well. I was most impressed when they paid their homage to the dinosaurs of satanic art (First Wave Black Metal). Heretik Hellstorm was really cocky while talking back to the crowd and when he heard – "you guys – play fucking louder," answered back: "what the fuck? Is it some college campus kind of gig or what?"Ha-ha. He said something about fags too, ok.

 


Together with RAGEHAMMER`s frontman, many fans sang Wrog from The Hammer Doctrine album. Man, the moshing was so intense one might have wondered whether the audience would have enough energy to see the headliner that very evening. In short, it was awesome. After a short break, EMBRIONAL entered the stage. I was eager to see if their latest and really awesome stuff would work wellwhen played live. Some said the band wouldn’t fit in, but it was bullshit. The fact they didn’t mill around and didn’t get the audience into madness didn’t mean their show lacked energy. The people responsible for The Devil Insidealbum bulldozed all over the audience in a really infernal way, they did. Their 9 year experience turned EMBRIONAL into a real, original death metal band, very slick with their instruments. Yeah, indeed.

 


Thus, the time came for the wolf pack from Australia. Leather, chains, bolts and guitar duels dominated Wiatrak`s stage in a best speed metal tradition. I was sure that DESTROYER 666 would rather opt for promoting their newest album, but their set-list was really festival-like. We got to hear tracks from all over their music history (Violence Is the Prince of This World, Unchain the Wolves or Terror Abraxas). KK Warslut and his commando got the audience into real warlike madness and moshing which, I am sure of it, lasted until the gig was over.

 


The blows like Trialed by Fire, Lone Wolf Winter, I Am the Wargod, and band`s own version of Iron Fist (Lemmy`s still alive in his immortal songs) or Wildfire whipped the raging audience. D666 was really overjoyed too (AWARE! BEWARE! WAR! The war that is so come was pouring out of loudspeakers, yes!) and played some extra songs: Eternal Glory of War, Satan's Hammer and, of course, Australian and Antichrist performed under the name - Polish and Anti-Christ. There were some special tee shirts with PolakAttak(???) with gig dates from Poland on them. Sadly, there were very few left after the Warsaw gig and many people found it difficult to find their sizes. D666 was clever enough to provide different ideas so we could choose from tee shirts with wolf hooks and wolves for Before God fans, grim reaper with a wildfire banner on a bike in a really biker style, and a classic death figure for traditional metal fans. Well, it was worth going to Zabrze. It wasn’t enough though and I do hope we can see them again here in Poland sooner than later.

 

Ireneusz Woszczyk

foto Live Leszek Wojnicz-Sianożęcki

 

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