Already better than the Resistance, with three songs to go. New songs are great, and better than most of the songs from the Resistance, with a huge amount of diversity involved. A huge improvement, and will definitely be at least my 4th favourite album (by some margin).
Animals is amazing, and my favourite of the new songs:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-5jrua-kA[/youtube]
Save Me beautiful, and Chris shows some great, emotional vocals:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4-1zyqNRNs[/youtube]
Follow Me has great single potential:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw7ZXBV5qJw[/youtube]
Panic Station has a great solo, and is very catchy- could have been on BH&R:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wu1PLaGkE4[/youtube]
Setlist will be something like:
1. Supremacy (great opener)
2. Single from previous albums (Hysteria/SMBH probably)
3. Panic Station
4. Single from previous albums (SMBH/TiRO/Uprising)
5. Animals
6. Rotation (CE/NB/B&H/MotP most likely)
7. The Resistance song (Resistance/USoE/Unnatural Selection)
8. Save Me
9. Single from previous albums (SMBH/TiRO/Uprising)
10. Follow Me
11. Rotation (other epic song)
12. Other song from TSL (Explorers/Liquid State/Survival if not last)
13. Resistance song (Resistance/USoE/Unnatural Selection)
14. Madness
15. Starlight
16. PiB
17. KoC
18. Unsustainable
19. Isolated System (really, really shouldn't be Starlight)/Stockholm Syndrome
20. Stockholm Syndrome (please)/Survival
A pretty decent setlist, and much better than the Resistance Tour, but could be quite short. The show at Cologne was 17 songs, and lasted about 1 hour 20 minutes, and I've seen around the average show would be 1 hour 40 minutes. Therefore, about 3-4 songs more. There could also be space for one extreme rarity per show as well. But still, would be better if:
(21. Fury)
(22. Citizen Erased)
(23. TSP)
(24. Hyper Music)
(25. Bliss)
(26. Muscle Museum)
(27. B&H)
(28. Sunburn
(29. Showbiz)
If only...