A
review from the Musketeer of Death, from the gig in Ghent.
THE MOSHPIT,
21/02: The Frontline, Gent (B): Morgion, Mourning Beloveth, The Prophecy,
Pantheist
This review is written by Emillio from Musketeer of De@th (NL)
First band of the night was Belgian funeral doom company Pantheist (B) (phaze@pandora.be). Their ultra sombre doom moved at a snail's pace with ponderous guitars, intensely dark bass lines, delicate dreadful drums, plaintive vocals and keys/organ on DAT. The performance was supreme evenwith the hardly noticeable voice problems of Kostas. They became the glorious overture of the night. The Prophecy (UK) was on next. These English landlords sounded as an utterly My Dying Bride-clone in olden days, but
who cares when they play it the way they do. With a power, darkness and melancholy as before mentioned band did in their early days. The tragedy of the sound made a shiver ran down my spine. All confirmed by the subtly touching of the keys by the charming session lady and the moves of their charismatic singer Matt Dawson. In the end I thought, why does My Dying Bride nowadays not sound as these grieved Englishmen! I comforted myself
with The Prophecy.And so it was time for the third band of this last evening on the Doomination of Europe tour, the Irish Mourning Beloveth (IRL) (adrian@mourningbeloveth.com). I expected a lot of this band, and they came up to my expectations, they even exceeded them. Right from the start they created a landscape of desolateness by their leaden doom/death a-la old Anathema/old-Cathedral. Every song turned out to be an epic masterpiece with a great mixture between deep growling grunts and clean vocals companioned by solid heavy guitars and sad drums. The stage act was capricious and cold, very suitable to their furious sound. A tremendous gig. And so there was
only band left, Morgion (US) (rhett@morgion.com). These Americans treated us on epic slow doom with a very low bass, Swedish death sounding guitars (some parts wouldn't have been misplaced on a classic as Left Hand Path) and very strong varied vocals. They mixed powerful depressive sludgeness perfectly with beauty and melody, which effected in a sort of cosy feelin' psychedelic doom experience. A great mortal atmosphere was created on stage and transmitted to the audience in the club. Thanx for coming over guys. I hope to see you soon again in Europe!