(Drivebycuriosity)
- In the recent days my wife and I attended
Psycho Las Vegas, a 4-days heavy metal festival
, which took place at the
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The program focused on very heavy sounds, especially
black, doom, psychedelic, sludge & stoner metal. Last Friday, day two of the festival, played about 20 bands on three stages, an all-you-can-eat buffet. I managed to watch about a third of them - all had a high quality.
The doom band
Temple of Void impressed me most. There are many bands who create massive walls of sound and fierce acoustical explosions but these guys really pushed really to the limit of what heavy metal could do today. The quintet from Detroit (three guitarists, once vocalist & one drummer) performed with an incredible intensity. Center of the band was the percussionist, who reminded me a bit of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now (but not fat). His annihilating shock waves shook the
hall. Before them I watched the also breath taking performance by
The Munsens, another doom metal band, who played wild & beautiful as well.
The Scottish newcomer band
DVNE, who opened the Friday program
, delivered fascinating progressive rock, elaborated compositions with heavy metal elements. I think they will have quite a career ahead.
I also enjoyed the
Church of Misery, a doom metal band from Japan, who focused on horror scenarios.
Helms Alee (from Seattle) proved that girls can do top-notch metal as well, especially their excellent drummer who also did the vocals. Bravo!
Lucifer who benefited from the fascinating show of their front girl (image on top of this post) and I like the performance of
Acid Witch.
To be continued
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