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Testament 09/27/2024 Chicago

Headlining and finishing of the Klash of the Titans tour was the almighty Testament. These Bay Area Thrash Legends came out strong and stayed strong through their entire set. Featuring the shredding guitars of Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson, the vocals of the only metal vocalist I know that was ever featured in the Smithsonian Chuck Billy and all tied together by the bass of Steve DiGiorgio and drums of Chris Dovas Testament really delivered one great set. Although I can’t speak for everyone out there, I think the Big 4 can step to the side, because for me a better thrash metal show (in no particular order) would be Testament, Kreator, and maybe Overkill. Either way, if you love thrash metal and don’t know Testament then it’s time to check them out.

SET LIST
Eerie Inhabitants
The New Order
Apocalyptic City
Raging Waters
The Preacher
The Haunting
Trial By Fire
First Strike Is Deadly
A Day Of Reckoning
Alone In the Dark
Do Or Die
Disciples Of The Watch
Over The Wall
Into The Pit

Kreator 09/27/2024 Chicago

So this Klash of the Titans tour pinned Kreator and Testament as co-headliners and both bands are legends in their own rights. However, I myself love Kreator. Having seen them probably close to ten times, they have never disappointed me to date. Although for a while there it did seem like I was cursed while trying to take photos of them. From the time they used heavy fog and no stage lights for the first three songs to the time that one of their roadies was being less than pleasant and jumped off the stage after picking a fight with a fan thus pushing me out of a good shooting place I always seemed to have bad luck trying to take photos of them. In recent years I’ve had better luck, this show included.

All that aside though, Kreator came out and delivered another phenomenal thrash set included one of my personal favorite songs, “Phobia”. With Mille Petrozza’s commanding vocals and Ventor’s crushing drums Kreator had the crowd flying high with crowd surfers and pit after pit forming in their wake. If you’ve never had the opportunity to catch Kreator live and you like Thrash Metal as much as I do, I highly recommend taking the time to catch one of their shows. And as always “THE KREATOR WILL RETURN!!!

SET LIST
Sergio Corbucci Is Dead (Intro)
Hate Über Alles
Phobia
Enemy Of God
666 – World Divided
Hordes Of Chaos
Hail To The Hordes
Betrayer
Satan Is Real
Mars Mantra (Intro)
Phantom Antichrist
Strongest Of The Strong
Terrible Certainty
The Patriarch (Intro)
Violent Revolution
Pleasure To Kill

Possessed 09/27/2024 Chicago

Although I can’t say that too familiar with Possessed I had heard of them and that in itself says a lot for the opening act on a tour of this magnitude. I never had a guide to metal growing up and kind of have been discovering bands myself for years and am still discovering them to this day. From talking with fans, I learned that Possessed was basically the first Death Metal band.

All that being said, Possessed took the stage at about 6:50PM to a still growing crowd as people got off work and battled Chicago traffic to get in. That didn’t stop them though from blowing the roof off of Radius Chicago and putting on a killer show.

SET LIST
Pentagram
Ritual
Tribulation
Graven
The Exorcist
Demon
Death Metal
Swing of the Axe

Testament and Kreator Headlining Tour

TESTAMENT and KREATOR’s co-headlining ‘Klash Of The Titans North American 2024’ tour with POSSESSED:

09.12 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort
09.13 Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
09.14 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Centre
09.16 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
09.17 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
09.18 Vancouver, BC Canada @ Vogue
09.20 Calgary, AB Canada @ MacEwan Hall
09.21 Enoch, AB Canada @ River Cree Casino
09.22 Saskatoon, SK Canada @ Coors Event Centre
09.24 Winnipeg, MB Canada @ Burton Cummings Theatre
09.26 Maplewood, MN @ Myth Live
09.28 Huber Heights, Oh @ Rose Music Center
09.29 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
10.01 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora
10.03 Toronto, ON Canada @ History
10.04 Montreal, QC Canada @ MTelus
10.05 New Haven, CT @ College Street
10.06 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
10.08 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
10.10 Montclair, NJ @ The Wellmont Theatre
10.11 Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek Casino
10.12 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
10.13 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
10.15 Orlando, FL. @ Hard Rock Live
10.16 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
10.18 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Lawn)
10.19 San Antonio, TX @ The Aztec
10.20 Dallas, TX @ The Factory
10.22 Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
10.23 Albuquerque, NM @ Albuquerque Convention Center
10.24 Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
10.26 Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
10.27 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

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Please reach out to Kristin Torres (Kristin@nuclearblastusa.com) for any KREATOR, & POSSESSED inquiries.

Please reach out to Adrenaline PR (maria@adrenalinepr.com) for TESTAMENT inquiries.