Thursday 27th October
Arcturus (N) & Kill the Thrill (Fr)
Doors open at 7.30 pm
Place: JH Kompas @ Sint – Niklaas (Belgium)

This gig should have taken place at the MoD (Hasselt), but luckily for me it took place at Kompas! Since it is closer to my home and otherwise I would have missed it, which I would have regretted for the rest of my life, I am rather sure of that!
Nice place for gigs, not too far away, easy to get there (5 tot 10 min walking from the train station) and it fits more than enough people (my guess about 200).
Since the bands hadn’t finished with the sound check we had to wait 45 min (!!!) longer outside than expected. But well, no problem, good thing we could go into the pub to grab a beer.
I must say I was surprised by the audience, which was there. Honestly, I had expected more people, since it is the first appearance from Arcturus in Belgium.
Finally at 8.45pm the first band started to play. It was strange to see only 3 people on the stage, 2 guitar players & a bass player; the drums were in “hands” of the drum computer. I can’t remember much from this band since they weren’t really my kind of band. Not that the music was that bad but the songs were a bit TOO long for my taste and it all sounded the same. Guess another support would have been better for Arcturus, but who am *I* to say so?
Seems the audience felt the same as me and some of them went to the pub to enjoy a drink and talk. I just took my beer and went to get some fresh air. DAMN! to the person who invented smoking machines.
After there gig the crew started sound checking the equipment from the band where everyone came for Arcturus!
Seems I took a bad spot since the band had to get on stage where I stood so we all had to step aside so they could make there entrance. And what an entrance they made! For some reason we went back to our spot forgetting that Mr. Vortex hadn’t passed yet. The way he got on stage we all had the impression he had enjoyed the Belgium beer way too much already *g*.
Not that it made any difference, when they started it blew me away directly! Never had I seen such a thing before! The band was having a GREAT time on stage & the audience was having a blast too! The two female dancers made it even greater with their performance in some of the songs! Pity they ate the apple, which was a part of their performance, wanted to eat it myself, hehe. I wonder what Simen (Vortex) was talking about during the songs because none of us understood but well, none seemed to care!
When the tunes from the Chaos Path started everyone was going insane, no wonder, that song must have been the greatest one they played that evening!
Sadly enough to each great gig comes an end and so it happened here too… But not without some extra songs of course! Simen told they should have gone off stage and return, after we had shouted “WE WANT MORE!” but well they felt like just going on because it was fun!
During the intro from the last song one of a sudden all electricity fell out…Total darkness !!!
Audience started to shout “DRUM SOLO !!!”, which they got! And just when that stopped all lights & sound came back. So they played the last song, with regret for everyone who was there to support them… Then they all went off stage with great shouting & clapping from the fans.
I have seen tons of concerts but this was for sure the GREATEST gig I have seen in all those years! Congrats to the band & dancers for giving me such an awesome time!


Playlist:
Ad Absurdum
Nightmare Heaven
(Sverd Keyboard show off 2 min)
Alone
Deception Genesis
Chaos Path
(Tore guitar show off 2 min)
Deamonpainter
Painting My Horror
Hufsa
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Master of disguise
(Knut guitar show off 2 min)
Shipwrecked Frontier pioneer
Raudt & Svart
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text by: Misstress of Beer

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