Hannes Grossmannof Obscura Tour Blog for Sick Drummer Magazine - Hannes will be sending short blogs throughout the current American Defloration Tour with The Black Dahlia Murder, Augury and HateSphere.
March 2nd - Dallas/TX, Granada Theater
Texas is cool! Reminds me a lot of Bavaria. The people definately speak Bavarian here...Bavarian English, every word is very long and soft. The place we payed looked like an old theater inside, from the outside is looked very 1960's American, with a lot of lights and stuff. We tried to get a good coffee next door, which means a coffee that doesn't taste like water, which is hard to get in the US. The coffee tasted a little stronger than usuall but I miss my expresso at home. But the ice cream I ate was very tasty. Some guy told me we should be more catchy so at least I try this in this blog, watch out...
...Speaking about food, we got the best food on this tour so far from the venue. Chicken with noodle salad. Very good. I also got some footage of Shannon playing Black Valor. Very good. And we got our own backstage room which is quite a new experience for us, haha. Very good.
Here is a video of a drum solo I played, and the song "Universe Momentum"
Hannes Grossmannof Obscura Tour Blog for Sick Drummer Magazine - Hannes will be sending short blogs throughout the current American Defloration Tour with The Black Dahlia Murder, Augury and HateSphere. Look for some drum-cam video footage of Hannes, and possibly Shannon Lucas to be posted soon!
Feb 24th - Atlanta/GA, The Masquerade
"Feels like ...coming home"! Listening to the Scorpions actually didn't even make me feel somehow close like that when arriving at the Atlanta airport. Only two weeks after the European Tour there's kick off for doing direct support for THE Black Dahlia Murder (TBDM), and I could rather have needed a few more days off. Funny, because the Scorpions song is about them feeling at home when they get back on the stage...anyway, those guys are rockstars. They wouldn't play at the Masquerade in Atlanta. Seems to be the only club in town for metal shows since I already played there twice.
Arriving at the club we met our friends in TBDM and Augury. Hatesphere from Denmark which open on this tour are new to me, but they seem to be very nice people. I didn't really practise during the two weeks off, that's why I'm a little nervous before the show and can't really pay attention to the other bands. The good thing is that I played the last tour on Augury's drum kit, because Tommy MacKinnon used to play for Neuraxis, who now is playing the drums in Augury. Another old fellow. The show for us turns out to be much better than expected, playing wise and also considering the audience. So all in all a good start.
UK Tour 2010 - February 8th, Islington UK
By: Matt Holland of Man Must Die
Final show of the tour and there’s an air of anticipation when we arrive at the O2 in Islington. This will be the biggest crowd of the week and there will be reps from Nuclear Blast and Relapse present, not to mention Jackson guitars, so we’re all "amped" to play well. Kataklysm have been on the road for over a month now and are ready to finish up and go home. Julia, the merch girl is especially anxious to get away from living with a bunch of sweaty men..! The bus is really starting to smell awful and could do with a serious fumigation...
UK Tour 2010 - February 7th, Wrexham UK
By: Matt Holland of Man Must Die
We arrive in Wrexham early and are right outside the back door to the venue so load in is nice and easy. The place is called Central Station and as the name suggests, it’s an old converted train station. It’s a pretty decent venue but today is freezing.
Load in and soundcheck go without any problems and we get some pretty good catering from the bar downstairs. The Scotland/France rugby match is on tv so I watch that to pass some time. I’m not a big rugby fan but it’s good to have some kind of link to things happening back home.
UK Tour 2010 - February 6th, Leeds UK
By: Matt Holland of Man Must Die
We arrive in Leeds technically a day early for the show. The Reading date has been cancelled so we head straight up North. We park up outside the venue behind another tour bus being used by Marduk and Anaal Nathrakh who are playing Friday night. Myself and David from MMD get a cheap hotel room for the night, as we need a wash and a rest and as there’s no show for us, we can’t use the clubs ameneties.
There’s the option of going to see the show tonight, so we head through for a while and see a bit of Marduk’s set. I wanted to see Anaal Nathrakh but missed them! I met Steve their drummer and chatted for a while, which was cool. Marduk were ok, nice fast drumming but Black Metal really isn’t my thing. I lost interest quickly and headed to the hotel for a good sleep. Most of the Polish guys stay out, as they are friends with Marduk’s crew.
UK Tour 2010 - February 4th, Bristol UK
By: Matt Holland of Man Must Die
We arrive in Bristol early and everyone except me, Joe from Man Must Die, Julia the merch girl and Adam the sound guy are dying from a hangover. We go and find some breakfast and wait for load in. It’s like a scene from Dawn Of The Dead when we all start loading in and it’s good entertainment (in a sick way) to see all the guys who partied too hard the night before suffering...
