Saturday morning, finds me after a super name day party, at the airport with SEPTICFLESH, falling from wall to wall due to the alcohol and thinking the time that has passed, since the last time the band was in Romania. I think last time was in 2011 with AMON AMARTH at Bucharest, in front of a huge audience. I remember, that despite the equipment problems that night, the crowd was more than exciting and burst to applauses, after the band’s promise of returning with a bigger and stronger show.
After almost 6 hours later, we were near Brasov at the Carpathian… time to fulfill that promise. We were led to our hotel for a small rest before the show as the route to the show, through countless turns through the mountains, had made our digestive system move to our oral cavity. The site was extremely imposing and majestic and as the sun was setting, I began to understand why the legend of Dracula was born in this place. There was nothing better for a festival, in the middle of nowhere in the Carpathian mountains, to be filled with SEPTICFLESH’s music.
Going backstage, almost an hour before the band’s set, I had the chance to see and listen to TEXTURES. Check out this band. Very tight and energetic on stage. As long as their singer said the last “thank you and good night” and despite the fact that the crowd cheered them very warmly, some very rhythmic “SEPTICFLESH – SEPTICFLESH” chants began to be heard. As long as I climbed on stage to build Fotis’ drumkit from scratch (the left handed drummers must be banned from festivals with only one riser and only one drumkit), people from the crowd, began asking for drumsticks and playlists. When the backdrop appeared and the 2 crosses were set on stage, people starting cheering and applauding.
A few minutes later, I was in my place behind the warmth of the console, under the tent of FOH. The lights went off and the little boy (yes, it IS a little boy) from the intro to “Vampire From Nazareth” was heard at the festival, with almost 2500 people signing along. The panic was on, as long as the band hit the stage. You could see heads banging everywhere. The crowd was spitting their throats out with every Seth’s exhortation and sometimes even without it. There was a group of people who were shouting for “Pyramid God” from the beginning and the time has come. Fotis stands up from his drumkit to raise a Romanian flag painted with Anubis and the band’s logo, that some fans gave us earlier backstage. The crowd is led to a delirium and starts going up and down with the song’s rhythm. When Seth announced “Anubis” as the show’s last song, the people started screaming for more and so it done. “Five Pointed Star” is coming as usual to finish off the crowd, who obviously enjoyed the show a lot more than the 25 minute show of last time. The band leaves the stage in applauses and for almost 15 minutes after that, when I was on stage to gather the equipment, the crowd was still shouting for SEPTICFLESH, asking for playlists, guitar picks etc.
Behind the stage, at our tent, a very big number of some privileged fans, were waiting for a meet & greet with the band and a signing session. A beautiful night, under the starlit Transylvanian sky, has come to an end.
For RockOverdose.gr: Alexi Keito
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