VOICES

RED METHOD/LOST BRETHREN THE BLACK HEART, LONDON

Camden, but it’s also Bank Holiday weekend, so there is a healthy enough crowd for tonight’s openers , who, despite being a little rough around the edges, dish out, though. The London oddities, featuring the pedigree of former members of The Defiled and Meta-Stasis amongst their ranks, are a visual and aural feast that is rarely seen in such modest surroundings. At first the PA struggles mean the band just sound like a soup of noise and some dudes cosplaying as American Head Charge circa 2002, but as the set progresses and the layers begin to separate, you can hear some real craft to what they’re doing. It’s particularly apparent as they perform a remixed version of their self-proclaimed “COVID anthem” , which is full of menace, spooky soundscapes and an absolutely humongous riff that grooves like prime Pantera. By the time they leave a full-blown pit has opened up at the front and the reaction they receive as they take their bows suggest they have made a real impression.