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Devour devour album art punk1/23/2024 ![]() ![]() Both their albums – 2021’s Mirrors and sophomore release Blossom – have garnered huge praise and, live, there’s not much that can match them, especially when, like tonight, they’re as abrasive as commando crawling across glass with your flies undone. PUPIL SLICER have one of the gnarliest names in heavy music and they stylistically match it to a tee. PUPIL SLICER – Elephant In The Bar Room Pupil Slicer live ArcTanGant 2023. As the last song rolls over, it’s clear this has been a triumph, and hopefully the establishment of a long and happy association between HIPPOTRAKTOR and the festival. The songs off Meridian, their only album to date, have a hypnotic quality to them – frequently driven by tribal drums and subtly repetitive patterns – and like hypnotised, the crowd’s applause grows in volume with every song. The Belgians play a brand of post-metal that renders complex instrumentation through a relentless filter of melodic hooks, which are elevated to epic proportions by the soaring vocals of frontman Stefan de Graef ( PSYCHONAUT ) and guitarist Sander Rom ’s harmonies. HIPPOTRAKTOR ’s midday main stage set last year looms large in the memory as one of 2022’s highlights, and their hotly anticipated return serves as a timely reminder of it. HIPPOTRAKTOR – Elep hant In The Bar Room Hippotraktor live ArcTanGant 2023. Between them and an exciting new tune, SKIN FAILURE deliver a great warm-up of the extremities for the days of headbanging and moshing ahead. The goofy delivery disguises somewhat the strong quality of the tunes – mixing old-school thrash with MASTODON-esque metal, there is an undeniable progressive ethos to the songs from 2022’s excellent full-length Radillac. Frontman Will Gardner conducts a mexican wave of middle fingers, while one of the guitarists calls upon a roadie to give him a haircut during a song. Photo Credit: snaprockandpopįeaturing members of ArcTanGent favourites BLACK PEAKS, now defunct, thrashy collective SKIN FAILURE are out to have bags of relentlessly silly fun. SKIN FAILURE – Elephant In The Bar Room Skin Failure live ArcTanGant 2023. Distorted Sound were at this year’s edition again welcome to our review. If you want something genre-bending, progressive or have a love for any music that can be described as ‘post-’, then heading to Fernhill Farm on the third week of August is something you should definitely consider, if you’ve not before. Since its inception in 2013, ArcTanGent has grown into one the of the UK’s best small, alternative festivals. ![]()
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