Concert Review – Grave Digger, Garagedays in Munich, Backstage Halle, December 27, 2015
This past Sunday, right after three days of Christmas celebrations, Grave Digger came to town to celebrate 35 years of existence in the Heavy Metal business. The announced opening act for the night was Motorjesus. Due to a broken hand of their guitarist a substitute had to be found, which in the end was the Austrian Band Garagedays. However they were a perfect choice musicwise and fit perfectly on a line up for an 80’s birthday-bash.
Grave Digger’s set was a time travel through their earlier music years with a 12 song setlist and five songs that brought everyone to the now as an encore. As to be expected, the average age of the audience was not late teens/early twens, but almost a generation older. But don’t you think that didn’t stop everyone from rockin’ really hard. With every song came along a little story told by Chris Boltendahl, the singer of Grave Digger, which included tour stories, studio times and also about the (not so glorious, ‘we were young and needed the money’) time they shortly changed their band name to ‘Digger’.
This was a straight out Heavy Metal show, which get so rare, ‘cause there’s a wide variety of styles these days in the Rock business and the Metal bands, like Grave Digger, get less and less. To sum it up, it was a nice ride back to the 80’s and the newer songs they played showed that Grave Digger surely still know how to rock and hopefully won’t stop. So let’s hope for another celebration in, let’s say 5 years!?
For more information on both bands go visit their social media
Garagedays
- https://www.facebook.com/garagedays/?fref=ts
- http://www.garagedays.at/
- https://twitter.com/GARAGEDAYSMetal
Grave Digger
- https://www.facebook.com/gravediggerofficial/?fref=ts
- http://www.grave-digger-clan.com/
- https://twitter.com/GRAVEDIGGERclan
~ Review and Photography by Alex Bock, https://twitter.com/lexi22473_b
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