Two Nights with Opeth and Orphaned Land

Opeth at Gasometer, 29.11.2011

After years of absence, Opeth, YES "Opeth", visited Austria again to promote their new album Heritage. I was eager to see them again and was more than happy that Sapnish joined me as well on the trip to Gasometer. We didn't go unprepared and had already listened to the new songs on Heritage beforehand. The set list promised a rather quiet evening with evergreens, such as "Face of Melinda", and a selection of the newest songs. All in all, I enjoyed it and it was Opeth in Vienna, dammit, but still it could have been so much better and less talking in between the songs. Mikael, I love you, but that were just too many jokes to bridge songs and, dammit again, next time eat that Cordon Bleu at Steman instead just talking about it :)

Orphaned Land at Viper Room, 06.12.2011

The post talks about Orphaned Land, but first I have to give credit to one of their supporting act, Arkan. That was great music and the voice of Sarah will chase me in my dreams, *cough* not gonna start about the looks, dammit, she is one beautiful women.

The whole gang was present, Supul, Margot, Sapnish and myself. Down in that "basement" you lose all sense for time, but Orphaned Land just started in time around at 10pm if I'm not totally mistaken. Well, what can I say, it was awesome and the band, the music, the atmosphere was just perfect. If I ever going to be asked what is the essence of attending concerts, I'll just transmit telepathically the feeling I had during "Sapari" or "Norra el Norra".

Sacrifi-Sir