It’s amazing just how much Lorna Shore can achieve in just seven songs. Sonic Temple have pulled off something of a coup for deathcore fans in booking both Slaughter To Prevail and Lorna Shore in headline positions on the dual Citadel and Sanctuary stages. If this is a dry run for future festival headline appearances, LS have smashed the brief.
The crowd is packed in tight for the band’s arrival, and their hour-long slot feels genuinely momentous. Dazzling as the patterns flashing up on screens around the stage are – casting the boys in hellfire, sparks and cosmic backdrops throughout the set, nothing stands out more than the sheer gravitational pull of Will Ramos. Strutting across a walkway at the front of the stage, Ramos’s utterly inhuman vocal range is put through its paces across a set that kicks off with a sense of grand, annihilating extremity on Oblivion.
