Another Friday metal night in Musicon brought us a diverse package this time. I believe some visitors still did not realize that nowadays three bands means 20:00-23:00 and no longer 21:00-24:00. So upon arrival with Marko, Musicon looked empty as an influencers brain. Luckily that improved over the evening and atmosphere improved accordingly.
Opener were Axident from Belgium. They brought some friends along from Antwerp and gave us a decent opening set. While I was wondering if it was more death, thrash or just metal suddenly a long song (The Bitch of somehwere) had a grunge intermezzo where vocals went goat like Eddie Vedder (tks Marko). Overall a good show, with some good instrumental work. Tonight they open again for Prestige in Belgium, so if you ar earound go early.
Next on were Rages of Sin. If you are from The Hague and haven't heard them during the past 10 years you must be living under a soft rock. If you haven't heard their full album Divergence ever, we can blame Covid. I remember picking it up under Covid rules in het Paard, where during Covid local bands were on sale. That album is in my opinion the best extreme metal album released in The Hague for a long time. Rages of Sin are hard to decsribe as they play OSDM, but also vocally slam death, or thrash, or melodic death metal, or tech death and progmetal. I like this mix and their songs are not all that easy at first hearing. If you take your time you get rewarded. Yesterday apart from songs of their EP. The Gospel Of... and Divergence we also got some new songs. Opening with a song sung in Dutch a french title (je accuse) about a letter of Zola (right Floris?) thinks tend to get complicated. But I loved their set again and their playing is of a high level. Pity of the sudden end, but time schedules are ruling under permits.
Headliners were Prestige from Finland. This thrash metal band is around since the late eighties, but flew under my radar until being announced for this evening. Turned out they were great fun live. Especially as they seemed to be enjoying themselves on stage as well. Their thrash is not the most aggressive one, but goes towards thrash &roll at times. Pretty catchy their songs are and all presented with a smile it came over fine. After receiving Insomnium's special edition this week I thought about teaching myself Finnish through the short story included in the package. Not needed as according to Prestige the only Finnish word we need to know is Perkele. So Perkele it was and one fine evening in Musicon yet again.
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