EUROBLAST FESTIVAL
Car Bomb and Between The Buried And Me head a four-day fret party
THURSDAY/FRIDAY
Euroblast has become a key date in any tech-metalhead’s calendar. Currently in its 15th iteration, the festival has grown from a 250-capacity curio to hosting more than 1,500 patrons across four nights and two stages. While the festival proper doesn’t start until the Friday, a warm-up evening gets us in the proggy mood. French crew MOBIUS perform instrumentally due to frontwoman Heli Andrea’s recent surgery, but their Middle Eastern-influenced djent still shines. SOULSPLITTER are, well, batshit. With up to nine members and a palette that includes prog, spoken-word, vaudeville, folk and metal, they could make Devin Townsend look uninspired. Closing post-rock act TOUNDRA know we’re just here for the gnarly riffs, and oblige, ending Thursday in an exciting flurry.
With their melodic technical wizardry, complex time signatures and mix of clean and screamed vocals, KADINJA could easily be perceived as a typical Euroblast act. Pleasingly, the Parisian quintet are one of the better acts on a Friday bill riddled with such bands, providing more bite than bark.
have drawn comparisons to -era Tool and watching their heavily percussive, mystical set it’s easy to see why. Euroblast’s second stage is packed to capacity and the songs from debut full-length prove even more impactful than their recorded counterparts. put on an incredible headline show on their home turf. The mathcore prog trio’s display of composed rage, frenetic left-turns and melodic transitions is complemented
