GETAWAY 2013 – Day 3 – Gävle, Sweden

SATURDAY The weather forecast was warm but variable and my feet were suggesting less standing so I decided to start off with Civil War which features former Sabaton members and the excellent Nils Patrick Johansson (Astral Doors) on vocals. They played almost all songs from their full-length album released earlier this year, understandably enough as…

GETAWAY 2013 – Day 2 – Gävle, Sweden

FRIDAY Behemoth got the title for loudest playing band but clearly there were sound issues with Nergal’s guitar which did not sound good at times and the panning of the guitars was like in the early days of stereo: everything to one side. This was actually the only time during the whole festival I could…

GETAWAY 2013 – Day 1 – Gävle, Sweden

Getaway Rock Festival is held at an old gas distribution plant, with two large round buildings that were used for storing gas in huge balloons in earlier times. But not anymore as on this particular weekend the larger of the two brick buildings was used for beating people’s brains in (Black Stage). The other of…