Amon Amarth / Machine Head Co headline show. 3 Arena 13/9/22

[Born of Fire]

The blurb for the gig would suggest that Head Cases have been replaced by Lionhearts, not sure which is more embarrassing really. That being said Machine Head could still lash out a daycent set if they just play the older stuff and don't let Flynn talk total wank between songs.

Seen Amon Amarth a few times as support and as headliners and haven't been disappointed with their shows yet.

[H]

MH close the UK-IRE section but equal set lengths I think.

[Pain Medicine]

Been humming and hawing about this for a few weeks, only have a casual interest in either band and find Rob Flynn quite cringey but after seeing a few clips from the first night of the tour decided to get a ticket this morning.

Both bands have proper headline arena production didn't watch too much but looks pretty great.

[BobbyAxelrod]

While I'm not much of a fan anyway, Amon Amarth were slightly meh (tune yer guitars boys). Machine Head, on the other hand, absolutely smashed my expectations. Great sound mix, awesome stage, perfectly played, and an utterly mental crowd. Rob's hired guns play the parts better than the original musicians.

Slightly disappointed we didn't get Locust like other cities. I also laughed at Rob's faux pas, telling us this was the last night of the UK tour.

[Lefttodie]

Halo Effect were excellent.

Amon Amarth we're ok, and a lot cheesy. Good fun, but not as good as I expected. Anything from TOTTGs and before was ok..Giant sea snake being hit with a hammer was hilarious.

Machine Head were fucking fantastic. Jared is a beast on the bass, Vogg was great as expected, and Matt is phenomenal on drums. Robb was in great voice and form, really got the crowd going crazy.

Balcony was full apart from the sides, standing seemed to have a bit of space to spare as well.

[Pain Medicine]

Yeah I thought it was very good. Machine Head sound/lights/production was class. Thought Amon Amarth looked very at home on a big stage, noticed that all their pyro was missing though compared to the clips I'd seen from the UK shows which yeah meant swinging the hammer around looked a bit stupid.