Satan’s Hollow, Manchester
2009-10-19
Clanglestrim Produckshins
WINTERFYLLETH (Eng)
Heritage Black Metal On Candlelight Records
CNOC AN TURSA (Sco)
Symphonic Black Metal On Lone Vigil Recordings
BURIAL (Eng)
Black Death Metal On Lone Vigil Recordings
EIBON LA FURIES (Eng)
Industrial Black Metal
PRIMITIVE GRAVEN IMAGE (Eng)
Progressive Black Metal
OLD CORPSE ROAD (Eng)
Folk Black Metal
On the weekend of the heaviest snow ever, it was time to forge away across the grim and frostbitten plains of Lancashire for this Pagan/Black extravaganza in Manchester’s Satan’s Hollow, which is to iD Software’s level designers as NYC’s Limelight was to H. R. Giger. Also in attendance were Jimmer, and a bunch of people I vaguely knew from his Livejournal and/or lj metal_community. Beer was Tetley’s, but hey, at least it wasn’t Boddington’s.
On to the music: Old Corpse Road kicked things off and were perhaps the most to my taste of the whole evening. Primitive Graven Image, next, were also good, and were a man down with one guitar player having to switch to bass. They apparently value their harmonies, and I suspect that with a full troupe they might have stolen the show. Eibon La Furies were ridiculous Victorian Gothic metal who managed to be a bit silly without being annoying in the slightest. Stylistically they were the least up my street of the evening, but even so enjoyable.
Burial provided a death metal interlude, and a welcome one at that, and then it was on to the short-haired dudes who looked like they were in the wrong nightclub. Great music, but come on lads, grow some hair and buy some black clothes!
Victory feast was adequate Chinese.
Hotel was barely adequate place called Mercahnts.
Train service home was not even close to adequate and took HOURS.
Photos of the evening, swiped from Yolanda’s Facebook:
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