God Seed (7/10)
Start 20:55 / End 21:55
The Norwegian Black Metal band God Seed opened the show of Cult Of Luna, causing the surprise of many attendees, who came to see the Post-Metal Gods and founded a Black Metal band, inclusive corpse painting. The band has been created in March 2009 by two former members of Gorgoroth, Gaahl and King ov Hell, after an internal dispute with the founding member Infernus, who at the end received from the court the right to keep the name Gorgoroth. God Seed proposed an atmospheric Black Metal, which didn’t sound banal at all even in 2014, featured by a various songwriting with mid-tempo pieces and evil furious passages, that didn’t seem to bore the audience also after one hour show. Some failed audio cable connections affected the sound during the last songs, but this didn’t ruin the malefic performance of God Seed, which was enhanced by a great Gaahl on vocals, who captured the audience’s attention with his ability. A great, for someone maybe unexpected, opening show, which confirmed that Black Metal is not dead yet and this Indie-Pop-dominated city needs sometimes even its dose of Evil.
Cult Of Luna (9/10)
Start 22:30 / End 24:00
The North-Swedish band Cult Of Luna (coming from the same town of bands as Meshuggah, Naglfar and Refused) is now touring in Europe, hitting again Berlin after the headliner show at the Pelagic Festival the last year in the same venue Columbia Club. Who attended that show, knows what a Cult Of Luna performance means and for sure didn’t miss this occasion to appreciate again the devastating live sound of this band. A band born on the trails of bands as Neurosis and Isis, but able during the years to develop always a more personal and distinct sound, moving from Doom Metal till the current style, hard to describe, which could be defined as Post-Metal. Cult Of Luna proposal, featured by an elaborate, dark, orchestral powerful sound, has become a trademark in this music style, thanks to its long, repetitive and crushing songs with the characteristic alternation of “light & dark” sections. Cult Of Luna came to the stage accompanied by a drone loop and darkness, to start then the show with “The Sweep” and many other pieces taken from the latest albums “Vertikal I & II”. The setlist was composed by songs of different albums, representing at the best the Cult Of Luna career and what the band has now become. The performance was a sort of cathartic flux, where the pieces merged together fluently, losing the meaning of stand-alone songs. The seven members stayed on the stage as ghosts, as black shadows enlightened just by back lights and lasers, without showing any details of their person for a single instance. An hour and a half of devastating sound, the most representing for a post-apocalyptic world, where sorrow, desperation and pain can release your soul and awake what positive is left in you. Amen.
Venue: C-Club
Price: 24,70€ at Trinity Music
Setlist: Cult Of Luna
Berlin, 28.04.2014
