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Lamb of God/Fear Factory/Children of Bodom/Throwdown
October 14th 2004
Webster Theatre- Hartford, CT
 

With me, it’s a rare thing for a time frame of longer than 6 months to pass in between me seeing a favorite band live. This makes Lamb of God a major exception to the rule. The last time I saw this amazing band in concert was close to 4 years ago. In fact that was actually my first show ever. But sappy and sentimental stuff aside, you can see the reason I was psyched when I saw that Lamb of God was going to be hitting a venue 15 minutes away from my University and that I didn’t have a conflict in schedule. I went into the show with HIGH expectations and believe me they more than fulfilled them.

Now if you recall, last time I went to a show at Webster I discovered they had this cracked out policy about moshing. It wasn’t allowed. I knew that day there really would be no way to prevent it at this show, and I was glad that my instinct was right and that security was bright enough to realize this as well. Throwdown, a hardcore band from the OC, opened the show and really got the pits going. Highlights from their set include when they got the crowd revved up by mentioning none other than hometown boy Jamey Jasta [frontman Hatebreed and the host of MTV2 Headbangers Ball] and during “Forever” which is an awesome song on record but a million times better live. Next up were Children of Bodom, who be honest I could care less about. They are good at what they do but in my opinion they really did not fit on the bill. However they did have a pretty good percentage of the people there into them. There wasn’t any moshing as their music is more about headbanging. A decent set from what I could tell, although I found it curious as to how many females that were at the show for them. I guess most CT metal girls have some sort of fetish for Finnish rock stars. Anyway, next up was Fear Factory. This was my second time seeing them and once again I really didn’t pay them the attention they truly deserve. Maybe they should start touring as a headlining band instead of just opening up for some of my favorites. Despite not having my full attention, I did notice that they got the crowd psyched and in the right frame of mind for Lamb of God.

Lamb of God. Wow. What can I say about these 5 brutal men from Richmond, VA? They hit the stage harder than Mother Nature has been hitting Florida over the past couple of months. They were every bit as awesome as they were when I first saw them when I was 14. The set was mostly material off of their latest release “Ashes of the Wake” with a few exceptions. One of these exceptions being when vocalist Randy Blythe gave a shout out to none other than Jamey and Hatebreed and dedicated the song “Ruin” to them. The pit had been growing steadily since they took stage but when this happened the pit just exploded. It was an amazing thing to witness from my vantage point from the side of the stage standing on some crates. Lamb of God is just one of those bands that no amount of words and adjectives can do their live performance justice. Just go see it for yourself. They have been dubbed the future of American Metal, and let me say this. I have seen the future and it is GOOD!
 

~Janee