Photo from 41shoots on Douban.Saturday night was the 17-live Summer Metal Festival show at Yuyintang. It featured these three bands:
Frosty Eve (Beijing)
I almost didn't go. I got off work late, was pretty sick and tired. But then I got texts from three separate friends already there saying that there was already over 400 people through the door and it was all going off. So I promptly got my ass there.
This hasn't happened for ages it seems. All local bands and packed to the rafters with mainly local fans too. I was surprised I could get in at all and haven't seen that many people in there since Reflector last came down. It seems that Beijing's Frosty Eve are a big draw as 90% of the audience were Chinese metal fans in full gear.
I arrived as Shanghai's Fearless were a couple of songs into their set and they were killing. The floor was crammed and heaving with headbangers and fans crowded along the stairs and sides. Fearless give the full metal/axe hero performance and the fans ate it up. At the end of their set there were cries for their The Trooper cover, it came and much moshing was done, again. This was an all time best performance from the guys.
By the time Frosty Eve got on, the park out back was full of sweaty shirtless bodies and also an equal amount of rock ladies too. It's metal all round in Shanghai. I thought people would be too tired and hot to go again but obviously a lot of people were here for the Beijing band. The majority of the crowd were able to sing along for pretty much every song they played. I felt they lacked the energy and presence that Fearless showed but they were good and they were playing to fans.
The festival continued with an after party at the new metal bar on Yongjia Road, Inferno.
"I felt they lacked the energy and presence that Fearless showed but they were good and they were playing to fans."
Couldn't agree more. Fearless were kings that night, by far. FE just seemed weak in comparison, both musically and charismatically. But they did get the crowd riled up. I've never seen more crowd surfing at YYT than during their set.
@Ivan
Exactly. It was a special night with a great crowd and Fearless were the ones to take advantage and push themselves up a notch and really go for it. No complacency.