An hour and a half has passed but it doesn’t feel like it. It’s as though the event is just beginning and your ears are craving for their anthems and melodies, your body wants to dance to every drum beat, and you, you just wanna sing along.
Unexpected it is, but I am with the crowd when the NU Metal band, Korn rocks Araneta Coliseum last night, August 10, 2011. I’m not a fan of any degree, I don’t even know a single song the band has propelled to their fans’ favorite list but, thanks to a VERY good friend, EULA DENNISA PERALTA VALDEZ, I enjoyed the night, the experience, the music, the fans, and the band.
Wearing a school-girl-cut red and black checkered skirt (I’d call it a skirt), Jonathan Davis, the band’s front man came out, and the crowd’s uproar is expected. Well, not because of the skirt, I suppose. When the lights died down, fans know that it signifies the start of the anticipated phenomenon to occur, also for the Rap Metal band Slapshock who looks up to Korn as one of their musical influences. And how much more phenomenal could it be for them playing as the front act band for their California-based idols?
Slapshock, the band, and five of their Rakistas-most-favorite-Slapshock anthems, includes Agent Orange, the song which sent them to music aficionados’ consciousness and admittedly, the most Korn-influenced Slapshock song there could ever be, opened the night with pounding drum beats, crying guitar strings, and the undeniable voice of Jamir Garcia.
Salute to Korn, they succeed on extending this invisible, intangible chord that binds them and their Filipino fans as one. It’s as though their fans are string-attached to every move, every mood, the band has to let loose. I was sent in awe watching every head in the coliseum bang as he is banging his head, every body swinging and bouncing by the pounding rhythm the way it do to his. He screams, “Put your bleep bleep fists in the air!” and you’ll see every fist raised and is moving as one!
Having a play on System of a Down’s song Chop Seuy!, and Queen’s We Will Rock You, Jonathan appearing on stage with his bagpipe, creating the tiniest and longest sound it could, the crowd are all pumped-up. Going on and on for an hour and a half with exemptions of a minute or two to catch their breath, and for the main man to inhale his tanked oxygen (yes, he do have a baon but his is an oxygen he inhales with every chance he got, and that is, when he’s not screaming his lungs out, reciting lyrics of their every anthems).
Sending flying kisses goodbye, the band members is already throwing their guitar picks and drum sticks into the mosh pit, we know that the fun’s over.
“Yun na ‘yun?” We wanted MORE!!!
Xerlynjoy Lanaza
Re-posted: August 15, 2011 12:20 pm
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