A Great Festival

I have been to a lot of concerts in my life, from big festivals to small concerts of unknown bands in my town. Last year, on September 27, I went to Santiago Gets Louder festival one of the most exciting experience in my life. The festival  brought together most of the national and internationl iconic Heavy metal and Alternative metal bands like Gojira, Lamb of God, Deftones, System of a Down and Faith No More. The event was on hangares Suricato in the Cerrillos ex-airport.

 

 
The festival have an asistance of 40.000 people and more than 14 hours of live music. I didn't know too much about all of the bands at concert, personally I really wanted to see Deftones, Lamb of God and System of a Down on stage

System of a Down is an Armenian-American alternative metal. The band's currently members are Serj Tarkian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan. They came to America after a civil war in their country and this influence their topics on lyrics. Theirs style is often oblique anda dadaist, and their music have a lot of critic to society, politics, drugs and sexual intercourse.


Deftones its also an alternative metal band from USA that consist of Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Frank Delgado, Abe Cunningham and Sergio Vega. Deftones has a very unique style, sometimes their songs can be rude and agressive, and sometimes soft and slow with a very dark atmosphere.

On stage, that day Deftones was kind of lazy, their show was too short and they only played the slow songs in a speed and energic context of music, maybe that show was a "pause" to relax and take a breath in that place. On the other hand System of a Down gave everything they had on the stage, a great performance, great music, everybody was so excited and they could share all of his energy. A great surprise I had was Lamb of God, I didn't knew too much about them until I saw them live, a powerfull trash metal music.

I didn't go alone to the festival, I went with one of my best friends, but at the moment that we enter to the enclosure there waere so many people that we lost each other and we couldn't find each other until the end of the day :(