Rhapsody Of Fire @ 1720 9-9-25
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Rhapsody of Fire Brings the Magic, Metal, and Fun to LA with Energy and Chaos!
Fiery power metal act Rhapsody of Fire had announced during the early summer time that come the fall, a headlining run would commence where they would celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Dawn of Victory". Support would be coming from Enforcer, Witherfall, and Striker, a mix mash of power metal, melodic heavy metal, glam hair metal, and heavy metal.
The tour having just started with Los Angeles being the fourth date on this trek. With that, the evening would be held in Downtown LA within the warehouse/fashion district at the 1720 venue, fans were already inside, enjoying the opening heavy metal band known as Striker. Their performance having gotten a glimpse into their antics, they brought the energy and angst of heavy metal aggression. Very energetic and overflowing with such movement, it had the crowd really into their performance and energy given out. Truly a band that is one to catch to get an idea of what they can do during their performance.
STRIKER:
Next up would be melodic metal act Witherfall fronted by vocalist Joseph Michael, who has done previous work in other bands including Midnight Reign, among others. Tonight would be the first time catching Witherfall live, since seeing his previous band Midnight Reign perform a few times prior. But due to some misfortunate occurrence of some of the other opening acts, Witherfall's sound set up did not go so well live. Due to this mishap, because of another band's sound check even before the whole event would open this evening, that caused some of the other performers to not get a chance of their own sound check causing tonight's performances to not go so well as they would have hoped.
WITHERFALL:
Witherfall did go on and perform a good set. Its just the drums, bass, sounded like they were overlapping one another, one sounding louder than the other. With the guitars and keyboardist, drowning out each other, with the main man vocalist being heard but barely at times during the band's set-up. The music sounded fine but that sound check would have been better suited if it had been an option, making this performance that more available to hearing it. Don't get me wrong the band still did do good, and are worth checking out, because everything works just some mistakes were taken and needed some fixing, to make it better suited.
This minor mishap would lead to Enforcer performing next, and their set caused the audience to go nuts. Having been from Sweden, these guys not only look alike to one another, but the audience ate it up. That heavy metal, glam metal style made everyone jumping around, bobbing their heads, to pushing one another in the mosh pit it was energetic whichever way you looked up. Enforcer have got that energy stacked, with such crowd participation it made their performance that more catchy.
ENFORCER:
Ending off the night would be power metal titans Rhapsody of Fire. Now their performance was solid, their vocalist jumping into the mosh pit towards the end of the evening, had the crowd go insane. But before that happened, their entire performance was what really had the crowd on their feet. Jumping, pushing, shoving, crowd surfing, running in circles, it was non-stop chaotic. It's how good old power metal should be about, nothing but chaos and energy. Everywhere you looked you would see smiles all around, with others singing along, to the band giving off magical elements that spread the magic into the crowd, due to the vocalists magical staff. It was just endless fun.
RHAPSODY OF FIRE:
Overall some mishaps may have happened between the bands, but the bands did their darndest to make the best of it. So much energy, fun, and music put forth, it made tonight worth enjoying.