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Insidiöus Törment

 
We received this piece of rather dubious rock-journalism from our corrospondent in the University Park:

The Day The Torment Was Real

I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was down on my luck, I had lost my faith in rock. The last week had claimed the lives of great rock icons such as Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon and, ehhh, John Ritter. I remember thinking “Only the good die young”, like that old Iron Maiden song. Then I thought about “Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter” which cheered me up a bit. Then I thought about the band Slaughter, and I was as depressed as before. Maybe even more. I myself was on the rebound from a nasty cold, coupled with a near fatal hangover. I looked out of my window to see if I could catch a glimpse of what was going on in the park, I hadn’t seen or heard anybody, but there was an eerie electricty in the air. Like a silence before a storm. Seing as how my window faced the wrong way, I had to make way out to the bathroom to take a look at the park, but all I could see was some ducks making an exodus from the park. The ducks, like most dolphins, can sense danger and had decided to flee before the TV*2 show later that night. But because of the duck’s airborne nature, as opposed to the dolphins, not many of them end up in tuna-salads . As exciting as it was watching these mighty creatures being hounded out of their natural habitat by Steffen Brandt, I knew that I would have to make my way out of my fortress of solitude and into the University Park to examine what was going on and experience what the buzz was all about.
There was a buzz in the park. People where whispering things to each other, and some of them were just making weird buzzing noises. “What is this?” I asked myself, surely it was not only the 75th anniversary of the university causing this commotion. I was also rather sure it couldn’t have too much to do the band playing on stage 1, Red Garnet, who was, ahem, there playing. I went up to the bar where girls were dressed like space-age playboy bunnies in order to get some answers. “But haven’t you heard? Insidious Torment are going to play in 30 minutes!” Their second show following their re-debut in Aalborg. The questions were many, “Is the torment for real?”, “Will heavy metal float?”, and of course, “will they suck?”
The moment of truth soon came, and Killer took the stage and burst into a 30 minute guitar solo. Some people called it equilibristic, some people called it sublime, and others yet again called it soundcheck. The crowd went wild, and was increasing fast. The rest of the band, who that day was performing as a quartet, entered the stage and lunged into both timeles classics and new songs as Moon Trooper – Trooper of the Moon (Part II of the Space Trillogy). A fellow journalist noted that they had a very intellectual expression in their lyrics, and right she was. Classic tales were covered in the lyrics, ranging from Promtheus giving fire to the humans in the brand new song Heathen, to The Great Cocks of Rock N’ Roll . Not only was it a great concert, it was also a learning experience. Many a mind was expanded, and before the concert was over every head had been banged, every stage had been dived, every Johnny Cash had been saluted, every beer had been emptied and our collective faith in rock music had been restored.
Oh, and I guess TV*2 also played later….

posted by Roy at 22:23