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Rating: I'm in a hurry (soon there are the COF at the Orion), so this is more a collection of impressions than a real review.
I was supposed to return home last night around eight, but since it's impossible to resist the call of Metal (especially if depressive and evil) I found myself thrown on the ATM steps outside the Traffic Club, sipping a 66 Peroni alone like a dog. Lunarsea are playing, but I can't enter with the beer. Would you have left it outside just to not miss the melodic death metal band from our country? I think not. Once the beer is finished, I rush inside. The venue is semi-deserted and over the course of the evening won't reach 150 people. After a few moments, directly from the woods of the Abruzzo National Park, SELVANS make their entrance, a quintet dedicated to a woodland black metal that is at times lethal. I don't know why, listening to them reminded me of Naglfar's Vittra with a twisted mood. Excellent performance, good charisma. I will listen to their Lupercalia, fresh from 2015, because they piqued my interest. After them, it's the turn of DARKEND, an Emilian band with an excellent resume (two albums under their belt and a tour with Cradle of Filth in 2012). The satanic ritual atmosphere (incense galore, hoods, candles, goats on stage) is the best thing the group has to offer, because for the rest, maybe due to not excellent acoustics or my personal tastes, their symphonic black metal (a genre that ended with COF's "Cruelty and the Beast") is as flat as a surfboard. Sometimes they seem like the Seth of the tavern, other times the more boisterous Carach Angren (and Carach Angren totally gross me out...so). After the creamy esotericism and cold cuts of Darkend, it's time for our heroes SHINING. Kvarforth is the frontman we all wish to be: handsome, tall, nervous, possessed. Handles the Jack Daniels (which he occasionally offers to the audience) like no other human being on the earth, smokes, puts out his cigarette on himself, spits on the ground, hurts himself... but also dispenses smiles now and then. A charismatic and crazy leader, as it should be. The setlist is excellent and very long (almost 2 hours of concert) and despite the poor and muddled sound, they all prove to be great professionals. Morbid, spine-chilling atmospheres. But you know, Scandinavians are superior. In everything.
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