PartySan Open Air Report Saturday 19.08.2023
PartySan Open Air Report Thursday 19.08.2023
The time running so fast, not realize that today is the last day of PartySan 2023. Back Stage ground even still early but it is nice to get something to eat and meet some friends. Slowly the Stage grounds got more people, 30 minutes before the opening band hit the stage the Stage grounds were already crowded.
Atomwinter, an Old-school Death Metal band from Göttingen Germany the opening slot for the last day of the festival. The band sounds old-school mixed with Bolt Thrower style which slow riffs guitar and traditional drum beat. I didn’t know this band before just heard the name but this is the first time seen them live. Great live performance it made all of the Old-school Death Metal fans enjoy all long the show for the early day.
Frozen Soul is an Old-school Death Metal Band from the USA, the band was a surprise because of the character of Typestyle they play, Old-school death Metal Reffs mixed with Slam Death Metal Reffs is a very interesting typical US Death Metal sound. Very catchy riffs slowly but killing with a traditional Old-school beat with Bolt Thrower style. I don’t know this band before. At some time on the front Stage, the crowd went nuts. Massive circle pit after circle pit without end till finished their set. This was… very amazing performance.
Spectral Wound, the Canadian Black Metal. The next good act early on is Spectral Wound. The partygoers are still totally motivated on the third day and are keen to celebrate Extreme Metal. Imperial Saison Noire and Soul Destroying Black Debauchery from the black metallers weigh heavily. The riffs come out of the speakers weighing tons. Frigid And Spellbound and Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal are viciously celebrated by Jona. The sound is strong the atmosphere has been good all afternoon and the big acts of the day are only playing in a few hours.
Next is Skitsystem
, The punky Black ‘N’ Roll from Göteborg, Schweden. The Swedes released their last album Stigmata in 2006. Having risen like a phoenix from the ashes, things are now going well again after the disbandment in 2007. To match the last piece of silver, they serve the title track Stigmata from the disc. It gets dusty on stage, the handwriting is old school and the Scandinavians still have a knife between their teeth. We didn’t have the men from Gothenburg on our list, who pull off more headbangers than you would have previously thought.
The heavy thunderstorm passes the festival by a hair’s breadth. Although it rains during Ellende’s performance, the lightning storm and the heavy rain can only be seen on the horizon. Thor has mercy on us and prefers to leave Ellende to crash on stage. While the Austrians perform their ambient post-black metal, a fine rain falls on the runway. The typical smell of summer rain is in the air, while dark and depressive black metal hits your ears. The structure of LG’s project is very monotonous and clearly relies on attrition tactics. Fine highlights break up the dark chain mail, while the live line-up lets new and old material rain down on the soul. The atmosphere remains excellent, that is also our conclusion from Party.San 2023.
It’s time for the skinless. The Death Metal from New York to blow their death lead unadorned across the pond to Europe. While Chris Mahar is working on his shooting gallery, it is literally on fire. Free fire for the hungry Death Metal warriors, who simply knock it out without a backdrop or other visual accents. Today, especially in the first few hours, bands with a relatively low standing in the scene or who are considered underground gems and cannot be seen on every street corner are surprising. The area is in front of the stage a little less crowded than the day before, but Skinless are just as energetic as all the other acts of the day. Singer Jason Keyser sings My Hat, It Has Three Corners. He casually strolls across the boards in his cowboy hat and throws his hat into the crowd during the last song. Even if the formation claims to have gone over the top in the Brutal Assault the day before, it is still quite enough for a good performance a day later.
Impiety is another highlight for me, and not just because you don’t often have the opportunity to experience the veterans from Singapore in Europe. The men unleash a truly vicious and menacing primal force of old-school thrashy death and black metal that makes it a real joy to witness this inferno. I definitely have some catching up to do here in the next few weeks. I definitely have to dig through the Asians’ discography. (JD) Impiety also attracts visual attention with fire fountains and burning drum stands. But why the singer has to distort his microphone so much that it almost hurts his ears remains his secret. Back on the tent stage, ARSGOATIA’s monotonous guitar riffs dominate and create a doom-and-gloom atmosphere. Even though the band only has one album released, many people don’t want to miss the first PARTY.SAN appearance. Around the ex-Belphegor singer Bart, the Austrians show that atmospheric black metal works even without synthesizers and other nonsense.
