EDGUY: Fucking With F***

Released: 2009

I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Edguy live a couple of times now and they are always an extremely fun band. Even without the visual element of this album’s companion DVD, Fucking With F*** more than adequately demonstrates the good-time vibe of Edguy in concert.

Recorded in front of a rowdy Brazilian crowd in Sao Paolo, Fucking With F*** is 90 minutes of total melodic heavy rock and metal abandon. Both the band and the audience are having an insane time, and Tobias Sammet is pure entertainment. The sound quality is excellent and the track listing is a mixture of their more extended power metal songs like “Vain Glory Opera” and “Tears of a Mandrake” (extended out to 14 minutes with Sammet’s drawn-out band intro spiel) and rock-flavoured songs like “Lavatory Love Machine” and “Superheores”, which are actually better in a live reading than in the studio.

While this is pretty long at over an hour and a half (the CD thankfully leaves out Felix Bonhke’s drum solo), it never drags thanks to a well thought-out set list—even “Save Me” doesn’t cause the pace to drop much—and Sammet’s energy and natural ability as a frontman. When he divides the crowd in half for a sing-a-long in “Babylon” ala Live After Death he almost actually says “Scream for me, Brazil!”, it’s almost as if he’s paying his respects to a major influence on his style.

Live albums can sometimes be pretty dispensible, but Fucking With F*** is one that’s well worth having.

CD 1

1. Catch of the Century
2. Sacrifice
3. Babylon
4. Lavatory Love Machine
5. Vain Glory Opera
6. Land of the Miracle
7. Fucking With Fire (Hair Force One)

CD 2

1. Superheroes
2. Save Me
3. Tears of a Mandrake
4. Mysteria
5. Avantasia
6. King of Fools
7. Out of Control

Rating: 82%