Who said Slayer were old school? There seemed to be an Unholy curse on our technology! Our video camera chewed up our tape and our camera packed up halfway through. Hugh Platt still managed to remember some…
With a beard so mighty it increases his hair swing per headbang by at least 40%, Johan Hegg’s Swedes open the Unholy Alliance in raucous style. Amon Amarth’s viking anthems are so heavy, one audience member literally shits himself and is carried out in shame. So begins The Unholy Alliance.
With wave after wave of fuzz riff monoliths - the chest-beating roar of ‘Blood And Thunder’ a real stand out - Mastodon look set to continue their fierce ascendncy when new album Crack The Skye drops next year.
The blinding lights and fancy ramps of Trivium’s stage show do little to hide their workmanlike antics. Matt Heafy’s baiting of the crowd to prove their metal credentials feels more like he’s trying to convince them of his own.
Slayer exceed expectations with their full cut of Reign In Blood, quite probably the greatest metal album of all time. ‘Raining Blood’, still ringing in our ears, rumbled like the soundtrack to the apocalypse.
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Charley Staniforth was at London’s Hammersmith Apollo to take some photos. Her camera may have packed up half way through, but she still managed to a quite fantastic 666 photos. Here are the best.
Unholy Alliance photo gallery
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- Amon Amarth: This is real Hair Metal
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- Amon Amarth: There was actually a Viking horn cup hanging from his belt
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- Mastodon: Troy concentrates
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- Mastodon: Troy explodes
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- Trivium: Matt Heafy baits the crowd
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- Trivium: Heafy does Hair Metal too
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- Trivium: Paolo Gregoletto seems slightly bored
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- Trivium: Paolo just missed his fans!
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- Trivium: Elaborate stageshow
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- Slayer: Tom Araya crooning?
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- Slayer: Araya soaks up the love
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- Slayer: Love all soaked up, it's time to rock
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- Slayer: Hair Metal ain't an option for Kerry King
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- Slayer: Tom Araya does Hair Metal better than Kerry King
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- Slayer: Is Tom Araya showing his age a bit?
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- Slayer: Jeff Hanneman has been eating well!
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- Slayer: Tom Araya
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- Slayer: Tom Araya again
9 responses so far ↓
1 Interview: Mastodon on The Unholy Alliance and Crack The Skye // Nov 7, 2008 at 4:41 pm
[...] Live + Photos: The Unholy Alliance - Slayer, Trivium, Mastodon, Amon Amarth @ Hammersmith Apollo - 3… [...]
2 Trivium add tiny Christmas shows in Dundee and London // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:44 pm
[...] Live + Photos: The Unholy Alliance - Slayer, Trivium, Mastodon, Amon Amarth @ London Hammersmith Apo… [...]
3 Andy Fraser // Nov 17, 2008 at 1:27 am
Does anyone have a pic of Matt handing over part of his smashed guitar to a little girl at the front? If so I’d happily pay a reasonable price for it as she’s my daughter.
Regards,
Andy
4 Live + Photos: Bullet For My Valentine, Lacuna Coil, Bleeding Through & Black Tide @ London Alexandra Palace - 15 November 2008 // Nov 19, 2008 at 3:10 am
[...] For My Valentine are playing in front of about 9,000 people. Slayer did the same thing last month but with a much stronger supporting line-up and over two nights. Some might say there is no [...]
5 DVD: Anthrax - Oidivnikufesin & Through Time POV // Dec 3, 2008 at 5:29 pm
[...] were always the most entertaining. Metallica had the big ambitions, Megadeth the vitriol and Slayer the giddying acceleration, but only this bunch of New Yorkers brought the noise in a way that made [...]
6 2008 into 2009: Amon Amarth // Dec 10, 2008 at 10:30 pm
[...] their Viking drinking horns on their hips and majestic melodic metal walloping our ears, Amon Amarth were a definite highlight of the Unholy Alliance III tour. Drummer, Fredrik Andersson talks us [...]
7 John Araya of Thine Eyes Bleed to fill in for Lyn-Z of Mindless Self Indulgence on Kerrang tour // Jan 13, 2009 at 4:45 pm
[...] guess) is Tom Araya of Slayer’s brother. Thine Eyes Bleed even opened for Slayer on the Unholy Alliance II in 2006. They were onstage at about 4pm. Nobody we know saw them [...]
8 Album: Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos // Jan 25, 2009 at 10:09 pm
[...] to the prevailing theme of the album – THRASH METAL. ‘Warcurse’, for instance, puts a lot of Slayer filler to shame but there’s much more to this album than simple [...]
9 Win a pair of Vans classic slip on trainers // May 14, 2009 at 1:51 pm
[...] you do win and then moan about the trainers not having Slayer all over them, we will actually come and draw Tom Araya’s face on your [...]
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