The legendary of Death Metal Band Veterans From
Immolation filled in for Vital Remains who had to cancel their performance. A worthy replacement! The band around vocalist and bassist Ross Dolan and guitarist Rob Vigna, with his unique moves, while playing the most intricate riffs, offered a setlist containing a great mix of classic and newer material such as „Under the Supreme“,
„Harnessing Ruin“, „Providence“ or „The Age of no Light“ in powerful sound. Delivery of a powerful live performance undoubtedly highlights for all fans of extreme Music.
Borknagar after 21 years Borknagar from Norway finally returned to PSOA with their original style of progressive Black/Viking Metal. Now fronted by ICS Vortex they presented an amazing set of songs, including the epics „Up North“ and „Winter Thrice“, the classics „Colossus“, „Ruins of the Future“ and „The Dawn of the End“ and a stellar performance of the calm song „Voices“ with Keyboardist Lars on lead vocals. Mostly in very good sound (unfortunately, the mic of the lead guitarist was off the first half of the set) this was amongst my highlights of the festival!.
Endstille the Germany Black Metal. well, I don’t know so much music about this band never heard it before.
the Canadian Death Metal band guested for the 4th time at PSOA. Their modern Style made the crowd circle pitting and crowd surfing pushed by frontman Maurizio Iacono. Some older hits like „Manipulator of Souls“, „Shadows and Dust“ or „As I Slither“ were the highlights for me, with too much newer material being played for my taste.
Overall a solid gig that also featured a brand new tune from their upcoming album „Goliath“.
Enslaved. 12 long years since their last PSOA performance the Norwegian Progressive Viking Black Metal giants finally returned! In perfect sound with a great light show they presented a special setlist
for this final Ggg of the festival. Their 1994 debut album „Vikingligr Veldi“ was played in its entirety, and the epic opening song from „Eld“, „793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)“ served as a surprise encore. As Enslaved has released some amazing albums over the last 10 years a setlist with some newer songs would be even better in my opinion. Nevertheless a great ending to an awesome PSOA 2023!
That was the end of PartySan Open Air 2023. It was an amazing time 3 days in a row listening to great bands’ performances and hanging out with friends, now we must wait for one year for the next edition of PartySan Open Air 2024.
Story by Mirko van der Veen and Nova
PartySan Open Air Report Thursday 19.08.2023
The time running so fast, not realize that today is the last day of PartySan 2023. Back Stage ground even still early but it is nice to get something to eat and meet some friends. Slowly the Stage grounds got more people, 30 minutes before the opening band hit the stage the Stage grounds were already crowded.
Atomwinter, an Old-school Death Metal band from Göttingen Germany the opening slot for the last day of the festival. The band sounds old-school mixed with Bolt Thrower style which slow riffs guitar and traditional drum beat. I didn’t know this band before just heard the name but this is the first time seen them live. Great live performance it made all of the Old-school Death Metal fans enjoy all long the show for the early day.
Frozen Soul is an Old-school Death Metal Band from the USA, the band was a surprise because of the character of Typestyle they play, Old-school death Metal Reffs mixed with Slam Death Metal Reffs is a very interesting typical US Death Metal sound. Very catchy riffs slowly but killing with a traditional Old-school beat with Bolt Thrower style. I don’t know this band before. At some time on the front Stage, the crowd went nuts. Massive circle pit after circle pit without end till finished their set. This was… very amazing performance.Spectral Wound, the Canadian Black Metal. The next good act early on is Spectral Wound. The partygoers are still totally motivated on the third day and are keen to celebrate Extreme Metal. Imperial Saison Noire and Soul Destroying Black Debauchery from the black metallers weigh heavily. The riffs come out of the speakers weighing tons. Frigid And Spellbound and Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal are viciously celebrated by Jona. The sound is strong the atmosphere has been good all afternoon and the big acts of the day are only playing in a few hours.
Next is Skitsystem, The punky Black ‘N’ Roll from Göteborg, Schweden. The Swedes released their last album Stigmata in 2006. Having risen like a phoenix from the ashes, things are now going well again after the disbandment in 2007. To match the last piece of silver, they serve the title track Stigmata from the disc. It gets dusty on stage, the handwriting is old school and the Scandinavians still have a knife between their teeth. We didn’t have the men from Gothenburg on our list, who pull off more headbangers than you would have previously thought.The heavy thunderstorm passes the festival by a hair’s breadth. Although it rains during Ellende’s performance, the lightning storm and the heavy rain can only be seen on the horizon. Thor has mercy on us and prefers to leave Ellende to crash on stage. While the Austrians perform their ambient post-black metal, a fine rain falls on the runway. The typical smell of summer rain is in the air, while dark and depressive black metal hits your ears. The structure of LG’s project is very monotonous and clearly relies on attrition tactics. Fine highlights break up the dark chain mail, while the live line-up lets new and old material rain down on the soul. The atmosphere remains excellent, that is also our conclusion from Party.San 2023.
