Sonisphere Review: Fear Factory, Papa Roach
The first of yesterday’s action from Knebworth!
If ever you needed something to blast away the cobwebs of Friday night’s Sonisbeers, Fear Factory’s industrial metal assault will do the job perfectly. Like a pneumatic drill to the eyeball, the likes of Shock and Demanufacture are still solid as fuck, Edgecrusher gets the pit moving from barrier to mixing desk and Replica is still an anthem for all ages (even if they did botch the opening a little bit). In front of a tr00 metal crowd, their co-headline set at Bloodstock is going to be something else on this kind of form.
Read our Sonisphere review of Pendulum, Ghost Of A Thousand and Turbowolf
We said on the podcast this week, partially from hazy memories of the past, that Papa Roach were always a kick-ass live band. What we wasn’t prepared for was for Jacoby Shaddix and his hard rock warriors to roll in to Knebworth and to throw the gauntlet down to everyone this weekend as the band to beat. Opening with a one-two punch of Getting Away With Murder and To Be Loved, the Roach are sensational for every second that they’re on stage. Leading the riots, Shaddix lives for fist-pumping crowds such as this, throng in front of him today. Scars is the kind of tune that was made for being belted out by tens of thousands of people and ending on old school bangers Between Angels And Insects and Last Resort, P-Roach came, saw and kicked everyone’s ass. Unbelievable scenes.
Read Hammer’s Sonisphere review of The Cult, Kvelertak and Heights
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‘Papa Roach’ and ’sensational’ in the same paragraph? Jesus…
Totally agree. Seen papa roach 3 times recently and every single time it’s a full energy induced set. Just rewind to download 09. They were a great warm up for trivium
I thought PR were alright, not bad, nothing special either. But Fear Factory kicked fucking ass.
Well, i felt that PR’s set was the worst i’ve seen so far, personally. They sounded really flat during the first two songs, and Jacoby was jumping around so frantically that his voice kept breaking. Plus they chose several slow, mellow songs that didn’t seem to fit a festival set like ‘Lifeline’ and ‘Scars’. Ok they were singles but i’d have rather seen them play ANY other PR songs than those two.
Their set wasn’t shit, but imo, it wasn’t as good as previous PR sets i’ve watched.
Fear Factory were so amazing that i’m actually willing to give ‘Mechanize’ another chance. Plus the rest of the set was uber old skool. Makes you wonder what 3 tunes they’d have played instead of the 3 new ones, if they’d actually turned up last year!
FF definitley gave one of the best performances of the whole weekend.
Saw Papa Roach at Dl in ‘07, and Jacoby sounded awful! Never gave them a chance live after that… Until now. They were brilliant!
I didn’t think FF were quite as good as they were in February in front of a “Tr00 metal” crowd.
love how hammer always exaggerates things like fear factory having a pit from the front to the mixing desk lol was stood at front of mixing desk the pit didnt even go more than 4 rows, fear factory were very poor at sonisphere really dissapointed in them
@king of heavy metal: quite right, there was something lacking about FF’s set for me, it just seemed like they were going through the motions, especially Burt. I’ve seen them twice before and they’re definitely capable of putting on a better performance. Shame.