FRIDAY
It’s been one hell of a decade for UK Tech-Fest. Originally a single day in a sweaty pub backroom, it’s gone on to forge a community so tightly knit that it coined its own moniker: the Tech Fam. The confirmation that this would be the festival’s swansong in its current iteration has both heightened excitement for this 10th edition and made it bittersweet.
It’s day one at the Showground, and the pugilistic grooves, pummelling riffs and visceral screams of Anglo-French bruisers offer up a primal overload, as axeman James Monteithflex their metalcore muscles via downtuned barrages of sinister, lacerating blastbeats and breakdowns that could raise Lucifer from the fiery depths. Dark, stark and utterly immersive, carefully crafted noise ebbs and flows between teeth-cracking intensity and disquieting ambience, as the four-piece combine crushing walls of sludge with expansive, post-metal flourishes.
