Anthrax, the "Caught in A Mosh" speed metallers, made a visit
to Finland after a seven year break. They were welcomed with a very warm
reception as the Nosturi club was entirely packed by several hundred of
"metal thrashing mad" Anthrax fans.
A couple of days earlier the band changed gears to the maximum level at
the Sweden Rock festival causing the metallic ecstasy feeling in the
entire packed battle field.
Of course expecting the same kind of show from them was somehow wishful
thinking because an indoor gig definitely differs from a normal outdoor
festival. Sometimes the atmosphere in a typical indoor gig in a club
occasionally rises to another degree caused by the insane wild audience,
and above all a band's skills to set more extra power to put on one hell
of a show.
Anthrax
is known for being one of the most hyper aggressive stage bands. This is
mirrored by the audience who appear to be getting into the wildest state
of mind by arranging one chaotic event in the pit proving that the night
has definitely succeeded. That is exactly what happened in Helsinki
when "What Doesn't Die" roared out of loudspeakers making the
whole place look like one kind of madhouse, even someone climbed to a 2
and ˝ meter high bevy and jumped off to the audience, but later got
thrown out of the club after doing some normal body surfing. The goings on
in the pit turned to be damn wild especially when "Got The
Time", "Caught In A Mosh" and other older Anthrax classic
tunes hit the ramping moshers, whereas the slower and melodic tracks for
example "Black Lodge" a little bit calmed the wild sweat down.
Generally the band had perfectly mixed the gig with both the older and
newer material picked up from almost every album
from their long and colourful career, even "Metal Thrashing Mad"
from the first album was played this time. To be honest the newer stuff
like "Safe Home" fit perfectly to the set list along with
legendary songs like "Madhouse".
The band appeared in the same damn hard strike like in Sweden and Frank
Bello's jump performance proved the man is an intense stage monster by
being one of the wildest and craziest bassists on the earth. He didn't
stay in one single place for not ever more than one nano second. In
general the band was like Duracell bunnies going around the stage without
any breaks, especially Bush's stage charisma and grip by keeping the show
under the control was really impressive even though he was sweating all
the time.. And Scott, well Scott is Scott doing the well known
"not" jumps, definitely everlasting young man!
The climax of the whole show was experienced during the encore part
when both the rap/metal songs "Bring The Noise" and "I Am
The Man" were unleashed and the things got a little bit out of hand
with the expanding slamming pit going totally nuts which hasn't been
testified in this club ever before.
Anthrax definitely surprised people with their full energetic show with
a lot of old classic tunes and of course newer material. But the band's
vital and refreshing ass kicking stage performance blew at least us away…Welcome
back!
Setlist
Intro - Contact
What Doesn't Die
Black Dahlia
Got the Time
Caught in a Mosh
Safe Home
Inside Out
1000 Points of Hate
Antisocial
Mad House
Black Lodge
Nobody Knows Anything
NFL (Efilnikufesin)
Only
Metal Thrashing Mad
Bring the Noise/I'm the Man
I Am the Law
