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STRIKER, SKULL FIST, NO RESPITE In Essen, Germany With Photos! By Daniel Höhr, European Correspondent Monday, November 26, 2018 @ 6:29 AM
A jolly good asskick or two awaited the audience at Essen‘s Turock club on November 9th. Canadian metal outfits STRIKER and SKULL FIST teamed up for their joint Maple Meltdown Tour and hit the cinema-turned-rock club situated right in the city centre of Essen, a city in Germany‘s Ruhr Area.
The support band that night were NO RESPITE, a punk band from the neighbouring city of Dortmund. It is always daring to let a punk band open for bona fide metal acts such as SKULL FIST and STRIKER. However, for the local four-piece it was certainly a great opportunity to gain more live experience and win some fans, even though they definitely seemed to be in the wrong location for that. Some of their songs were actually quite good and the quartet made the best of it. A fun moment was when the bass player and the guitarist swapped instruments half-way through the set. At the end No Respite got a well-deserved polite applause when they left the stage.
During the changeover the first people started shouting for the first headliner that night, the Canadian four-piece SKULL FIST, who are currently touring on the back of their third full-length studio album, Way Of The Road. And to understate the matter: the crowd was certainly not disappointed by the show that night. Right from the opener, “Ride The Beast“, from their 2011 debut album Head Öf The Pack, SKULL FIST didn‘t leave a doubt they knew what proper traditional metal at high velocity is all about. The band gave everything that night, a textbook performance for any veteran metal head and those to be trained alike. And it was not just the quality of the songs, which was very much on par with that of STRIKER, or the musical performance, which, needless to say, was absolutely terrific. One of SKULL FIST‘s main assets is their charisma and stage presence, particularly that of vocalist Jackie Slaughter, who was in top form that night. The setlist mainly included tracks from their current album Way Of The Road and classics from their previous releases. The result was a straight-down-the-line, fiery, speedy and sweat-inducing metal show. The audience‘s response was accordingly – there was a great deal of headbanging, moshing and even stage diving going on. After “Get Fisted“, the Canadian quartet got called back twice by the audience and it was obvious that the band would have loved to play more. Jackie Slaughter in fact said something along those lines and the audience wouldn‘t have minded at all – to the contrary. Bottom line: the SKULL FIST show was a real triumph, and possibly the greatest triumph on Turock‘s stage that night.
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The motto “Maple Meltdown“ was anything but an empty promise. In fact, the two bands, albeit stylistically different, and the crowd – the experience of live music pretty much depends on both – demonstrated that heavy metal is well alive and kicking. A great evening was had by all, fans and musicians alike.
