[Cecil Terwilliger]

Overall, a really good night. Drive up was a little hairy. Bumper-to-bumper traffic with people driving like Impatient lunatics. And a huge slowdown at red deer because of an accident. Managed to make it to the stadium on time. The lineups for entry were wild. But we got lucky and our gate actually had two lineups and only one of them was a mile long the other one was less than half as long and I managed to get into it and get in pretty quickly.

I’m not a huge Pantera fan, but I thought they did fine.

I knew what to expect for the metallica set list. I thought the vocal mix on Creeping Death didn’t sound great but everything after that sounded awesome. James doesn’t have quite the vocal range He used to but can still sing when he needs to. Kirk and Lars are still at the top of their game.

I saw people #### talking the crowd on Reddit and I’m going to defend them a little bit. The crowd was super into it after the first three or four songs. Even when they went into the new stuff, the crowd reacted really well, and our whole section was standing and singing along. Not overly familiar with the last two albums but the songs translated really well.

But once they got to the day that never comes and shadows follow, it killed all of the energy and our entire section sat down. Both of those were not the best choices for the Setlist IMO. They really needed to fade to black instead. I get wanting some slower sections to let the crowd take a breath but there are better options.

After that, though the energy came back and the crowd was great.

Orion was the highlight for me. That #### was a religious experience. Holy #### it was good. Best song of the night. In fact from Orion onwards, everything was top-notch. Nothing else matters killed it. Sad but true rocked. Battery was hard and fast as ####. Right to the end I was headbanging and singing along. Energy of the crowd was right back into it.

$75 for a $12 Walmart quality tshirt is criminal but I’m a sucker and bought one lol. Leaving was easy enough. LRT lines were short and the drive back to the hotel was easy. And we were treated to one hell of a lighting storm at the hotel.

Now it’s decisions decisions. Do I dare come back for Sunday? Inferno, you ever sell that ticket? lol.