WHILE SHE SLEEPS
LOATHE
KEY CLUB, LEEDS
Sheffield’s community-minded metallers get intimate and sweaty
missed gigs like this. Crammed into a tiny Leeds basement, while sweat drips from the ceiling and the smell of damp Gildan cotton rises in the heat, we await a truly great bill – one of metal’s most exciting rising bands alongside one of our finest stalwarts. Up first, are on confrontational form. The metallic hardcore assault of opener leaves you breathless, rumbling bass rearranges your guts and the technical flourishes of twist against a nightmarish backdrop of atmospheric electronics. A shimmering Deftones-ian influence seeps through on and the transcendent and by seething closer the Liverpudlians have justified their ‘future of metal’ tag and then some.
