You can’t walk through Camden nowadays without some shady dude offering you drugs on the street. You should never, ever take him up on it, but the good news is that tonight you won’t have any need to. That’s because, just 10 minutes up the road in Kentish Town, three mind-expanding rock bands have gathered to take you on the most psychedelic trip you’ll ever have sober.
Burdened with a 7:15 start time, PALLBEARER don’t get half the turnout that their doom metal majesty deserves. Whether the thin crowd has soured the Arkansas troupe’s mood is impossible to tell, however: they’ve sounded sad as fuck for 12 years now. Tonight’s set pulls heavily from this year’s Mind Burns Alive album, its vast, immersive songs stilling everyone in emotion and awe. Only finale Worlds Apart, with its series of hulking riffs, offers glimpses of joy in what’s otherwise a labyrinth of sorrow.
