DARK TRANQUILLITY / NAILED TO OBSCURITY
O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON, LONDON
is an ironic name for a band so signposted for stardom. By cramming the miserable melodies of later Katatonia in between the death-doom grandeur of… early Katatonia, the German quintetaffirm that not only are the six-piece masters of melodeath, but that imbuing the genre with goth rock is a recipe for bangers. The pit responds with circling and singalongs. Even when deep cuts such as and