It’s time for the skinless. The Death Metal from New York to blow their death lead unadorned across the pond to Europe. While Chris Mahar is working on his shooting gallery, it is literally on fire. Free fire for the hungry Death Metal warriors, who simply knock it out without a backdrop or other visual accents. Today, especially in the first few hours, bands with a relatively low standing in the scene or who are considered underground gems and cannot be seen on every street corner are surprising. The area is in front of the stage a little less crowded than the day before, but Skinless are just as energetic as all the other acts of the day. Singer Jason Keyser sings My Hat, It Has Three Corners. He casually strolls across the boards in his cowboy hat and throws his hat into the crowd during the last song. Even if the formation claims to have gone over the top in the Brutal Assault the day before, it is still quite enough for a good performance a day later.
Impiety is another highlight for me, and not just because you don’t often have the opportunity to experience the veterans from Singapore in Europe. The men unleash a truly vicious and menacing primal force of old-school thrashy death and black metal that makes it a real joy to witness this inferno. I definitely have some catching up to do here in the next few weeks. I definitely have to dig through the Asians’ discography. (JD) Impiety also attracts visual attention with fire fountains and burning drum stands. But why the singer has to distort his microphone so much that it almost hurts his ears remains his secret. Back on the tent stage, ARSGOATIA’s monotonous guitar riffs dominate and create a doom-and-gloom atmosphere. Even though the band only has one album released, many people don’t want to miss the first PARTY.SAN appearance. Around the ex-Belphegor singer Bart, the Austrians show that atmospheric black metal works even without synthesizers and other nonsense.
The legendary of Death Metal Band Veterans From
Immolation filled in for Vital Remains who had to cancel their performance. A worthy replacement! The band around vocalist and bassist Ross Dolan and guitarist Rob Vigna, with his unique moves, while playing the most intricate riffs, offered a setlist containing a great mix of classic and newer material such as „Under the Supreme“,
„Harnessing Ruin“, „Providence“ or „The Age of no Light“ in powerful sound. Delivery of a powerful live performance undoubtedly highlights for all fans of extreme Music.
Borknagar after 21 years Borknagar from Norway finally returned to PSOA with their original style of progressive Black/Viking Metal. Now fronted by ICS Vortex they presented an amazing set of songs, including the epics „Up North“ and „Winter Thrice“, the classics „Colossus“, „Ruins of the Future“ and „The Dawn of the End“ and a stellar performance of the calm song „Voices“ with Keyboardist Lars on lead vocals. Mostly in very good sound (unfortunately, the mic of the lead guitarist was off the first half of the set) this was amongst my highlights of the festival!.
Endstille the Germany Black Metal. well, I don’t know so much music about this band never heard it before.
the Canadian Death Metal band guested for the 4th time at PSOA. Their modern Style made the crowd circle pitting and crowd surfing pushed by frontman Maurizio Iacono. Some older hits like „Manipulator of Souls“, „Shadows and Dust“ or „As I Slither“ were the highlights for me, with too much newer material being played for my taste.
Overall a solid gig that also featured a brand new tune from their upcoming album „Goliath“.
Enslaved. 12 long years since their last PSOA performance the Norwegian Progressive Viking Black Metal giants finally returned! In perfect sound with a great light show they presented a special setlist
for this final Ggg of the festival. Their 1994 debut album „Vikingligr Veldi“ was played in its entirety, and the epic opening song from „Eld“, „793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)“ served as a surprise encore. As Enslaved has released some amazing albums over the last 10 years a setlist with some newer songs would be even better in my opinion. Nevertheless a great ending to an awesome PSOA 2023!
That was the end of PartySan Open Air 2023. It was an amazing time 3 days in a row listening to great bands’ performances and hanging out with friends, now we must wait for one year for the next edition of PartySan Open Air 2024.
Story by Mirko van der Veen and Nova
