Live kreation - and music biz politics

Unfortunately you can't mention it too often - online counts. I'm writing for professional and non-professional magazines now for nearly 10 years. And yes, I totally understand that record companies cut down the promotional efforts for little paper fanzines which appear once a year - ok, even here do outstanding exceptions exist as COTHURNUS or CHAOS Mag for example. But where would you look up where the most recent concert of your favourite band will be? Maybe on their homepage. More likely an online music mag. Even verisimilar an non-payed, non-professional mag. Now, SPV have cut down guest lists for online mags. Ok, do it. I'll get in anyway. But I won't write a review about what I saw. Why should I?!?! This is so stupid, anyway. Yesterday Kreator, Dark Tranquillity, HATESPHERE and played the Markthalle. Ok., it's one of the last gigs of the tour, but it wasn't sold out - could have been an opportunity for label and band to say - "hey, have a review in an online mag and get more kids in." In fact they didn't. No guestlist for online mags. I wonder why I got up early this morning to be the first in the world to publish my sermon about the recent album...

As already mentioned, I was there though to see what kind of "Live Kreation" the album will be, and here's what they played:

Setlist Kreator Hamburg Markthalle, 2.3.2005

• Enemy Of God
• Impossible Brutality
• Pleasure To Kill
• Phobia
• Patriarch
• Violent Revolution
• World Anarchy
• Renewal
• Suicide Terrorist
• Extreme Aggression
• People Of The Lie
• Voices Of The Dead
• All of The Same Blood
• Riot
• Terrible Certainty
• Reconquering The Throne
• Betrayer
• ---
• Terror Zone
• When The Sun...
• Ripping Corpse
• Love Us or Hate Us
• Flag Of Hate
• Tormentor

Nice set? yes.

DARK TRANQUILLITY were good as always, but I've seen them even better and longer than 40 poor minutes... Looking forward to see them on all the festivals.