MindMaze -- Clifton, NJ -- May 27th, 2012

[Maiden33]

Wow, that's all I can say. My band is from Allentown, PA - so this show was about two hours from home for us. We were opening for Dark Empire, who largely hail from this area of New Jersey - I'd played at Dingbatz before, but hadn't been back in a long time. The show was just fantastic. The turnout was really good, the crowd was enthusiastic, and our performance was tight. All of our friends in the area came out (doing 20 people just for us, 2 hours from home for us was pretty awesome), and everything just ran as smoothly as possible. The people at the club really liked us and we're going to try to work it out to come back in the near future. Awesome show.

MindMaze setlist:
Intro: Michael Kamen's Highlander Theme
01 Mask of Lies
02 Stand Up and Fight
03 Dark City
04 Children of the Sea (Black Sabbath) (w/ Mike Lepond of Symphony X)
05 Remember (w/ Dream Theater's Learning to Live)
06 Never Look Back (w/ Kansas's Carry on Wayward Son)

Dark Empire setlist:
01 A Plague in the Throne Room
02 Dreaming in Vengeance
03 Salvation Denied
04 The Crimson Portrait
05 Dark Seeds of Depravity
06 Possessed (We Are One)
07 The Cleansing Fires
08 Humanity Dethroned

[makethemsuffer12]

Originally Posted by Maiden33

04 Children of the Sea (Black Sabbath) (w/ Mike Lepond of Symphony X)

Any footage, perhaps?

[Maiden33]

Sadly we forgot our own camera at home that actually takes great quality video, with which we were going to record the whole set, but a friend did us a favor and recorded Children of the Sea. The sound quality is pretty awful, but hey, it's at least proof that it happened.

http://youtu.be/tyCx0aoDqh0

[Maiden33]

Actually here's MUCH better quality video of Children of the Sea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVUU...eature=related

[Akumu]

Harris (keyboards/12-string) says thanks for the props and he thinks your vocalist is awesome.