Straight
line stitch are the first band I get to see tonight,
I only caught the end of October file (1/5) set,
which if I'm honest I wasn’t too impressed
with, there repetitive riffs really didn't do
much for me plus I couldn't understand the gruff
vocals. Back to SLS, there a 5 price female fronted
American metal band. It's pretty heavy in sound
which is good along with clean vocals it works
really well the two guitarist are pretty good,
they got some decent riffs not too catchy but
there still decent. The drumming is pretty decent,
not sure if the double kick drums are needed but
it works. The vocals get drowned out at time when
she goes for a growl it just disappears under
the bass and drums, the crowd unfortunately are
only really responsive when prodded, but there
are some fans tonight in amongst some that don't
look impressed, they should be as straight line
stitch are pretty good, they got some decent songs
in there seemingly short set, which fly’s
by, must be good then good sets always seem shorter
than they are.
 Lacuna Coil, well you should know who they are
by now and what they sound like, tonight they
are on top form, and sounding particularly heavy
and very very loud, which is very good so much
better than there album counterparts. Christina
sounding as fantastic as ever especially during
wide awake where she really steps into the spot
light and band take a step back. Some of the heavier
tracks are fragments of faith and new song to
be released on their new album adrenaline darkness,
kill the light, it's a good dark heavy track which
should give a good indication to which direction
the album will go, it should be killer. Without
fear is a song that’s hardly played but
is being played on this tour, a classic lacuna
coil song to say the least. Speaking of classics
all the ones you'd expect are in the set tonight,
like swamped, fragile, heavens a lie, I won't
tell you and dépêche mode cover and
main set close enjoy the silence. They come back
on to play survive and new song trip the darkness
which is also there latest single and what a superb
song it is too. They close the night out with
spellbound. A superb end to a fantastic night.
5/5
Straight Line Stitch 4/5
Lacuna Coil 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
