 Burden are a pretty damn good German 5 piece heavy
metal band and a bunch of nice guys to boot too.
They open there set with the Slug the drag the
misery, Bless the Broken and the Fool, They got
some great heavy riffs, the singer sounds like
Phil Anselmo who even take up the guitar to finish
out one of the songs while the guitarist he pinched
it off works the effects pedals and rocks out
on the floor. \the singer has real powerful rough
throaty vocals, the guitarists have plenty of
decent riffs, the lead has ripped a few solos,
he even has an extended solo part that wasn't
overly long but more importantly was pretty good
and entertaining, they got the drumming and riffs
to really bang that head of yours!! I think a
lot of people here tonight will leave here as
fans of burden. There a solid heavy metal band.
Another metal band this time (well no shit) from
Norway called Blood Cargo The singer is a bit
of generic metal singer another guy who's been
studying at the school of anselmo, but the music
seems to follow on from Burden, more of the same
really only a bit quicker but not as well done
as Burden and they get boring really quickly.
They have lots of meaty riffs, solid drumming
an bass playing, really rocking out up on stage,
for fans of pantera/down really, but it doesn't
seem to be all that exciting or work particularly
well, there not a bad band there's just something
missing that they may hit on later on, but for
now it aint all that and it certainly feels a
tad dated too.
 Kyuss lives are really on it tonight, right from
the get go, The came out to the super sounds of
Gustav Holst's The Planets piece 'Mars', smoking
cigarettes I might add, I wonder how much that
will cost the Wulfrun tonight? They Then Launching
right into Gardenia, good heavy opening and setting
the standard high right at the start, they then
go right into Hurricane and to close the opening
of the set with Thumb. Next up was One inch man,
then Conan pretty much blew my head clean off
and finished the job that One inch man started,
this is pretty much where the gig really exploded
and took it up to another level. Kyuss Lives are
a great live band, I feel sorry for people who
have missed out on this because there's no Josh
Homme, all I can say is fuck that noise, you’re
missing out!! This is way way better than any
Kyuss CD you have, you need to see and hear this
band live. Freedom Run, Asteroid, Supa Scoopa
and Mighty scoop , 50 Million year trip, Odyssey,
White water, El Rodeo and 100 finish the main
set, at this point the band have come on played
and gone off again without saying much to the
crowd, but It doesn't matter really, the music
has been kicking ass all night so far. Kyuss lives
come back on to much cheering, and go right into
Spaceship landing and take it up a notch with
Allens Wrench and then it was over, they didn't
play Green Machine, but it doesn't matter, this
is the best gig I've been to so far this year,
this is going to be hard to beat such a great
performance, you can’t ask for anything
more.
Burden 3/5
Blood Cargo 2/5
Kyuss Lives 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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