Dark Tranquillity's Terminus (Where Death is Most Alive) is still ringing in my ears from last night. The Swedish melodeath pioneers have visited SF after 2 long years and it was worth the wait for fanboys. Although it was a short concert since they are not headlining this tour (Killswitch Engage is and I am not into KSE) Mikael announced that they will be back in May, 2010 for a headlining show, excited is an understatement.
DT started the show with the mind numbing Terminus, continued to to Lesser Faith and played Dream Oblivion from the new album, We Are The Void. A short (6) but sweet setlist that unfortunately did not include my all time fav DT number, Lost to Apathy. Cant have it all can we?
The best part of the show was hanging with the band after the show. As KSE started playing, I ran out to check if DT was at the stall. And there they were, Niklas, Martin, and Mikael were all hanging there and I met all of them. The Swed's are as kind as their music is heavy. We took pictures, spoke about music, life and I also got the band to sign on my Fiction CD.
Mikael spoke over a beer about how the band grew up from Projector and what currently inspires him. I asked him a lot of questions about song writing, metal and life in general. Surprising Mikael is more into Coheed & Cambria and Jeff Buckley more than anything else these days. We spoke at length about Gothenburg's contributions in keeping metal alive. It was a dream come true, to hang with DT and talk metal with one of the few bands in the world who is keeping melodic metal alive and kicking.
Cant wait for May..stay metal!
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