{"id":497,"date":"2010-06-20T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-20T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:48:46","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Download festival 2010 &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 &#8211; Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Sybreed<br \/>\nI was told by a friend to go and see them, so I took my only trip to the Pepsi tent. They excused themselves for their accent caused by their Swiss-French origin. The industrial rock that they played reminded me at times of Meshuggah maybe, with a lot of mixtures of black and death metal, but with a lot of electro\/synth stuff that were a turn off for me and made me leave before the end of their show. I still remember the massiveness of their bassist whose last name is, ironically, Grand, and who made me think of a character from some SF series, and was doing some really cool bass tapping.<\/p>\n<p>Flyleaf<br \/>\nI wanted to see Atreyu on the main stage, but they switched places with the Americans from Flyleaf. They are a female fronted band, with a mean looking bassist. I felt the crowd was bored and I ended up with the same mood. The singer, Lacey Mosley, didn&#8217;t have a bad voice, and she was able to sing while spinning or jumping around, but the music was nothing outstanding. They were not the most talkative band on stage, only announcing that \u201cthis is our last song\u201d and the bass had annoying distortion at times. <\/p>\n<p>My Passion<br \/>\nBy the time I write this review, I really forgot I saw them. Now I recall a somehow electronic\/dance sound with punk looking musicians on stage who jumped around and kept reminding me of Linkin Park.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer Bats<br \/>\nI decided to stick around the second stage to watch the Canadians from Cancer Bats, as one of my friends recommended them. I witnessed a wild hardcore punk concert, with a singer who spent most of his time on top of the crowd and the rest of the musicians going crazy on stage. They put out some ear killing heavy riffs, and I actually saw few people getting wild on their music. But again, it might have been due the singer&#8217;s passion of being as close to them as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Five finger death punch<br \/>\nLast time I saw this heavy metal \/ thrash band, they were \u201cfour finger death punch\u201d, since one of their members was at the hospital. It was a mad show, but the one at Download beat it big time at madness. The singer, Ivan Moody, came on stage with a hockey jersey with the name of the band and kept talking to the crowd in between their songs and getting the moshpits started, since he got the confirmation that everyone wanted to have fun. The most extreme was when he asked the crowd to surf all the way to the stage, touch him and go back. Here it is, filmed for posterity: <center><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" style=\"width:600px; height:338px\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rvgiGon7Vk0 \nThe stage filled with security quickly, the song ended suddenly, and he announced that their setlist just got cut off to one more song. He also admitted it was his fault. Insane and entertaining concert, with decent tunes.\n\nLamb of God\nI dared to go in front of the main stage for this one. I knew it would be mad, but wanted to see it from \u201cwithin\u201d the crowd. Yet, I had to leave after 4 songs as the moshpits were getting wider and the amount of people falling over on me was increasing. Before the show started, the crowd was entertained by the photos of naked girls (among others) on the big screens. During the concert, the singer Randy Blythe kept telling the motherf*ers to jump and do moshpits, while he was continuously running and jumping on stage, without losing his capacity to growl and sing with so much power. As usual, they dedicate some of their songs, and this time it was \u201cRuin\u201d that went out for the crowd, the bands and all the musicians out there in the crowd. I was walking through the crowd during \u201cNow you got something to die for\u201d and everyone was singing so loud that they were almost covering the sound from the stage for me. The singer also asked to see the biggest pit at the festival; hard to say if it was the biggest, but the thing was huge nevertheless.\n\nVolbeat\nOn my way to the second stage to see the Danish band performing their awesome heavy, punk-ish, rockabilly metal. While walking I heard comments about the previous band, We are the fallen, all along the lines of \u201cterrible\u201d. I'd describe Volbeat's concert as one of those who make the grass dance. Everyone in the band was moving all over the stage, pointing at the crowd, making faces, loving being there. I bet the drummer would have done it too if someone had carried his drum kit. The singer asked a girl in the audience why she didn't have a Volbeat t-shirt, or why her boyfriend didn't buy her one. They said they have no money and he gave them a bill to buy a tshirt. They have performed their awesome ballad, \u201cGarden's tale\u201d upon the request of 5 Brits. And for the end of the song they came up with a riff from Metallica. I left happy, and I think it was almost the best performance I saw at the festival.\n\nMegadeth\nI only got to see their last 2 songs, Symphony of Destruction and Peace Sells. The crowd was delighted to hear the famous hits of the heavy metallers who started their career back in 83. The drums had a nuclear sign on them, Dave Mustaine came on stage in a less traditional white shirt. Good musical performance and awesome guitar playing by the pioneers of American trash metal, and I found it funny how Mustaine sings so well, despite the fact that he looks like he's making an enormous effort not to open all of his mouth. At the end, he presented each member of the band and gave a big greeting and bow to the crowd, ending up with the band applauding its audience. They seemed quite impressed and the singer came back to the microphone for a last thank you.