Blood for Blood, Nails, Negative Approach, Angel Du$t (US), Pain of Truth, End It, Kruelty, Terror, and Walls of Jericho

Nails are so goddamn good. This was the biggest venue I've seen them at, but that didn't matter. The crowd was way into it and Nails brought more than enough anger energy to fill the stage. I frigging love this band. Seen them like 6 times, and each time i'm glad i did. They are fun as hell. If you like your music fast and angry, you can't do much better than this.

There aren’t many bands that formed in 1981 that are still playing the hardcore, punk scene, and playing it so well. However, Negative Approach still manages to slay every single time they take to the stage.
Having always played the seedy underbelly kind of venues, they aren’t used to performing in front of a huge attendance, but this doesn’t put them off their stride. Front man John Brannon is always able to deliver the hits his distinctive tone, which has arguably become one of the most powerful voices in the genre. Shortly after forming, in 1982 Negative Approach disbanded and moved on to other projects. The band then reformed in 2006 and tends to tour every now and then – dragging in a loyal following.
These guys play your quintessential punk gig; with an intimate crowd that live for the music and come for the hard-hitting performance - they aren’t let down either. The band roll out their old tunes, such as ‘Nothing’ and ‘Ready to Fight’, tracks played at blistering pace with that “let’s go out and break something” attitude which people have so easily associated with the hardcore genre.
Negative Approach have been on the scene for such a long time now that they have definitely achieved ‘legendary’ status, expect their reign to continue, in order to prove the point that, contrary to belief, punk ISN’T dead.

Metal music is sometimes too intense for me, but after seeing the crossover band, Terror, perform live, I thoroughly enjoyed their performance, and have started listening to more music of the genre. Their performance is what really grabbed me, I love shows that involved the audience, and they were encouraging us in the audience to jump up on stage, and then run across and jump back off. We were relatively near to the front of the stage, so I jumped up on and it was so much fun! There was crowd surfing, and they even handed some people their microphones when they were up on stage to sing along.

As well as it being super interactive, all of the band members were super talented, and they played through One With The Underdogs in its entirety, and everyone was singing along from start to finish. The way that they write their music is reminiscent of traditional metal music from back in the day, and isn’t as heavy as modern Swedish metal music. The last track they played, Strike You Down, had their lead dinger, Scott Vogel laying on his back crowd surfing, singing whilst being carried around. It was the best gig I’ve ever been to – the atmosphere was insane!

I saw Walls of Jericho at Hellvest, which was probably the best festival I've ever been to. I've been a fan of Jericho since I saw them open for some obscure band, I can't even remember.

They have the best screamer, and it's so hard to believe it's a female. So sick. Everyone was getting down so hard it was unbelievable. Everyone was headbanging and when the pits started it was so hard. They were so good at getting everyone hyped and ready to rage. With every song they played the crowd grew bigger and bigger.

The guitarist shreds so hard. In the middle I got picked up when everyone started bum rushing the stage and was able to crowd surf for the first time. Somehow in the middle of it I ended up on a giant green floaty, and that was pretty awesome until I got punched in the head and dropped in the pit. I got kicked a couple of times before getting up and raging in the pit as well. I'm pretty sure I broke a rib that day, but man I wouldn't trade it for anything. I got drunk as hell, punched and beaten up, and it was THE BEST.