Concert Reviews

  Promoted as a Thrash Metal night with a Slayer and a Megadeth tribute, it became clear quickly that the Slayer tribute band wasn’t there. Luckily ‘Exit Out’ stepped in – a very down to earth four piece with an awesome (blind) drummer (always amazing to see when people labelled as ‘disabled’ follow their passions and succeed) and a guitarist that had just joined the band one day before the gig. Exit Out played anything but metal and soundwise were more grunge (could hear ‘Nirvana’ influences there big time) and a bit of punk than hard rock. But they were really good nonetheless and didn’t have to ‘exit out’ due to musical incompatibility on the thrash metal night. Megadeth UK were freaking awesome – with Dave Mustaine being a giant in the metal community and often hailed as one of the best guitarists ever, it was interesting to witness an effortless performance by Megadeth UK. Of course, all the classics like ‘skin of my teeth’, ‘Hangar 18’ and ‘Symphony of destruction’ were part of