Rammstein @ DCU Center, Worchester, MA -- April 29, 2012
Review: Dave Bolton
When you live in Massachusetts and are a music fan, you get to expect certain things. The most obvious one is that everyone knows that Aerosmith come from this area and it doesn’t matter that they are no longer relevant.
The second aspect of living here is that in terms of mid-size venues…we’re a bit limited. If you are a touring band with an impressive stage-show and you want to play Boston, you play the TD Garden. If you are a popular band that will get the punters in, you play the House of Blues and if you aren’t confident of selling that many tickets but you know that people have heard your music on the radio, you play the Paradise/Royale/Brighton Music Hall.
If you are a industrial metal band from Germany performing a live set that relies on explosions, pyrotechnics, flamethrowers and penis-shaped cannons dispensing “foam” onto the audience, you need to find somewhere that isn’t in Boston.
Which explains why I was in Worcester on a Sunday night (less than 24 hours before I had to be on a plane to England) to experience Rammstein effortlessly battering all of my senses into submission.
