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- Ladies and gentlemen, greetings! Here’s to a great season ahead!
- I hope you are all doing well!
- Did you recharge your “batteries” over the summer?
- I hope so, because we always need to gather strength for what’s next.
- How about summer festivals – how did that go?
- Myth of Rock was everywhere, bringing you our impressions and now preparing the autumn reports.
- And this autumn started in the best way possible, with the Rock Hard Festival Greece at Athens’ Technopolis.
- From the way things look, it’s going to be a concert-packed autumn!
- May we all stay healthy so we can attend as many live shows as we want!
- At the end of September, we also had the (third) historic Septicflesh show at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.
- The memories of a death metal band performing with a classical orchestra in that awe-inspiring archaeological venue are still fresh.
- A truly shocking artistic event, one that generally opens doors for metal, pushing aside prejudices and hatred.
- However, I’d like to point out something … fan behavior and fan chants don’t belong in the Odeon.
- The Odeon is not a stadium! In the Odeon, warm applause is the best, most meaningful and fitting way for the audience to express itself.
- I know that we metalheads usually express our passion and joy more intensely, but chanting, for example, doesn’t suit an archaeological site!
- Still, as we saw, the Greek metal audience once again respected the monument of the Odeon. And for that, we all deserve congratulations.
- It was also an opportunity for the authorities to see that metalheads know how to adapt and show respect when and where it is required.
- OK, in the metal community there are always a few rowdy types, but I think we’re talking about a very small minority.
- Metal is a vast world, where you can find everything! All kinds of people. So yes, even rowdies too!
- But the majority of metal fans behave appropriately in each case.
- Having said that, I want to mention one little detail that really annoys me at metal concerts: often fans throw cups into the crowd.
- Is it possible this happens? You’re standing there, enjoying your favorite band, and suddenly a plastic cup lands on your head?!
- Doesn’t that drive you mad? Are we serious?
- But I shouldn’t get too worked up! After all, it’s something that happens and will keep happening.
- Still, we need to express ourselves, to say what we don’t like!
- Only if we express ourselves as human beings, with dignity, can we find solutions to different problems and issues.
- And this also applies to us, rockers/metalheads.
- That’s all for now. Talk to you soon.
- Take care! Rock On!
Dimitris Zacharopoulos
[This Editorial’s photo is the front cover of Lake of Tears’ “Forever Autumn” album, which was released in 1999 by Black Mark, a fantastic record of melodic/gothic/atmosperic rock]
