Friday, March 10, 2017
After arriving at Sofia, I took the Metro to my hotel, grabbed a quick kebab for dinner, then took the Metro to the Inter Expo Center where the metal band Sabaton was playing that night. I've seen this band three times before when they were opening for Nightwish, my favorite metal band.
The venue was just an indoor exhibit hall with about 5,000 screaming Bulgarian metal fans.
The opening act was good: Twilight Force. The second act was just loud: the band Accept. Sabaton came on last and played for 1 3/4 hours. As they started to play, an older Bulgarian woman signalled to me that she needed help climbing onto a rickety wooden bench; she wanted a better view.
Sabaton play songs with a military theme; all the songs on their most recent album were named after battles (e.g., Rourke's Drift). They were fabulous.
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