Blinding, yeah. Was thinking what to write for a review but everything is coming out the same... Eyehategod were brutal, Electric Wizard spellbinding etc... (Pentagram MIA). Don't think I saw a band I was disappointed with, although I didn't see as many as originally planned.
I missed some I meant to see, but saw a few I wasn't planning on. Electric Wizard were truly awesome, and we happened to have most of us together at that point so it was a great time.
Other than that I think a highlight was the metal roar that spread over the entire supermarket on Saturday morning!
Fucking amazing, yeah... Hellfest pisses on Download from a great, great height.
And heh, Mazz, we were blasting some of Trebuchet "live at zappafest" in the car on the way back home. We got pulled by customs while all rocking out in the car to Crazy Dealer. Awesome.
It was a good gas. My only complaint, music wise (I had plenty of complaints about the loos, the showers, the people) was that Manowar were so thoroughly disappointing. I was crushed.
Manowar are loose man, seriously loose! Didn't try the showers or the bogs because I'm hardcore as fuck and I wash in the blood of my enemies and I piss on emos, so no complaints there. As for the people - nobody was anything except really nice to me on the whole, got free weed and champagne, and numerous other things, simply for saying hello. So on the whole really good!
I will write a proper review at some point of the bands I saw, just not yet.