Pure fucking death at Decibel.
This wonderful event took place during all hallows eve. As usual when dealing with our good friends (actually, they are supposed to be exactly that)from Roqueclub it was total chaos from the beginning. But what the hell, shit happens.
For starters we realised when arriving to Decibel Rock Bar that noone except from ourselves had put up any posters about the event. There wasn´t even a poster at Decibel, the place where we were supposed to play some five hours later. Not a very good start unless you really want me to be in a bad mood...
Nothing got better when we had put up our backline and turned on the stage lights. A very audible buzzing sound told us that something was very wrong seconds before the stage bathed in pure darkness. Upon investigation we found that some clever guy had plugged more or less every piece of electrically powered equipment into the same socket thus making the poor lonely fuse burn faster than braincells in a junkie as soon as we turned on the 500 watts a piece lights...
A few grey hairs, a burnt out stage light mixer, alot of cursewords and some hysterically creative electrically connecting later we finally got it to work.
Needless to say I was ready to strangle someone at that point with an empty stomach, only a few hours left before showtime and still no soundcheck.
Luckily for everyone in my vicinity the Paganizer guys and their better halfs finally showed up and we could do a quick soundcheck before grabbing a bite to eat. Now we had about an hour to kill before the show so we got over to Manges place for some beers and metal to get in the right mood.
Time flies when you´re having a good time so before we knew what happened it was time to get our asses over to the venue again. When we got there we were told that (as usual) we were to wait a bit longer to let people get in before we started to play. More or less an hour late we entered the stage and blasted everything back to the stoneage this time under the flag of eurodisco instead of nu-metal.
Despite some major and minor mistakes we gave a good show considering it was our first performance ever with the new lineup with me (Fredrik) as lead vocalist apart from bashing the drums and Mange handling bass and backup vocals instead of only lead vocals.
This will be the permanent lineup from now on so we won´t have to hire a bassplayer everytime we play live.
Some fourteen tunes later we finished off the show with Lies, thanked the audience with the words "Thank you! We are Paganizer!" (humour you know) and went off stage to feast on beer and virgin blood, pretty contempt with our performance.
About three bears and a pretty pale virgin later Paganizer entered the stage with the words "Hell-O, we are Art of Murder..." (once again for you thick headed, this is the essence of humour) and unleashed carnage and mayhem on the small but thrilled audience.
In my own and many others opinion they gave one of 2006`s best performances at dB.
Pure fucking death all the way without any compromises! It was only sad that so few saw it even if the ones that were there (including yours truly) banged their heads off to Paganizers brutal old school death.
After the superb show we said our goodbyes to the Paganizer boys who unfortunatly had to get home the same night.
We on the other hand took our friends Kimmy (who against all odds got the show together despite all shit preceding the actual event) and Johan in a firm grip and hauled ass to our friend (and former co-musician) Andreas where we had a truckload of beers, lots of laughs and helluva lot of fun until around seven in the morning when we finally gathered the band and went home to Mange to pass out for a few hours before we had to be sober (yeah right) and collect our gear from dB again.
Despite all the obstacles a pretty good night for us Murder artists when you add everything together...
The ones worth mentioning:
Kimmy for getting us the gig, taking pics and putting up with all the shit without complaining. Paganizer for giving us the honour of sharing stage with them, delivering some great death and being downright nice guys. Lisa for the pics. Kalle for feeding us (and overcharging the mashed potatoes without meatballs like hell, hahaha!)and fixing shit in general. Attilla for taking his time to help out with our electrical problems when things were looking, literally, dark. Andreas for having the awesome after party.
Last but not least the fuckers who showed up and enjoyed our grinding and Paganizers grunting despite the lack of advertising. You guys rule!!!