ArchiveXYZ: MUSICAL CHAPTERS II

TRIBUTE TO METALLICA
Lords of Doom with Easy Strike at Secondary School D. Pedro V Auditorium, Lisbon, 14/4/2018.

There are people making music and art everywhere: in big stages, in studios, in the streets, in tiny rooms, in the open air. Sometimes talented people are under our nose and we don’t know. What really counts isn’t popularity but the genuine commitment to what we do. Somehow any task done with truthful dedication becomes some kind of art, even if it is a very simple work and the result unknown or hidden.

About one month ago I went to a concert in my school. Two bands were there to pay a kind of Tribute to Metallica: one was a youth band, Easy Strike that played originals and covers; the other was Lords of Doom, a band that plays just to enjoy, though it sounded as if they were doing it for big audiences.

Usually a spectator doesn’t know what will happen in a live show before the real thing, it’s how things are supposed to be. However in this case I was watching for the first time what I had been hearing for about a month before the concert. It happens that I work in the room above the auditorium where the rehearsals took place, so I heard it all again and again. And it was precisely that previous experience that showed me that those bands were taking that concert very seriously.

Surely they were! The final result was a very pleasant experience for the heterogeneous audience that filled the auditorium that late afternoon and evening. There were lots of young people, mainly students but also older people and families with children. I found that atmosphere very natural and warming. Though the sound was quite hard the most part of the show, there was a kind of softness in the air, something that we usually don’t associate with the thunder harsh sounds of heavy metal. Well, there were many kinds of sound. Some say that the most powerful ballads come from the hard and heavy rock area, and somehow they are right, mainly because peace and tranquility may be more totally appreciated after a sound storm.

Congratulations to both bands for their great performances! Here’s my tribute to Metallica but mainly to Easy Strike and Lords of Doom. Keep the good job and the good sounds!

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2032309440389440/

https://www.facebook.com/lordsdoom/

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Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

TRIBUTE TO METALLICA

Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

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