AMENRA / DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT / HANGMAN’S CHAIR
THE FORUM, LONDON
France’s genre-blitzing oddballs find some strange bedfellows
that the sentence ‘This opening act deserve to headline this place’ has been reduced to a platitude, because rarely has it been more applicable than to The French quartet have nailed their niche of ‘Sisters Of Mercy, but metal’, layering goth melodies atop a bedrock of lead-heavy doom. Plus, the faultless mix and swirling lightshow bring the kind of theatre usually reserved for the last