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Urkraft Check In From Cannibal Corpse Tour

By jason

Thomas from Danish Thrashers Urkraft has recently checked in from the road as the band head across Europe on a Metal assault with legendary Deathsters Cannibal Corpse and Dutch brutalisers Disavowed.

"We drove all morning to get to Irun and most of the day too… The venue "Tunk" was a lot smaller than the night before and reminded more of a café, but when the show started it was packed and very intense. And hot as hell!
All bands shared backstage – which was kind of an experience in itself. It was so dusty that you had to be careful to sit down slowly in the couch to avoid the air turning grey. After a few hours your throat and eyes were itchy and red… On top of that the toilet was placed in the other end of the venue – through the crowd and the entrance… So we were closed off and if you had to go – that was it. No going back before after the show was over. Really not good when you are hammering beers and booze!

After CC´s show we packed up and just wanted to get out of the city to lay some freeway behind us. The best drive is at night… We got the whole road to ourselves, but you need to put back a lot of miles before your eyes start to get itchy and you see pink elephants waving their ears in the side of the road! Important to be sure we make the get-in the day after. So far – no problem. Everybody packed their gear in no time and we were ready to go within minutes, except our sound engineer Daniel was missing. Mikael found him in the bar – wasted and spitting God knows what kind of words in some girl's ear. When we finally got him on the bus – me shouting and flipping out – he was angry and yelling because the girl he had been talking to for several hours, just told him that her boyfriend was standing right behind them and that she had a 12 year old son… Hahaha… What was he counting on anyway???"

MARCH
CANNIBAL CORPSE + Disavowed.
01 Italy Cicolo Degli Artisti Rome
03 Greece Ann Club Athens
04 Greece Hydrogios Thessaloniki
05 Bulgaria Sredec hall Sofia
06 Romania Studio martin Bucharest
07 Serbia SKC Beograd
08 Slovenia Media park Lubljana
09 Hungary A 38 Budapest
10 Germany Backstage Munchen
11 Czech Rep Abaton Praha
12 Poland Loch Ness Cracow
14 Latvia - Riga - 'Melna Piektiena'
Metalstone Festival - DK