Hughes vocals in Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused were impressive. Gems included in the set were War Pigs and Black Sabbath ( Black Sabbath) and of course Motörhead's Ace of Spades Battery ( Metallica) was used as an intro to a destructive version of Raining Blood ( Slayer). The band's performance was a journey through the history of rock, hard rock and mainly metal, with Filter's song Hey man, nice shot being performed, whilst Jesse Hughes was executing his first victim. In contrast, Flemish soprano singer Cathy Van Roy provided Wagnerian opera vocals. British singer Jesse Smith fronted the band, delivering really good vocals and grunts. Whilst the movie was shown and the story was told about good and evil, with executions and sermons by the evil priest, the Gutterdämmerung live band played a tight and very heavy set. No Iggy, nor Mark Lanegan, Nina Hagen, Tom Arraya, Joshua Homme who were also featured in the story. For a moment I wondered if Iggy Pop would be in the venue, as he was to play the festival only two days later, but alas. When Rollins' character walked onto stage in front of the film screen, it became clear that Rollins was actually in Werchter 'in the flesh'. None other than Henry Rollins played the role of the evil priest and storyteller. Jesse Hughes ( Eagles of Death Metal) plays the role of a bounty hunter, Iggy Pop is a fallen angel, Grace Jones is the Mother God and the late Lemmy and Slayer's Tom Arraya are featured in the movie as well. In the opera piece by Richard Wagner it's all about the quest and fight for the Ring of the Nibelungen, in Tagemose's movie it's about a guitar everybody wants. Gutterdämmerung only differs slightly from the word Götterdämmerung and that's probably no coincidence at all. ![]() It's rather unlikely this film will get any Oscar nomination and a prize for most original storyline probably isn't in the cards either. The film is shot in stylish black and white with a really loud live metal soundtrack, the band playing behind the screen, that was the concept. On Thursday, june 30th, metal heads gathered in The Barn, at the Rock Werchter festival to experience Gutterdämmerung, the loudest silent movie in the world, as the Swedish-Belgian director Bjorn Tagemose describes it.
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