Just before, Extreme has tried to impress the audience but its music is particularly aimed at the experienced musicians and even if the interpretation of the essentials “Decadence Dance”, “Hole Hearted” or the ballad “More Than Words” played the audience, the atmosphere remained measured most of the time; The public contenting himself with appreciating the alignments of Nuno Bettencourt guitar soli and Gary Cherone’s gesticulations. But the Americans whose presence at the head of the poster had what surprised punctuated their show with a superb tribute to Ozzy Osbourne by interpreting a ten -minute medley in which the extracts of “I Don’t Know”, “Bark at The Moon”, “Crazy Train”, and “paranoid” of Black Sabbath under the images of the Images of the Images of the Images. giant.
The Alcatraz festival celebrated Ozzy and Lemmy
A few meters away, the marquee of the Swamp where Candlemass was performing was far too cramped to welcome festival -goers who went en masse under the tent to unleash the classics of “Epicus doomicus metallicus” and “Night Fall”.
The Alcatraz Festival sold all its Combi tickets for the first time
Helmet’s performance also had a great success in the Helldorado tent in the early evening and the female gent was not outdone with Doro. Metal Queen did the job on the main scene even if his music especially attracted the attention of an audience more initiated to appreciate his Heavy Metal from another time on the choirs of “Burning the Witches” or the inevitable “All We Are”.
Myrath and, above all, Evergrey assured the job in the early afternoon.
This Sunday, the Americans of Machine Head will close this 17th edition of the Alcatraz Festival.
