Sacred Mother Tongue Live at Sonisphere 2010When the line up for Sonisphere was announced, here at CackBlabbath we cast our usual interested
eye over the bands playing on the smaller stages. There are usually some excellent up and coming,
and even quite well established, bands on these stages and 2010 was no exception. There are always
disagreements on who we would try to catch in the time available, but here we all agreed that we
definitely wanted to make sure that we caught Milton Keynes out and out metallers Sacred Mother Tongue.
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The band took to the stage and by the time they launched into 'The Suffering' it was clear that
the good things we had heard about them as a live experience were true. Their debut album 'The
Ruin of Man' is a belter and well worth checking out and live they more than did it justice.
The atmosphere was excellent, and SMT had drawn one of the biggest crowds of the day to the
Jagermiester stage and used social networks such as Twitter to spread the word and make sure that
as many people as possible knew where and when they were playing.
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| The band are excellent live, and special mention has to be made of the performance of guitarist
Andy James, who shredded like a demon throughout the set. This is clearly a band who are, without
exception, masters of their craft and given the right breaks they are clearly destined for much bigger
things.
Live favorite 'The Suffering' was followed by 'The End' before we were thrown a nice surprise
in the shape of new track 'Bleeding Out'. If this is indicative of the new material SMT are
working on then they are certainly building on the very high standards they have set themselves with
their debut release.
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The set was completed with 'Numb' followed by their best known track, debut single
'Two Thousand Eight Hundred'. It was here that Bassist Josh Gurner took the phrase "music to
the people" to whole new heights. He came down off the stage and climbed the steps to the viewing
platform on top of the Jager bar, all without missing a beat. The security guys looked like they
were going to have a heart attack, brilliant moment.
Josh then came back down the steps and headed into the cheering crowd. The sight of him playing
his bass in the middle of the audience was one of the highlights of the festival and he looked
like he was enjoying it every bit as much as we all were.
And the name that was given to this event... The Josh Pit, what else ??
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| Seeing a performance like this has reaffirmed our belief that in order to get the best out
of events like Sonisphere and Download you have to look further than the main stages. It's never
possible to see everything that is happening, or indeed to see everyone that you want to, but
tearing yourself away from the main events will take you to where many of the real festival
memories are.
For those of us who saw them, at Sonisphere 2010 Sacred Mother Tongue were just such a highlight.
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