Last night I was privileged to finally see Pain of Salvation live. They are my favorite band since their magical albums The Perfect Element, part I and Remedy Lane.
The concert was held at The Rock, an underground club in the heart of Copenhagen. The warm-up band was The Last Supper from Canada who played okay, but I am not much into hard-core.
When talented Swedes came on stage, all hell broke loose. As we say in Bosnian: The crowd started to burn and smoke (Raja je počela da se žari i pali)!
They started with Scarsick, a song from their newest album with the same name. The whole arena was filled with energy that came from the band and the crowd. You can watch the song right bellow. Please notice a high-tone scream around 35 seconds into the video – that’s me! :)
It was a great opening!
The Rock, the club where the concert was held is a rather small place, so there was no more four, five hundred of people inside, but the energy and the feel was fantastic, something you cannot experience on stadiums and large venues.
Later on, they played one of my favorite songs, Undertow, if not the most favorite. I was floored.
During the wh0le concert, Daniel, the vocalist, had a great contact with the crowd, smiling and joking with other members. All members of the band were very sympathetic and down to earth.
Near the end of their show, Pain of Salvation played a cover song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and I really loved their arrangement, which was the Jeff Buckley version.
I think I just experienced a best show ever. I said this before and I will say it again: Please, do yourself a favor and listen to this band. Start with The Perfect Element Part I, then Remedy Lane and other albums, but listen to them and discover a whole new world of musical senses.
Although completely tired (I came home around 4.30 a.m.), I was more than happy that I finally saw this great band live.
The band’s set list was as follows:
01. Scarsick
02. America
03. Nightmist
04. ! Foreword
05. Handful of Nothing
06. New Year’s Eve
07. Ashes
08. Undertow
09. This Heart of Mine/Song for the Innocent/Her Voices (Medley)
10. Chain Sling
11. Diffidentia
12. Flame to the Moth
13. Disco Queen
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Encore:
14. Hallelujah
15. Cribcaged
16. Used
I have one thing to say.. Disco Queen !!!!!!
Great day, great show, thank you thank you, thank you!!
Yes, my friend, the show was absolutely fantastic!!!
Saucer…..ovo je Srdan je li? Nas madionicar……
Great show.
I think there were about 500 people.
Yes, It is me Srdjan The Illusionist. :) eheheh
Ahaha, neither Houdini nor Copperfield can reach to your sox!
I’m the bes,t baby
Nice review:)
But….The Last Supper hard-core? lol Well, ok….if you’re considering Chris de Burgh Metal this might be true. I mean they were with Joe Cocker on tour already. I truly believe that you didn’t see them: They’re progressive Rock, a little boring though as most of the Progressive Bands. But never ever hard-core. Don’t mix them up with the American Last Supper from Colorado.
regards
Kerstin
Hi Kerstin,
I never liked labeling, but The Last Supper (CAN) I saw in Copenhagen definitely did not sound like progressive rock to me. It was pretty hard-core. But they were good and melodic. So, either you mixed something up here or we are talking about two different bands with the same name. Cheers!
Don’t be offended, but I think you are the one who mixed something up. I talked to the singer of Last Supper and he gave me an album as well. Rarely heard something that soft. Even Pain of Salvation is harder than Last Supper. Maybe you put everything that’s harder than Pain of Salvation into the Hardcore genre, but then you definitely don’t know what hardcore means. Terrorzone, Agnostic Front, Hatebreed, Sick of it All or Warzone belong to that genre. Originally it belonged to the Punk Szene. In the Metalscene Harcore turned into Metalcore. Hardcore is not melodic at all.
Take care.
I am not offended, we’re just discussing, but I am telling you that The Last Supper did not play progressive that night – AT ALL. I have never heard their CD’s, so I can only judge from one single live show. Their show reminded me of Sick of It All, just more melodic.
Trust me, I don’t put everything harder than POS into hardcore! I am not an idiot! I probably don’t know all “hard” genres, of course, but I am pretty confident with many of them, ranging from classic rock to death metal.
Regards.
WOW, I can’t really believe that anyone on this world categorizes TLS as hardcore! LOL…
Sorry, but check out some Hatebreed stuff and tell me that you heard that kind of guitar playing and singing before POS came on stage.
If so, I might have gotten a brain surgery since the gig,….
CHEERZ!
The Last Supper are about as progressive as Cliff Richard wearing an Einstein mask.
They are doing some sort of watered down hardcore/rock.
Call it rock, hardcore, pop, punk what ever, they sux big time if you ask me. :) POS ftw !