When Trivium stepped on stage, the sun was turning our skin red, and we felt even more red when gigantic and almost transversal pyros exploded from the front of the stage.
They set the atmosphere for the next hour.
The two guitarists were a show in the show: their solo pumped up the crowd, and their guitar duels were even better, looking like two football players passing the ball to each other in a perfect set play.
Matt Heafy constantly ran up and down the stage, engaging the crowd deeper and deeper, sending a clear message “Everybody f**ing moving!”. And of course everybody moved. The wildest moment was when he asked for more pits: he got more pits, and more people joined, more people clashed and then the two pits clashed. It was a moment of high energy release.
Between big pits, huge streamers, confetti showers, great metalcore and melodic death metal music, we came to the end of the show. Here it was where I experienced the actual spirit of Copenhell: Alex Bent threw the drum sticks, and one of them bounced and landed close to me, where two guys were very fast and grabbed it; two hands on it, high adrenaline level and it might have ended badly… but instead they looked at each other, smiled, and one of them proposed “let’s play rock, paper, scissors”; still holding it, they played the famous game and the winner got it, but only after a friendly hug.
That’s all folks!
Luca Bruschi
