Download Reviews: Korn, Motley Crue & Faith No More
More reviews from Download 2009!
Korn
On this week’s Metal Hammer podcast, we had a bit of a natter about how Korn had the bum spot of the weekend. Sandwiched in between the comebacks of Limp Bizkit and Faith No More, there was a sizeable chance that Korn would be eaten by those bands but they completely held their own.
Bags of energy and throwing out a greatest hits set, Davies and the boys provided a vibe that was much darker and less ‘good-time’, but heavy as fuck.
Korn have had a love affair with Donington since their breakthrough performance in 1996. Today, that love affair continued and then some.
Motley Crue
Opening with ‘Kickstart My Heart’, Crue really should be hitting the ground running but it takes a few songs for the band to really find their feet. Don’t get us wrong, the band are on very good form tonight and ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’, ‘Dr Feelgood’ et al are perfect for festivals but a mixture of a lethargic crowd and extended chatting to the crowd just means Motley never quite get the same swagger they showed during their festival-stealing set in 2007.
It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t what this band are capable of.
Faith No More
To put it into context, Faith No More were even better tonight than at Brixton on Wednesday. Opening with the reunited cover again, the band’s decision to throw in a very, VERY fast ‘Introduce Yourself’, a mountainous ‘Ashes To Ashes’ and end on a fist-throwing ‘We Care A Lot’, was inspired.
The only way to describe this awesome, awe-inspiring set is that it’s everything that it threatened to be. Patton’s voice was out of this world, there was barmy and brilliant in equal measure, the sound was impeccable…quite honestly, the gauntlet has been thrown down for festival season. Limp Bizkit were phenomenal, FNM were even better and tonight sees Slipknot take the stage.
Is this going to be the best Download ever? It’s certainly started that way.
Check out pics from Korn, Motley Crue and Faith No More’s sets from the official Download site.
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stop making me feel worse for being skint and missing it
[...] Metal Hammer give a positive review, rating the show as better than Brixton. Sample quote: “The only way to describe this awesome, awe-inspiring set is that it’s everything that it threatened to be.” [...]
Roll on the FNM Dublin gig!!!!!!! \m/
maidenhead no worry i too felt the sting of skintness and its incredibly hard when your mate calls you during korn and fnm!
Faith No More were absolutley fucking incredible. One of the best nights of my life. Well worth a 337 mile round trip all on my own, wouldn’t have missed it for the world. Duff kicked ass too.
i only found out last night that i could have watched this live on the download website. i was like “FUCK!”
well i caught slipknots last two songs, they were awesome, and i thought i might as well watch journey today
[...] Korn, Motley Crue & Faith No More [...]
i watched motley crue and they wer amazin, then i checkd out the last few songs of fnm and i wish i hadnt, they totally ruined epic by growling and they wer jst shit in general fae wot a saw. but sayin that i hadnt really herd them b4 so maybe there ment to b lyk that…
pardon the pun but Faith No More were nothing less than ‘Epic’
I heard FNM as I walked back to my tent, I wish I hadnt, and I wish everyone would stop giving positive reviews on a live show that was boring and dull and to point out, the vocalists voice was AWFUL
Meeeee, if you were walking back to your tent at the time how did you see the live show?
ZZ Top were in-fuckin-sanely amazing, effortless and had the crowd in the palm of their hands!!!! How can people say they were a dissapointment????
Fred Durst and his band of equally talentless/annoying/non-rock mongs were even shitter than i could ever had imagined. A SET OF DECKS DOES NOT HAVE A PLACE ON A ROCK STAGE. Dont even get me started on Korn.
I thought youmeatsix were an actual joke band, as the crowd was made up of emo girls (granted some of them may have been emo boy’s, i couldnt really tell) of around 11 to 16, screaming like it was fucking take that. I nearly shit myself laughing when the ‘lead singer’ seriously asked for a mosh pit.
Whitesnake had a shaky start, but pulled it round and were pretty fucking good, although i just couldn’t stop looking at coverdale’s teeth, jesus i’m suprised he could even sing with those bad boys in.
Meeeee, it’s a well known fact that Faith No More’s music is too creative and intelligent for many people to grasp, and i take you’re no rocket scientist, but that’s cool!! Someone needs to work the counter at McDonalds too. However, saying Mike Patton’s voice is “AWFUL” is like looking at a pink wall and claiming it’s blue. Hope you get the treatment required for your delusions. You take care now….