Katatonia, who are currently touring around Europe, performed at VoxHall yesterday night. The show was a pleasant reassurement that the band are still successfully rocking their unmistakable sound. The warm-up acts for the Swedish progressive metal powerhouse were selected quite suitingly too. In a way, they are revisiting and reinterpreting some of the styles Katatonia have been throug in past three decades with their dramatic, melodic, sorrowful and fluid approach to death and black metal, and for the nearly two decades – progressive metal. Melodic attack of Sunless Dawn Progressive death metallers from Copenhagen, rapidly rising band in DK, the winners of Wacken Metal Battle in 2016. So far, Sunless Dawn have a 14 min 33 second single Sovereign, which appears to be constructed around a backbone of melodic death metal that that is also slightly reminiscent of early Katatonia (melody-wise also October Tide, one of the side-acts of Katonia‘s two core members in the past) among other influences. Sunless Dawn occasionally spice up their heavy riff infused harmonies with the syncopic approach to the rhythm or dreamy down-tempo soundscapes. Yesterday during Sunless Dawn‘s performance the sound, (or at least in the area upstairs), was a bit noisy and overly ...
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