Prog metal mosh pit11/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Again I missed the opener, Cellar Darling in this case, and I’m starting to wonder if it is just me or if shows are starting earlier now since the pandemic. ![]() The next night I found myself at the Black Cat to see Swedish doom band Katatonia along with the German prog band The Ocean. Mike Wead and Hank Shermann of Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate at the Fillmore Silver Spring Kreator – Flag of Hate / Pleasure to Kill I didn’t have a photo pass for this show, all my shots were from the audience on my phone, but I think I got a few decent ones, and I got video footage of the new song “The Jackal of Salzburg” as well as my personal favorite Mercyful Fate song, “A Dangerous Meeting.”Ĭlick here to see all of my concert videos on YouTube.Ĭlick here to see all of my photos from this concert on Flickr. They played a set list full of classics and a new song off an upcoming album that is yet to be named. King Diamond’s voice held up well and the band had great energy on stage along with a beautiful stage set up and lighting. You never really know if a band as old as Mercyful Fate is going to live up to the hype live but I think it is quite safe to say that this show did. With a blood moon lunar eclipse in the sky and midterm election results coming in time was standing still as Mercyful Fate took the stage. King Diamond has toured the US several times since Mercyful Fate’s last US tour in 1999 but fans have long been whispering rumors of a proper Mercyful Fate tour. Teutonic thrash legends Kreator were the first band I saw as it took me 25 minutes (and cost me a bottle opener on my key ring) to get into the venue leading me to miss opener Midnight. Mercyful Fate, Katatonia and the Dave Sherman Benefit show were all great experiences, I’m so glad live concerts are back this year.įirst up was the return of Mercyful Fate at the Fillmore Silver Spring on Tuesday, November 8th. "Smaller concerts, from 500 to 5,000 will generate six to 40 first aid casualties or injuries.I went to a few shows last week that were all great and I shot a lot of photos and videos and thought I’d share them here with you all. "A festival where moshing is prevalent, like Bamboozle, is likely to generate 100 to 200 mosh-related injuries requiring first aid or hospital care," said Wertheimer, who makes estimates based on the approximate number of mosh concerts and the general number of people injured at the events. The number of injuries is far greater: Crowd Management Strategies estimates that 10,000 people have been injured in and around mosh pits in the last decade.Īt a University of Central Florida concert in April, four concertgoers were rushed to the hospital with broken bones after being crushed in what Wertheimer calls "mosh pit chaos" and at the 1999 Woodstock festival first aid casualties were in the ten thousands. There have been nine mosh-related deaths recorded between 19, according to Wertheimer, who added that there very well may be more that have gone unreported.Īt a 2007 Smashing Pumpkins concert in Vancouver, a 20-year-old concertgoer collapsed in a mosh pit and later died, according to Wertheimer's records. The dangers of mosh pits are alarming, according to concert safety experts and emergency medical professionals, who told that the most injuries incurred from mosh pits aren't actually by the moshers but by innocent bystanders. "People go up and stay up but more often than not they fall on people. "There is no way to crowd surf or stage dive safely consistently," said Paul Wertheimer, president of Crowd Management Strategies Inc., the only organization that tracks concert crowd safety incidents. Witnesses reported seeing several of the 70,000 attendants treating bloody noses and worse, getting carried out on stretchers. — - Taking in a live concert may be more dangerous than one might expect - especially when you consider the risk of getting kicked in the face by a flaying crowd surfer or stage diver.Īs many as 50 concertgoers at New Jersey's Bamboozle Festival this weekend reportedly sought medical attention after a mosh pit got out of hand. ![]()
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