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Metallica at Marlay Park '09

Posted by RohantheBarbarian - August 9th, 2009


Finally got my lazy ass round to writing this up, it was over a week ago now but whatever.

After last year's awesome concert with Sweet Savage and Tenacious D supporting them, when I heard that Metallica were coming back to Marlay Park less than a year after last time, there was no way that I was missing it. Overall, it was better than last year, but I had a few misgivings about it.

My first disappointment came the night before my friends and I left for Dublin: a lot of bands who I had hoped to see ended up pulling out, particularly Lamb of God and Thin Lizzy. The final line-up was Glyder, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Avenged Sevenfold and of course Metallica themselves.

All in all, the support bands were good enough, even Avenged Sevenfold were quite good considering I don't particularly like them, the main problems were that the sound engineer was a retard who couldn't tell that the bass was so loud you could hear nothing else and that with the exception of Avenged Sevenfold (who called some random kid up from the crows to sing "Walk") none of the bands really tried to get the crowd going. This meant that after about 6 hours of watching bands perform the crowd was tired, and the atmosphere was nothing like the electric one of last year, other than the guys in front and centre the crowd were like fucking zombies...

...Which was a pity because Metallica were fucking unbelieveable, and the shitty crowd wasn't their fault. Now last year as buzzed and hyped as we were, we did notice they made a few mistakes, missing notes during solos etc. This year was by far the best performance musically I have ever seen from them, and probably the best I will ever see from them in future, they were simply on fire. They opened with Blackened, which took us all by surprise considering it's a bitch of a song to play, especially if you haven't warmed up with some easier songs first. They were so good that about halfway into their set a miracle happened; the crowd got their second wind, which cheered the lads and I up no end. Start to finish, it was musical perfection.

Anyway, we had a blast in spite of a poor atmosphere for most of the gig, and Metallica were just that good that I have to rate it better than last year. The length of the day and the lack of effort in generating atmosphere and suspense killed it a bit, but fortunately we got past that. If I could take the scintillating performance of 2009 and couple it with the electric atmosphere of 2008, I could never go to another concert again and be a happy man.


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Good to hear you enjoyed seeing Metallica. I saw them back in 2004 with Godsmack and it was a great show.

I think they opened with Blackened at the show I saw. It seems to be a common opener for them. I know it was their first track on their Seattle '89 show, too.

It is one of their higher energy songs, for sure -quite equally tough on the guitars and drums. Battery is another good example. :P

Also, did they play Orion by chance? I saw a video of their first live performance of that song back on 07. I'm curious if it was just for the one time, or if it's become a regular part of there set since then?

Sadly they didn't play Orion this year (or last year IIRC) but they did in '06 (which I couldn't go to :'( )

I couldn't get tickets to Metallica at Marlay park.

This news post makes me sad.

There'll be another time, I was absolutely fuming when I couldn't go to them in '06, but as it turns out I didn't have to wait long to get another chance. The guys seem to like Dublin, so they might be back very soon :P

Hai.

Hey hey man, how ya been?

Also, sorry bout the late response, been pretty inactive as of late.

Congratlations on getting Deity, I sympathise if it look a lot of hard work to do it. Guess if you know the system it's a breeze

It takes work no doubt, but you shouldn't treat it so much as a stat as having something which allows you to bring questionable content to attention more readily.