\n\nDeftones\nFor a taste of Alternative metal, one had to relax and enjoy the soft Deftones tunes, but not get too lazy, since their rhythm raises up nicely. Yet, maybe because they played a lot of songs from their new album, the crowd didn't seem very interested or enthusiastic. When they knew the songs though, they were singing all the way to the back. The singer felt like being a marathoner at times, when he was running on the stage. I liked their bass line and the heavy intense drumming, despite the slowness of the songs, and the 8-string guitar added a pleasant sound.\n\nHIM\nI went to the second stage out of curiosity to see this guy live. Not much to see of him, since he was all packed in black thick clothes, with a black hat despite the hot sunny weather. I watched Join me in death, which sounded rather decent, but at the next song he made an attempt at going very high with his voice, and it was a total failure. That's when I left.\n\nRage against the machine\nAnother one of the top shows. The rap rock sung by the super voice of singer Zack de la Rocha, with the messages addressed against the governments and corporations, all nicely supported by the talented guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk \u2014 all these went straight to the hearts and souls of the crowd and got everyone dancing and singing along. I took few walks among the people and I ended up spending at least half of the show enjoying the dances around me and see how entertained the people were. And they delivered the right setlist, full of known hits such as Bombtrack, Bulls on Parade, Testify, Know your enemy, Bullet in the head and a come back with Freedom and Killing in the name. Also very cool was the Clash cover, White Riot. The singer talked a lot to the crowd, thanking everyone who showed up at their free concert a few weeks ago and saying that with good people and good music (not shitty rap) a great show is easy to be put up.\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rvgiGon7Vk0 \nThe stage filled with security quickly, the song ended suddenly, and he announced that their setlist just got cut off to one more song. He also admitted it was his fault. Insane and entertaining concert, with decent tunes.\n\nLamb of God\nI dared to go in front of the main stage for this one. I knew it would be mad, but wanted to see it from \u201cwithin\u201d the crowd. Yet, I had to leave after 4 songs as the moshpits were getting wider and the amount of people falling over on me was increasing. Before the show started, the crowd was entertained by the photos of naked girls (among others) on the big screens. During the concert, the singer Randy Blythe kept telling the motherf*ers to jump and do moshpits, while he was continuously running and jumping on stage, without losing his capacity to growl and sing with so much power. As usual, they dedicate some of their songs, and this time it was \u201cRuin\u201d that went out for the crowd, the bands and all the musicians out there in the crowd. I was walking through the crowd during \u201cNow you got something to die for\u201d and everyone was singing so loud that they were almost covering the sound from the stage for me. The singer also asked to see the biggest pit at the festival; hard to say if it was the biggest, but the thing was huge nevertheless.\n\nVolbeat\nOn my way to the second stage to see the Danish band performing their awesome heavy, punk-ish, rockabilly metal. While walking I heard comments about the previous band, We are the fallen, all along the lines of \u201cterrible\u201d. I'd describe Volbeat's concert as one of those who make the grass dance. Everyone in the band was moving all over the stage, pointing at the crowd, making faces, loving being there. I bet the drummer would have done it too if someone had carried his drum kit. The singer asked a girl in the audience why she didn't have a Volbeat t-shirt, or why her boyfriend didn't buy her one. They said they have no money and he gave them a bill to buy a tshirt. They have performed their awesome ballad, \u201cGarden's tale\u201d upon the request of 5 Brits. And for the end of the song they came up with a riff from Metallica. I left happy, and I think it was almost the best performance I saw at the festival.\n\nMegadeth\nI only got to see their last 2 songs, Symphony of Destruction and Peace Sells. The crowd was delighted to hear the famous hits of the heavy metallers who started their career back in 83. The drums had a nuclear sign on them, Dave Mustaine came on stage in a less traditional white shirt. Good musical performance and awesome guitar playing by the pioneers of American trash metal, and I found it funny how Mustaine sings so well, despite the fact that he looks like he's making an enormous effort not to open all of his mouth. At the end, he presented each member of the band and gave a big greeting and bow to the crowd, ending up with the band applauding its audience. They seemed quite impressed and the singer came back to the microphone for a last thank you.\n\nDeftones\nFor a taste of Alternative metal, one had to relax and enjoy the soft Deftones tunes, but not get too lazy, since their rhythm raises up nicely. Yet, maybe because they played a lot of songs from their new album, the crowd didn't seem very interested or enthusiastic. When they knew the songs though, they were singing all the way to the back. The singer felt like being a marathoner at times, when he was running on the stage. I liked their bass line and the heavy intense drumming, despite the slowness of the songs, and the 8-string guitar added a pleasant sound.\n\nHIM\nI went to the second stage out of curiosity to see this guy live. Not much to see of him, since he was all packed in black thick clothes, with a black hat despite the hot sunny weather. I watched Join me in death, which sounded rather decent, but at the next song he made an attempt at going very high with his voice, and it was a total failure. That's when I left.\n\nRage against the machine\nAnother one of the top shows. 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