A legendary singer “saw God” among scenes of anarchy in Aussie cities, while another had some stern words during a medical emergency.Some 13,000 metalheads converged on Centennial Park in the city’s east for Knotfest on Saturday for a day of headbanging and disturbingly heavy music.
Contrary to what might stereotypically expect from thousands of fired-up metalheads, things were pretty civil. The wildest thing I saw was a ponytail sporting middle-aged bloke trying to hurdle a metal fence, but catching his foot on the wrong side and landing horribly on his spine. Without as much as reacting, he jumped up and carried on his merry way.Amy and Kat at Knotfest. Picture: Julian AndrewsJasmine, Dave and Shayla enjoying Knotfest.
Seemingly even more p***ed off because of the delay, Lamb of God took it up another level and launched back into their cacophony of metal – and the crowd fired up by singing the haunting words of Now You’ve Got Something to Die For back at them. One metalhead, Sam Shaw from Cronulla told news.com.au there was only two words to describe the scenes unfolding. They were “hectic” and “chaos”.There were two main stages at Knotfest, meaning one band could set up next door and begin immediately after the band on the other stage had finished.