In Mourning coming back to The Netherlands. As opening band of this package of melodic, doomy and technical death metal. Now I saw them before at ProgPower (twice) Brainstorm and Baroeg, so I knew I was in for a treat. If than also last year, they released with The Immortal possibly their best album, it was this band that made me go to Utrecht on this early spring Thursday.
Now Utrecht on a sunny day, made me tran in even earlier to wander a bit around in the city centre. The Dom Tower was restored I believe and in full sunlight it was impressive indeed. Now the real reason was I was going to check some CD stores as in The Hague all good CD stores have been murdered by all who were born after Gen X. Unfortunately the new albums I was looking for, were not in stores. So back to Tivoli it was where I would meet with Ton. First I bumped into Willem and later Marcel and Alex too. So a pleasant night was ahead of us and now bring on the music.
In Mourning opened and even if I knew all the songs I can not always place titles with them. The sound could have been a bit better as I thought the guitars too low in the mix. Still I highly enjoyed them kicking off focussing on The Immortal. The triple harsh. grunted and clean vocals plus triple guitars did come over well and the response from the audience was animated. The far too short set ended with their best song Colossus and that was mega. No surprise here as this is the week of Mega Colossus. If there was anything to comment which I did as second Dutchman this evening Tobias told me (Alex was first) The T-shirts. All were black, while their great cover artwork of The Immortal screamed for a grey Tee. Well this short set already fully justified my trip to Utrecht and I am now waiting for a full headline set one day.
Next band on were Fallujah who play Tech Death. I have one of their albums 2016 Dreamless, but found no time to replay it before the show. Their last year's album Xenotaph is very strong and it was only wrong timing that made me not pick it up. First thing that struck when the band came on is that there were two guitars, but no bass. You could hear the bass, as well as keyboards and (loud) backing vocals. So that was a busy tape machine. If you managed to look through that we did get an excellent set with pretty damn fine guitar work. Low of their set was when the vocalist first asked for a pit, which opened space before the stage, but noone really entering apart from one guy. Later on that improved, but I still think pits should start spontaneously. A good show they gave us and definitely a band I should follow more seriously again.
For headliner Omnium Gatherum I went upstairs to the balcony to sit with Ton and watch from the side of the stage. Last year I saw Omnium Gatherum also in Tivoli, when they supported Insomnium. This year the band was different as there was a last minute substitute vocalist for this tour. The bassist earlier this evening helped out In Mourning, so it all is one sort of family really. Also by this band I only own one CD (The Burning Cold) that is not the case for guitarist Markus Vanhalla, as I have lots of Insomnium albums and would love to see him with his progmetal outfit Malpractice one day. Anyway today it was Omnium Gatherum and that sounded fine. Maybe the bit where the band was introduced took a bit too long. As I did come for the inverse order tonight I did not stay fully till the end, even if enjoying some Omnium Gatherum too. So it was down the 8 (eight) pairs of stairs and escalators to reach ground level and train home again. A nice evening was had, bring on more. In Utrecht that shall be Iotunn with In Vain for me.
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