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The the Soundwave and Soundwave Revolution Festivals are playing in Australia, going through most of the capital cities. The main Soundwave Festival is usually earlier in the year, but we now have the Soundwave Revolution Festival coming up and it's looking to be a cracker of a day! We have Van Halen, Machine Head, Devin Townsend Project, Alice Cooper, Danzig and Alter Bridge just to name a few... I'm fkin pumped! Machine Head are going to tear the place up, followed by Devin Townsend Project? *drools* Check out the lineup here: http://www.soundwavefestival.com/ Hope to see some of the Aussies in the Pit!! Woo hoo!

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Re: Soundwave and Soundwave Revolution Festivals Thats awesome, in Europe we tend to get all the festivals in summer so the rest of the year is just spent longing for them ;) Would be so great to have festivals in march and september as well!

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Re: Soundwave and Soundwave Revolution Festivals 2012 Soundwave line up really doesn't look appealing, especially with Slipknot and Marilyn Manson as the headlining acts, this years was good with the exception of Iron Maiden's performance (or maybe they just sucked in Adelaide). I'd love the big four to play Soundwave at some point, Australia never gets anything that huge

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Re: Soundwave and Soundwave Revolution Festivals I had a friend who went to one of the Big Four shows over here and said Slayer and Metallica sucked. I have no trouble with him saying Slayer sucked because they are horrible live. Metallica on the other hand are tight as hell and put on a good show. Or at least they did 20 years ago. Anthrax and Megadeth are great live however. In saying that, as much as I hate Metallica, I'd watch them, but I'd be eating or taking the worlds longest piss during Slayer.

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Oddly enough' date=' humas boy left his Live Shit box with me about 10 years ago (I'm still clueless as to why) and I've listened to some of it and it sounds just fine to me.[/quote'] I think you mean hummus, not humas. Everything I've heard from that recording and onward sounded terrible, especially when compared to the live footage from Cliff 'Em All. It seems like they started getting drunk before they went on stage instead of after as soon as Cliff died, I can't think of any other reason why a collection of bootleg videos of a young band would sound more professional than high dollar recordings from an experienced band.
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Actually, it's the correct spelling for him. You should know that well enough. :D They were incredible alcoholics. They were mockingly referred to as "Alcohollica" for a number of years. In fact, I've seen official posters and patches with said moniker on them. Either way they were still a billion times better than Slayer live. They sounded just like they did on CD only more intense because they were live and I hate to say that since I hate them; But I will give credit where it's due.
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Re: Soundwave and Soundwave Revolution Festivals It's true that Metallica certainly are not the ferocious band they were in the 80's, but nor are they terrible live (well except for Lars) :P James voice has "softened" over the years which also takes the edge off the performance, as does Jason's absence (I actually thought he was a great asset to them live for backing vocals if nothing else). As for Slayer- that was an absolute shocker of a performance from them on the Big 4 DVD- didn't really start getting into until the last 3 songs (but they usually tear the place up whenever I've seen them)

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