Well, he survived – and here’s the final proof. In the last of his three reports from Hammerfest IV, David Keevill pretends he didn’t have a permanent hangover, and reviews Oaf, Cerebral Bore, Mortad, DripBack, Hell, Amon Amarth, and – of course – Saturday night’s headliners, the almighty Skindred.
With (hopefully) a painful and debilitating hangover in tow, we forced David Keevill back out into the drinking pits of Hammerfest to report on Day 2 – the first full day of the festival. Little did we realise at the time that one of the band he would see would result in him getting “spermy pants”. Jeesh….
We’ve already shown you the vast array of photos we took at this year’s Hammerfest, but they only tell part of the story. What really went on at Hammerfest IV – The Hammer of Thor? We turned to David Keevill, our man on the ground, to find out…
It’s time for the first Thrash Hits festival splash page of 2012! This dubious honour once again falls to Hammerfest. All of our Hammerfest 2012 coverage from the weekend will be linked to on this here post, so make sure you bookmark it as it’s all you’re going to need. That means individual band coverage in the form of photos and setlists, as well as reviews of each day’s highlights. Every scandalous rumour and dirty bit of gossip that our man David Keevill overheard, and every outrgeous photo of Pontins-based debauchery that Gary Wolstenholme snapped, will be here.
There is absolutely no-one on Earth who can pull off wearing a white bowler hat and sunglasses while performing on stage other than Benji Webbe, frontman with Hammerfest’s Saturday night headliners, Skindred.
If you’re going to call your festival “Hammerfest IV – The Hammer of Thor”, it’d be downright rude not to invite the world’s best-known (and hairiest) Viking Metal band. We are of course referring to the titanic Amon Amarth (and their equally titanic beards).
Oh, Dream Evil. Don’t ever change. In fact, please come back to the UK as often as it’s physically possible. If only because if gives us an excuse to repost a link to our “study” of your many (many) ridiculous promo photos.
If there’s one thing that our experience of Wizard at Hammerfest 2012 taught us, it’s that their frontman, Sven D’Anna, really knows how to fingerpoint.
Mortad gave away their debut album for free with Metal Hammer the other month, so the people at Hammerfest had no excuse not to know all the words. Well, other than the fact they were probably all drunk by the time Mortad took to the stage. It is Hammerfest, after all.
By the time Paradise Lost took to the stage at Hammerfest IV, control of the photo-pit had gotten so out of control and over-crowded with amateur-hour snappers, that the band ordered every single photographer to get out. EVERY SINGLE ONE. That’s why our man, Gary Wolstenholme, was only able to get one photo from their set.