Longing for the Sun

It's not that long since we was in Malta for the Malta Doom Festival but I'm sick and tired of rain and darkness already. It sure gave a lot of energy being there even if the days didn't feature much resting or relaxing. Just the sun do a lot and having fun the rest. And that we sure had!
Getting home the temperature was crawling down to around 0, even had to clear the ice from the car windows on a few mornings. *brrr*

But yes, this years edition of Malta Doom Metal Festival was fantastic. One of the best ever, with a lot of great performances and cool people. The team behind the Festival has been thanking everyone that showed up on Facebook and so but they are the ones that really should have a lot of kudos for the effort put in and the dedication to music. The atmosphere at the festival is fantastic, we always feel very welcome and it's always a big party. And with such a good line-up as it always has, I can't understand how a doom-fan can skip it.

My absolute favorites this year was Forsaken, Manilla Road, Desolation Angels and Reino Ermitano. Not that any band did a bad gig...
Bandpictures will be published in the report i hopefully will find time to write soon. Should have been some good ones at least but I think I need to buy a small flash for my new camera that can help out a bit when the lights are low. 

Cheers
E

NP: Omega Crom - Beyond Contrl

 

 

Via Crucis

Yes, two more days of rain before we can enjoy the Maltese sun! Looking at the forecast it will be +20-25 and light clouds...
Really looking forward to see Forsaken again. Their gig, a few years back still remain as one of the mightiest concert experiences ever. Same goes for Victims Of Creation. Gonna be awesome to see these bands again!
Will be great to see Manilla Road, Desolation Angels and a few more too of course. Was great the last time I saw then and I'm sure they will repeat the same again.

I just need to prepare the camera and I'm ready to go. Better dig into that right now so I don't forget. I realized in Bucharest I might need a small flash for some dark stages, miss that on my new camera. Had it on the 50D but not on the new one... Tips anyone? It's a 5D I have now!

Cheers
E

Home again and it's raining

Metal Magic Festival was awesome as expected.  No doubt about that!  Great bands and cool people. Dark Quarterer did an amazing gig,  pure magic!  Then Desolation Angels,  Ear Danger, Paragon, Portrait and som more was really good too! And it's sooo good to hang out in the sun, with nice people, drinking cheap beer and just enjoy a weekend of Metal.

The good thing about Festivals like Metal Magic is that band merch is cheap!  So we sure did some shopping.   One supercool vinyl edition of Danish cult band Metal Cross,  booklet,  7" and more... Also, Desolation Angels had an 80's 7" with them,  Valhalla for a bargain price!

Another really cool buy was the first Dark Quarterer album on original vinyl. The even cooler thing was that Gianno and Paulo signed it, even got kind of an artwork together with the signature also. 

One more week of work now before VACATION!!!!

Cheers 

E