Artmania Festival is a Rock/Metal event that began as a project in 2005 and held its premiere in 2006. Since their first event, many important names from the metal scenes walked on this stage, names such as My Dying Bride, Opeth, Amorphis, Anathema, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Dark Tranquillity, Serj Tankian, Kamelot, PAIN or Lacrimosa.
This year other names show up in this festival. Lacrimas Profundere held their first concert in Romania at Artmania festival this year. They currently play a more mainstream gothic rock than in the early days when they were an exclusive underground doom/death metal band or in mid career, a gothic metal band. They were the ones that opened the concert. A Peal, Dear Amy, Amber Girl or Ave End were just some of the songs that the german sung in this concert.
After their short 40 minute representation, another German legend walked on the scene, this time a band that has its roots in the early-mid 80s and are well known for pioneering power metal, Helloween. This band knows how to make a hell of a concert. Insane guitar riffs, blast drum beats, a voice that can be compared with Marco Hietala's from Nightwish if we talk about height and power and also, the fact that they know how to pull some very nice and tasteful jokes on stage. The public received their songs very well and I think that they might've been the real headliners of this show.
Helloween performed for almost an hour and half on stage. They were followed by another legend, this time, Tarja Turunen. After her departure from Nightwish she has been struggling to find her own musical style distinctive from the one that she used to perform with Nightwish. Though her first albums were clearly trying desperately to detach themselves from Nightwish's style, with her newer albums she managed to find a style of her own. What I like about her is that she remained the same, her voice is as good without the other Nightwish members. Musically speaking, her works are still inferior in contrast with her works from Nighwish but I enjoyed seeing her performing End of all Hope and Over the Hills and Far Away.
In conclusion, it was not a bad day. This might've been the best day of the festival and it might remain. The second day presents other 3 bands but the most anticipated out of all are Sonata Arctica and Lacuna Coil. The day will start with Republica and will end with Lacuna Coil.
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