Metal Hammer UK

LEPROUS

ELECTRIC BALLROOM, LONDON

eprous open their set with : a long-buried demo that hasn’t been played in 15 years. is especially thunderous, before is a polyrhythmic barrage to the ear. and transition to the vocal-driven Leprous of today, spotlighting Einar Solberg’s infallible voice through bombastic chants. Thereafter, and prove the anthemic apex as London echoes every lyric heavenly donated. Concluding the odyssey thus far are and , lifted from 2021’s . The pair weave in pop, metal and math rock textures to prove that, even two decades deep, Leprous remain restless evolutionaries. Here’s to another 20 years of unpredictability.

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