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Resistance Tour: Has-beens vs. New Talent

15 november 2002, 013, Tilburg (NL)

Tekst: Ruud van Esch

Beeld: Ron van Rutten

Publicatiedatum: 08 december 2002

Hardcore bands in 013's big hall. It is and always will be a strange combination. Luckily, most hardcore bands don't draw 2,000 people by themselves, so I don't have to hang out in big arenas to see a show. The Resistance Tour had lined up seven American and Dutch hardcore bands, some of whom draw a lot of people from outside the hardcore scene. Judging by the ticket sales, the right lineup was made. 013 was sold out, with people willing to pay too much money for seven bands.

As Born From Pain started, the place was already well filled. Pretty strange for a late Friday afternoon. A bunch of pit bosses had already gathered up front, and Born From Pain played their usual set of evil metalcore. The show was not bad, but I've seen them do better.

Three days before the start of the Resistance Tour, it was announced that Death Treat wouldn't join the package. I-Scream Records had Backfire! for a replacement. Though it was the least I-Scream could do, Backfire! is not a proper replacement for Death Threat, since you just don't have a chance to see DT every weekend in Holland. A difficult situation for Backfire. Despite the messy show, the band came out good. With an extra guitar player, the right cover songs, and a lot of enthusiasm, these young old-timers got together a big pit and a lot of hands after every song.

All Boro Kings, who can be considered as the follow-up to Dog Eat Dog, come from a whole other league. The cheerful punk rock tunes brought the needed variation to the bill, though the average, self-proclaimed toughguy begged to differ.

Though Discipline plays an entirely different kind of music, the atmosphere after All Boro Kings was just right for them to play in. You just had to drink and sing along to their solid street punk. The band, once again, proved to be bigger than Holland; hence, the three international tours that these guys have planned in the next couple of months. For this tour, Section 5 guitar player Terry Bones joined Discipline. It was surprising to see how well prepared he played the show.

For the last couple of months, Hatebreed has had only one guitar player in the band. I think they could use an extra one in a live situation, but other than that, there was nothing wrong with Hatebreed live. Kids were going nuts, and singer Jamey turned out to be a very sympathetic guy onstage. It took Hatebreed a long time to come over to Europe, but ever since their first shows over here, they have become more and more popular.

When Agnostic Front got together again for a new CD and European tour, everybody was happy and honored to get the chance to see them again. Six years and three "reunion CDs" later, you can see AF five times a year. The band is sort of breaking down their own legend. I think it is about time to call it quits, especially for Vinnie Stigma, who's qualities lie more in telling jokes than in playing guitar nowadays.

Biohazard's existence is also justified by old fame. After three brilliant first albums, the band lost its touch and came up with CDs of lesser quality. Fans do not come to see Biohazard for any other song after State Of The World Address, and the band knows that. Kind of tragic. Though I love to hear all their old material myself, it's pretty sad that the band has no other option than to ignore their last three releases.

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