08.27
From RagnarokRadio.co.uk.
If there’s one way to shake off a hangover (or possibly make it two thousand times worse), it’s the grooves and rumblings of some Finnish melodic death metal. Thankfully (or possibly unfortunately), we have Insomnium’s (3/5) thundering strides pulsating across the fields and through the skulls of the gathered metalheads already regretting last night’s celebratory drinks upon arriving at Bloodstock Open Air 2009. Everyone has just about recovered in time for Sodom (3/5), returning to British soil for the first time in twenty years to air the likes of ‘Napalm In The Morning’ to a fair few rows of pumping fists. Add ‘hundred’ to the end of that ‘fair few’ statement and you have a rough description of Saxon (5/5), who are, simply put, fucking awesome. The piledriving ‘Let Me Feel Your Power’ is delivered with the energy of a band several times younger than they are (Saxon could be the grandfathers of some of today’s metal upstarts) while the seminal ‘747 (Strangers In The Night)’ sees cheerful drunken moshpits erupting from stage left to stage right.
