Loud & Heavy presents brought us another night of true underground with four bands somewhere linked to Black Metal, but all completely different. After last week's sold out house it was a pity not that many found there way to Musicon this night. Were the homestayers wrong? I think so. As a bonus I would also reopen my Heavy Metal B&B for part of the openng band. So lots to like on a Friday night where even Happy Birthday Marko entered shortly after the start to celebrate with metal, what better way there is really.
Räum opened the evening early at 18:55. This band from Liege plays Black Metal according to Metal Archives, but I heard a strong Post rock influence too, with their long songs meandering over the stage. A stage that was mainly lit by white spots and lots of smoke. I quite liked their set with a highlight on stage for Olivier on vocals. Two guitars and no bass did bring long repetitive moods, with the highlight saved for lastm when also teh light turned to red halfway. Good opener.
Next on were local band Celesterre. They stepped in last moment as Germans Wesenwille had to cancel. If Celesterre are anything, this must be different. There are notches of Black in some screams, but mostly they play just metal I guess. Introductions to songs are poetic and they are obviously concerned with the state of the earth. If they were different to start with, their cover song also is not a typical metal evening one, when Meat is Murder by the Smiths was played. Hard to pinpoint in style their being differnt is appreciated.
And then all went sonically violent with Miasmes. This French trio mainly bulldozered the room to pulp. A loud and high energy set was presented to us and they went down well. Maybe they were musically the least interesting band of the night to me, but that was compensated by an overdose of energy coming of the stage. While driving all the way up from French I understood them leaving no prisoners. Interesting live band they are.
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Morvigor woudl close the evening and they played a Loud & Heavy evening before. At the time I was pretty impressed and tonight would not be different. Talking about hard to pinpoint if you see them you would not expect a metal band on stage. Looks deceive as they brought us long melodic black metallish songs with progressive hints blended in. Last time I saw them I tipped the Progpower organizers that they could be a good Dutch day opener as is tradition at that festival. Than again we all know what happened when PPE went Blackish before with Voices resulting in the emptiest hall ever at the end of their set. Still Morvigor would do well in my ears as they are a very fine band entertaining and diverse enough for a prog festival. Their last EP is sung in Dutch, but you can't tell really. I guess the best band closed the evening down and again thanks to Ralf and Loud & Heavy for putting this together. I was supposed to host Räum, but than they started receiving news and images about bad weather hitting their hometown Liege resulting in floodings. So they preferred returning to their families and help out if stuff neede to be moved up or out. Good luck to them and maybe a next time.
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