This was a great little two day rock and metal festival just south of Coimbra. Took me 75mins to drive there on this hot day. When I arrived to meet the Madmess guys, there was a very young metal band playing called Dream On. 5 piece with a female singer, all around 17 years old. I think they were playing original metal songs. Impressive actually….
Epiiepsia Alienígena. This was a very cool band from Viseu, more psychedelic rock of sorts. Sadly you could not hear the synth guy at all the entire concert. Sucked. Sound guy was not good when it came to keyboards. Must be a metal guy.. the band guys were really great and nice folks as well. I did not see them having a CD at the merch place. They have a bandcamp page but no new music since 2016.,
Sete Pês (Seven Feet), played all instrumental like melodic rock fusion stuff and were good. The guitar player did most of the solos while the keyboard player was way in the background most of the time except of one longer solo. Great bass and drums. They also had a conga-percussion player. I bought there CD, Flying Carpet, which was a bit disappointing compared to them live!
Set List: 22/23, Raposa, Funky Samba, Primeio Voo, Coral, Cruzeiro
Madmess, we were up at 2200. IT has been 15 months since the last time I played with the guys. The set list was in a different order and they had dropped all but one of the older songs and played all the new album plus a Black Sabbath song. I had a lot of fun playing along to their normal set. They do not jam at all and everything is played perfectly and exact every night, which is a pity but it is still fun to find my place here and there and add to the live experience. There was a lot of positive feedback about my contribution, which is cool. Super cool guys. Love em and a great band.. Powerful….
Set List: Burnt, Widowmaker, Albatross, Death by Astonishment, Velvet Nebula, Endless Cycles, Hazy, Sauerkraut, Rat Salad
I had to drive home after the gig so I did not get to see Baliea Baliea Baliea or Máquina. Spoke with the Máquina guys and they are all super cool. They will play at Sonic Blast again.. Fun night...
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