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Disturbed at Horden Pavillion
September 4, 2008

As you may or may not have been aware, metal-band Disturbed achieved a number one record in Australia earlier this year with their fourth creation - Indestructible. Due to their growing popularity they headlined are currently headlining a tour featuring (for the Australian leg at least) P.O.D. who are releasing their new album on September 20 (entitled When Angels & Serpents Dance), Alter bridge and Behind Crimson Eyes, a band from Melbourne.

The Sydney gig was held on Wednesday the third of September and was held at Horden Pavilion. I was lucky enough to attend along with some mates, and (apparently) a sell out crowd. The queue to get in was a good 500 meters long, and by the time we had made it in and made a few purchases from the merchandise stall Behind Crimson Eyes had finished. For some reason they only played for fifteen minutes (not that I’m complaining).

Alter Bridge, which according to what I’m told, is the band Creed without their old singer, played next and met a mixed response. They weren’t heavy enough for some, but i still found them to be quite entertaining. They perhaps suffered because of the slower pace in some of their songs, this didn’t appeal to an audience out for a night of loud and fast metal.

P.O.D. (Payable On Death) were next to the stage, and also met a mixed response due to their banner which had a depiction of Jesus Christ. In my personal opinion they were really good, by this stage i was only a few short meters from the stage itself, right where the action is. They played several of their bigger songs such as “Boom”, “Youth of the Nation” and “Southtown”, and even threw in a punk-rock song of which i hadn’t heard before. it was a good ploy as the fast beat had the crowd reeling. They managed to get the crowd involved in “Youth of the Nation” which also went down well. P.O.D. played for what must have been close to an hour.

At approximately 9:48 David Draiman (Frontman for the band) was wheeled out on what resembled a wooden L-trolley wearing a straight-jacket and a muzzle (like that of Hannibal). The band kicked off with a track from their latest album entitled “Perfect Insanity”. The band played songs from all of their four albums much to the crowds’ (and my) delight. The concert featured a couple of short speeches from David Draiman regarding the band and their music, the crowd didn’t seem to care too much and cheered at everything he said regardless. The performance was filmed and I have my suspicions that a tour edition CD/DVD may be in the works. As everyone could have predicted the encore was brought to a close by the song that put Disturbed on the map, “The Sickness” and the reaction from the crowd (which had been MASSIVE when appealing for an encore) was enormous - then again there must have been close to 10,000 people there.

This experience made me wish i lived in Sydney…

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